Spurred by the recent CBC broadcast on The Hurried Infant, my latest post on Eco Child’s Play in my ongoing series of “Baby Essentials That Aren’t” focuses on those baby brain-building “edutainment” toys, methods, and associated foolishness. Please check it out and share it, Baby Essentials That Aren’t, Part 6: Baby Brain Boosters [...]
Archive for ‘Babies’
Feb
27
New at Eco Child’s Play — Bust the Baby Brain Boosters!
by heather
Tags: Baby Einstein, baby essentials, baby mozart, CBC, David Elkind, eco child's play, edutainment, Hurried Child, Hurried Infant
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Posted in Babies, Eco-stuff | Comments (0)
Feb
24
The Hurried Infant and Child on CBC
by heather
Have you listened to CBC’s Ideas lately? The last two Monday nights, they’ve been playing a series criticizing the current trend towards earlier and earlier academic instruction. They’ve taken apart Baby Einstein, blasted schools that eliminate recess, disparage the practice of filling our preschoolers with factoids rather than allowing them the freedom to learn the [...]
Tags: academics, Baby Einstein, baby-led weaning, CBC, child development, diaper free, education, Homeschooling, hurried, natural learning, radio, recess, unschooling
Posted in Babies, Homeschooling, Kid stuff, Random Musings | Comments (2)
Posted in Babies, Homeschooling, Kid stuff, Random Musings | Comments (2)
Feb
13
Why You Don’t Need a Baby Bathtub
by heather
My latest post at ecochildsplay gives alternatives to the bulky, annoying, terminally un-useful plastic baby bathtub. This is #5 in my weekly series on “Baby Essentials That Aren’t”, things parents can live without despite what the “experts” tell you. Do check out the previous entries on Cribs, Infant Car Seats, Strollers, and Diapers, and watch [...]
Tags: baby, Babywearing, bath, bathtub, car seat, crib, diaper, eco child's play, essentials, infant, natural parenting, stroller
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Posted in Babies, Babywearing, Eco-stuff, Kid stuff | Comments (1)
Feb
03
Self-initiated Art Project
by heather
One of the joys of homeschooling is watching your child initiate some project completely on their own — no ‘assignment’, no instructions, no expectations of corrections or marking or whatever. Just for their own enjoyment. Of course, schooled kids do this too… but I’d guess that homeschooled kids do it more. Why? Maybe because of [...]
Tags: art, coral, drawing, Homeschooling, marine biology, orca, self-directed, whales
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Posted in Babies, Homeschooling | Comments (1)
Jan
30
Creatively Combining
by heather
Today Pomme was playing/working with her wooden shape puzzle by Melissa and Doug, and the shape-matching cards I had made to go with it, when I noticed something interesting. She had received Melissa and Doug’s clock shape puzzle for Christmas… or her birthday. I’m ashamed to say I can’t remember which. I think it was [...]
Tags: Homeschooling, matching, Melissa and Doug, Montessori, puzzles, shapes, toddler, wooden toys
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Posted in Babies, Homeschooling | Comments (0)
Jan
29
Why We Don’t Need Strollers
by heather
My latest article at Eco Child’s Play in my weekly series, “Baby Essentials That Aren’t“, is now up and this week we scrutinize the stroller! Of course strollers have their usefulness. I’ve even used one with Pomme… once or twice. But we can certainly get by without them, and in most situations a sling is [...]
Tags: baby gear, Babywearing, eco child's play, sling, stroller
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Posted in Babies, Babywearing, Kid stuff | Comments (0)
Jan
22
Why We Don’t Need Baby Buckets
by heather
My latest post at Eco Child’s Play is a rant against the baby buckets… infant car seats! I know they’re convenient in certain situations, but they really are abused and overused, and most folks can easily get by without one at all. Besides which, used as carriers, they promote isolation and detachment at best… and [...]
Tags: baby, blog, carrier, carseat, eco child's play, infant
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Posted in Babies, Babywearing, Eco-stuff, Family | Comments (0)
Jan
15
Question the Crib! New Post at Eco Child’s Play
by heather
My latest article is up at Eco Child’s Play. This is the first in a weekly series exploring some “baby essentials” that aren’t essential at all. They may be useful, they may be the best choice for some families. But we shouldn’t just take it as a given that they are “essential”. Question consumption, consider [...]
Tags: baby, co-sleeping, cribs, essentials, floor bed, Montessori, sleeping
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Posted in Babies, Eco-stuff | Comments (0)
Jan
12
Bump Maternity – A Baby Boutique Here In Fredericton!
by heather
I must correct myself. In a previous post, I said that “for the most part, you can only get slings online,” and that: … specialty baby shops are starting to carry some slings other than the Baby Bjorn-style carriers. But buyer beware! Most of these are c-r-a-p. Well it turns out that there is a [...]
Tags: babylegs, bummis, Canada, cloth diapers, Fredericton, shopping, slings
Posted in Babies, Babywearing, Kid stuff | Comments (1)
Posted in Babies, Babywearing, Kid stuff | Comments (1)
Jan
03
Announcing Tru-Breast(tm)
by heather
I just came across this brilliant and hilarious little webpage, announcing the Tru-Breast – a Revolution in Infant Feeding! Be sure to share it with all your friends who are contemplating formula feeding because they think breastfeeding would be too much of a ‘hassle’…
Tags: breastfeeding, formula, infant feeding, Lactivism
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Posted in Babies, Eco-stuff, Kid stuff, Lactivism | Comments (0)
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