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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6 Jul · Linda Searles · No Comments

Let Them Play

Enrolling a young child exclusively in activities with a heavy academic emphasis may result in that child being temporarily capable if what seems like remarkable scholastic accomplishments. However it is unlikely the long-term outcome will include solid educational foundations, impressive imagination and creativity, a strong love of learning, good social skill, and health self-esteem- all …

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6 Jul · Linda Searles · No Comments

What is Truly Essential During the Early Years?

What is Truly Essential During the Early Years? Young Children Need to Play! It has been said that play is children’s work. Children work hard at their play because they can make it up themselves. The best part about children’s play is that they learn a great deal while having fun. Here are some things …

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6 Jul · Linda Searles · No Comments

What can I do to create more free time for my child?

Health. A child’s body and brain need relief from demands and expectations. Rest and recreation help keep a child healthy and ready to learn! Independence. Unstructured time lets a child make choices. A child who is used to an intense schedule may feel a bit lost if she has to find something to do on …

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