Hi Krisha 
I would agree with KL
It sounds as though your LO is trying to find her boundaries - I think most kids go through a stage of asserting themselves, and this shows up at about the age of your DD.
IMHO she tries this on when your MIL is there to see if she can get away with it with her as well. Maybe she detects signs that her grandmother just might give in.
I would say that they do pass through this stage (and go onto another ) but you have to give her the security of knowing how far she can go - what is acceptable and what is not.
Positive reinforcement and praise for cooperation does seem to work as KL says. I have found that if you ignore rebellious behaviour (unless what she is doing puts her in danger) then she will eventually realise that she can't get attention other than by cooperating.
Good luck - she sounds like a bright little spark 

Hi !
I have uploaded a .cat file with pictures and pronunciation files for the following words:
earth, biodiesel, landfill, light bulb, smoky chimney, wave power, wind turbine, glass to recycle.

[reading]

Yep 
We started the Teach your Baby to Read programme when Glenn Doman brought it out - I was using it in 1966 (ish) and after criticism from friends I ended up not trying to explain - just said that it was a good game that Ian loved and could play finding the cards. As he learned to read more and more words, I tended to keep quiet about it

Its odd because the same people who criticised our efforts at early learning were very quick to tell me that THEIR baby could tell cereal packets apart - and knew which sweets were in different packets - could identify makes of cars etc almost as soon as they started to talk - but they didn't see that as reading - same as they didn't seem to realise that they were being language teachers from their baby's first breath 

In fact - I have come across adults who seem to think that babies just play - and that they don't learn anything until they are 5 or 6 and start formal education. My DH and I have both heard parents saying "I have (x number ) kids and I'm not a teacher - thats what they go to school for." 

I have uploaded a .cat file with pictures and pronunciation files for the following words:
chilly day, everyday clothes, foggy day, rainy day, snowy day, warm day, windy day, sunny day.

I have uploaded a .cat file with pictures and pronunciation files for the following words: fishing net, crayons, paintbrushes, teddy, duck, panda teddy, toy drum, spinning top.

 
Thanks Lappy - so by using the features is how you cut off the pause at the beginning of the recording? Also since my voice is low pitched but loud - I could adjust that as well?    If so that will save me having to record over and over 
Its turns out to be quite a sophisticated tool with all those features now you have explained them. I need to practice again now!

I agree with you about organic foods - our family grow veg and fruit in as natural way as we can, and buy organic food if it is available  

I don't really believe the folk who insist that there are no benefits to be had in using organics. I thiink that organically grown food  has better flavour. Surely for lo's who eat for fast growth and development there is a greater risk from traces of chemical fertilizer and crop treatment? 

Awww     Many congratulations !!

What a sweetie he looks - he is certainly letting everone know that he has arrived 

What does your DD think of her little brother?

Here's Karma for you both

^ We have two dogs and three cats

>Our village is cut off by floods today but the sun is shining - we live on the highest point in the village but one year a guy took his 2 kids down the street in a canoe.

v If you celebrate Christmas  - does it come in a hot or cold season ?

Thanks and Karma to you kmum 
- that is a very inspirational link you posted.    I have bookmarked it.
Scrapbooking has become more popular here in the UK - many stores have supplies for embellishing and lots online now.

Hi 
I homeschooled my youngest (years ago - he is now a father of three )
My older two kids were at secondary school when he was born - so his language development was very advanced and he was keen to read from very early on. I  considered the local school for him but decided that I could do better myself being a trained teacher anyway.

Homeschooling meant that he could learn all the time. He learned at his own pace and had the opportunity to go as deeply into topics as he wanted without having to be cut restrained by the school programme.

We both enjoyed his years at home - but in those days there was no internet and by the time he was 12 I thought he ought to go to the secondary school - because of the social aspect and because I couldn't do science with him at the level he needed.
There is so much available on the internet now that I think it would be possible to homeschool for much longer.

We joined a UK homeschool support organisation 'EO' (Education Otherwise) - which was helpful. They had a slogan "School Is Not Compulsory" but that education IS compulsory. 

When I made scrapbooks I went to an artist supply shop or art department where they sell drawing materials. I bought a spiral bound cartridge paper drawing pad and used that. They have lots of pages in and you can past a cover on using wrapping paper or a collage of your baby's pictures or whatever. 
If that gets full - you can start another - maybe have one for each year 

I think at around that age, babies start to be more aware of the world around them and that it can be a big scary place. They start to get experience of people and places outside of their immediate family and environment - and it is an age when they start to be 'shy' when other adults try to approach if that hasn't happened already.

They also become aware that there can be danger - falling over - bumping into things - loud noises - etc.
 
I should think that what your LO is experiencing is quite normal and a good sign of his development - he has to find out how he fits into the big world outside - and if he didn't have little fears to overcome - he would grow up very vulnerable and too trusting.

When you reassure him that what he is frightened of in the house is OK - let him see what it was that he found scary then he will gradually learn to be confident.
Good luck - hope this helps 

All our kids have loved playing modelling with salt dough. Its good and inexpensive and can be made at home, and when it has dried out they love to put colour on their creations using (non-toxic) paints. The little 2yr olds don't need to make anything recogniseable, they enjoy squishing it about  but love to practise rolling sausage shapes and so on. They don't need paintbrushes to start with either - ours used finger paints and got gloriously messy. Soon they will tell you that they have made ie a dog - car - man - for you to admire 
Finger painting is also good - they love doing hand and foot prints - you need to have this activity outside or in a washdown environment - and preferable timed near to bathtime
Its really good for getting them not to mind getting their hands messy - that way they learn about the opposite - keeping clean.
Both these activities have built in face painting experience as a bonus        

That will be so helpful - can't wait  
I think my prob is with me... I'm not sure where to look on my computer for the sound files are in relation to the pictures I want to use.... they go fine into the category so I can show them to the kiddos - and I have been recording the voice files using the new recording device that is built in - its wonderful by the way 
I do the import/export bit. It puts up a busy screen for a second when I click export and I can see the file at the other end as it were, it appears that I have got a sound file and a picture file for each tiem on the list... See screen shot. ( I can manage to do a screen shot with no probs sigh)
So I try to upload it to the download area and thats where I come unstuck. I have attached a screenshot of after I click on Browse at the bottom of the screen - can you identify where I am going wrong?