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Traditional Toys - How Role Playing Affects Childhood

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The most common, not to mention the most fulfilling, type of play occurs when children imitate the situations and experiences they encounter in their everyday life. Role play toys are traditional toys that encourage children to pretend and play out these different opportunities for learning.

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Mother and Baby: Teaching Your Baby to Sleep at Night

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One of the biggest challenges that most new parents have is getting their baby to sleep through the night. The first thing that you have to realize is that for the first six months it is not going to happen. After that however it will be possible to teach your baby to sleep at night.

The Real Dangers of Disposable Nappies

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We all know that modern disposable nappies are produced using valuable resources such as petroleum based plastics, and wood pulp, as well as adhesives and a host of chemical products-as parents, it is our duty ...

Parenting Counseling

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Parenting counseling, what does that mean? I am a parent, a late life parent, which has its own built in wisdom and deficiencies when the kids are almost 11 and just turned 5.

Dolls and Toys For Boys and Girls

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Girls can wash their lifelike dolls to feed, dress, and they love them. Since it is not surprising that these dolls for younger girls up to about eight years ago are among the absolute darlings.

Baby Pushchairs

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Through a diversity of and baby pushchairs presented, they bind to the superiority constructed into all examples. They are affordable and characteristic contemporaneous manners on an uncompromising aluminum framework. Lots of these are exchangeable to ...

News Stories on Autism in 2011

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News stories on autism, from around the Web, featured in the daily news folder on About.com Children With Special Needs in the first three months of 2011.

How to Beautify Your Girl's Room

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Do you have a spare room in your house, and you've been planning to make it your little girl's room? Well then, here are a few tips to make it the best girl's room ever!

Six Ideas To Help You Discipline Your Kid

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Got a kid? Love him or her? Of course you do. So when he or she misbehaves on a consistent basis, what's the best way to administer discipline?Well, as you may be aware, there is a wide range of thought on this subject. One school of thought teaches essentially hand's off, and says, the li

Are You An Authoritarian Parent?

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For many parents, it's an eye opener to realize how much bossing, dictating, lecturing, and controlling there is going on in the house. Are you an Authoritarian parent?

Should You Throw a Baby Gender Reveal Party?

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A lot of mothers are starting to consider that learning the sex of their babies by way of sonogram photo is just not sufficient. Instead of having the sonogram technician point to a fuzzy gray ...

Ant Farm Celebrates Its 50th “Ant-iversary"

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Uncle Milton's Ant Farm has been around for generations. The Ant Farm celebrates it's 50th Anniversary this year. Read all about how the ant farm concept started, and how Uncle Milton built up on this very unique idea to make the ant farm what it is today. This article has been written by

Tips to Remember When Buying Second-Hand Pushchairs

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Raising a child can be tricky, especially during this economic crunch. You want to give them everything you can, but that means going over your budget. It's not that money is the only way to ...

3 Ways You Can Make Parenting Easier

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Parenting is tough!Learn three easy steps for relaxing into the role of mommy or daddy without losing your sanity or wrecking your marriage.

Help Protect Your Child From the Dangers of Abduction

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Child abduction is a very serious concern for parents. Many abductions occur from friends and family members than from strangers. Children should be education to try to prevent the possibility of abduction.

Stop Trying So Hard To Stop The Crying

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You've brought the new baby home, everyone you've ever met has been over to see, hold, and of course adore the most wonderful baby that has ever been. But that was two weeks ago.The doting Daddy has returned to work, every friend and relative has gone home, and you are finally alone with t

What Is Federal Child Support Enforcement?

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The Federal Child Support Enforcement agency exists to help struggling single parents obtain the child support for their children. Find out how to the Federal Child Support Enforcement agency can help you, and how to locate an OCSE office in your state.

Family - The Key to Unlocking Student Success

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Evidence continues to accumulate regarding the impact of family factors on educational outcomes for teens. And the best news is that families can do something about it themselves!