Archive for September, 2009

Get children eat vegetables: Carrot & sweet potato mix

Carrots & sweet potato mix was one of the first solid foods I introduced to DD. It gave her a totally different taste and brand new experience from the breast milk. She enjoyed its taste and texture. Until this day carrot is still one of her favorite vegetables.

tags | datetime September 30, 2009 12:17 pm | comments Comments (2)

How to get children eat vegetables?

How to get children eat vegetables is virtually an all-too-common challenge to every parent. These are the three tips I used to train DD to eat vegetables.

tags | datetime September 22, 2009 11:21 am | comments Comments (0)

How to say asparagus, avocado, apple, and apricot in Chinese?

Our lesson series on vegetables and fruits include those most commonly seen in our daily life. Today, I am going to teach you to say asparagus, avocado, apple, and apricot in Chinese.

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How to help babies acquire languages? (Method 3)

While babies attempt to listen, imitate and utter the sounds heard in their language environment, hearing key words spoken correctly in various linguistic contexts helps cement the learning process of organizing words in the correct order, in another word, the grammatical concepts.

tags | datetime September 18, 2009 10:00 am | comments Comments (0)

Baby training, month 14

As the old saying goes, walk by one and talk by two. At month 14, DD was already a confident walker and professional stairs-climber. As before, she began to figure ways to improve her speed or just wanted to try something different. We watched her explorations with great interests and threw in our two cents when needed.

tags | datetime September 11, 2009 12:56 pm | comments Comments (1)

Baby’s growth, month 14

On DD’s one-year birthday, grandmas told me soon I would notice some signs that my baby—small and cute though she is—wouldn’t be a baby any longer. I understood, since I already glimpsed her growing sense of independence, emerging negativity, primitive temper tantrums and sprouting my-way-or-highway-mind-set.

However, I never expected these behaviors would constitute the theme of her second year.

tags | datetime September 3, 2009 12:05 pm | comments Comments (0)