Tanveer Badal has an eye-opening article on What Toddlers Eat Around the World, covering 11 countries: Japan, South Africa, Australia, Israel, Brazil, Turkey, Korea , Denmark, Sweden and India. What kids eat in other countries is so different from each other, and closely related to their traditions and available resources. Some may surprise you: Japan [...]
This recipe is quite good for teething babies if you want to introduce some fruits to them as well: A variety of fruits (pears and apples are good) Cut each fruit into quarters, then put into a bowl and cover to microwave for about 4 minutes. Chop fruit with an electric blender or chopper. You [...]
The growth of a healthy baby depends on the regularity and quantity of a balanced diet. How do new parents go about feeding their babies? If your baby is fed by breast milk, when and how many times should they have a day? How about feeding with formula? MedlinePlus offers parents some clear and easy-to-follow [...]
To celebrate Easter, the oldest tradition is to use dyed and painted chicken eggs. Here’s a way to dye Easter eggs with onion skins over at Instructables.With nice photos and step-by-step instructions, you can produce beautifully patterned Easter eggs. Step 1 Materials Needed Here is what you need to make these kind of Easter eggs: [...]
Regarding to the problem of hearing loss due to loud music played on iPod, good news to parents as well as all iPod music lovers released from Apple on Wednesday (via Reuters). A software for iPod users can get the software upgrade as a free download from www.apple.com/ipod/download. Surely, it’s a better solution than getting [...]
I stumbled over this new toilet training gear – Peter Potty posted over at ilovemybaby.org . You can find more info at BabyCenter as it is one of the outlets. Peter Potty is the world’s only flushable toddler urinal that is adjustable to little boys. Visionaire Products claims that using Peter Potty, boys’ toilet training [...]
by Lisa Malkiewicz, creator of the Sleep Fairy CD for kids. Once you’ve got your little one tucked in, each of you pick 5 positive events of the day to remember… “I remember picking you up from school and watching you playing ball with your friends.” “I remember laughing at the restaurant.” “I remember throwing [...]
My two children are ketchup lovers. They will eat a lot of any food that can go with ketchup. Like many people, they all got the wrong way – tapping the bottom of bottles – to pour out ketchup. The worst scenario always happened that after tapping the ketchup bottle for a few moments, nothing [...]
My son and I love eating salmon very much. Salmon contains Omega-3 fatty acids that benefit the heart of healthy people. Experts say that heart disease, which is linked with obesity that can begin in early childhood. So salmon is also good to children’s health. Sometimes we eat raw if I can buy a whole [...]
A trial study conducted at 12 Durham schools by Dr Alex Richardson, a senior research fellow in physiology at Mansfield College, shows a statistically significant improvement in school performance in the group of children given Omega 3 supplements. Children who were required to take a course of capsules with their meals for the duration of [...]