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Author :: Ant Arthur  |
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| Article Title :: Baby Car Seat Glossary Guide |
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| To the uninitiated parent, buying a car seat for your child can seem technical at best. There are a dozen terms designers and retail stores use to describe car seats, their various accessories and features. Below you’ll find some handy tips for sorting through the riff raff and deciding what features and accessories you really need for your carseat.Key Terms
Here are some key terms you should familiarize yourself with before shopping for your child's first carseat.LATCH – This stands for 'lower anchors and tethers for children.' Now what the heck is that you ask? Most vehicles built after 2002 have standard hardware in the seats that (read full article) |
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| Category :: Babies Articles |
Author :: Ant Arthur |
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| Article Title :: Important Car Seat Statistics |
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| Installing a car seat correctly is the most important thing you can do to protect your child or newborn if you are in a crash. If you ever doubted how important a car seat is you’ll change your mind once you realize the shocking facts about automobile accidents. First and most importantly, most parents assume that their child is safe whether their car seat is installed correctly. This is FALSE! Other parents mistakenly believe they installed their seat correctly. Unfortunately this is often not the case.If you use your car seat wrongly or install it improperly you might be in for a big surprise. Studies conducted by transportation authorities in Canada and the U.S. show tha (read full article) |
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| Category :: Babies Articles |
Author :: Helen Walters - |
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| Article Title :: Baby Monitors Explained |
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| Baby monitors are an essential part of baby gear. When you have the baby asleep in the crib, you don't have to keep constantly checking to make sure that he/she is all right when you have a baby monitor. You have one part of the monitor in the nursery and the other in the same room of the house where you are. Every move and sound that the baby makes come through the speaker so it is almost like you are in the same room.
The transmitters in the monitors work best when they are within 10 feet of the baby. This is why you should have the monitor on a nightstand near the crib, but yet you don't need to have them so close that when the baby gets older, he/she can reach out and touch (read full article) |
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| Category :: Babies Articles |
Author :: Jennifer Cram |
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| Article Title :: Naming Your Baby - How to Get the Most out of Your Babynaming Ceremony |
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| You've engaged a celebrant and you've picked the day. So how do you ensure that the naming ceremony for your baby goes smoothly and is memorable for friends and relatives alike? Focus on two things - preparation for the ceremony, and how things are organised on the day.Preparation
Choose your child’s godparents with care, talk to them about the promises they feel able to make, and ask them if they would feel comfortable about sharing with everyone at the ceremony some of their thoughts about your child and your family
Consider other members of the family and significant friends, whether present or not, and how you might recognise, include or honour them (read full article) |
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| Category :: Babies Articles |
Author :: Randy Wilson |
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| Article Title :: Family Baby Showers |
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| The addition of baby number 2, 3, or 10 is an occasion to celebrate for any family.Just think how exciting it must be for your littlest one who is used to always being the younger brother to find out he’s going to be a big brother!Though baby showers have traditionally been held for mommies-to-be only, times are changing and many people are having baby showers to celebrate the new baby’s whole family-to-be.What better way to celebrate than to throw a baby shower party in their honor?! Grandparents or aunts or uncles can organize a baby party for the extended family and some close friends to mark the importance of the family unit.Make a family tree to hang a (read full article) |
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| Category :: Babies Articles |
Author :: Jennifer Stewart |
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| Article Title :: How to Help Your Children Learn |
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| We all want the very best for our children and that includes giving them the best possible start to their education. There is a great deal you, as a parent, can do to achieve this. Your priority should be to create an environment that is safe, loving and stimulating.CHILDREN LEARN THROUGH ALL THEIR SENSESAs we get older, we tend to rely on our sense of sight, and maybe hearing, to learn. We read, we observe and we listen. Children touch, taste, smell, look and then listen.It's quite pointless to expect toddlers to learn by listening to you -- they're not being naughty when they gaze at you with those big eyes as you explain that it's wrong to spray your expensi (read full article) |
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| Category :: Babies Articles |
Author :: Jennifer Stewart |
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| Article Title :: Child Safety in the Home |
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| In the 15-year period from 1982 to 1996, the leading cause of death among young children was accidents, poisoning and violence (external causes) -- these accounted for about 46% of all deaths among Australian children.Although the death rate from external causes declined, it remained the leading cause of child death during this period. About a third of all child deaths from external causes were due to motor vehicle accidents (on average around 64 deaths per year) and drowning (on average 68 deaths per year).A number of these deaths were also due to a silent killer found in many thousands of homes -- dangling cords.The Consumer Product Safety Commission in the US has b (read full article) |
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| Category :: Babies Articles |
Author :: Gabrielle Guichard |
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| Article Title :: The Best Birth Gift |
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| If you are thinking of hiring a nanny, no doubt you plan to choose her very carefully. We have all watched some of these scaring videos showing nannies bullying the children they were expected to take care of. Of course, to choose a woman who will not ill-treat your kid is the first point to consider. Fortunately, most nannies meet this requirement. So, which other points to come to?I am not going to give you advice about things I know nothing about, or no more than any other mother. For medical advice, ask your doctor; for religious advice, ask your preacher; but for educational advice, ask a teacher.
Do the math:
One needs about a thousand hours to learn something.
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| Category :: Babies Articles |
Author :: Jackie G. Maxwell |
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| Article Title :: Ideas For Toddler Halloween Costumes |
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| Depending on the age of your little ones, you may want to keep ideas for toddler Halloween costumes on the simple side. Since most of the very youngest trick or treaters are only going out to amuse the grandparents and immediate neighbors, it needn't be terribly complicated to still bring a lot of smiles.For infants, and those who get tired of walking, animal costumes work very well, can be done in minutes, and don't require great sewing skills.Turn your toddler into a cow, with a white hooded shirt, white sweat pants, black wool and some black felt. Cut cow-type “splotches” out of the felt, and either use double-sided tape or easily removed basting stitches to attach (read full article) |
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| Category :: Babies Articles |
Author :: Teresa Schahczinski |
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| Article Title :: Childrens Bedroom Furniture - Three Mothers Share Their Buying Habits |
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| Just two months ago, a group of mothers from three generations (Gen Y, Gen X and Baby Boomer demographics) shared their buying habits with retailers and manufacturers on purchasing childrens bedroom furniture and baby products. This occurred at the fifth annual Kids Today conference in Bonita Springs Florida.Author and entrepreneur Maria Bailey, an executive in the fields of publishing, marketing, and business development, was the keynote speaker at the conference and a moderator for the panel. Maria Bailey has worked for numerous companies, including Automation USA, AutoNation, Discovery Zone, The Miami Herald, Broward Community College, and McDonald's. Her experience as an execut (read full article) |
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