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My daughter was close to celebrating her birthday, and I was at a loss as to what present to get her. Knowing her, I figured she wouldn’t like dolls as much, thinking she’s too old for them, but I knew no other presents she’d like. My wife had no ideas so I had to find something good on my own, and take responsability in case it was a failure.
Browsing all the toy shops, supermarkets, and other stores, didn’t offer any results. I didn’t have a lot of money either, so I was looking for something good and cheap. Just when I was losing all hope, something grabbed my eye. It was nice, seemed like fun, and was really cheap.
The polite salesman provided all the details I wanted to know before making my purchase, and I was satisfied by the time I left, with the sansa shaker 1gb mp3 in my pocket. To be sure it worked, I gave it a try on the way back home, and had so much fun using it that I decided to go back an buy another one, only this time, for me.
After making it home in time to catch the birthday party, I wrapped the player nicely and handed it to her. She was very excited and I could see she liked it a lot. I showed her how to use it, and how to upload songs on to it, and she never let go of it afterwards. Not even when I asked her if I could borrow it for a while.
I revealed to my wife my player, and she called me crazy. She doesn’t know a thing about technology. Buying it has been one of the best decisions I’ve taken, and I’ve been using it ever since, even at work. There’s always time to listen to a song, no matter how busy I am.
The Modern mother is a mum of the new technological era. She is modern from the perspective of being more technology oriented. The interaction between present mother and networking is very close. The internet provides her with various information and suggestion to deal with every aspect of day to day life.
Modern mother is engaged in different fields and so it is very much difficult to manage every situation of house and office. She, somehow, maintains an equilibrium position between house and working environment. She takes up advanced technology to bring up her children.
Modern mother uses latest technology to support her in every field. Modern mum can get relevant solution to the problem regarding health, education and career of her children. She can get all information concerning new born babies about their feeding, sleep, health advice and immunization program.
Modern Mum Forums is a place where every mother gets opportunity to discuss openly about their problems. This forum helps them to face every situation passing through different stages of their life.
Modern mother is very much interactive. She does not depend on others and tries to compete with the present situation. She likes to see her child ranking first in the class. When her child cannot fulfill her mother’s aspiration, her child loses confidence and goes through depression.
Modern mother hardly gets time for shopping, bargaining and making perfect choices within her budget. The provision for on line shopping is provided to help them to buy things of their choice and within their budget. She buys things like a blue ipod mini at a desired affordable price. Modern mother is also health conscious. She follows every beauty tips and modern techniques to look beautiful and slim.
Modern mothers undergo tremendous pressure in building their career as well as maintaining house hold activities. They use every modern technology to make their work easy and it also saves time.
Considering that 75% of your child’s intellectual growth will occur before the age of 6, it is very important that you begin to stimulate your child’s mind as soon as they are born. Sights, sounds, smells, and touches – All are extremely influential on a developing mind. These early inputs and influences help them to learn and grow, no matter what age. It is very important for a parent to consider creating a stimulating environment for their newborn. Here are a few ways to stimulate your infant’s intellect.
1. Give them tons to look at.
Stimulate your baby’s visual sense by surrounding them with color. Place them in a playard such as the Graco Pack n Playard so they’ll be surrounded by different colors and shapes for them to look at. Hang colored shapes on the wall or hang a mobile above their playpen. Teach your infant to recognize themselves by hanging a baby-safe mirror on the wall or next to their playpen. Add whatever you can to the visual excitement of your infant’s world to spice up their environment.
2. Supply them enough to listen to.
It is a well-known fact that infants respond to music, even when in the womb – you can play music for them as soon as you’d like. Rainforest sounds, whistling wind, or rain showers – play a CD of nature sounds to stimulate your newborn’s sense of hearing. There is no more beautiful voice on earth to your newborn than Mommy’s voice – infants love to be sung to. Encourage your child to make their own sounds and noises – give them musical toys or rattles to play with. Clap with your infant. The more you allow your child to make their own sounds, the more they will be stimulated.
3. Supply them tons to touch.
Give your newborn enough space to roll around or crawl in – you might want think about a larger size play pen, such as the Graco Pack n Playard, which gives them enough room to explore the world around them. Play hand games with your infant – paddycake is always a favorite. Bounce and dance with your newborn in your arms or your lap, really involve them in your motion. Give them lots of different textures to touch and explore. Different fabrics or toys with different surfaces, for example the toys in the Graco Pack n Playard give your baby different textures to touch. All in all, the more your allow your child to feel and to touch their world surrounding them, the more they learn and the more they are stimulated.
One of the most important aspects of your infant’s development is their intellectual stimulation. Giving your newborn an environment to safely learn and explore the world around them is one of your key jobs as a parent. Provide a world full of color for your baby. Give your baby the gift of stimulating and soothing sounds of music. Give your newborn many things to touch – all the different textures and surfaces you can find. All of these things are be very influential on your infant and on their mind.
All my kids talk about getting every year for Christmas is video games if they don’t go downstairs and find Gears of War 2 under our new flocked christmas tree I do not know how they will survive. This drives me a little crazy since I like to encourage my kids to go outside. I would prefer to get them something like new football equipment or bikes, really anything they can do outside. Alas, I suppose boys will be boys. Arguing with the boys over “appropriate” lengths of time is just too much work.
After saying that I guess I should get to the point that I’ve developed a few ways to control their television addiction. I do a couple of things in an effort to force them outside. First off I limit their time every day to one hour (they can earn more). I have discovered that limiting the time is key to everything else because then they know time above and beyond that is to be earned. I do give them some ways to earn more time in front of the television. That leads me to talk about trick number two. They have a few options to earn more television time, either playing outside or doing some chores for me. The chores is nice for me and generally has a pretty good payoff for them. I set it up so it ends with one hour of chores earning one hour of television time.
The number two way they get more television time is by spending some of their time outside. For every hour they spend outside they get fifteen minutes of video games. I know that it isn’t a huge payoff for the boys, but they like being outside and I do not think it’s a lot for me to ask of them. That option works the best of their long Saturdays where they spend the majority of the day outside anyway. They spend all day outside on Saturdays and earn themselves a couple of hours in front of the television. I do not even mind if they play a night of video games after a good day outside.
Anyway I guess that I don’t mind a game or two under the flocked christmas tree this year if it has the effect of getting my brats outside and getting some stuff done around the house for me. I hope they like their games, because I am going to like my “gift” of a little more control around the house.
A new report that has taken over 2 years to compile presents some stark findings derived from interviews with over 30,000 children. The report, commissioned by the the Children’s Society, presents around 30 recommendations aimed at parents, teachers, government the media and society as a whole regarding what needs to be done to improve the childhood experience of most children.
The reason that children’s lives have become increasingly problematic has been concluded as being due to excessive individualism. Leading experts have concluded that excessive individualism has made people more competitive, more pressurised to own things and less inclined toward helping other.
Around 70% of the children interviewed said that parents getting on with each other is probably the most important factors in raising happy children. Children from broken families are 50% more likely to experience low academic achievement, low self esteem and depression or anxiety.
The increased exposure to television and the media that most children experience is promoting materialistic desires and breeding generations of consumers. And these consumers want to consume unhealthy fast-food and more television and media.
The United Kingdom and the U.S. are the worst advanced countries for well being amongst children. In Sweden 8% of children live at or below 60% of median income whereas in Britain the number is 22%.
The report makes some strong but practical recommendations. One of these is that people responsible for bringing children into the world should have a long term commitment to one another. Parents need to be provided with free parenting classes to make them fully aware of their parental responsibilities and how they can meet the needs of their children.
The report recommends that advertising to children under 12 should be banned and all advertising for unhealthy food and alcohol should not be allowed before 9p.m.
Being a child today, perhaps from a broken family, with low educational achievement and no support at home, is an enormously difficult situation to contend with. It’s up to parents, teachers, guardians and society to recognise these difficulties and do what is required to fix things.
To encourage your little ones to play outdoors more I recommend getting some good quality outdoor play equipment, maybe a slide swing playset, to get the little ones outside to play.