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| location | Utrecht, Netherlands | |
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| visits | member for | 1 year, 3 months |
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I'm a psychologist undergoing metamorphosis into a cognitive neuroscientist. I also indulge in parenting, cooking and photography.
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Mar 16 |
awarded | Enthusiast |
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Mar 8 |
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Are modern cloth diapers really cost efficient compared to disposible diapers? added 923 characters in body |
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Mar 8 |
answered | Are modern cloth diapers really cost efficient compared to disposible diapers? |
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Mar 1 |
answered | Do I really need to wake my newborn to feed him? |
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Feb 28 |
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Should you talk your toddler only in one language when you are multilingual yourself? @TorbenGundtofte-Bruun - An interesting thing this friend told me is that 4-day-old infants can make a difference between the melody of different languages, if these melodies are very different. If they are similar, it takes a few months. |
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Feb 28 |
answered | Do we need an electronic breast pump? |
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Feb 25 |
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Should you talk your toddler only in one language when you are multilingual yourself? @PéterTörök - Here are a few papers that I could find with a quick search (I only read the abstracts). If I hear of a nice review I will post it as well. The essence is that kids do mix languages, but the mixing is not related to parental mixing - but rather to how parents react to the child mixing them. 1 2 3 |
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Feb 23 |
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Should you talk your toddler only in one language when you are multilingual yourself? @PéterTörök - Yes, I think that my linguist friend exactly means that random switching by a parent will not confuse the child (i.e. not impair the child in learning either language, or distinguishing between the two). This goes against common knowledge/advice, but seems to be backed by research. I was surprised to hear it. |
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Feb 22 |
awarded | Editor |
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Feb 22 |
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Should you talk your toddler only in one language when you are multilingual yourself? added some personal experience |
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Feb 21 |
answered | Should you talk your toddler only in one language when you are multilingual yourself? |
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Feb 20 |
awarded | Teacher |
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Feb 20 |
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What to read or learn before expecting? I think accurate information doesn't have to be difficult to comprehend or transmit. For example, I think advice such as: "Most babies are born perfectly healthy, but your baby may be even healthier if you spend time in fresh air", is accurate while not going into too much detail. I also wasn't happy that the book listed some (placebo) bracelets as a possible aid for nausea. It just has too strong a stress on soothing people relative to accurracy - for my taste. |
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Feb 20 |
awarded | Supporter |
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Feb 20 |
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What to read or learn before expecting? True, but: "Calm down" worked much less on me than giving me accurate information :) At some point the book raised the question whether pollution is bad for the baby. The answer was (paraphrasing): "Calm down! Millions of healthy babies get born in cities". While calming down has its merits, if pollution is in fact bad (answering the question was kind of evaded), spending weekends in the countryside may have more merits in this case. That's where I closed the book and left the rest unread. But most people find that I pick too manu nits anyway... |
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Feb 19 |
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What to read or learn before expecting? Personally, I found it less good than I expected based on its popularity. I was annoyed by the author's constant attempts to cheer up or calm down the reader, as I wasn't in particular need of either. I was extremely information-hungry, and in a scientific kind of way. I do understand that many people are happy with it though. |
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Feb 19 |
answered | What to read or learn before expecting? |
