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Pros and cons of putting an infant in a Daycare Note that daycare, in some places, does not mean that the staff includes trained professionals. In the U.S., some states allow exemptions for religious-based daycare facilities, sometimes with tragic results. |
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Child abuse or Disciplinary action Laws vary from area to area, and we cannot give you legal advice. However, this is clearly abuse, both physical and verbal. It is not okay for one person to strike another simply because they didn't like how that person was acting. It doesn't matter if you are an adult, a child, or you're living in their house. As Valkyrie says, get out of there. No one deserves to be abused like that. |
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How to teach a toddler a second (foreign) language? Could you please edit your answer to directly address the question? None of this is relevant to language development. |
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reviewed | No Action Needed How to teach a toddler a second (foreign) language? |
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Is it allowed to play with unfamiliar child? @Anonymous Keeping the question broad will not encourage comprehensive answers. At the scope you currently have it, comprehensive answers could encompass dozens of pages or more. The description of what we consider a poor fit for our site includes this wording: " This question is ambiguous, vague, incomplete, overly broad, or rhetorical and cannot be reasonably answered in its current form. For help clarifying this question so that it can be reopened, see the FAQ.". Unfortunately, this falls pretty clearly into the "overly broad" area. Please consider editing along the lines deworde suggests. |
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How to motivate yourself to read stories to a kid whom you know cannot understand and respond accordingly? @deworde No need to feel guilty for the edit :) I should have done that myself. Thanks for fixing it. |
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How to motivate yourself to read stories to a kid whom you know cannot understand and respond accordingly? @AnishaKaul What I mean is that cadence (a more appropriate definition is "the beat, time, or measure of rhythmical motion or activity") for poetry is very different than cadence in normal speech ("conversational speech"). So if you are reading poems, your son will be exposed to a pattern of how the language sounds that will be different from the pattern of how that same language sounds during every day speech. Exposing him to both types will be beneficial. |
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How to motivate yourself to read stories to a kid whom you know cannot understand and respond accordingly? "Instead of stories, can I sing poems?" I'd say absolutely, but you might want to consider supplementing with normal conversational English, since cadence plays a factor. |
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How to motivate yourself to read stories to a kid whom you know cannot understand and respond accordingly? @deworde Oops... fixed! |
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answered | How to motivate yourself to read stories to a kid whom you know cannot understand and respond accordingly? |
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How to motivate yourself to read stories to a kid whom you know cannot understand and respond accordingly? This is great advice. Reading material you enjoy makes it much easier to make this into a habit (especially if you're going to try for this level of dedication!). I read Hunter S. Thompson to my son when he was born, as well as my own interpretation of Star Wars: A New Hope. Even books and stories you remember fondly from your childhood are good choices. My wife loved to read Winnie the Pooh to our son, because she remembered her parents reading it to her as a little girl. Likewise, Goodnight Moon was always my favorite. |
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How to motivate yourself to read stories to a kid whom you know cannot understand and respond accordingly? +1 That's exactly what I meant by "it won't matter what language you're speaking; either way it will be babble :)". |
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How to read an English story book to the kid when we don't talk in English at home? I would continue just in English, in order to maintain consistent use of the language system you decide upon. Once he's old enough to start asking questions, you can provide Hindi translations upon request (if his understanding of Hindi outstrips his understanding of English, which seems likely if the majority of his exposure will be to Hindi). |
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How to read an English story book to the kid when we don't talk in English at home? Tone of voice and physical proximity are the biggest sources of benefit for newborns, although the cadence and sentence structure of languages appear to be what triggers the preference described in the study I referenced. It would seem that reading a newspaper in English would likely be just as beneficial, so long as you used a similar tone of voice as what you'd use when reading a story. |
