What I remember about raising boys alone:

8/23/08
This is going to be like a journal:
8/23/08

I remember when my 1st child was born; I got every type of literature that was on pregnancy. I wanted to know what was developing, if possible on a daily basis, crazy huh. Well, while pregnant I played classical music, and later I will tell you what that brought about, I read books to my belly. I did not care if I did not understand what I was reading, I just read. I even read some math books, and when you read try to read with drama in your voice. People will think your crazy, but who care when your baby is concerned. We parents make fools of ourselves on a daily basis for our kids. If you don’t believe me go to a kid soccer game!
When my baby boy was born I would spend as much baby awake time with him as I could, talking to him, and not in baby talk, again later I will tell you what that brought about. I would always be making faces at him, stroking him everywhere, especially after a bath. You don’t know and the baby can’t tell you if he has an itch, or some part of his body is stinging, so do stroke his whole body. You will also learn what he looks like normal, and if something is wrong you will catch it sometimes before the doctor does. I would play with him by moving his little hands, opening and closing them, putting his little fingers up to his mouth or mine, kissing his little hands is also GREAT he loves it, because he can feel you, I moved his little legs and feet, plus this action taught him to crawl and walk even faster, made him smarter too. I did as much interaction everyday that I could, of course more then once a day.
By his crib on the wall I put some posters that I started collecting before he was born, I bought a lot of cheap posters at garage sales or if I was lucky enough to get them for free even better. The posters were pictures of different things, but especially face of any kind. At the time I was on WIC, which is a program to give pregnant women or young children milk products to prevent birth defects, and well I took some of their WIC posters which have ladies, and kid’s faces on them, but any kind of poster. Many companies would love to give you their advertisement posters. I would change the poster about three times a week. Baby’s are very curious and learn at every waken moment of their first years, and they need something to look at while you go get a bottle, or are not there when they wake up. Try to keep his EVERY waken moment count towards learning, and he learns from EVERYTHING!

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