The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends that kids under 2 years old not watch any TV and older children should not watch more than 1 to 2 hours a day of quality programming.

When I first read about this somewhere when my son was a newborn, I knew this made sense. Especially during the times that I did allow him to watch some Baby Einstein videos for long periods of time. Being the lone person in the house doing all the housework, taking care of the baby and doing my online tasks, the television is the easy instant nanny that I tried to make use of. The few times that I allowed my son to watch more than a couple of hours, he turned into this kind of wild child that won’t hear of it if I tell him watching tv is done. His zombified look was enough for me to learn my lesson and take APP’s word for it.

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As technology oriented as our homeschooling family is, I have not really gotten into consideration the probability of using gadgets in our homeschooling sessions. For one, the curriculum that we use is complete in itself. But given the chance that I get hold of good software applications, it would be a nice thing to consider.

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Why tongue twisters? Because it helps the child to get better at articulating words quickly and clearly. Tongue twisters should be done repeatedly and as quickly as possible without mistakes.

Tongue twisters are fun and help improve a child’s language awareness and pronunciation skills. Here are some more popular tongue twisters:

Betty Botter bought some butter
But she said the butter’s bitter
If I put it in my batter
It will make the batter bitter
But a bit of better butter
Will make my batter better
So she bought a bit of butter
Better than her bitter butter
And she put it in her batter
So ‘twas better Betty Botter
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