Archive for January 3rd, 2012

It’s not that it’s prohibited or something, I actually don’t care whether people spend money for buying fire crackers. I’m 100% against it as its smoke affects my bunso’s health.

The same scenario happened last year. It was more than half a year since my bunso was diagnosed of asthma by then. She had a very bad asthma attack right after New Year of 2011. Lesson learned, do not expose her to smoke created by these fire crackers. So what we did few days ago, on New Year’s Eve, we covered half of her face to avoid from inhaling the same. But I guess it just didn’t work. She still caught everything resulted to another attack the next day, with slight fever.

I’m glad she cooperated well when it was time to nebulize her. I hope she’ll recover soon before my husband comes home. Otherwise, our plans will be spoiled.

There are a lot of things to consider when buying your children new toys. Of course safety should be first and, for most of us, price is a big factor. But what about toys that help them develop? Whether it’s physically or mentally, play is a great way to lay the foundation for skills that are important later in life. Of course there are educational toys on the market and many of them are great. But I want to focus on the toys that kids want and how they can be beneficial.

RC vehicles
Surprisingly simple or amazingly complicated, radio controlled cars can be a great tool for developing special awareness and abstract thought in regards to hand eye coordination. It’s not hard wired into us to equate the movement of our thumbs and fingers to the movement of an independent object. Starting them early on this kind of thing will help when they start driving and in general with their special awareness.

As they get older repairing and maintaining radio controlled trucks will be great primer for technical skills. Not every kids is going to grow up to be a mechanic but basic knowledge of how motors work and electrical safety will serve them for years to come. Read the rest of this entry »