Very interesting! Thank you for starting this new thread.

Parents should try to set aside their distaste for math and encourage their children as much as possible. Young children are eager to learn. “It’s hard to learn to talk or walk. But they don’t care. They just push themselves over their limits. They are going to come at math with that same attitude.

With so many facts and figures to memorize and apply to math problems, children learn early that math is something that requires work. That doesn’t mean that it can’t be fun; keep the pleasure in math by playing games with your children. Many games, even the ones adults play, rely on math. With countless websites, computer games and phone apps, parents have endless options, but don’t forget about the nondigital games you loved as a child. The classics that require manipulating cards and game pieces, calculating along the way, may have the same appeal for your kids as they did for you.

I need a recipe for a picnic at my school. It has to contain rice and must be finger food. I can't think of anything except sushi... Any suggestions?

You only need to buy iAccess. If you have iAccess, the curriculum will be made available for download to your mobile device

You can get many of the best kinds of educational learning and cognitive development toys that facilitate your child's intellectual, social and emotional development from websites that specialize in developmental expert-selected toys. Still, the best toys are those that can be used in a variety of ways, some of which your child will invent themselves.

Examples of unstructured, multipurpose toys include clay, blocks, balls, and pretend play toys like wagons, generic toy figures, stuffed animals and baby dolls--all of these encourage play that children can control and shape to meet their individual needs over time. The best thing is that some of these toys are also the most inexpensive or free (like stackable plastic containers and boxes around the house)!

It's good to have educational play interactions with your little one, but also let them have regular, uninterrupted playtime (away from the TV or DVD player) and let them know that play is important by encouraging it every day.

Magazines are a wonderful way to help your child enjoy reading. My daughter loved fashion and beauty magazines. She would spend hours reading the articles and tips. Over the years, several teachers allowed her to count her magazine reading and write her reports on articles she found in magazines. If you have a child that is not enjoying reading, talk to the teacher and see if magazine reading is an acceptable alternative.

Read to your child as they follow along. I remember as an adult I met a 14-year-old boy through a teen community I worked for online. He once told me that his mother still read to him. I asked him about this routine. He said he loved hearing his mom read to him and it gave him and his mom great quality time together. He had a younger sister and his mom read to her each night, so after putting her to bed she would come spend time with her son and they would read together. He chose the books and she would read. This got her involved in his favorite books and this allowed him to comprehend the book without him actually reading it. He told me that often after hearing his mom read the book, he would go back and reread the section they had read last night.

Buy a craft kit or model airplane kit and have your child read the instructions to put it together. This again is a wonderful way to spend quality time with your child while helping them enjoy reading. The end results are wonderful as they have not only read the instructions and followed them but in the end, you have a wonderful product you can use, hold or display.

Cook together, with your child reading the instructions. There is no incentive like brownies, cookies, or even lasagna. The catch is the child has to help read and prepare the food. My daughter has spent an hour pouring through and reading cookbooks. We've also spent hours online looking at, reading and printing recipes. Young children can help measure, pour and mix. Older children can help shop for the foods, reading the labels and making sure you have the right ingredients.

Crossword puzzle books, word find books and logic puzzle books are wonderful for older kids. I have also seen very simple word find books for younger children. Not only does your child have to read the words in the word find books but then they have to find the words hidden amongst other letters. As my kids got a little older they used to create their own word find puzzles. We would make the grid on the computer. They would then create a word find based on a theme. They'd write the words, insert the words into the grid and then use the remaining letters of the alphabet as fillers. It was always fun for them to make sure they used every letter of the alphabet at least once or at least twice. 👨‍👶🏽👩‍

Contrary to popular saying, parenting is the oldest profession. And while parents have always been proud of their children, sometimes you can't help but feel like there some kind of competition going on between parents. It's almost as if the triumphant parent wins a gold medal by proving they are the better parent. And how do you prove you're the better parent? You have a smarter child of course! And so the arms race begins to one up the Joneses (or at least keep up with them!).

There is a myth about certain milestones that children reach at different points in their lives. The game plan: if your child reaches the finish line milestone first, you win.

Almost as if you were imputing commands into a computer, you program in "Teach my child: Read." But then they realize just reading isn't enough, it grows to "Teach My Child: Read and Vocabulary." Then they expand it to "Teach My Child: Read and Vocabulary, Quote Shakespeare." And then "Teach My Child: Read and Vocabulary, Quote Shakespeare, 2nd Language." And it just keeps snowballing away...

The ones caught in the cross-fire? Your children! Newsflash: there is no set alarm clock that says that your child must be this or that by whatever age. Every time a child learns to talk or walk or clap, it's a miracle!

Now, there are certain things that you can do to provide these opportunities for growth. And there is nothing wrong with learning early! In fact research shows that reading early has nothing to do with IQ and everything to do with the home environment. Before you allow the voice in your head to say, "Aha!" consider the following.

The home environment doesn't mean going out and getting the most expensive DVD's or the latest learning toy. It's talking about the environment you create as a parent.

You will always be you child's favorite toy. Why? Because he knows that you are his first teacher. How much do you really believe in your child, with nothing in it for you? As his first teacher, your focus should be on their benefit, on their enjoyment, on building their self-esteem. Be the one parent that earns his gold medal from his child instead of the spectators. That will be worth more than anything the rest of the world can offer.
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A good place to start is with the alphabet, the Russian alphabet is known as the Cyrillic alphabet or Cyrllic script. It is actually easier to learn than the English alphabet because the letters only have one letter to one sound, while the English alphabet can have more than one sound.

Digital Dialects has a great section on their site that goes over the alphabet with sound files to help children with their pronunciation. It is a free site with language learning games in Russian (as well as 60 other languages). The Cyrillic script might be a little intimidating for a small child so you will need to be patient with your child as they begin to learn.

agree with Martusia

 If he is standing up just say come here and hold your arms out. Praise him and clap when he stands. He will get it in is own time.

Of coarse i've heard that playing music to the womb helps fetal development and all but how soon it is beneficial? Or should I just to it for giggles?

The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss
Let's Say Hi to Friends Who Fly! by Mo Willems
The Alphabet Tree by Leo Lionni
Dear Deer: A Book of Homophones by Gene Barretta

Learning multiple languages challenges the brain and improves cognitive and social-emotional development, learning, and the chances for long-term success.

Your new baby, a tiny bundle that comes into this world programed to learn. Anyone who has watched a child grow, knows that the first year seems almost magical, from a baby unable to do little more than cry at birth, to a walking, babbling, happy little person in such a short time. But did you know these early years your babies brain is developing at the fastest rate it ever will?

The preschool years are the true learning years. The time when all your child wants to do is learn, and you have the power to harness that curiosity, to teach your child to their fullest potential.

Why not use that valuable time to give them a rich jump start on learning?

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Toys may also help teach children life-lessons like if their toy breaks, then they will experience and have dealt with loss. if they lose their toy, then they will understand techniques on how to retrieving the toys back