Try giving him a snack before going to bed. I know my grandson wakes up when he is hungry. If he is not hungry he will sleep very well. Feed him a significant snack right before putting him to bed.

Here is another article on brain development.

http://www.childcareaware.org/en/subscriptions/dailyparent/volume.php?id=1

"Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it." ~  Marshall McLuhan

"A father is someone who carries pictures where his money used to be."  ~  Anon


"There are only two things a child will share willingly - communicable diseases and his mother's age."   ~  ~ Dr. Benjamin Spock quote


"People who say they sleep like babies usually don't have them."  ~  Leo J. Burke quote


"Parenthood: The state of being better chaperoned than you were before marriage."  ~  Marcelene Cox


"If your baby's "beautiful and perfect, never cries or fusses, sleeps on schedule and burps on demand, an angel all the time," you're the grandma."  ~  Theresa Bloomingdale

"Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body."  ~ Elizabeth Stone

"A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for." ~ Author Unknown

Excellent suggestions! I will pass them on to the rest of the family.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_96683.html

I know my parents gave me vitamin D supplements 50 years ago, and this was before everyone was afraid of the sun. I have really strong bones. Vitamin D deficiencies is thought by some to be responsible for autism. People are going in the sun less and wearing sun screen when they do. The sun is the major source for vitamin D and vitamin D is very important.

It sounds awful, I wish you the best in dealing with this. I can imagine how painful it would be to watch your child do this. You just have to be strong and not give in. As far as an medical complications I have no idea. It sounds like a child where a structured list of rules, consistency, and loving environment are critical.

http://www.educarer.org/oi-structure.htm

Here is an article about brain development.

http://www.educarer.org/brain.htm

What did you do to select your child's name?

Does anyone have any suggestions for swing sets? Do pine and cedar sets splinter too much? should you get redwood?

I think what you are experiencing is the difference between boys and girls. I think most girls are quite capable of learning early and reading. Most boys are totally different. I think most boys develop slower.  They also have a different desire to learn. Girls may never tire of learning to read for example, but a boy may have absolutely no interest. Of course, there are exceptions to every rule. I am just speaking in general, because there are several boys on this site doing quite well. I think with most boys you have to be more creative in how you teach them. My grandson is still learning. He just does not do it sitting still for long periods of time. I have to come up with interesting games or different things to hold his interest to teach him.

But because early learning may not work for every child, I think it would be a crime to twist that and say no child should be taught early. If a child is eager and willing and wants to learn, I say teach them. To deprive a child that wants to learn, I think is a crime.

I think grades of school should be divided more on ability then age. Maybe even to take that another level, schools should be divided per subject based on ability. the lower grades should be more like college or even swimming lessons for that matter. A schools job is much easier to lump kids by age and not worry about their abilities. I refer this to dumbing kids down all to the same level. That is why they say that if you do early teaching there is no difference beyond third grade.

I have been thinking about this too. I am an electrical engineer. Trying to figure out how to make it interesting to little ones. The Material category I made is a basic scientific LR file for little ones. You teach them to classify things into materials like wood, concrete, plastic, glass, etc. There is a video associated with this how you can make a game out of it to learn the words. This is used to teach recycling but I added a few materials. But simply teaching things like this is a beginning to teach science to your child.

http://forum.brillkids.com/downloads/?sa=view;id=7313

So this is a good start for an introduction to a little scientist or engineer.

Encourage your children to touch,smell and look carefully at things. By pointing out size, shape, texture, color and other characteristics, we can start children on the road to analyzing materials and objects they come into the contact with in everyday life. As they got older,they can use tools to measure, weight and generally compare and observe their world. Scientist are keen observers, and this is probably one of the most important skills we can help children develop.

When teaching science it is best if you can have a hands on activity or experiment to go with what you are trying to teach.

This really proves how addicting the internet can be. It happens very easily. But it is unbelievable that they would ignore their own baby for a virtual one. You would think a grandparent or some friend would have noticed the baby was not being cared for and intervene.

Necessary things! The things newborns require most is clothes and diapers etc. I think the best gift we got was a basket full of clothes in various different sizes. The clothes were tightly rolled and put in a large white wicker gift basket that could also be used in the babies room. The basket held a lot of clothes. It was kind of like a basket of fruit only filled with babies clothes.

I agree with it should be simple. Cake and some fun activity. If there are two many people involved split the celebration in two.