: Parenting solutions and innovative products for your child http://www.mydearchild.com sholtz@tailofthelion.com aklessin@gmail.com Tue, 25 Dec 2007 10:34:00 GMT Tue, 25 Dec 2007 10:34:00 GMT en-us Generated manually The selection of comfortable, stylish nursing clothes at My Dear Child allows you to look beautiful and feel great. http://www.mydearchild.com/how-to-guides/stylish-nursing-clothes.php Romi Tue, 25 Dec 2007 10:34:00 GMT Generated manually Learn how educational games and puzzles differentiate between the average and the extraordinary. Romi Mon, 10 Dec 2007 10:34:00 GMT http://www.mydearchild.com/how-to-guides/educational-games.php Generated manually The first steps that a baby takes are one of the greatest moments in a baby’s life. This new beginning is incredibly exciting for the parents, and provides the child with a new mode of transportation and a new view on the world. As your baby begins to walk, it is important to find shoes for his new journey. Here are a number of essential tips for choosing baby’s first shoes to help you to choose the very best for your changing baby. Amelia Whitten http://www.mydearchild.com/how-to-guides/baby-shoes.php Mon, 27 Aug 2007 12:34:00 GMT Generated manually There are so many fun and easy music activities to do with kids. These are activities that your children will love to do, and that you will enjoy as well. According to the U.S. Department of Education, children who have musical training show significantly higher levels of mathematical proficiency, reading comprehension, and spatial reasoning IQ than those who don’t. Many studies have shown the positive effects that music has on babies, on learning, and on development. Amelia Whitten http://www.mydearchild.com/how-to-guides/music-activities.php Mon, 06 Aug 2007 12:34:00 GMT Generated manually From Jasmine to Connor, there are thousands of ways to create cute baby names. While some people want sophisticated and elegant names for their new baby, and others look at family lineage for name selections, some parents simply want cute baby names. There are a myriad of ways to select cute baby names, and, of course, what is deemed cute to one family may be considered too obscure to another. Here are five pieces of advice to give you direction in your quest for the perfect cute baby names. Amelia Whitten http://www.mydearchild.com/how-to-guides/cute-baby-names.php Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:34:00 GMT Generated manually We all want our children to be successful and to be considered gifted in life. Reading with our children and helping them to pick appropriate books for their own reading pleasure is essential, no matter what their intellectual ability. For gifted children, however, there is a specific set of considerations that can help these children to achieve. It’s important to understand gifted children and reading suggestions in order to set these children on the right path in their intellectual development. Amelia Whitten http://www.mydearchild.com/how-to-guides/gifted-children.php Sun, 15 Jul 2007 12:34:00 GMT Generated manually Anyone who is married can tell you that, while marriage is a fantastic experience, it is also a lot of work. Movies and books often convey marriage as solely a romantic, invigorating experience where one is swept off her feet to eternal bliss. This image is quite detrimental to the ordinary marriage, as it gives a skewed, and quite false, impression. The most important part of achieving a strong, solid marriage is usually communication. There are many communication tips in marriage that will help you to build a solid, dependable and rewarding relationship. Here are a number of communication suggestions. Amelia Whitten http://www.mydearchild.com/how-to-guides/communication-tips.php Sun, 15 Jul 2007 12:34:00 GMT Generated manually We all want to raise healthy children and make sure that the choices that we make for them are good ones. For this reason, it is vital to know the list of foods healthy for your baby. The difficulty arises, of course, in knowing who to listen to. If you interview ten people on the street, they will probably give you ten different answers about baby food selections. Some will advocate giving rice cereal while others will explain the dangers of it; some will urge you to stay away from peanut butter until a child is three, while others will laugh at this suggestion. The list of foods healthy for your baby is long and confusing. Here is one set of suggestions. Take this, along with your own common sense, your family’s diet, you region’s selection of fresh fruits and vegetables, and your other research, to create your own list and to decide what is right for your baby. Amelia Whitten http://www.mydearchild.com/how-to-guides/healthy-baby-food.php Sun, 15 Jul 2007 12:34:00 GMT Generated manually A name is a powerful expression of your culture, your life philosophy and your dreams for your child. Finding just the right name is a monumental task for many; while exhilarating, it can also be a bit frightening and overwhelming. One great choice when choosing a name is to look at modern baby names. Modern baby names are divided into various categories and include: traditional style, cybernetic mode, Hebrew and Indian names, and spelling variations. Each set has a flavor of its own, but all of these ideas promote originality, creativity, and freethinking. Parents who enjoy a fresh, progressive lifestyle will want to choose a name from these categories for their little ones. Amelia Whitten http://www.mydearchild.com/how-to-guides/modern-baby-names.php Mon, 9 Jul 2007 12:34:00 GMT Generated manually While a baby brings an incredible amount of joy and exhilaration into a family, it also changes the equilibrium between husband and wife. This is true in all settings – but particularly so for a woman who has been focusing on a career or has come to motherhood later in life. With all of these changes, it is helpful to think about the qualities to maintain a happy marriage while balancing motherhood. While some of these qualities require work and communication with one’s partner, other suggestions and tips focus exclusively on one member in the relationship. Amelia Whitten http://www.mydearchild.com/how-to-guides/happy-marriage.php Mon, 9 Jul 2007 12:34:00 GMT Generated manually Most parents are willing to try just about anything when they find themselves awake at 2:00 in the morning with a crying baby. Common suggestions for soothing an inconsolable infant range from rocking to nursing and driving to strolling. Recently, as a result of the “Mozart Effect” research from the University of California at Irvine, mother’s the world over have been intrigued by this idea. Similarly, music research for crying babies has uncovered interesting findings that can help parents to learn how to soothe their inconsolable baby. Amelia Whitten http://www.mydearchild.com/how-to-guides/music-research.php Mon, 9 Jul 2007 12:34:00 GMT Generated manually This is the time of year when many mothers begin to break out in a cold sweat. Mother’s Day has past and we all, hopefully, received a few nice gifts as a reward for our toils. Now, it’s the spouses’ turn. And that means that we need to come up with some easy to make Father’s Day gifts that will please the dad, and not break the bank. Here are some great ideas that your kids can do quickly, easily, and inexpensively. Amelia Whitten http://www.mydearchild.com/how-to-guides/fathers-day-gifts.php Mon, 9 Jul 2007 12:34:00 GMT Generated manually While we often look forward to family trips, there is usually also an inkling of anxiety. The thought of traveling with children is enough to make many of us volunteer to work rather than to face the family trip. It’s not that the trip, itself, will necessarily be so difficult; it’s the packing and the worry about what to bring that gives many mothers sleepless nights. Here is some sound advice on packing for long distance travel, so that you can actually approach a family vacation with the enthusiasm and anticipation that it deserves. Amelia Whitten http://www.mydearchild.com/how-to-guides/long-distance-travel.php Mon, 9 Jul 2007 12:34:00 GMT Generated manually