Insparenting

• Try to practice sounds like bababa or dadada again and again, children needs repetition.
• Stimulate the sensory awareness in their mouth with varied taste of food with different temperature, flavorings, shapes and textures.
• If your child has an oral-motor problem, try to exercise the lips by licking them
• Get your child in front of the mirror and ask him to imitate your facial expressions
• Put on a puppet show. Just place his favorite stuffed animals behind a couch and start the show. After a while, invite him to do the show (do not push if he doesn’t want to). He might make some sounds out of the show.
• Sing and sing. Children love the sound of song. Try to sing some simple songs while being with him and after a while he might sing along.
• Read books for them and make the reading interesting by making sounds.
• Get a tape recorder. Let your child make a sound, get it recorded and let him listen to the sound he made.
• Get some interactive toys.
• Make a phone call and let your child say something to the person on the line.
• Name things around you. Especially things he likes so much. For example, he like Daddy’s car, repeat the word ‘car’ to help him get used to the word.
• Let him enjoy toothbrushing for it helps provide sensory input to the tongue, gums, lips, jaw and cheeks and stimulate muscle tone.
• Just keep on talking…both self-talk and parallel talk. The more you talk the better his improvement of development.

Happy TT!

Happy WW!

This is the answer for your fear of getting your children into trouble in the cyber world.

All this time, we’ve been deadly worried about what or who our children might find in the internet. We know that people can be anything, anyone when it comes to the internet. They might seem like nice people but then you’ll find out that they are nothing but abusers.

Well, there are also many good people on the net. Just like you and me.

But, still we’re worried, right?

Yet, it seems like this will end. As mentioned at mashable.com, at least, with this MySpace equivalent website for pre-teens launched by Disney, we can control the kids. Assuring that they’re safe.

If any of your pre-teens have tried this internet community of kids, you are welcome to share experiences and opinions here.

Have you noticed that sometimes you catch your kids talking with the animals. Not talking to. Because somehow, it seems like there is a certain understanding between them.

Are you worried?

No need to. It is even a good sign.

A sign that your kids have a wide imagination. They create the conversation inside their head as if it really exists.

Just let them be.

They’ll stop anyway.

*a tribute to my daughter who has stopped talking to animals since the last two weeks*

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