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Preparing For An Adopted Child
THE BABBLE TAKE In some ways having an adopted baby is not much different from producing a biological one. In other ways, it can be daunting. When you have a biological child you prepare for the rather standard experience of caring for a newborn. In many cases adopted children don't come home to their parents until they are at least a few mont...
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Conceiving A Second Child
THE BABBLE TAKE So now that you have one baby, you can't wait to do it all over again, right? There are various schools of thought on the ideal spacing of babies. Some feel it's too exhausting to have children back to back, others say that's precisely the way to go. Adherents to the latter philosophy say the difficulty of having more than one...
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Walking
THE BABBLE TAKE Children usually take their first steps toward the end of their first year, though experts say some start earlier and many others don't walk until they are nearly a year-and-a-half old. Dr. Sears attributes the timing of baby's first steps to a combination of strength, balance and temperament, citing the last factor as the most...
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Managing Relationships
THE BABBLE TAKE Relationships are tricky enough when they are a two-person endeavour. Add more people to the equation (one baby, two babies, grandparents, etc.), and they become a jungle of potential pitfalls and conflict. No matter how open and psychologically aware parents are, family life has a tendency to provide everyone involved with am...
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Pre-School and Kindergarten Philosophies
THE BABBLE TAKE Three of the most popular progressive educational philosophies are Waldorf (also known as Steiner), Montessori and Reggio Emilia. All three sprang out of early twentieth century European desires to fix the ills of the world through educational reform. All strive to treat even very young children as competent beings to be respec...
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Early Childhood Masturbation
THE BABBLE TAKE The subject of childhood masturbation makes many people uneasy. A child touching their genitals looks sexual to an adult and we are not, as a culture, comfortable thinking of children as sexual. But we may be projecting when we freak out about a little boy touching his penis in public. Some, like Dr. Greene, believe that using...
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Diabetes
THE BABBLE TAKE Diabetes is a disorder in which insulin, a hormone necessary for the body to process sugar, is either not produced or not accepted by the body. Symptoms include frequent urination, excessive thirst, increased appetite, weight loss and fatigue. Type 1 diabetes is most likely to affect a toddler and is caused by the inability of...
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Asthma
THE BABBLE TAKE Asthma is a chronic disease in which breathing becomes difficult due to a tightening of the bronchial tubes. Exercise-induced asthma and allergic asthma are the two most common types. Doctors say asthma usually first manifests in toddlers through wheezing and coughing fits, though these symptoms are not necessarily a surefire...
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