Thank you all. As soon as I figure out how to share my curriculum I will. I am new at this so I am just getting the hang of things. I don't know how to give Karmas to others? Can someone tell me how? My curriculum ranges from pretoddlers to age 3. My content is universal that can be modified to fit a child's needs.
From the very first of finding out that I was pregnant I began my search for curriculum. I was so depressed because I couldn't find the curriculum I wanted so with my job experience and the research that I have done I started to make my own, now I am no where near finished but I am working on completing a month in advance. I am now working on March's curriculum.

Texaslady22;
I have assisted (taught) a few children who could not write in the traditional way they used alternatives such as a bingo dobber, a computer keyboard, voice activation software, and more. You mentioned tracing letters, you can also use stencils for writing. You don't have to use soemone elses worksheets you can make your own to fit the stencil's size. Also while using stnecils to write you can highlight the lines of the paper, the top line is blue for the sky, the bottom line is green for the grass. This helps, also you can make or by tracing worksheets that are for beginners, they are big and the lines are visible. I created my own for my son to trace with his finger first. I placed his finger on the letter and made the motion following the letter. There are activities that you can do to enhance the fine motor skills such as playing with ribbons, yarn, and stringing huge beads, etc. Which I am sure an Occupational Thereapist, (I think) or Physical Therapist can help you on that. I'm sure the internet has a lot of ideas. Trying differnet writing utensils is another idea. Sometimes it is just finding the correct utensil to use, gradually you can get to use a pencil. When my son started to scribble we used a special crayon that was designed to fit his hand, it has worked, we are gradually moving to a regular crayon. Just a thought! My toddler is 20 months. I haven't heard of Doman?

I am a homeschooling mom of 2, and I have researched and studied of making my own curriculum on a faith bases. I also worked before the kids in the school system so I have put what I know down on paper to teach my children. I have created Bbilical theme units that my kids seem to love. The reason I am creating my own is because being on a tight budget doesn't give me much money to purchase anything. I found that most of the homeschool programs was very expensive. However when my kids reach the age where I can no longer teach them I plan on enrolling them in the ACE Ministries a homeschool academy. There are great resources on the web for toddlers for homeschool that are free that you can anyone can use with little prep time. I have found 2 that I incorprate in my own curriculum that are free. Who else knows there child more than the parents or guardians, who better to teach them?
By the way thanks for the resources.

Hello Everyone!
I am a mother of 2, a pastor's wife, and a new homemaker. I have a 20 month old and a 9 month old. I homeschool both using my own faithbased curriclum that I have spend many months preparing, and donate to local churches.

Thank you all for the great resources. I have taught both of my sons sign since they were born. My toddler uses sign all the time but he also began speaking in a complete sentence since he was around 10 months old. I mean a complete sentence. So I know for a fact that using flashcards, sign books really work. We are working on his pronounciation of his words now. Now when we throw things away he signs all gone, when he needs to go potty he signs diaper. (We are working on potty training) I also made posters of pictures of the sign. There is a book that I used to make copies that we hung up in his room, but I used black and white instead of colors.
My First Signs by Child's Play illustrated by Annie Kubler.
This is a great book illustrating babies signing. It is bright and colorful. My son loves this book.

We are getting to that point as well. My toddler sometimes falls asleep while watching his fav TV show, that I tape or a fav DVD. Here lately we exercise before nap time, that gets all if his wiggles out. The more we stimulate him the more he naps. We have also tried a fav blanket, or toy to fall off to sleep. Now my other son, I have to sometimes just hold him still, if he gets still then he falls asleep. Also, I have noticed that if his bedroom is too warm he has a hard time falling asleep. Also what about his bed area, does it have bright colors near it? there are colors that stimulate the brain so therefore the child stays awake. Another thought is having dreams. Sometimes my child gets extra hungry when he has a growing spurt he doesn't nap well until he eats more, that isn't often but it has happened. Just a thought. My toddler is 20 months.

With a pre toddler and an infant I am too finding it difficult with 2 hyper boys just as hyper as my husband. It is hard for me to just relax. My relax time is at night when all is asleep. Since I have an infant and don't have a public job I sleep when he sleeps. Fortunalty my pretoddler and infant nap almost the same times. I tried to plan it that way. I found myself after a while getting very tired and frustrated, so a day out by myself helped while my mother watched the boys. A mother and dad needs time out themselves. What helped me was to realize that the pretoddler needed his own space too, even though it hurt me to leave him alone. I put up a baby gate in his room, leaving only a few toys out, and a few books for him to play with. After a while a mean a while he realized that he had his play time alone, then with mommy, then with daddy, then with brother. Now he loves to be in his own room. He realized that the items in his room was his, and the other things that was mommies, or daddies he wasn't tempted by them, so he wasn't being corrected all the time not to, no don't. When he is allowed out in the rest of the house it is TV learning time, and helping mommy time. Setting his personal boundaries helped alot. Now instead of using no, dont, stop, we use phrases like the bananas belong in your mouth instead of the floor, the remote to the TV is mommies, etc. I noticed that when I used the negative words he would just act up more. Also to calm his hyperactivity down I use lavender fabric softener sheets in my laundry, and I burn essential oil lavender candles, and oils. That helps a lot. Also doing something for myself, like painting, drawing, reading, time just for myself helps to work out the frustration. We had to gradually work with my son when we started giving him his own space. It took a while for me to adjust from not having him right with me, but when my 2nd son came and I had to leave him for 4 days that really hurt but it helped him to realize that he didn't need mommy all the time, and me to realize I needed a break. Also I noticed that certain colors of toys my son likes better than others, red and yellow is his fav, but other colors don't interest him much. So I try to pick a toy that gets his interest more than others.

I have almost a 2 year old and we have begun the potty training. We are going through a similar situation. My son will tell me when he needs to go to #1, but when it comes to #2 he runs and runs in his room trying to go. During this time he refuses to sit on his potty. We use the insert that goes in our potty. We asked our physican and her response was that it could be that he was very uncomfortalbe for him to go, and maybe in the past it hurt him to go, so there comes the fear of it hurting again. So she prescribed medication to help him go. Since then he tells me by squating down and saying done when he finishes, so now our next move is on his potty. We used sign language for him to communicate better with us when we first started training. Just a thought. I have heard of the book mentioned as well, i have requested it at my local library.