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1  Parents' Lounge / General Pregnancy / Re: Here comes another one on: June 17, 2010, 07:45:00 PM
Congratulation Dad Dude!! Lucky you!
2  Parents' Lounge / General Pregnancy / Re: Literature or experience on fertilization on: June 17, 2010, 07:43:03 PM
The Fertility Cure by Randine Lewis is a must read if you are trying to get pregnant and it's not going as fast as you had hoped. Here are it's book reviews on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Infertility-Cure-Ancient-Wellness-Pregnant/product-reviews/0316159212/ref=sr_1_1_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1&qid=1276803566&sr=1-1

Also below is a link to a Fertility website that is excellent.  The women on the website are all fertility veterans and can answer any question you have.

http://www.network54.com/Forum/209394/

Write me back if you have specific questions.  I've gone through the gamut of infertility stuff for 5 year and finally had a healthy baby girl at 39 years old.  Good luck!!!
3  BrillKids Software / Little Reader - General Discussion / Bought a PC-how do I get LR on it from MAC? on: April 02, 2010, 12:56:21 PM
Hi there! 

I bought LR last year and we installed it on my husband's MAC which hardly ever could use because he takes it to work everyday .  I finally just got a PC!!  How can I get my LR onto my new PC?  I'd also like to update to the newest version. 

Any help would be great. 

Many thanks!
Lucy
4  EARLY LEARNING / Early Learning - General Discussions / Any good Montessori reading toy suggestions?? on: February 22, 2010, 07:42:40 PM
Hi there!  I would like to buy a great Montessori toy to help with reading and one for math for my 2 year old daughter (she only knows the alphabet and the sounds the letters make and a few simple site words and she knows numerals 1-10 but no quantity recognition yet).   

Any good suggestions?  I read that the red rods are good for math.  Any insight would be great!

Lucy
5  EARLY LEARNING / Early Learning - General Discussions / Question about what Montessori material to donate to preschool on: February 19, 2010, 05:20:35 AM
Hi everyone!   

My little one just turned 2 and she just started preschool in January and she LOVES it.  She attends a Reggio Emilia/ Montessori based preschool with Montessori teachers (from what I understand Reggio Emilia is like Montessori but more imagination play-based).  In my daughter's 2-3 year old class they are very montessori organized and let the children focus on art, music, gardening, etc. however at this age they do NOT focus on numbers, letters, or phonics, etc. but I would really like her to be exposed to these things in school if she is going to be there 3 mornings a week (although they do have counting beads). So I would like to donate a piece of montessori teaching material like maybe some sort of math manipulative or something that could help with reading or letters but I'm not at all familiar with Montessori materials.  Could someone please suggest a good piece of Montessori teaching material that the teachers would appreciate having in the classroom and that would expose the children to more math and/or reading?  I would greatly appreciate it.

Also, does anyone else have their children in a Montessori based preschool or Reggio Emilia type school?  Does your school expose them to math or reading at an early age? 

Many thanks!
Lucy

6  Parents' Lounge / General Pregnancy / Re: Do I need to take folic acid and omega3 supplements while on my 2nd trimeste on: February 12, 2010, 02:41:43 AM
I took Rainbow Light prenatals which are awesome.  They are all organic and completely dissolvable (many prenatals aren't) and they scored 1st or 2nd by Consumer Reports for effectiveness.  A lot of women also take them because they don't make you nauseous like a lot of others.  Go to their website and check out their products.  They may make an omega-3 prenatal or some sort of omega 3 product.
7  Parents' Lounge / General Pregnancy / Re: Do I need to take folic acid and omega3 supplements while on my 2nd trimeste on: February 12, 2010, 01:53:55 AM
Yes!! You must take at least 800 mg of folic acid and omega 3 fish oil every day (if you don't take the fish oil every day then eat eggs and salmon to get your omega 3s.  I don't know what doctor at this point that is telling patients not to take fish oil.  Most say you should take it.  The only hesitation a doctor may have is if he's not sure of the mercury content and therefore they just say not take it but you can buy fish oil with no mercury.  Nortic Naturals or Carlsons is mercury free.  Or you can take krill oil which is even more effective with no trace of mercury whatsoever.  You can read about krill oil at www.mercola.com .  Dr. Mercola is great.
8  Products Marketplace / Product Discussions and Reviews / Re: Is the Baby Bit program the same as Tweedle Wink program ? on: February 12, 2010, 01:43:12 AM
Oh, in French.  That sounds good. Please let us know how you like it.
9  BrillKids Software / Little Reader - General Discussion / Re: Mac, Linux, 64-bit Windows users - Please raise your hands! on: February 09, 2010, 05:20:12 PM
It's so frustrating to have go out and buy a new computer to run this program (my Mac is a few years old so I can't run parallels or anything).   

I'm assuming it must cost a ton of money to make LR Mac compatible because otherwise I'm sure they would do it.   The money thing I understand. It just stinks to know LR is there but we can't use it.

I'm thinking of getting a little 9" Dell or Acer computer.  They are about $349.  It's a big chunk of money. 
10  EARLY LEARNING / Teaching Your Child - Signing, Speaking, Languages / Re: I don't know, HOW to teach her the second language on: February 03, 2010, 08:19:12 PM
Your daughter doesn't know it's the more difficult language.  It's all the same to her.  She doesn't even know they are separate languages. She just thinks there are a few different ways to say something.  And since kids are such sponges and geniuses at learning languages, she'll absorb all of it.  Don't limit her exposure to languages.  No child has ever been exposed to a language spoken in the home and not picked it up (unless their parents didn't speak it to them).  Good luck!
11  EARLY LEARNING / Teaching Your Child - Signing, Speaking, Languages / Re: How many hrs/week to learn a 2nd language on: February 03, 2010, 08:10:56 PM
Thanks for the responses!  I will definitely keep you updated on her progress.  Right now she is attending preschool 3 days a week and we cut out the French on Mondays because of $ so now she only getting about 4 hours a week of French but we're going to start up again soon.   I speak a tiny bit of French but I'm trying to learn along with her.  You are right, it's so helpful.  How much Mandrin can you now speak after trying to learn it along with your children?   I'll definitely report back to you on our French!

Lucy
12  EARLY LEARNING / Early Learning - General Discussions / Re: phonics? on: December 24, 2009, 12:30:23 PM
I didn't mean to sound like I prefer phonics to site learning.  I don't.  I think it's best to learn by site first.  But whether phonics comes naturally to a child or whether it's taught, it still comes because it is a necessary tool that one naturally uses.   I guess I'm finding the war between phonics and site silly because all children eventually have most words memorized by a very early age and all children also use phonics.  That's where I am now anyway.
13  EARLY LEARNING / Early Learning - General Discussions / Re: phonics? on: December 23, 2009, 07:18:57 PM
Your right, phonics isn't a necessary step in early reading instruction but it's extremely helpful, if not necessary soon after when bigger words come into play and mom and dad aren't always there to help.    Why stress so much about how your child learns to read, phonics or site words, when in just a couple of years of reading they are going to have most words memorized anyway from seeing them so much, just like we all do.  This idea that a child who learns to read from just phonics or a combination of phonics and site is somehow disadvantaged because they have to sound every word out instead of just recognizing it by site is absurd.   Once a child starts to learn to read they love knowing how to decode words through phonics rules.  Phonics is necessary and it's fun.
14  EARLY LEARNING / Early Learning - General Discussions / Re: My first 500 words book........... on: December 20, 2009, 12:52:00 PM
He doesn't have a computer so he can't get little reader.

15  EARLY LEARNING / Teaching Your Child - Signing, Speaking, Languages / Re: How I'm teaching my children French on: December 19, 2009, 06:14:47 PM
The link above is awesome for hear the correct French pronunciation.  Thanks!
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