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Should I be Teaching My Baby?

A recent question in the forums addressed the idea of prenatal education. This would be teaching your baby while still in the womb in the hope that one day her I.Q. will be higher. The poster wanted to know if this is true, so I decided to look into it a bit. The idea isn’t entirely new. When I was pregnant with my first baby, mothers to be were being encouraged to read to the baby. We actually did do that, but not with the idea of making her smarter. After all, she was OUR baby. She would already be … Continue reading →

Baby Sign Language: Good or Bad?

Do you sign with your baby? Popular books like BabyWise by Ezzo tout signing with your baby as the answer to teaching your baby manners. At around five months, you’re supposed to start teaching your baby signs for thirsty, hungry, please and thank you. Other proponents note that babies definitely are able to think more than they can communicate. Teaching sign makes communicating basic needs much less frustrating. (Have you ever had your child repeatedly say a completely unintelligible word to their utter frustration because you can’t understand?) If only all babies signed, we could see what’s inside their heads … Continue reading →

Interactive vs. Interaction: A Paradigm Shift

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I recently read research that indicated that there are significant delays both in language and motor skills in twins. It doesn’t stop there; the same is supposedly true for siblings who are close together in age. Siblings who are close in age (including twins), are on average, six to eight months behind their singleton counterparts. According to the research, my children are doomed: all two years apart, except of course for the twins who are only minutes apart. They are by birth order destined to be behind those kids whose parents had the insight to only have one or two … Continue reading →

Talking the Talk

Does your baby talk? I bet your initial answer was no. But I wasn’t asking if your baby said anything that you could understand, I was asking if they could talk. You see, there is a very large difference between whether your baby talks and whether you can understand what your baby says. When my daughter was a baby, she talked non-stop. The trick was, we didn’t always know what she was saying. Babies seem to speak their own language and it is not a language that we as adults are privy to. The reason I call it a language … Continue reading →