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Baby Development

Communication with my toddler

January 14, 2009

I’m really beginning to enjoy this stage where the boy has learned a couple of words and is able to communicate. At least now we’re able to understand what he wants since he can ask for it by telling us. You know how babies ask for things with cries and it could be anything under [...]

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To re-teach a toddler is not an easy task

January 7, 2009

Whilst we’ve been having quite an easy time teaching the little boy many things, we find that it’s rather difficult to get him to un-learn and re-teach him things that we’ve previously taught him. So we’ve learned the hard way that whatever we say and do, we need to make sure we do it right [...]

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When okay doesn’t mean anything

January 5, 2009

We have recently taught the boy more words and one of them include ‘okay’. He says it in a rather cute way and we love hearing it. So we ask him a lot of questions and ask him if it’s okay and he’ll say okay. But of course, he doesn’t understand that an okay is [...]

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Passive learning

December 22, 2008

All the while, we play an active role in teaching baby things, whether to speak, walk, actions, etc, we always need to firstly engage his attention in order for us to impart knowledge. But now, I found that he learns even without us engaging him.
He’s learning words as he hears them from our conversations. I [...]

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How do you make an active baby fall asleep?

December 19, 2008

Since he was a newborn, baby didn’t sleep much. Even my confinement lady would complain that he isn’t sleeping enough and even if he falls asleep in the daytime, it’s for a short period of time only. As he grows, he sleeps even less and he can’t fall asleep by himself on the bed. It [...]

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