Educational Toys: Why your Kid Needs the Best Type of Learning Toys?

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These are some good lessons you can learn from your mother....smile and have a good laugh!

25 THINGS MY MOTHER TAUGHT ME

1. My mother taught me TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE.
'If you're going to kill each other, do it outside. I just finished cleaning.'

2. My mother taught me RELIGION.
'You better pray that will come out of the carpet.'

3. My mother taught me about TIME TRAVEL.
'If you don't straighten up, I'm going to knock you into the middle of next week!'

4. My mother taught me LOGIC.
' Because I said so, that's why.'

5. My mother taught me MORE LOGIC.
'If you fall out of that swing and break your neck, you're not going to the store with me.'

6. My mother taught me FORESIGHT.
'Make sure you wear clean underwear, in case you're in an accident.'

7. My mother taught me IRONY.
'Keep crying, and I'll give you something to cry about.'

8. My mother taught me about the science of OSMOSIS .
'Shut your mouth and eat your supper.'

9. My mother taught me about CONTORTIONISM.
'Will you look at that dirt on the back of your neck!'

10. My mother taught me about STAMINA.
'You'll sit there until all that spinach is gone.'

11. My mother taught me about WEATHER .
'This room of yours looks as if a tornado went through it.'

12. My mother taught me about HYPOCRISY.
'If I told you once, I've told you a million times. Don't exaggerate!'

13. My mother taught me the CIRCLE OF LIFE ..
'I brought you into this world, and I can take you out.'

14. My mother taught me about BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION.
'Stop acting like your father!'

15. My mother taught me about ENVY .
'There are millions of less fortunate children in this world who don't have wonderful parents like you do.'

16. My mother taught me about ANTICIPATION .
'Just wait until we get home.'

17. My mother taught me about RECEIVING.
'You are going to get it when you get home!'

18. My mother taught me MEDICAL SCIENCE.
'If you don't stop crossing your eyes, they are going to get stuck that way.'

19. My mother taught me ESP.
'Put your sweater on; don't you think I know when you are cold?'

20. My mother taught me HUMOR .
'When that lawn mower cuts off your toes, don't come running to me.'

21. My mother taught me HOW TO BECOME AN ADULT.
'If you don't eat your vegetables, you'll never grow up.'

22. My mother taught me GENETICS.
'You're just like your father.'

23. My mother taught me about my ROOTS.
'Shut that door behind you. Do you think you were born in a barn?'

24. My mother taught me WISDOM.
'When you get to be my age, you'll understand.'

25. My mother taught me about JUSTICE .
'One day you'll have kids, and I hope they turn out just like you!'

I hope this lighten up your day! Ciao...

Thought for today:
"You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time. " - Charles F. Kettering

Best Regards,
Andrew Loh
Andrew Loh
Publisher & Editor, BrainyZine
andrew @ brainy-child.com

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Choosing the best educational toys for your kid - Tips and Suggestions
Many times, parents commit the mistake of buying wrong type of educational toys for their kids, which could be due to a perceived lack of skills and knowledge. Choosing the right type of educational toys will help your kid enhance and catalyze a series of skills and techniques. Here are some simple tips and suggestions to choose the best types of educational toys.

Why your Kid Needs the Best Type of Learning Toys?
The first few months in your kid's life are very critical and important. Most of the basic functions of brain develop at this juncture and almost all senses become stronger and better with the accompanying development of brain functions. However, your kid's brain may need a strong impetus or fillip to kick start better functioning of skills like cognition, mind-muscle coordination and motor skills. Right type of learning toys can help your kid improve and enhance these skills and techniques.

Smart Play Smart Toys: How to Raise a Child with High IQ
By Steveanne Auerbach

Play, especially active, creative and educational play, help children develop such basic social and academic skills as concentration, problem solving, communication and cooperation. Factors such as safety, durability, flexibility, and age appropriateness complicate the challenge parents in choosing the right toys for their children at the right time. The author applies her scientific but not preachy expertise to that challenge. She relies as much on common sense and parenting insight as on scholarly research to suggest toys ranging from brooms and plastic cups to books and water colors to amuse stimulate and activate children. Individual chapters describe developmental stages from infancy through age 12, advising age appropriate toys and products as well as items for children with special needs.

Toy Tips: A Parent's Essential Guide to Smart Choices
By Marianne M. Szymanski

Many parents don't take a close look at their children's toys until they hear about recall of a particular item on the news. The author presents an unbiased to help parents sort out the morass of toys on the market before they even purchase them. She advises readers to approach magazine articles and news stories with a judicious eye, and suggests they become experts themselves, because many award stickers on toys are nothing more than thinly disguised public relation campaigns designed to herd parents toward particular products. The breadth of information the author offers is overwhelming but concerned parents won't find a more comprehensive and impartial approach to intelligently purchasing toys for children.

Mom's Diet can Boost Baby's Brain
Blog Spot May 31, 2008

The mother of a toddler and infant did not rush out to the grocery store in order to change her diet after she found out she was pregnant. Her normal diet included foods such as pork chops, grits, bacon, apples, strawberries, spinach and salad. A mix of good ingredients can really help aspiring moms to give birth to smart and intelligent kids.

Can Omega Fatty Acids Make Your Child Smarter?
Fit Fare May 30, 2008

If you really want to give your child an edge in the classroom, you may want to start by eating fish high in Omega-3 fatty acids and low in mercury while you are pregnant. Preschoolers, whose mothers regularly consumed low mercury, high Omega-3 fish during pregnancy outperformed their peers on verbal, visual and motor development tests. Above all, women on a diet rich in these fatty acids gave birth to babies, whose physical and mental were far above and better than other babies whose mothers consumed a diet that was deficient in low mercury and high Omega-3 fatty acid fishes.

NATUROPATHY: Nutrients for Brain Development
NST May 26, 2008

Healthy eating and good nutrition are the foundations of growth and development. The first few years of life are growing phases for the development of many abilities like the visual centers of the brain and language abilities. Encourage your child to eat a variety of food to ensure a good balance of nutrients for optimum health and development. Fish is a food of exceptional nutritional value, providing a high quality of protein and a wide variety of minerals and vitamins. Children should increase their intake of marine omega-3 fatty acids by eating more fatty fishes like salmon, mackerel, tunas and sardines.

I can do it! 7 Tips for Teaching Your Children Self Reliance
Parent Zone May 27, 2008

Most parents are trying to stay clear of the label "helicopter parents", because they don't want to be seen as the type of mother or father who hover and "over protect". The most powerful parents have realized that when their children have opportunity to make mistakes, they gain an invaluable opportunity to learn from those mistakes. It can be challenging for parents to know when to step back and let their children try some of their own. After all, from the time of their children were babies, parents have spent years meeting many to all of their children's needs.

"Parents- You're your Child's First Teacher!"
Black Voice News May 22, 2008

The early years of a child are extremely important. Therefore a parent or a caregiver's of parenting their children for school starts the day they are born. There are many simple things parents and caregivers can do to help ensure their children enter schools with the basic skills necessary to begin learning teaching them how to hold a pencil, identify shapes and colors, and interact with teachers. Here are several easy activities that patents and caregivers can do with the children to help prepare them for a lifetime of learning.

Poor grades may due to poor hearing
AZ Central May 25, 2008

The school year has just wrapped up, you have received your child's report card, to your dismay, it wasn't what you hoped would be. The questions begin to stream: was he not paying attention? Is he disinterested in school? Was he misbehaving? Often times, however, it is not a lack of interest or a behavior issue; it is the result of a central auditory processing problems in which they are unable to understand spoken language in a more meaningful way. Hearing is imperative for speech and language development, but is also plays a vital role in overall brain development.

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