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I'm wanting to do a bit more with this OP than I did last time, I'm a bit more confident now. I would like to get a bunch of resources together for all of us. TV shows on netflix and the like that we'd all recommend. Any books that you've found interesting for helpful for your kids, of any age. Maybe even share some kid-friendly recipes. Both for getting the Toddler to just eat something already please!, and for getting the younger kids cooking in the kitchen.
If that's ok with you guys and stuff, I'd love your help filling the sections out!
Thread recommended TV series for young kids:
The Wiggles
Super Simple Songs on Youtube
Ask the Storybots (Netflix)
Beat Bugs (Netflix)
Mickey Mouse Club
Thread recommended Books for young kids:
Anything Board Books for toddlers and younger
Recipes for getting food into stubborn babies/toddlers kids:
Recipes for getting the Kids into the Kitchen:
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TV: Jaina loves the Super Simple Songs YouTube channel. Dave and Ava is also really great, and I credit the two with some of the improvement in her speech.
Books: nothing with pages. Board books only unless you want to clean up diced pages every day. Jaina really likes the Llama Llama books, and anything with lots of numbers and letters she can read. Also, We're Going on a Bear Hunt.
On the electronic front, if you have an iPad, there's a whole range of apps from SagoMini that are amazing.
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He's learned about stuff like where the sun goes at night, and that he actually likes potatoes (because potatoes get turned into a lot of things he likes to eat). The music isn't constantly painful, like a lot of kid's music on these shows. Also the celebrity cameos are pretty neat (Weird Al; Kevin Smith), with the sole exception I've seen being Jay Leno as a knight teaching kids how to fake laugh, a segment which seems like it was designed by committee to make me hate Jay Leno all over again
edit: Thanks, @lonelyahava !
Edit: Yup... she just got up from her post trip nap, and made a barely contained dump.
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Also the celebrity Beatles covers are indulgent fun. Who doesn't want to hear 'Baby, You can Drive my Car' as performed by cartoon Chris Cornell?
this Beat Bugs sounds intriguing!
Right now the only thing she'll tolerate watching is Wiggles. Which is fine! I actually enjoy the Wiggles. Emma Yellow Wiggle does some stuff in sign language (Australian, but the alphabet is the same as NZSL) and I've caught Ellie trying to mimic her signing the last few times we watched some of the videos.
As for books, I cannot recommend this Baby Signs book enough for babies about crawling age and up. WEv'e read and signed with the book for Ellie since she was born, but she really started picking up on things around about 6 or 7 months.
I don't know what we would have done these last few months without Sign. It's hard enough translating a Toddler's needs and wants with the Signs, I can't imagine without.
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I'm even accidentally getting signed sentences out of her "more milk please" or "more Wiggles please" being the biggest ones.
Of course her favorite is "More Daddy" because he's the star of her world right now
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My 3 and 6 year olds both enjoy Beat Bugs. The merch train just finally got rolling, but not much so far. What is readily available is actually good stuff, like board books with the buttons to press to play different songs. Or one with a detachable guitar that my daughter absolutely loves. A small number of figures for small children as well. The Beatles covers range from not bad to enjoyable, and I don't mind my kids knowing a crazy number of Beatles' lyrics at all.
Not a terribly educational show, but it is good for getting kids into music and is otherwise totally inoffensive fun.
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Anya is Annaleah, Yaya, Aya, Anyayaya, Bananya, Squishy, Bunny, Squishybuns...
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TV: Peppa, Bubble Guppies, Wheel of Fortune (A-A! as she calls it), Word Party (a really awful kids show on Netflix...really, she just likes the opening song)
Music: Let it Go (Frozen), How Far I'll Go (Moana), Wheels on the Bus, ABCs, other terrible kids songs
Books: Peppa books, Padmini is Powerful, Baby's First ABCs
Misc: Watching videos of herself, the little narcissist
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We just pre-ordered Harini and Padmini Say 'Namaste'. Tried to pre-order their Indi-Alphabet book too but a technical glitch has been making that impossible for some reason. Going back and forth with them now to get it worked out.
Bubble Guppies is a solid music-oriented show. It actually works in a fair amount of educational material in various areas of music, so we tolerate our daughter listening to the songs over and over and over.
Could have been worse though. No throwing up or any other fluids ejecting from her system.
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And of course I feel bad as well because there's no crying children at work for 8 hours a day (if you don't count clients). Luckily during the summer I work half day Fridays so tomorrow mommy will have a bit of respite in the afternoon.
On the brighter side, yesterday was the first time she legitimately grabbed one of her toys and waved it around. Parenting has turned out to be the strangest mix of having the most precious child ever and also a monster of terror in the same human being.
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She's grabbing toys at 4 weeks? I don't think my kid gave a crap about objects until 3 months. Unless that object was a boob.
Now when you want him to look at you all he cares about is objects.
My kid wants to be held a lot too. And he is 7 months old now. And he still shouts at me while I'm holding him, he will just about less if I set him down. Baby's are just turds sometimes.
Still he looks at me happier than anyone else ever ha. I try and tell him to calm down because people don't like me that much but he just doesn't listen! 8-)
So it has its ups and downs.
but they're listening to every word I say
As far as getting kids into the kitchen goes, I've been able to get my almost three year old in there a few times. We tend to eat a lot of mushrooms, so I can sometimes get her to "help" me cut up mushrooms. She gets a cutting board and a butter knife, and can usually hack one or two into variable-sized pieces while I'm chopping the rest.
I have perfected the art of holding a sleeping baby and an controller at the same time. Dungeon Defenders II with the wife, Injustice 2, or my 100th FFX playthrough have been good relaxation outlets.
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Her favorite sleeping position, arms out and up.
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But she wound up being fine. Although my wife and I both caught her bug that week, too. She was happy to have her last doctor's visit.
We let go of the mommy's helper we had for about 20 months. Wren was just too quick for her, both in running about the house and just wanting to learn and do stuff faster than the 70 year old grandma wanted to deal with. Plus, she's HELLA social and just needed to be around other kids. So she's been at daycare (just up the street from my work which makes sit easy) for about 3 months now and loves it.
Their class is 18 months-now you leave for kindergarten. It's a mix of learning and play which is perfect for her. She can whip off all her classmates names now, her already large vocabulary is getting larger and, really important for us, she's eating or at least trying more foods. We had a lot of problems there. Still do. She's now disappointed when she doesn't go to daycare on Saturday and Sunday!
And, in an unfortunate turn, we're pregnant again. We were still talking about if we even wanted another kid and well, we fucked up. Everyone's getting fixed after this, though! It's been some rough days with us working out our feelings about this (I'm staunchly anti-second child and my wife wants another just not so soon) but it's there now so you the job in front of you, right? And since we've already got a toddler, it's not like we can mope around too much. Either way, we had our sonogram this week and so Wren gets a little brother. She LOVES babies, hopefully she still loves them after she has one daily in her life!
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I'l get the tv and things up into the OP later this afternoon.
@Ketar Thank you for pointing us towards Bharat books! Ellie loves Padmini is powerful. I haven't gotten any of the others yet. Out of curiosity (and this is likely to seem strange so please don't be offended), Are you aware of any similar type kids books that do anything with Tamil?
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this is pretty normal, my son is almost 3 and he's still not quit there yet.
Yeah, we like the name too
Her mom's doing a lot better now. The first couple weeks were very rough, but she's recovered a bunch now, so we're all pretty happy!
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My two year-old does this as well. It's odd, but probably normal?
We're also hitting a pretty bad sleep regression now that she can get out of the bed and work the doors on her own. Takes like an hour to get her to stay down.
Since James worships his brother, he's a little more on board at almost two and a half- he'll announce when he's pooping, strip off a wet diaper (sometimes without letting anyone know), and has shown interest in using the white bedpan we got Daniel to leave it next to the bathroom for emergencies
I'm not sure why. But the thought fills me with no little anxiety.
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