13 Nov · Linda Searles · No Comments

Most Anxieties and Fears are Normal

Today we are talking about anxiety and fears in children 4 – 6 and 7 – 12.   Anxiety is defined as apprehension without apparent cause. It usually occurs when there is no immediate threat to a person’s safety or well-being, but the threat feels real. Everyone experiences anxieties and fears at one time or …

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26 Oct · Linda Searles · No Comments

Anxiety and Fear in Toddlers

What Can You Do to Ease Your Toddler’s Fears It’s normal for your toddler to be fearful. As we know, anxiety is a normal condition that helps us cope with new experiences and protects us from danger. There are strategies that may help but a toddler does not get over her fear immediately. You can …

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19 Oct · Linda Searles · No Comments

INFANTS: Anxiety and Fears

This month’s blogs are about Anxiety, Fears and Phobias in Infants, toddlers, and young children. Everyone from baby hood to adulthood experiences anxieties and fears at one time or another. With children these feelings are not only normal but are necessities. Dealing with anxieties and fears can prepare young people to handle unsettling and challenging …

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9 Oct · Linda Searles · No Comments

Let’s Observe the effect of Baby Power Forever Kids on your baby

Let’s observe the effects of Baby Power Forever Kids on your baby.

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5 Oct · Linda Searles · No Comments

How to Raise an Imaginative Child

Your Toddler’s Developing Brain: The first three years of your child’s life is so important because everything he does with you – from playing to eating, walking, reading, and singing- helps jump-start his brain. Your toddler was born with about 100 billion brain cells and each one of those brain cells send and received electrical …

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29 Sep · Linda Searles · No Comments

Imaginary Friends

  Imaginary Friends Many children, by the age of three, play pretend games and interact with their toys, stuffed animals, and dolls as if they were alive but even earlier than the age of seven many children take imaginative play a step further and create and invisible friend. Invisible friends can be human, animal or …

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15 Aug · Linda Searles · No Comments

Use Storytelling to Engage the Creative Mind of a Child

  In our next series of blogs, we’ll be sharing ways to spark the imagination of a child. Parents and teachers can create opportunities for children to develop an imagination starting when a child is very young. At Baby Power, we strongly believe in the Power of Play (see white paper), and the only place …

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6 Jul · Linda Searles · No Comments

Parent Child Bonding

What promotes bonding between a parent/child? A child needs to know that they’re loved. If they’re deprived of love, it will be very difficult to get along with children or adults. The first thing is they have to let the child know they are loved and accepted for who they are, not what the parent …

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6 Jul · Linda Searles · No Comments

Parent Child Bonding 2

With studies stressing the importance of initial parent/child bonding on a child’s social, intellectual, and emotional development, what can a mother do if they are separated from their baby after a complex or premature birth? Touching, hugging, and talking to that child constantly will stimulate your child’s emotional and intellectual development. The baby also knows …

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6 Jul · Linda Searles · No Comments

Emotional Work

Parents’ influence affects long-term emotional development of their child The emotional health of a child can be often overlooked by even the most enthusiastic parents seeking to provide a stimulating and enriching environment for their children. With the increased attention parents are giving towards raising physically fit children, it is equally important for parents to …

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