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Baby toys?

Oct 05, 2007 by Desperate Housewife | Posted in Newborn & Baby

Since my baby was born, I am looking for baby toys and thought that I should buy him. But I can not help but notice that so many toys seem like they are designed to be surrogate parents "

You get toys that "read stories" that light up to "soothe the child to sleep and I can not help but think that this is the mom or dads work! Not a toy batteries!

Your instincts are correct.

Come on, if possible, sound and light show not, traditional toys. There is nothing wrong with the occasional "lights up toys," but they should not be a pillar of the education of your son.

Incidentally. Early Learning Centre I bought magnetic letters - the type you put on the fridge, in small letters when my daughter was 1 year. She now knows most of his alphabet - I'd say ...

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My nightmare began at 10 p.m. on March 15 at John F. Kennedy Airport and lasted 12 long hours.  I boarded a transatlantic flight with my one-month-old baby girl and my 18-month-old son.  My goal was to spend the final month of my maternity leave with my family before going back to work.

My friends assured me that because it was a night flight, my children would sleep right through it. While no one conceded it would be a breeze, none warned me it would be akin to a scene from Dante’s Inferno.

I do not blame my friends.  After all, I had travelled overseas with my son when he was 4 months old and then again two months later with no major issues.  The difference was I only had one child and he was a baby who could be calmed by breastfeeding.  This time, he was a fully mobile and highly opinionated toddler who, as my mother would say, “is very, very hyper.”

Upon boarding the plane, my son proceeded to wreak havoc (screaming at the top of his lungs, “Aaaaalllll done!” throwing his beloved toy cars and and food treats at nearby sleeping passengers, climbing onto aforementioned passengers while running down the aisle away from his desperate mother and, of course, hysterically crying for no discernable reason).  He napped for only 30 minutes, during which time I sobbed while sitting on the edge of his chair.  Half way through the trip, one flight attendant who had retrieved my son far too many times tapped me on the shoulder and said, “Why didn’t you give him something?”

“Give him what?” I asked, genuinely puzzled.

“You know!” she snapped, “Something to make him sleep!”

“But he’s a year and a half,” I retorted.

“So, what?!” was her comeback.

After I recovered from my trip, I recounted my misadventure to a group of mothers who regularly travel with their toddlers, fully expecting them to dismiss or condemn the flight attendant for her unsolicited advice.  Instead, they looked at me in shock and said – almost with one voice – “you didn’t give him Benadryl or cough medicine or any antihistamine?”

Source: ABC News (blog)

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