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christmas gift ideas for children #2 – affordable wooden toys

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I have found these adorable wooden toys for children whilst I was browsing through my Facebook page one time. I immediately fell in love with the wooden train toy. Jared will love it to bits as he is fascinated with anything that has wheels on them. These will be “cars” for him, in the meantime, as he refers to most vehicles that way. The wooden toy {which sells at P220 per set} train set comes with numbers on top which I believe will be very helpful in teaching my tot his numbers. They can also be disconnected + re-attach which ought to aid little children to use their fingers and practice their grip.

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I have been scouring online shops for toys like these so I just had to get some for my little man. I also got him this wooden bed maze {P180}, which ought to help him develop his logical + critical thinking. I also got him a wooden puzzle {P120} appropriate for his age. These puzzles come in very engaging designs like animals, insects, airplane {the one I got for Jared} + construction.

What is good about these toys, apart from being affordable, is that they are educational, safe, + more importantly non-toxic {tested by EN71, which is the European Standard safety requirement for children}.

There is also a wide array of toy designs to choose from. Aside from what I have mentioned, these are also available:

  • Wooden toy clock with shape sorter {P340 per set}
  • Wooden tool truck toy {P360}
  • Tool box {P500}, +
  • Geometric box {P300}
What’s even better is you can pay thru Paypal, so check out Mummy Jem’s site to reserve your orders now 🙂
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Parenting 101

deciphering babytalk

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My little man’s vocabulary has improved a great deal since he turned 2.  But, although he can blurt out a couple of words that the grown up easily understands, like car + mum + daddy {which he sort of pronounce with a British accent, too!}, + of late, we’ve been practicing words like thanks, bye + water, he is still heavy on babytalk that often puzzles us + leaves us clueless. Sometimes, he completes a single sentence  question {as most of them have rising intonation towards the end as if asking a question} + I would never understand a single word! It is as if he has a language all his own, that only he can understand.

It was a good thing, though, that I am getting a knack at understanding some of his blabber + his gestures so I can readily respond to his request, lest he will get all cranky + grouchy! Or sometimes he’d say something that sounds like the real word {like he’d say kes for thanks or tete for tita}+ we’d just laugh when realization hits us!

Here are a few words with Jared’s babytalk equivalent:

  • Pate – for Pato {one of the characters in his favorite show, Pocoyo}
  • Yeyie – for Ellie { Pocoyo’s pink elephant friend}
  • Shahie – for iced tea {which is becoming his favorite lately}

Sometimes he’d even surprise us by saying words that he’d hear from us all of a sudden. Like there is one time, I said bag {referring to his tita‘s bag} + he just said “bag” in a very clear grownup-speak out of nowhere. + the other day, i was so surprised that while we were about to watch starfall camp , he just exclaimed B, referring to the big blue letter b that showed up on screen. + am sure he recognized the letter, as there is no way he’d have heard the word, as I have not turned on the speaker of the computer when he said it. You should’ve seen me, this mum was beaming with pride 😀

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