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However, a new study has found that allowing your baby to safely play with household items—such as wooden spoons, cardboard boxes or plastic containers—can encourage their development just as much as toys. “Children are just as happy to play with tupperware and boxes and paper and pillows,” says Catherine Tamis-LeMonda, PhD, the study’s lead author and Professor of Applied Psychology at New York University. Far from being destructive or distractible, playing with a wide variety of “toys” in short bursts is hugely beneficial to a baby’s development, says Dr....

The best way to learn which books your child enjoys is to read children’s books — lots of them. Read not only awardwinners, but also award-losers. (Some of the best-loved books are runners-up!) Read books about children’s books, too. Make the children’s room of your library your second home. Get to know the librarians and ask for their recommendations. The most popular books are usually checked out as soon as they are returned, so reserve them if you can....

Q: What is multicultural education? A: There are many definitions for and misconceptions about multicultural education. One approach is to think about it in terms of “creating responsible citizens.” Look at the U.S. today. Demographics prove that it’s changing. Census Bureau statistics show that we’re experiencing massive immigrations, the biggest since the turn of the century. Most of these people are coming from Asia and Latin America. The Bureau predicts that by 2050, nearly one half of the U....

Caffeine I’ve heard it a million times: “I can’t give up coffee—I’ll never be able to stay awake!” I can’t argue that the caffeine in coffee doesn’t give a mental and physical boost—after all, it’s a central nervous stimulant that excites the brain to keep it alert and awake. That’s the upside. The downside is that caffeine is an addictive drug that passes quickly to the fetal bloodstream and stays there in higher concentrations than is found in the mother....

How Popular is the Name Cameron? Cameron has most commonly been used for boys. The popularity of acclaimed actress Cameron Diaz is thought to have contributed to its rising popularity as a name for girls in the United States. According to 2020 data from the Social Security Administration, Cameron is the 64th most popular name for boys and the 489th most popular name for girls in the United States. The name Cameron started to experience a surge in popularity in the 1980s....

Learn how your Rh blood type can affect your chances of pregnancy loss and the health of future pregnancies. What Is Rh Factor? Just as people have major blood types (A, B, AB, or O), they also have an Rh factor blood type, which is usually noted as Rh-positive or Rh-negative. Rh stands for rhesus and refers to a protein often found on red blood cells. More than 85% of people are positive for the Rh(D) protein, which is known as being Rh-positive....

The process of breastfeeding can be influenced by many variables. There are hormones involved, which can fluctuate with bodily changes. The milk you produce is affected by what you, as a breastfeeding person, consume. With the potential for impacting your child’s nutrition, you’ll obviously be taking stock of your own dietary intake. And it’s not like there’s a bottomless pool of unbiased research targeting breastfeeding and the intake of collagen supplements....

If you’re a beauty-product lover, this journey can be particularly fraught with questions. As a breastfeeding parent, are you confined to the natural and organic product aisles? Turns out, fun, pampering products, like nail polish, may still be worn in a safe way. If you’ve wondered specifically about “gels,” which, generally speaking, are long-lasting coats that set or cure on nails, you’re in luck. There are encouraging details here, as well as expert words of advice to help you consider the treatment....

This is a reasonable concern, especially given preliminary research that has shown more severe COVID outcomes in pregnant people, including increased risk of miscarriage, pregnancy complications, preterm birth, and neonatal loss. But it’s not all gloom and doom: there are things you can do to reduce your risk—most notably, getting vaccinated against COVID, which has shown to be effective at reducing severe pregnancy outcomes. We reached out to experts to help us understand the evolving research on COVID-19 and miscarriage, as well as some tips for staying safe and reducing risk during pregnancy....

The simple answer is that, yes, trauma can lead to the unfortunate loss of pregnancy. The actual risk is largely influenced by the stage of pregnancy and the severity of the accident. The female body is built to withstand a certain amount of bumps and bruises when carrying an embryo or fetus. However, certain circumstances or conditions increase the likelihood of miscarriage (loss within the first 20 weeks) or stillbirth (loss after the first 20 weeks) following an injury....

5 to 10 minutes Materials Cupboard with safe items that can be removed Directions To engender curiosity and safe exploration, make it a habit to put heavy breakable items in overhead cabinets and safe objects in the lower ones and encourage rummaging through them. Good low level candidates include pots and pans, cookie sheets, small canned goods, bottled items, paper bags and small boxes, potatoes. Extensions Surprise your baby by hiding a few animal crackers or a small cup of dry cereal in the cupboard....

The game of Checkers, as we know it today, is believed to date back to about 1400 B.C.E. But an even older relative of the game was found in the ruins of an ancient Iraqi city called “Ur” and is believed to date back as far as 3000 B.C.E. Checkers today is a two-person game. The object is to move one’s pieces (round red and black disks often made of plastic or wood) across the checkered board....

Unfortunately, not getting a good night’s sleep can affect your child’s mood and behavior during the day, leading to school and discipline problems. Childhood Insomnia Like adults, children with insomnia either have trouble going to sleep, staying asleep, or are simply not well rested after what should be a normal amount of time sleeping. In addition to being sleepy during the day, symptoms of childhood insomnia can include: AggressivenessDecreased attention spanDepressed moodHyperactivityIrritabilityMemory problemsMood swings...

Fire Fighters Do you have a working smoke detector on every floor of your home? You should. Fire safety depends on early warning and planning for an emergency. If you haven’t yet mapped out fire escape routes from every room of your home, do it now. You should also keep a fire extinguisher in your kitchen and perhaps one on every other floor of your home, too. You have to have heat in your home, but heat sources can sometimes get very hot themselves, posing a serious risk of burning....

Effort: Easy — no sewing required Materials: Tin foil Gold spray paint White dress Gold rope from fabric store (with tassel, if possible) Black hair spray Gold, glittery eye shadow Gold nail polish Leather sandals (strappy is good) Scissors Instructions: Cut tin foil into the shape of a big necklace and spray it gold. Let it dry. Fashion a bracelet out of tin foil, and spray that gold too. (This will go high up on your child’s arm....

Clomid resistance isn’t the same situation as when you don’t conceive taking the fertility drug. In that case, you may ovulate, but not get pregnant. In this case, you are not even ovulating. Will you need to move onto stronger drugs or more complex treatments if ovulation doesn’t happen? Not necessarily. Causes of Clomid Resistance Your doctor’s approach to treating Clomid resistance depends partially on why they think you are not responding....

Have a PlanI’d written down the few things that were most important to me in a college-strong econ department, small campus, near a city-and kept this piece of paper with me as I researched schools. It was a great reminder. –Recent Grad Wesleyan University Before you dive into your research, you need to have some kind of a plan. Otherwise, before you know it, you’ll be drowning in piles of papers and have no idea why you were even looking at a particular college in the first place....