What exactly is a stereotype? It’s a fixed idea or image regarding a particular thing or person. When it comes to stereotypical gender roles, it all boils down to preconceived notions and ideas about being male or female. Children very frequently mimic adults, especially their parents, and gender roles are heavily influenced by what they see their moms and dads do. Children are also heavily influenced by teachers, older siblings, and the media, too. Something as simple as you always cooking dinner or always doing laundry could influence your child to think that is what women do and those are a woman’s job. If you child always sees dad mowing…
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We Need To Talk About These Parenting Trends That Are Detrimental To Your Child’s Development
Parenting trends can be quite a dangerous thing. We need to talk about the 5 parenting trends that are detrimental to your child’s development. Whether they cause physical harm or emotional danger, we’re going to break down what each trend is and why they hurt a child, so you can make sure you do the best you can as a Mom. Different Milks As adults, we have a lot of different choices in regards to what kind of milk we want to drink. For us though, it isn’t completely essential we drink milk as part of our diet. For babies, especially newborns, having the correct milk is extremely important. We…
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How To Prevent Your Toddler From Melting Down & The Art Of Stopping One Already Happening
Oh, the terrible twos: temper tantrums run rampant and it’s pretty hard to know how to cope. Some toddlers even start melting down prior to turning two; they can occur as young as one and as old as four. Toddlers are armed with a small vocabulary, a desire to be independent, and an inability to accurately express their desires and feelings, and when you consider things in that context temper tantrums kind of make sense. It doesn’t make sense though for you to just sit there while your toddler spirals out of control. It also doesn’t make sense for you to take their tantrums personally, since it is something that…
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If You Have One Of These Car Seats, You Need To Buy A New One ASAP
Car seats were made to keep your children safe out there, but if you have one of these car seats, you need to buy a new one ASAP. Consumer Reports recently took a look at a variety of toddler booster child car seats on the market today, and their results will potentially shock you. Just a quick note; toddler booster child car seats are also often called harness-to-booster seats. Their findings from their study reveal that four very well known brands are definitely not as safe as you expected they were when you purchased them for your child. Yes, car seats need to meet a federal safety standard, but Consumer Reports started doing…
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Crayola ColorStudio HD Apps are the Future of Coloring Books
Griffin and Crayola’s very fruitful partnership has now resulted in a couple of 21st century coloring books – the Crayola ColorStudio HD Barbie and Hot Wheels apps.
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Michigan High Schoolers Show Off Their Robotics Skills Thanks to the Chrysler Foundation
Today starts the 2013 FIRST Robotics Competition Championship, and the stars of the show are high school students.
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Legoland Hotel Opens Up for Business in Carlsbad, California
Looking for a place to stay for your next trip to southern California? Look no further – the Legoland Hotel has a lot of rooms, although you might want to act quickly. There aren’t a whole lot of vacancies.
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Get Some Facetime With Baby With Fisher-Price’s Apptivity Gym
Have to be away from the newest member of the family? You can still be with them during playtime thanks to the Apptivity Gym from Fisher-Price.
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Yummy Dough is What Play-Doh Should Always Have Been!
Play-Doh is great and should be an essential part of everyones childhood, it encourages imagination and creativity. It was “fun to play with but not to eat”, as they put it. But, alas, there’s a new moldable dough in town that’s fun to play with AND fun to eat! Yummy Dough is as smooth and kneadable as Play-Doh and can even be eaten in the raw or after it’s been baked. It can be used to model anything your imagination can come up with. Nicely enough, it won’t even stain or rub off on clothing. Yummy Dough is completely reusable, just like any other type of modeling dough. Yummy Dough…
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Mickey Mouse Mini Speaker is the Happiest Speaker on Earth
The Mickey Mouse Mini Speaker packs big sound into a small package. The mouse ears pack in a speaker powered by USB, although there is a rechargeable battery, if you want to go mobile with it. A 3.5 mm jack makes it compatible with pretty much any mobile device out there, so Mickey will play nice with whatever you’ve got.
