Welcome to Karen Ding's Homepage

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(me)Moi ...

. Wife to MichaelMichael and Mommy to Nicholas, Leona, and JoshuaJoshua.(^o^)v
. Baby Signs® Independent Certified Instructor; UW MSc ( Biology'98); BSc (Science/ Environmental Science'94 minor in Biology & Computer Science)
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. Signing with Babies

I have signed with all my children when they are babies. Signing is a very useful communciation tool,especially before the child becomes verbal. Many toddlers would throw tantrums, but the underlying reason, I think, is because they are frustrated because their care givers do not understand them. Listed below are some wonderful sites I use often:
I have always promoted sign language for babies among my friends and I am very excited to have become an Baby Signs® Independent Certified Instructor for the Toronto area. Together with the Baby Signs® Program, I want to introduce this wonderful technique to as many families with babies as possible.

. Elimination Communication/Natural Infant Hygiene

Newborns already know when they need to eliminate just like us. The only difference is that when most babies try to convey this need, parents ignore them. Through time, they learn to eliminate into their diaper. People who EC are not trying to toilet train their baby. It's a mutual communication. When the baby sqirms or uses other kinds of body language to show others that they need to eliminate, they need their care givers to help bring them to the proper receptacle to eliminate. There are many benefits to EC-ing your baby: Other than fostering bonding between the caregiver and the baby, there are other benefits. If you are interested in joining this new movement, you can read more about this topic by visiting the following sites:

. Positive Discipline

I have come across this book called Positive Time-Out by Jane Nelsen. It's a very interesting topic. Time-out is not the convention time-out of making a child stay in a particular place for the number of minutes of his age. Instead, there is a postive time-out area for the child to feel better before the parent and the child discuss the problem and subsequently finding out a solution. The idea is that when a child or even an adult is in a bad mood, he is unlikely to be co-operative and therefore very hard to work out the problem together. The focus is on long-term solutions, and the author even suggested 41 action tools: It's very hard not to loose control, but I am working on this.

. What Kids Really Want That Money Can't Buy

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