I started making my bits last night but my printer was out of ink which we just refilled only weeks ago. That's ok because I still have a lot of pictures to look up and facts to right down. My Mom is loaning me their late 90's encyclopedia collection and in a cd rom which I thought would make this easier and it will but I had no idea what a time and money eater this would be!

I could just put it in the Little Reader but my kids get bored of the tv and computer and love they when I show them physically.

That's what I thought too. When we were buying the Tummy Tub I thought we could just use a bucket but then I read that you can't put them in buckets because they have harmful chemicals. I wonder if it's the same for the tub?

Hi,
I've seen a lot of babies swimming with neck floats and thought it was a common thing I could just go pick up at the store so I called babiesrus and asked if they had them and the guy of the phones reaction : "Wow, I hope not. oh my ***, is that even safe?" he said he's worked there for 10 years and never heard of them. 

The neck floats are all from China or Hong Kong and come in different sizes from 0 months to 36 months but the ones I've been finding say 0 to 18 months.
They also have deep little pools for baby (up to 3 years) to swim in with the neck float. They're expensive from $80 to $200.
Here is one of them:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Swimming-Pool-Inflatable-Infant-Baby-Childrens-Pool-with-Air-Pump-Parcel-K0844-/360578613874?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item53f4290272

I'm wondering if they're safe. It says they meet SGS, ST, CE standards, safety, non-poisonous and environmental protection.

They remind me of the tummy tub I bought my son. He loved it as a new born and it helped him relax and sleep.

I was just telling my husband I think math is really easy if you have a good teacher. 

Calculus for infants came today and it's a really cute book! It'll be really fun when we know what it's talking about

You can't get your money back after you've scratched it? It's not like you used the money on the card.

Thank you you guys.
I bought the calculus book for now and next month I'll get the other books. I can't wait to see them. They look cute in the samples.
I got some algebra and advanced calculus dvds from the library so I could get an idea and my 2 year old watched it better than most cartoons.

After getting a basic idea I think I'll teach them angle degrees first, then algebra, trigonometry and finally calculus because you use all the things I just mentioned. 

My husband took calculus when he was in collage and said it gave him a big headache. We want to teach it to our kids. He explained it to me and it sounds simple enough. I don't remember it but it sounded simple. I think we'll get some books for us to read on it and figure out how to do it in a way the kids can understand. Does anyone have any advice?

For the kids: Probably not what I'm looking for but maybe a good starting place? http://www.amazon.com/Introductory-Calculus-For-Infants-Inouye/dp/0987823914/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1369267154&sr=8-1&keywords=calculus+for+kids

I'm so sorry!
My aunt is in her early 40's and has cancer. It started as Multiple Myeloma just in her body. It wasn't active yet and she decided to try diet and juicing to cure her cancer. Her cancer grew more and more and she wouldn't listen to her doctor telling her to get treatment. Years later her cancer is a stage 3 and in her bones now. She has maybe two years to live without treatment. She's finally getting chemo but because she waited so long it's more painful. My grandma in her 70's is taking care of her and says she screams in pain from it. Her husband has ALS and is in a wheel chair with a computer to talk for him so he can't take care of her and they have 3 young boys. If she would have had her treatment right away she wouldn't be in this and her cancer is one that is "incurable" but she could have lived many years with treatment if she would have had it sooner. 

Miracles do happen! I have a completely different answer depending on her beliefs. If she wants to try to cure it naturally there are many different things to try. My aunt is drinking some special water and juicing. I think she had some DVD on juicing called "Fat, sick and nearly dead". It's worth a try but if her cancer progresses then listen to her doctor and get treatment and don't wait any longer!

Thank you so much! I'm learning so much from teaching my toddlers.

I printed out some germ pictures but wanted to tell them more about them than just: "these are germs".

Does anyone know the different kinds of germs?

I was just thinking about this on Mother's Day after I chose a Barbie movie to watch that night. I don't care much about Disney princesses but I love Barbie princess movies. The first Barbie movies were ballet themed like the nutcracker and later the movies turned into the most beautiful fairy tales and now they have made them more modern and I have no interest in that and wouldn't recommend them...
In the first movie's Barbie was was of course beautiful, the scenery looked beautiful and there is always a man she falls in love with and not because he's handsome. Barbie plays a character who is always smart, brave, clever, caring and kind. Those are character traits I want my daughter to have. They teach that love is most important and Barbie almost always gets married at the end.

I chose Barbie as the island princess to watch on Mother's Day. It's a musical and my husband even admits it's a super beautiful movie.
The movie was supposed to be in old England and it got us talking about it. I see a lot of tools for early learning. The ballet movies have beautiful dancing and symphony music also.

Barbie as Ro singing to her elephant friend, Tika who's jealous of Ro and the prince.
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/-H4NoHxtfw4&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/-H4NoHxtfw4&rel=1</a>

The ending song when Barbie gets married:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/FXCIgxZTxxw&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/FXCIgxZTxxw&rel=1</a>

I hope my daughter will be brave, kind, caring, fun and smart. Marry a man she loves and who loves her, teaches by example, loves others and treats them as she would want to be treated. I hope she's feminine, works hard and knows she doesn't have to have a man's job. She can be a princess.

Thank you! I just ordered Encyclopedic knowledge and Fit Baby, Smart Baby, Your Baby. I can't wait to read them.

I was just going to ask this question!
One,
I was home-schooled and new I was going to home school my kids. I was excited about it and thought I'd do things I thought other kids their age were doing. My son Kevin was 13 months when I started. We'd watch Leap Frog video, Brainy Baby and other educational videos as well as play phonics games and go to ABCmouse.com.

Two,
My son was almost 2 and he wasn't saying a single word. He'd just grunt and point to things. He already had to go to feeding therapy which wasn't free for us so I looked up what we could do and found early interventions and found out I could get feeding and speech through the government. We live in a state where we don't pay for sales tax so government funding things are not the best here. I heard from relatives in another state they have EI once a week while we had it once a month if lucky. He started saying words before the EI teacher's first visit and once he started saying words I could see what he was interested in. He knew the alphabet, colors, letters and shapes. The teacher told me to keep teaching him phonics so he could get the sounds down and I did. A couple week later he knew all the sounds of the letters and was proud to use phonics sounds as his new language. I could get him to phonetically sound out what I wanted him to say but he didn't speak many real words. The teacher saw that he was just making sounds and told me to stop teaching him phonics. She brought a book that visit and my son looked at it. She wanted him to say what the picture in each book was but my son wanted to show her how he knew the alphabet. She said to me: "He's not looking at the pictures. He's looking at the words and the colors.". I was so proud of him and the teacher could see that and told me: ">  You know, I would much rather have him interested in the pictures than the words. This is not something we would encourage a two year old to learn.". I nodded in agreement but I was still happy about my son. I told my husband our two babies were ready to be homeschooled. My husband agreed to spend about $600 on each kid. I asked on homeschooling forums about curriculum's for babies and toddlers and I got the same response as that teacher. They said to only play with the kids or they'll get burnt out. They asked me why I'd want to teach my kids things other than to just show off. I said "Gee, thanks for the help  ". I've been watching this lady (EI teacher) torture my baby trying to get him to say words that he didn't want to say and I'm the one doing him harm? I continued on my search and found a preschool curriculum for about $300 and we hurried and bought it. I was going to get the preschool hooked on phonics when I thought about my Lily needing something to learn to. I, like everyone else in the world, saw the YBCR infomercials years ago and thought I'd look that up. I watched the news video of YBCR saying how it doesn't work and I felt sad that it didn't work. I thought they meant it was a scam where the babies knew what they were supposed to do and say for the camera. What they were actually saying is that memorizing sight words isn't reading. I thought about how an adult reads and it's purely memorizing words. I'm not phonetically sounding out anything. I just know what the word look like. I searched everywhere online and couldn't find a single person who could say the program doesn't. I found many people who hated the program but they still couldn't say it doesn't work. I gave it a test and rented preschool prep meet the sight words for $1.99. My son learned all the words in a week and I was sold. I had to decide between LR or YBCR. I asked on another homeschool forum which product was best and got the same answers as before except one lady suggested I read Glenn Doman's book. I got the book at the library and ended up buying YBCR, YBCD, YCCD, LM, LR, a bunch of homeschooling supplies and online subscriptions to learning websites. 3 months later my son knows all the words in the YBCR read videos and the meet sight words. He's learning more with LR now that I know how to work it . I don't know how much Lily knows yet because she's just starting to say words. But she pointed to "point" and clapped when she saw the word "clap" and touched he nose at the word "nose".  I'm so happy I took time to learn about this stuff. I'm having fun teaching them instead of feeling stressed like I was afraid I would be.

Two weeks ago his EI teacher came back after not seeing her for those 3 months. She saw the Brillkids books and the YBCR books on the shelves in the play room and looked at them like "Oh brother". she spent the rest of the time trying to talk me into having Kevin go to her preschool. I told her about how Kevin knew everything they teach in preschool and asked what he could learn. She said he'd learn to share and interact with kids. He has a sister to play with, cousins and kids at Church. I'm not worried about that and don't want him to pick up the things kids at public school do. She then asked if I was going to homeschool them. I have four relatives who are public school teachers so I know not to talk to them about homeschooling. I just said we might and changed the subject to Montessori schools.

Thank you both! I just used the free pictures on the site. I just got the idea yesterday and printed and laminated 10 pictures. It took a lot of time because the images were such a high resolution that they printed slowly. I think I'll make them on my Little Reader next times. It will for sure save money.

I noticed there are a few Christian mothers on here. I'm trying to make my own EK flash cards for Bible knowledge. I found this website for beautiful pictures of places in the Bible: http://www.bibleplaces.com/
I'm also going to make cards for nature and science. Maybe even pictures of Biblical people. Has anyone tried this?