Tuesday, February 9, 2010
How Smart Is Your Baby?
Infants have the smarts! If you have an infant, you'll want to see this video! Dr. Linda Acredolo will show you a simple activity with a baby mobile will show you how fast infants learn.
Watch this video to see how smart your baby is!
Purchase the Baby Minds book.
Monday, February 8, 2010
Bonding With Baby
Bonding with baby
What you do when you hold your baby in your arms really counts. Learn how simple face-to-face interactions can jump-start your baby's emotional development.
Watch this video featuring Dr. Linda Acredelo explaining how!
Purchase the Baby Hearts Book!
You Bar Review & Giveaway!
I love healthy eating and having healthy snacks to grab on the go. But I can also be really picky, for instance, I don't like any nuts but I do like creamy peanut butter. Weird I know. I came across the site for You Bar and spent some time browsing all of their wonderful options. I was sent some great samples to try; shake mixes, bars and trail mixes.
YouBar was founded by a Mother and Son team in 2006 out of California. Handmade just for you!
With You Bar®:
- You choose the ingredients and the bar size.
- You view the nutrition facts of your energy bar while you are creating it.
- Your box of bars is hand made fresh-to-order and shipped to your door with a satisfaction guarantee. If you don't love your bars, you'll get a new box free of charge.
- Your customized nutrition facts and your chosen bar name are printed on each individual bar package.
- Friendly telephone customer support is available to answers questions and provide helpful recommendations.
My family and I took our time reviewing these products and had a blast doing it!
We added a shake mix to a smoothie (the kids love smoothies!). I loved that it added some protein and other goodness to their morning or snack, especially because we don't eat a lot of meat. One of the shake mixes I received was a mix of strawberry, banana and vanilla. I added it to these strawberry banana muffins and they were a huge hit.
The trail mixes were a great snack to put in my 7 year old's lunch box for his mid-morning snack. I knew it was full of healthy fiber and protein to keep him going, but with a bit of candies in there to keep it fun for him. And can you imagine how cool he would find it if the package even said "Thomas' Snack" on it? Kids digg stuff like that :)
The bars were really good. I'm picky when it comes to protein or snack bars. They can have a funny texture or funny aftertaste, but not these ones. I tried three different ones and loved them all. A great mid-day snack for me or something for hubby to grab on his way to work. I think the "Great Date With Chocolate" was my favorite, but it was hard to choose.
They also offer cereals and cookies! Getting to choose your favorite healthy ingredients makes a huge difference in having healthy snacks available. The world is full of different tastes and allergies, the power to CHOOSE what you put in your body without the work of trying to figure out how to put it together just right is such a gift. Eating healthy can be difficult, but if you can put all of your favorite things into something made just for you and have it ready to eat, it is so much easier!
Consider the Valentines I Love You gift box for a special Valentines gift. What could be more special than saying "I love you" with a personalized gift of health? I know I'd love a gift like this from my hubby (hint, hint... are you reading this?) I've been doing great with eating right and my weight loss goals, the last thing I want this year is a box of chocolates that I'm sure to devour in less than 5 minutes. Seriously.
YouBar is offering one of my readers a $20 gift certificate to spend on their site! You can choose from some of their most popular items or make your own personal treat!
And everyone gets a coupon code for 5% off of their YouBar order! Just enter code "babysigns" at checkout.
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Visit YouBar and make your own customized bar, shake, trail mix, cookie or cereal. Come back and tell me what you added in a comment! *leave an email in your comment!*
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This Contest will end on March 1st, 2010 at 11:59PM PST. A winner will be chosen using Random.org and contacted by email. Winner will have 48 hours to respond to my email or another winner will be chosen.
**I was provided with free product for this review, but all opinions are 100% honest and mine!
Friday, February 5, 2010
Sign Of The Week "Bath"
Watch this video and learn the sign for "bath" then download your free poster! Bath time is a time many babies enjoy and it's a great time to practice some signs! Use the sign "bath" to help your baby be aware of what comes next. Once your baby learns the sign for bath try adding more signs like "water," "duck" and "toothbrush."
The Bath Time DVD Fun Pack features the sign for Bath as well as the signs for Water, Bubbles, Duck, Frog and Toothbrush.
This fun pack includes 3 integrated products:
My Bath Time Signs DVD
My Bath Time Signs Book
6 baby-friendly, chunky flashcards
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
The Amazing Benefits of The Baby Signs® Program!
Benefits Of Using The Baby Signs Program
Over two decades of research by Drs. Acredolo and Goodwyn, much of it funded by the National Institutes of Health, has shown that using the Baby Signs® Program provides many benefits for children and their parents. Using the Baby Signs® Program . . .
Over two decades of research by Drs. Acredolo and Goodwyn, much of it funded by the National Institutes of Health, has shown that using the Baby Signs® Program provides many benefits for children and their parents. Using the Baby Signs® Program . . .
• Reduces tears, tantrums and frustration
• Makes learning to talk easier
• Boosts self-esteem and self-confidence
• Stimulates intellectual development
• Strengthens the parent-child bond
Using the Baby Signs® Program reduces tears, tantrums and frustration.
Some parents may worry that encouraging their child to use signs might slow down learning to talk. Actually, the opposite is true! Drs. Acredolo and Goodwyn's federally funded research showed that using the Baby Signs® Program actually helps babies learn to talk. They found that 2-year-old Baby Signers had significantly larger verbal vocabularies than their non-signing peers. And by the time they were three years old, the Baby Signers language skills were more like that of 4 years old. Babies gain a lot of language knowledge when they are able to actively engage in communication with signs-knowledge that lays a good foundation for learning to talk. And, just as a child who learns to crawl is more, rather than less, motivated to learn to walk, so also a child who learns to sign is more, rather than less, motivated to learn to talk! Read more: Experiencing the Benefits of Baby Signs
Using the Baby Signs® Program makes learning to talk easier.
By the time babies are 9 to 10 months old, they are quite capable of knowing what it is they need or want. What they don't know is how to tell us with words-which leads directly to frustration for baby and parent alike. All this changes when a baby is able to use signs. With signs like "eat," "drink," "hot" and "cold," literally at their fingertips, babies can make their needs known quickly and quietly without becoming frustrated and resorting to tantrums and tears. No wonder the answer we most frequently get from parents when we ask how using the Baby Signs® Program has changed daily life is decreased frustration! Read more: Experiencing the Benefits of Baby Signs
Using the Baby Signs® Program boosts self-esteem and self-confidence.
What good self-esteem boils down to for any of us is the sense that we are perceived as both competent and valued in our own eyes and in the eyes of others. And that's just what the ability to use signs gives to babies. Because they can communicate effectively with their caregivers, and because their caregivers respond so positively to these communications, Baby Signs® babies develop a sense of pride in their accomplishments that lays a solid foundation for the development of their self-esteem and self-confidence. Read more: Experiencing the Benefits of Baby Signs
Using the Baby Signs® Program stimulates intellectual development.
Children who had participated in Drs. Acredolo and Goodwyn's study were revisited again when they were 8 years old. Each child was assessed using the WISC-III, a typical IQ test for children. The results were very impressive. After controlling for family income, parents' education and a number of other factors know to influence IQ, children who had signed as babies had significantly higher IQs (an average of 114) than the children who had not signed (an average of 102). That's a full 12 points higher! Read more: Experiencing the Benefits of Baby Signs
Using the Baby Signs® Program strengthens the parent-child bond.
Because Baby Signs® babies are able to communicate effectively with their caregivers, the number of positive interactions goes up and the number of negative interactions goes down. In other words, when a baby and parent can truly understand each other and share what's on their minds, they feel more connected to one another.With signs, even very young children can "tell" their caregivers they would like some milk, they saw an airplane or they heard a dog barking. They can let their caregivers know whether they are happy, sad or even afraid. Life with a Baby Signs® baby becomes a shared life – and with greater sharing comes a stronger, sweeter parent-child bond. Read more: Experiencing the Benefits of Baby Signs
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