The Top 10 Ways to Nurture Creativity in Your Children

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Hi Everyone,

To those of use who have children in our lives, the lists below are something to make you chuckle and think about:

1. You spend the first two years of their life teaching your children to walk and talk. Then you spend the next sixteen telling them to sit down and shut up.

2. Grandchildren are God's reward for not killing your own children.

3. Mothers of teens now know why some animals eat their young.

4. Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said.

5. The main purpose of holding children's parties is to remind yourself that there are children more awful than your own.

6. We childproofed our homes, but they are still getting in.

ADVICE FOR THE DAY: Be nice to your kids. They will choose your nursing home one day.

AND FINALLY: If you have a lot of tension and you get a headache, do what it says on the Aspirin bottle: "Take Two Aspirin" and "Keep Away From Children"....8-)

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Creative Resources for Infants & Toddlers
By Judy Herr, Terri Swim
Average Customer Review - 4.5 Stars

Provides a wealth of information to parents, caregivers, and educators to assist in promoting healthy development of young children. Helps you create a strong foundation for the thinking, interacting, and learning progressions of the children in your care.

This edition focuses on the growth of the whole child by including norms for physical, language, and communication, cognitive, social and emotional growth from birth to 36 months. It includes up to 300 specially-designed activities for infants and toddlers, and groups experiences by ages and developmental areas.

Creative Curriculum for Infants and Toddlers
By Amy Laura Dombro, et. al
Average Customer Review - 5 Stars

The Creative Curriculum For Infants & Toddlers is based on accepted theories of child development and the latest research on the importance of early learning and the development of the brain.

There are separate forms for young infants, mobile infants, and a toddlers to guide the user through the process of individualizing curriculum goals and objectives to fit the particular needs and interests of each child.

Bad Diet Makes Entire Nations Less Clever: UN
The Straits Times Mar 26, 2004

A UN survey has found that the brainpower of entire nations has diminished because of a shortage of the right vitamins, and slipping nutrients into people's food seems to be the only solution.

A lack of iron lowers children's IQs by an average five to seven points, the report said. A deficiency in iodine cuts it 13 more points.

Brain Activity Abnormal In Children With Delayed Speech
Science Daily Nov 27, 2003

Children with unusually delayed speech tend to listen with the right side of the brain rather than the left side of the brain, according to a study published in the December issue of the journal Radiology.

Warning to parents: Frequent, unregulated use of high-definition ultrasound may be harmful to children's development

Is ultrasound uses high-frequency sound waves to produce diagnostic images of developing babies safe? 'Ultrasound is a form of energy, and even at low levels, laboratory studies have shown it can produce physical effects in tissue, such as jarring vibrations and a rise in temperature,' the FDA said.

Some small, anecdotal studies in the United States and Europe have shown that it may affect development, such as speech, in children.

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