I don’t know if you have ever come across Margaret Wild’s book, Chatterbox, but it is a lovely story about Daisy the baby who will not say a word. The family try everything to coax her into talking but she won’t. Then one day, Daisy opens her mouth …and out comes a stream of sentences […]
Baby Sign Language: More Milk, Please!
Immy at the breakfast table, signing ‘more.’ When Immy was 13 months old I was fortunate to receive from the authors a copy of Toddler Interpreter: A Parent’s Guide to Baby SIgn Language for Hearing Babies and Toddlers for a magazine article I was researching. From the authors: A “how to” guide for teaching your […]
DIY Kids: Tabletop Puppet Theatre for under $5
For our third DIY Kids project, I decided to make a gift for a very special 4 year old. I also thought that it would be helpful for readers of Childhood 101 who have older children to share a project suitable for pre-schoolers or kindergarten aged children. So without further ado, here is the… DIY […]
A Family Book
When Immy was a baby I made her a simple photo album in a commercial plastic cover containing five photos of family members holding her as a nine week old infant. She loves looking at it and finding each person as I name them. Unfortunately, the book only had room for the five photos and […]
‘Reading’ with Toddlers
We are reading…catalogues…junk mail… and magazines! Immy loves books. She will sit and peruse their pages all by herself. She will accost visitors with her current favourite read and a sweet smile so that they will read to her (not once but at least five times!) She will not miss her books in Mum and […]
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