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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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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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May 17 |
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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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May 16 |
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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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May 16 |
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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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May 16 |
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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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May 16 |
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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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May 15 |
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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. |
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May 15 |
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How to read an English story book to the kid when we don't talk in English at home? If you start immediately, it won't matter what language you're speaking; either way it will be babble :) Language comprehension takes time, regardless of whether the exposure is monolingual or bilingual. But early exposure, even in the womb, has been shown to increase a child's level of responsiveness to specific languages, which (presumably) facilitates learning the language later on. |
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May 11 |
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mobile wi-fi signals This isn't really about parenting. This is a health/science question. If you're asking whether Wi-Fi signals are bad for babies, you might try skeptics.se, but you'd need to find a notable source claiming that the signals were harmful. |
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May 10 |
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How can I prep my child for an IQ test? Oh, I'm sure you can. You're not supposed to be able to, but no test is perfect. @Facebook's approach of addressing the potential impact of boosting result is an excellent one. |
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May 9 |
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How can I prep my child for an IQ test? @FacebookAnswers You don't fail an IQ test. I would presume, since he is being re-tested, that either his score was below the cut-off for the program, or the program takes x number of the top-scoring candidates, and his score did not place in the top x ranking. |
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May 7 |
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What are some positive, helpful or fun status' for a breastfeeding support Facebook page? I'm not sure that this is really about parenting. Regardless, questions that solicit a general list of ideas are not considered on-topic for our site (the goal of our format is to have self-contained, reasonably comprehensive answers, and questions like this will, at best, solicit many answers offering a single suggestion). I'm afraid I'm going to have to close this, as our site is simply not the right place for this. |
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Not teaching a child how to speak @Charles There's no ethical way to find an answer to that question. My strong suspicion, though, based on what I've read about incidents of "feral children', is that they would likely develop rudimentary means of communication that would likely fall far short of true language (i.e. grunts, gestures, etc.). |
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Apr 30 |
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Can his Biological Father stops us from moving to another state ? he has visiting right but not full custody Not only is legal advice off-topic, but the answers will depend greatly from location to location. |
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Apr 30 |
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my son tries to impress friends Hi, and welcome to the site! I'm closing this question for now, because it isn't very clear what your concerns are. As smillig mentioned, could you please edit the question to clarify what behavior has you worried? When you let him go out, is he supervised by adults? Is the bad language the only problem, or are there other things he's doing that has you concerned? Please add more information, and then flag for moderator attention so we can get it re-opened. Thanks! |
