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Commemorative Album
We presented our daddy with the gift described below when he returned from his business trip. We wanted to share with him the atmosphere and events we had faced. As if he had not left and was aware of everything happening.
One of those days Soniya (21 mo)painted bright pictures with finger paints. But she did not stop at that point: she also thoroughly painted her face and the mirror beside. Of course, I immediately fetched my camera 
With the taken photos of a small size I decorated Soniya’s paintings. In her other picture I wrote down her funny pieces of speech and described some situations from our life of that time.
Now the most important task was facing me: how to make everything as a gift? Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: children, crafts, Creative Work, do-it-yourself, drawing with kids, early-childhood development, family, holidays, ideas, kids, presents
Now I know: holidays have been invented to direct parents’ imagination to what crafts can be made together with children! I don’t think it would have occurred to me to make something in the shape of a heart together with our little daughter (21 mo) if not for St. Valentine’s Day. And in these hearts we managed to reflect an idea which is very important for every child: the family is one whole and each loves the others which means that everything is fine and the surrounding world is stable and joyful!
And here are our ideas:
A Heart from Sticking Notes
Such a heart was made by us quite spontaneously – Soniya found a pack of sticking notes among office accessories.
The craft which seems quite simple served many educational ideas: Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: children, crafts, Creative Work, design, do-it-yourself, early-childhood development, family, holidays, ideas, kids, St. Valentine's Day
I think we have found a perfect way both to improve our state when we feel tired or gloomy and the state of our little daughter when she starts misbehaving or crying.
It was in Sahaja Yoga that I first learn about the beneficial influence on the organism of baths for feet . Negative energies that we could “pick up” during the day go into the basin with water and salt. Peace sets within, negative thoughts and emotions leave us, sleep improves. And imagine how surprised I was when I found out that doctors also recommend keeping our feet in the water of comfortable temperature where some sea salt is added. Moreover, they advise to do it both for adults and kids.
Last month, the doctor who came to make a professional massage to our toddler told us something about footosoaking. Our little girl (17 mo) keeps her feet in the basin with water and salt two times a day since she turned 1 year old. She does it at the same time with us (in the morning and evening). The masseur explained to us the benefit of this activity from medical point of view:
- the nervous system relaxes – the child becomes more peaceful;
- the salt clears the body of chemical waste drawing it out from the organism through pores.
In fact, if our daughter is in a gloomy mood it is just enough to do the footsoaking together with her for her state to improve for the better.
And today the neurologist who we attended on a routine basis prescribed our little girl the same method for strengthening her legs. When I asked the doctor what the benefits salty water are, she answered that Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: advice, children, family, ideas, kids, parents, personal development
All the children love construction sets. Many adults love them, too. In each of us, there is a fundamental desire for creation when Something appears from nothing and the Whole is always bigger than the sum of the details it consists of… a miracle!
However, a 18 mo old toddler is too little for all those tempting sets with details which his mother enjoys looking at in the stores (I did not have such sets in my childhood!)… The little one would like to run and make fun but the mother, for some reason, does not like to run… The father likes to run (is it so, dad?) but he is away from home all day long… Boring…
Once, having run after our toddler for the hundredth time, I also thought, “It’s really boring… And if there were a construction set!” And at that moment it dawned upon me: Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: children, early-childhood development, family, home, ideas, kids, parents
My husband and I had bought bicycles two days before our daughter was born. By now I have cycled only three times (once on my bicycle and twice on my hubby’s one ). As for Valery, my husband, he rides his bicycle almost every day. Walking with our little daughter, I always pay attention to how other parents combine cycling and their parental duties.
In such a way one of the mothers comes to the children’s playground with her little one:
I asked her why she preferred ”cloth” for the baby and not a child’s chair for the bicycle? She answered that Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: early-childhood development, family, ideas, kids, lifehack, parents
Soniya traveled for the first time in her life when she was 3 weeks old – we went to a pine wood 40 km from the city, for the whole day. A year had passed and we went on a more serious trip – to the Sahaja Yoga International Festival, 700 km away from our city. I have already written how we entertained our little one in the car. Today I am going to tell you how we lived with our little daughter in a tent in the forest on the bank of the River Volga during 4 days.
Packing
To pack bags together with a little one is not an option. Though, of course, if you have got lots of time and would like to make packing a developing game, why not… As for me, I tried to do it but Soniya decided that Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: children, family, ideas, kids, presents, travelling
Movement is life but how pleasant it can be to luxuriate in a cozy armchair sometimes! Especially, if You are the mother of a 12-month-old toddler and have overcome the difficulties of the first year with honour.
So, now you have a full right to rest and enjoy life as to entertain the baby who has turned 1 is very simple! You even do not have to leave the armchair. It is enough to reach for an old glossy lying on the shelf/stand/trolley/coffee table. It should be thick for the pleasure not to stop at the very beginning .
So, let’s open the magazine and… mercilessly tear out a page from it! Now crumple it into a ball and throw the paper ball at your little fidget. And then one more! The baby is delighted! You also feel comfortable in your favourite armchair (on the sofa or bed). The pages come out easily, with a pleasant sound, and there are lots of them… Marvelous!
You’ll have much more fun if you put Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: children, early-childhood development, family, ideas, kids, parents
We, the auhtors of Parents’ Ideas, have already shared the ideas of handmade presents with the readers of our blog. And here are several ideas from Alima (by the way, you can read in Where a Mummy Can Find Time where she finds time for all this taking care of a recently born baby-girl):
“My husband and I love to give presents, especially made, completely or partially, by us – to each other and to our friends.
Here are some ideas that we have already made real and which may be useful for you:
Presents for Holidays
We’ve got different projects for each holiday. Once we bought lots of vases and painted them ourselves. We also painted frames adding photos into them. For the last New Year’s Eve we painted balloons and wrote wishes on them.
a painted vase
Cookery Presents
We bought beautiful glass containers and filled them with:
- twigs of rosemary, thyme and chilly and then poured olive oil onto them;
- salt mixed with spices;
- “cookery construction set” – we put Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: birthday, christmas, Creative Work, do-it-yourself, family, holidays, ideas, New Year's Eve, parents, presents
We, the authors of this blog, have already shared our ways of finding time for creativity, arts and crafts with the readers: Anastasia’s approach, Natalie’s approach. Today, a new mother Alima will tell us about her tips and tricks:
“How did our parents manage us when there were no washing machines (and there also was a tendency to iron things), no diapers like pampers? I even do not talk about dishwashing machines and other modern helpers. We’ve got almost everything that makes the life of a new mother easier but I still feel lack of time to do everything. It seems here comes the answer – our desires are unlimited and even if we had a babysitter there would be tons of things to do and places to visit. So, let’s change the attitude – I do not get tired at all, I have enough time for everything and, what is the most important, I have enough time for the baby!
My hubby, Igor, wakes up and puts on a non-iron shirt. It is not a non-ironed shirt but a shirt which you may not iron, thanks to the modern technology, and which is made of cotton. He warms up his breakfast in a micro-wave – sensor heating – just indicate the temperature that you need. Then I awake and put the dishes out of the dishwashing machine – during the day I put all the dirty dishes into it. The plates are shining – I am not able to wash like this!
We need to prepare a report for Igor to take it to his work. We put our baby-girl in her pram at the balcony and get to the computer. But the little one does not sleep. But Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: children, family, home, ideas, kids, lifehack, parents, productivity, time, tips, tricks
Today we are answering the question of Daria, a reader of our blog:
“So far, I have not been able to think out how to make table and a home playground for our elder daughter (24 months) for her to be able to make crafts and other creative things as we also have one ore baby (12 months) who will bother her. It is not possible to leave all the things like paints, pencils and plasticine on the table for them to be reached by he girl at any time as then you will get tired to collect all thi stuff about the room”.
We have asked mums who have also got toddlers with 1-1,5 year’s difference of age between them what solution they’ve got concerning this issue.
Vera, the mother of Bazhena (4,5) and Kyrill (almost 3):
«Kyrill started crawling late, when he was about 8 months old. Till some certain time, we could play (study) peacefully with our daughter. But I decided in the very beginning: the things which are really not to be touched (by both the children) should always be in boxes on the refrigerator in the kitchen: everything for plasticine modeling, puzzles, pencils, brushes, watercolours, etc. I bought these boxes in “Ikea” but you can also
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Tags: advice, children, early-childhood development, family, home schooling, ideas, kids
