Sensible After School Activities for Better Child Development

March 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment

After school activities contribute greatly to your child’s development and should be chosen with care and wisdom. Aside from the regular academic curriculum, extra curricular activities have a great impact on a child’s emotional, physical, social and intellectual growth.

How then do you choose which one your child should engage in, Read more

Posted by Vincent Yim | Filed Under Activities and Games, Education, Moral Values, Parenting

Choosing the Perfect Kid’s Alarm Clock

March 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment

A kid’s alarm clock color, design and style are very important elements that your son or daughter care about when making their choice. For them, it has to be cool, trendy and should fit in with the rest of their knick knacks otherwise it would only end up as a paper weight! This may be hard for parents to understand but that’s the way it is for teenagers, there is simply no logic in how they think and what they want in their accessories.

Boys and Girls Together

Mail order catalogs are a good place to find trendy alarm clocks for boys. Professional football, soccer, baseball, basketball and hockey teams produce alarm clocks which your son would surely like including kids’ alarm clocks shaped like cars, R2D2, airplanes, a Jedi warrior or anything that takes a boy’s fancy. In choosing an alarm clock for your son, make sure that the second consideration is durability so that it can take the beating it would surely get in your son’s bedroom when his friends come over or when he plays with his other siblings.

If you have a daughter instead of a son, it would be better to shop for her alarm clock in novelty stores and boutique shops. If you get your daughter a Powerpuff Girls or Bratz themed alarm clock, there is a chance that she may outgrow it sooner than expected since girls mature faster than boys.

However, to be on the safe side and regardless what the gender of your child may be, it would be advisable to get a kid’s alarm clock that is not gender specific. You can get them a kid’s alarm clock of their favorite pet, retro motif, geometric patterns, favorite animal or sport, nature, space or landscape. These types of kid’s alarm clocks can be useful even when your child reaches puberty and there may even bring it with them when they go off to college for sentimental reasons.

Effective and Functional Design
Make sure the alarm clock you buy has big numbers, hands, buttons and/or dials and a big snooze bar. Why? To better to see the time when the clock sets off the alarm so they will not be late for school. If you choose an electric powered alarm clock, get one that has a battery back up so that it will always work on time all the time!

Radio and Alarm in One

My favorite alarm clock is a radio and clock in one, tuned in to my favorite FM station that powers on at the preset time. It never fails to wake me up because at the appointed time, the rock station starts blaring music which surely wakes me up - no matter what!

Posted by Vincent Yim | Filed Under General, Gifts, Kids Bedroom, Technology, Toys

Baby Sitter - A Necessity We Can’t Do Without

March 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Baby sitters are an indispensable necessity that most parents need so that they can take the necessary time off from their work and domestic responsibilities. Parenthood is a very demanding job more so if you also have to work for a living. To be able to juggle these responsibilities, finding a dependable and trustworthy baby sitter is an absolute necessity in order to ease the stress of worrying about your baby whenever you are outside working or relaxing, even if only for a few hours.

It is a given fact that parents (mothers more especially) can not always take time off from work every time a child is unable to go to school due to Read more

Posted by Vincent Yim | Filed Under Child Health, Child Safety, Parenting

Liven Up Life with Children Songs

March 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Children songs play a very important role in child development because music has a positive effect on children regardless of their age.

Whenever young children hear music, even infants for that matter, they undergo a profound magical experience that highlights the truth that music is a universal language that transcends age, sex, geography and race! Children’s reaction to music and songs are Read more

Posted by Vincent Yim | Filed Under Activities and Games, Education

Exercise for Children is also a Necessity

March 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment

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Necessity of Exercise for Children
With more and more children getting obese due to malnutrition (undernourishment due to eating the wrong types of food), proper child nutrition and diet needs to be complemented by exercise. Especially with the dominating prevalence of computer and video games that almost all children have fallen in love with to while their time away. Most of today’s kids have adopted a sedentary lifestyle brought on by the development of high tech computer games and eating on the go!

Today’s parents have the added responsibility of ensuring that their children do not turn into Read more

Posted by Vincent Yim | Filed Under Activities and Games, Child Health, Healthy Eating, Technology

Proper Child Nutrition Ensures Your Child’s Health

March 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment

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Child nutrition is a very important issue especially for parents since by ensuring that your child gets the children the correct amount of proteins, carbohydrates and fats, they would grow into healthy and active individuals well equipped to face the challenges of life in school and outside the protective boundaries of home.

The importance of proper nutrition for growing children cannot be understated since healthy child nutrition is one of the anchors of a well developed individual. Lack of proper nutrients inhibits a child’s physical and mental development because Read more

Posted by Vincent Yim | Filed Under Child Health, Healthy Eating

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