Thanks to all for their inputs. Though I too felt that Real photos are the best ones to teach, but the following changed my opinion.

There are many books & Flash cards available from known and reputed publishers, which have sketched / drawn and painted images. When i spoke to couple of parents & teachers and the publishers, i too got mix response. Some of them informed that using a mix of both - real and unreal photos lets the child see the same thing in different ways, and identifies immediately the object, though it may be of different color / shape / size.

It develops his brain and absorving power to recognize the basic concept, its features & characteristics, which actually identifies the object - be it table, chair, car, animal, bird....

It also improves their imagination skills(there is no real study, but some teachers informed this).
When they start drawing / sketching, they highlight the object by its properties. Our drawing is not good, but still they identify what we have drawn.

This made me think again, and i started showing accordingly, mix images to my child. She is able to recognize from both, as well as in real world too. But am not able to confirm if it enhanced her skills or not. I think we can study if she is better than others in recognizing fast and correct.

There are many printed books available in market. Some have real photos of animals, fruits, vegetables, transportations, etc., while some are drawn & colored by hand while some are cartoon type characters.

Does it make any difference in teaching the child using any of above books.

Good link.

When visitors came, we removed the stick ons and put in a plastic folder with many plastic sheets, so the glue was intact, re-usable.

Nice site. Especially the video quality is excellent.

Thanks for the link Bebita.

While searching online for skating lessons & how to begin & care to take, came across on good site giving details & good tips. Have to search online, since we donot have any professional trainers in our nearby locality.

http://www.essortment.com/family/kidsactivities_shca.htm


In case someone has videos or other links, please share. (No SkateBoarding & no Ice skating please  )

Thanks.

Parents, Brothers / sisters are the best and first trainers on etiquette, at home. Children see and follow what we do in front of them. They repeat what we say & do.

We pray in morning after bath, bow to elders, wash hands after having food... and so on, which our daughter started doing without being instructed to do so. But definitely we had to teach her a lot other things which she didnt do by herself. Many times she needed to be reminded, which she had grasped immediately, but forgot later on.

It is a continuous practise, which we too have to do and follow regularly, in case we want our child to do so. Else, even classes would not help.

Thanks. This has helped in making me decide, to begin.

Few years ago, I used to give surprising looks when someone used to tell me that they have started teaching maths or computers or other development programs to a very small child, since I never came across such things. Neither did my other family members.

But subsequently I found, learnt and started many development programs for our children, though many didnt approve or laughed at the back.

But I dont blame them, because at some point of time, I too did the same. Its the circle / group to which you belong to, that can guide you to the right things.

Our daughter is 3 1/2 years old. Is it the right time to teach her skating. Someone informed that the bones and joints are not so developed & strong, hence it is too early to start and risky. But we have seen many children of such age have learnt from trainers and now skating without any support.

Also what is the best way to begin and teach.

We see our new born child (just 17 days) making signs, which we never taught her. Curving her lips in a round shape giving indication that she is going to wet. Similarly we saw for our elder daughter who is now 3 1/2 years old, making various signs when she was less than 1 year, to show that she is hungry, wants to go out, covered her face to show that she was angry.... We hadnt read any books that time, but made our own signs which she followed, and many times learnt from her friends, which we learnt.

Now we are learning a lot more here, which we would follow for our new born.

I think its never late to teach and learn, at any age.

Cool site.

Our daughter likes to be in water and play a lot. We taught her to jump, kick legs, swim using a floater, go underwater same way as shown in expertvillage.com, when she was around 2 to 2 1/2 years old.

Now with these links, i am sure we would be able to teach her a lot more, properly. Thanks anjie.

We always took a care, not to force her on doing anything she didnt want to. Long ago I had seen a child develop fear from swimming pool, due to the reason that his father tried to teach him a lot every day by forcing her. (His father is a very good swimmer)

One should have patience here. 

This clarification would really help as i too was wondering whether presentations made by me with pics from net & scanned from books involved copyright issues.

Also i feel that in case there were some editing or modifications made in the images, some effects given, there should not be a problem at all in using those images    (though the link given here already clarifies it is not an issue for teaching purpose).

Surprised that such a site is present with so many so many projects & toys, that too made from nothing.

Thanks to the author as well as heath who gave the link.

Its not just that there are so many projects, but that we can teach our child - even broken toys and waste material can be utilized in so many ways to have something useful & fun. Instead of throwing into dustbin, we can use them to create for our child or give to underprivilidged, apart from learning & teaching so much from the science projects & toy making process & books.

One cannot imagine how much time and effort must have gone to create such a huge site with huge variety of things.

Thanks again.

Though fluorescent colors / papers are eye catching and i have not come across anything which says against use of such colors, but its advised that we use soothing colors for the eyes of our child. There are certain chemicals added, whcih give that special effect, which may harm the child. Dark, too bright colors are also not advised.

I had observed that my daughter (and many other children) differentiate between and recognize different colors very late at a higher age, as compared to recognizing other things like animals, vehicles, shapes, etc, which many parents & teachers confirmed. Hence its better not to use such colors at younger age.