Martha

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Jun 1	comment	Daughter saying whole sentences at home but not in kindergarten If she's not yet three, I'd venture to guess that she's actually attending preschool (or perhaps daycare), not kindergarten.
May 27	awarded	Yearling
May 23	awarded	Necromancer
Apr 1	comment	What features should I look for in an infant or toddler bath tub? These are exactly what my sister used for my niece, including the bit about not having much use for the sling. However, as nice as the IKEA tub was, she outgrew it by the time she turned 2, so 2.5-3 is overly optimistic, I think. The tub is still around, waiting for her to become interested in bathing her dolls. :)
Feb 20	awarded	Informed
Feb 13	comment	What if my kids don't want me to speak my native language? Your first paragraph is true for young children: pre-pre-teens, if you will. When they get older, though, which language they use is a matter of choice, and worse, peer pressure: they will choose to speak German because that's what all their friends speak, and they don't want to be different. Which is where your 100% correct second paragraph comes in: if you can arrange it so that peer pressure gets them to speak Danish, you will have won your battle.
Feb 8	answered	What if my kids don't want me to speak my native language?
Feb 4	awarded	Popular Question
Jul 7	awarded	Cleanup
Jul 7	comment	What are some strategies for raising a bilingual child? Note to editors: if you want to suggest something so entirely different than my answer, please write your own answer.
Jul 7	revised	What are some strategies for raising a bilingual child? rolled back to a previous revision
May 27	awarded	Yearling
May 2	comment	What are the warning signs for Dyslexia? I'm not dyslexic (far from it, in fact), but "left" and "right" continue to be random words to me, with no clear association between them and the concepts of left and right. My sister is the same way. So there's probably an education component to this skill, same as any other. In other words, don't expect a 5-year-old to know left and right if you haven't taught him left and right.
Apr 11	comment	How to tell my son (10yo), somebody he knows as a man, is actually a woman? I'll note that as recently as 60 years ago, being left-handed was not considered acceptable, and children who exhibited left-handed tendencies would be forced to use their right hands, and would be punished if they used their left. Most such children learned to adapt, and became semi-ambidextrous: they'd write with their right hands, but in things that the teacher never saw (holding a hammer, for example) they would revert to their natural left-handed state.
Feb 29	comment	Reading in second language for a bilingual kid - how to approach a phonetic language vs. English phonics? Too late now, but I would've suggested doing it in the other order: teach her to read in Czech first, then send her off to kindergarten. It's what my sister & I did, except with Hungarian. Being able to read things phonetically was an immense help when trying to learn English spelling. (But it did lead to an interesting episode where I read a passage written in English as if it were in Hungarian... the kindergarten teacher was a bit, um, confused.)
Feb 29	comment	Do I really need to wake my newborn to feed him? Btw, congrats on the new arrival!
Feb 23	comment	How to soothe a 4 1/2 month old during our night time sleep routine? You do not let a four-month-old cry it out!
Feb 23	awarded	Critic
Feb 21	comment	Recommendations on helping my left-handed preschooler when my husband and I are right-handed I'm right-handed, but when the carpal tunnel is acting up, I have no problem switching my mouse to my left hand. I really wouldn't worry about that part.
Feb 16	comment	What aspects should we consider when choosing a name for our child? Bravo for not giving your twins alliterative or rhyming names! Twins end up sharing almost everything, it's nice to have at least your initials to yourself.