Hi, I’m curious about the experiences of highly gifted people with a non-gifted sibling or kid. Did this particular difference affect your relationship at all?
Hi, I’m visiting Korea from the US with a 3 year old and a baby and am looking for recommendations on kids items and books to buy. We speak Korean and have family there, but nobody has babies and is familiar with baby related stuff. I’ll go to a baby fair and I’m hoping I can get some recs here!
I’m looking for
-any nice sturdy kids shoe brands
-Korean story book series for children (something more advanced than 타요 and 뽀뽀로)
-Korean books to teach/practice 한글 to kids
-A homeschool 유치원 curriculum, guide or resources of any kind. I want to go over preschool topics in Korean and would love comprehensive reference materials instead of looking things up each time
-Any trends and hot items in the baby/toddler world. I have most general items but it’d be fun to see things that are popular and trendy in Korea right now
Thanks in advance!
I started EC with my 4 month old recently and am LOVING it. I don’t have many people in my life to share this enthusiasm with, so here it is.
I started EC because I was cloth diapering at home to reduce waste and didn’t want to deal with smelly poopy cloth diapers once my baby started solids. I was familiar with noticing poop/pee cues and offering potty opportunities from potty training my older one, so I started holding baby over the potty with great success! I listened to the go diaper free podcast to troubleshoot. Now catching poop left and right (which is mostly what I care about) and the majority of pee too!
Baby seems so relaxed and happy with EC. My husband is a bit weirded out by it and not ready to fully participate. But he knows poop cues from having potty trained our older one. Yesterday he was holding her and said she’s showing poop cues! I told him to bring her over to the potty and hand her to me. And he witnessed her pooping in the potty and was amazed.
We all appreciate that our garbage can is not overflowing for the first time in months, and we don’t have the gross diaper pail smell anymore. It’s so great!!
Hi, we’re a family 4 (2 adults and 2 young children under 4). We want to move towards tent camping in the coming years and invest in sleeping solutions that can grow with us. I’m wondering if we should get the large expeds sans cots or do single expeds + cots or something else. There are so many versions of expeds! We all sleep in individual sleeping bags and 40 degrees F is the lowest temp we’ll camp out in. Thanks in advance!
Hello teachers, I have a 3.5 year old who loves books. We read to him daily, and we only speak and read in minority languages in order to raise him to be trilingual. He does speak English fluently since he goes to daycare and does community activities.
I am wondering if he’s only read to in minority languages at home, is he likely to struggle to learn to read in English at school? Will he basically be like kids whose parents never read to them? Would any skills from minority language reading meaningfully transfer?
Many multilingual parents say to leave English to school. However, we live in an academically high achieving district, so I feel a bit nervous about not reading in English at all at home. Any tips or thoughts would be much appreciated!
Hi, we have a trilingual household (OPOL in minority languages and English/community language between parents). I’ve read through past threads on teaching a child how to read, and I would like some input on the details.
Our older one is 3.5 years old and is very interested in learning to read. My husband’s language uses the Latin alphabet, and he is going ahead with teaching the alphabet and sounding out the letters in his language. My kid seems to be picking it up easily and quickly.
My (mom’s) language uses a completely different letter system, and I’m wondering how important it is that I teach my kid how to read in my language concurrently. I don’t feel strongly about doing so until he’s 5+. I’d rather spend the time playing and teaching him life skills. My kid is increasingly bringing me books in Latin alphabet and wanting to practice the ABCs with me. Thoughts, suggestions? Thank you in advance!
Hello! I have a 3 year old and a 3 month old. I’m starting to think about baby proofing our home (again). There are choking hazards and strangulation risks in the form of toys everywhere! How to go about removing things and also teach toddler what’s safe and not safe for baby? Baby currently sleeps in my room and toddler has his own room, but the plan is to eventually have them share a room. Any tips are welcome!