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Why Toddler’s Minds Need Stimulation

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Toddlers are always on the go and in search of new things to do and learn. It is important to engage children in this age group in learning activities that will stimulate the mind and enhance learning potential. While most of the cells in the brain form before children are born, important connections between brain cells are not completed until infancy and into the toddler years, making this time critical in the development of a child’s brain.

Several factors contribute to the development of children in infancy and early childhood. Nutrition, genetics, love, activity and parental response are all key to the positive development of a child’s brain. Children have extremely active minds during early childhood. A toddler’s brain is two times more active than an adult’s and early interaction with the world around him are crucial to the brain’s development. While there are many educational toys designed to enhance early learning skills, love and exposure to a variety of new experiences is the best way to stimulate a toddler’s mind and promote early learning. Exposing children to things that are based on the five senses is essential to the brain’s development.

The first three years of a child’s life is when the brain absorbs information easily. Children learn language, word pronunciation and grammar skills easily during the toddler years with simple and repeated exposure. The ability to learn language skills easily continues until approximately 10 years of age. Some ways to stimulate brain development and early language skills are singing to young children and reading to them daily. Parents who respond to a toddler’s babbling will help children learn their native language more easily. Those who nurture their children early in life with love and emotional support will help stimulate emotional intelligence. The amygdala is the part of the brain responsible for regulating emotion. When stimulated early in life, children will learn to be happy, trust others and have empathy for others. When toddlers are exposed to interaction with other people, they are developing important social skills. Playing with other children their own age will help toddlers learn to share and care for others. Most toddlers three to four years old have developed the ability to share with others by this time.

While it is important to stimulate a toddler’s mind, over-stimulation may be stressful for children and cause adverse effects. Toddlers should have scheduled activities to help them learn, but they also need free time to play and create on their own. Even watching too much television can be stressful for toddlers. Some signs of over-stimulation include turning away, crying or frustration. Nurturing toddlers with love and providing a stable home environment is key to enhancing brain development. Hands-on experiences supervised by parents are another important part of brain development and learning.

Authors Bio: This article was written by Briana Kelly, who has over 5 years experience writing articles and guest blogs on the subject of childcare and parenting. She also writes parenting guides on behalf of Giraffe Childcare Dublin, Ireland. 

This is a guest blog. If anyone has an article to publish, please email me at:  filtuse@gmail.com, kambing.huda@gmail.com

Let Talk About Sex: After The Baby

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Let talk about sex: After the baby have some awesome questions about sex after the baby came out.

As for my experience, I start having sex 120 days after giving birth. It’s about 4 months of cravings and feeling numb. I’m a kind of husband who really needs that kind of intimacy once in every 2 days — I always want it everyday, actually — but I have to reconsider the quantity to once in every week because we have two kids right, and no housemaid to do cleaning and all. So, the first two months, it was no problem. The third and all the way to the fourth month, my mind went insane like I was in Jupiter or somewhere strange, and I started I have nightmares.

The reason I want the 120 days rule to work, is because I want to avoid unexpected bleeding, a risk for hemorrhage — which is very bad, or uterine infection.

And above all that, one question caught my attention,

Baby center wrote:

“Q:How will having a new baby in our lives change our feelings toward each other?
A: You may find (or your partner may sense) that the intensity of the bond you’re developing with your new baby makes you somewhat less emotionally available. On the other hand, a new baby can bring such joy to your lives that it enhances sexual intimacy.If your mate is feeling jealous or intimidated by your new relationship with the baby, try to reassure him that you still love and need him. And make sure that he has plenty of opportunity to care for and bond with the baby as well. Sharing the joys and frustrations of parenthood can be very rewarding and can even intensify your romantic feelings for each other.”

To get out of curiosity about other husbands who just have babies,  I have voted a survey, and came the result like this;


My vote was this; Yes, motherhood has made her even hotter. In bed. Guess many husbands feel the same.

Plus, She became slimmer than ever after our baby Widad.

To me, romantic relationship is when we know we have determination to change physically and emotionally to impress each other.

[Let talk about sex: after the baby via babycenter]

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