i dont use a lamination machine i buy the self-sealing lamination pouches from scotch! i just take my time and use my id card to make sure its all smooth and seals! there the size of a full sheet of paper so you just precut all of your cards out and fit as many as you can on the sheet! making sure to leave enough space between each card so the two sides can touch then smooth and cut them out! be sure to round the edges the can be sharp if not rounded!

I CANT BELIEVE I JUST SAW THAT THIS KID IS WOW THAT ALL I CAN SAY IS JUST WOW!

IF YOU WANT THE STUFF I USED I CAN SEND IT TO YOU BUT I CANT ADD IT ON TO HERE BECAUSE OF COPYRIGHT!

I STILL USE FLASHCARD I CUT OUT PRINTABLE ONES ON REGULAR PAPER, GLUE THEM TO CONSTRUCTION PAPER, THEN LAMINATE THEM THIS MAKES THEM HOLD UP TO ANYTHING MY SON CAN PUT THEM THROUGH. AFTER THERE LAMINATED I USE A HOLE PUNCH ON THE UPPER CORNER OF EACH CARD THEN PLACE THEM ON OPENABLE RINGS SORTED IN TO LIKE GROUPS! SUCH AS NUMBERS, LETTERS, SHAPES, COLOR, AND ANIMALS. WITH THEM ON THE RINGS I CAN GIVE THEM TO MY SON WHEN EVER HE WANTS THEM. WE HAVE GOTTEN TO THE POINT WHERE HE WALKS AROUND THE HOUSE WITH THEM, TELLING ME WHICH IS WHICH! I ALSO USE FULL SIZE PICTURES OF SHAPES, NUMBERS, COLORS, LETTERS WITH PICTURES, THESE I PUT IN TO PROTECTIVE SLEAVES AND PUT IN HIS VERY OWN THREE RING BINDER, FOR HIM TO LOOK AT WHEN EVER HE LIKES. HE READS IT LIKE A BOOK. THE BEST PART IS YOU CAN HELP THEM DECORATE THE BINDER WITH MARKERS AND STICKERS!

my best friend will soon be having her first child and she want to wait until the baby is born to find out the sex! so what i need from all of you wonderful moms and dads is to give me a list of some of your favorite names for boys and girls! i was put on the task of helping her build a list of names since i am soon to be a god-mother!  thanks for all of your help! i need atleast a boy and a girl name from each of you!

i dont know about the book yet but i have just been looking in to it and here is a synopsis i found on it!


"Toddlers can drive you bonkers…so adorable and fun one minute…so stubborn and demanding the next! Yet, as unbelievable as it sounds, there is a way to turn the daily stream of “nos” and “don’ts” into “yeses” and hugs…if you know how to speak your toddler’s language. In one of the most useful advances in parenting techniques of the past twenty-five years, Dr. Karp reveals that toddlers, with their immature brains and stormy outbursts, should be thought of not as pint-size people but as pintsize…cavemen.

Having noticed that the usual techniques often failed to calm crying toddlers, Dr. Karp discovered that the key to effective communication was to speak to them in their own primitive language. When he did, suddenly he was able to soothe their outbursts almost every time! This amazing success led him to the realization that children between the ages of one and four go through four stages of “evolutionary” growth, each linked to the development of the brain, and each echoing a step in prehistoric humankind’s journey to civilization:

• The “Charming Chimp-Child” (12 to 18 months): Wobbles around on two legs, grabs everything in reach, plays a nonstop game of “monkey see monkey do.”
• The “Knee-High Neanderthal” (18 to 24 months): Strong-willed, fun-loving, messy, with a vocabulary of about thirty words, the favorites being “no” and “mine.”
• The “Clever Caveman” (24 to 36 months):
Just beginning to learn how to share, make friends, take turns, and use the potty.
• The“Versatile Villager” (36 to 48 months): Loves to tell stories, sing songs and dance, while trying hard to behave.

To speak to these children, Dr. Karp has developed two extraordinarily effective techniques:
1) The “fast food” rule—restating what your child has said to make sure you got it right;
2) The four-step rule—using gesture, repetition, simplicity, and tone to help your
irate Stone-Ager be happy again.

Once you’ve mastered “toddler-ese,” you will be ready to apply behavioral techniques specific to each stage of your child’s development, such as teaching patience and calm, doing time-outs (and time-ins), praise through “gossiping,” and many other strategies. Then all the major challenges of the toddler years—including separation anxiety, sibling rivalry, toilet training, night fears, sleep problems, picky eating, biting and hitting, medicine taking — can be handled in a way that will make your toddler feel understood. The result: fewer tantrums, less yelling, and, best of all, more happy, loving time for you and your child. "

thank you every one for all of your book ideas and all of the other input i will be checking back again soon again thank you so much!

i live near mesquite nevada! out here the savation army has a group called family to family! they have people who are certified in the car seat stuff! once a month the have a day when you can go down there and they will make sure that everything is setup to the safety specs! they make sure that your car seat is in the right place in the car, facing the right way, straps are at the right tension, the even make sure that your little on is in the right car seat for there age, height, and weight! and if not they have car seats that they will set you up with one for what ever you can donate! we were a little broke the month we went to go see them, so we were only able to give them 15 bucks, but we got a 40 dollar car seat. i'm sure if all of them do this but it wouldn't hurt to check! 

i think adding this new way of points is a great idea. it will give those of use who really have something to say a quicker way of adding up those oh so help full pionts thanks alot!

home school is good but i say that if u home school them they might not get the socal skill that they will need in life it can put a damper on a lot they have trouble finds friends and date later in life

i say kids need to start reading as early as possible its very good for them and it helps them communicate with you and others as well

im an american an i say english is first of course an spanish could be bennificial cause the mex are coming to the u s more and more it could help them getting a job later in life or something

shes just trying to do her own thing let her do that and u can do ur to  and u cant be a failure at reading just read and i think u should read both languages to her its always benificial to be bi lingual

my son is almost 2years old i have spent alot of very exausting time trying to get my son to take naps every day! he runs all day does lots of things all day long! wakes up at a decent time in the morning! but no matter what i try i cant seem to get my son to take a nap! i start trying around noon in the hopes i'll get him to lay down before 2pm. no matter what i try he usually falls asleep from lack of energy at 5pm. i could really use some advise!

thanks always looking for new things!

                           blessed be all the children!