Playing Baby Computer Games – The New Parent-Child Tradition?Written by Emma Rath
Imagine cuddling up with your small child to look at a picture book together that is interactive, musical, responsive and talks to you?This is experience that people are having who are engaged in that relatively new pastime – playing computer games with babies. JumpStart’s Knowledge Adventure calls it “lapware”, Kiddies Games’ logo is “Hop on lap and tap”, and Sesame Street’s “Baby and Me” opens with an animation of a baby monster hopping onto lap of a Daddy monster to play computer. Playing computer games with your baby is being promoted as a fun activity that a child and their caregiver can share together. And rightly so, because whatever activity, physical, loving closeness is an important ingredient that infants need for healthy intellectual, emotional and physical development. Reading a bedtime story to a small eager child is a tradition in many homes. As children get older, this may be replaced by watching TV together. Our parents’ families listened to radio together. Playing on computer with a small child may become a new type of family tradition. Home computers and internet are making their way into more and more homes. Some parents use computer in their work and are delighted to share computer for a fun activity with their kids. Other parents want to make sure their children become computer literate. Well-designed, interactive, educational computer games engage small children as much as television and are more educational than TV because they incite child to interact and think, rather than passively watch and listen. These are reasons for increasing popularity of toddler computer software. Although a relatively small industry, software for infants has been cited as being a very fast growing industry. What type of computer software is available for babies, toddlers and preschoolers? There are free games on websites and there are download and CDROM software that you can buy. Most software for this age group is games, but computer story books also exist. Wonderful websites that offer free games of which many are suitable for preschoolers (preschoolers are able to do directed clicking with mouse) are: http://www.sesamestreet.org/sesamestreet http://www.noggin.com http://www.cbc.ca/kidscbc http://www.abc.net.au/children/games http://www.meddybemps.com Great free sites for babies (whose skills tend to be more limited to banging keyboard) are: http://www.kiddiesgames.com http://www.toddletoons.com CDROM or download software that you buy is usually better than free internet games. The games are usually superior (more graphics, more music, more involved games for older kids) and software takes over entire screen, which is more appropriate for very young children who click anywhere and everywhere on screen. Some of well-known producers are: Reader Rabbit software from http://www.learningcompany.com JumpStart software from http://www.knowledgeadventure.com Fisher-Price software from http://www.knowledgeadventure.com Sesame Street software from http://www.encoresoftware.com or http://www.amazon.com http://www.babywow.com Computer game softwares for this age group make conscientious efforts to be suitably educational. To judge their effectiveness for your child, try them out with your child. If your child finds that it’s fun, then it’s probably educational. For a baby, fun usually means that game responds in some way to random keyboard presses and mouse clicks, and that game continues in a positive way even when no input is forthcoming from baby. A preschooler will need more of a challenge or more educational content, but game should be designed to be always fun, reactive in a positive way and self-resolving when child does not get correct answer. At this age, it is more important that computer games contribute positively to self-esteem, rather than conscientiously correcting incorrect answers about educational concepts that child will master when they’re older anyway. The KiddiesGames.com software is meticulous about adhering to these rules.
| | Suicide VaccineWritten by James Sorrell
In answer to question "What is your interest in suicide prevention?" on NCSPT's web site {National Center for Suicide Prevention Training}: My interest in suicide prevention?? To END suicide!!!, [that's real prevention, isn't it??], which is possible if you suspend disbelief and take advise found on www.metanoia.org - 'Metanoia means: "a change of mind"...turning around, to face a new direction...to turn toward light. Because when you face light, shadow is behind you.' (( http://excoboard.com/exco/index.php?boardid=1979))..........[Read with kind of open mind that conquers unknown]......."SUICIDE VACCINE": ...........You don't have to believe in God to sense that there are unseen, negative forces at work against human race; vast, heartless, loveless and unsympathetic. (If you don't believe in anything you can't see, touch or feel, you're vulnerable! Expand your horizon to understand that ALL of life is connected and has a great impact on us, whether we can see it or not!....like a virus,with naked eye, for instance.) Fallen angels (who are JUST as real as YOU are, who hide behind our deceived ignorance of their REAL methods, who lost their "day jobs" and have nothing better to do than prey on us, and who are called "demons") get sheer delight in tricking humans into self-murder and slaughter us like slave/cattle daily (as well as other deadly deceptions such as incited, outward violence)! One such deception we call "suicide". The word "angel" means "messenger". The 'Maker of All Things' had designed angels to carry His thoughts and put them into mind of man. The fallen angels can still place their thoughts directly into any human's mind, in that human's very own thought voice....YOUR thought voice! (Ever had an angry or impulsive thought, word or action that you knew wasn't you? We all have!!) "Suicide risk" people (and others) that don't know or ACCEPT that this tampering can be done to them are stuck thinking that was what they really wanted to do. In play also is demon's ability to incite, to manipulate our feelings and emotions, dragging us along bottom of our lives (depression or pain of any sort, whether physical or emotional) and setting us up for a deadly trick, often through isolation, arrogance, never-ending boredom or impulsive behavior (we are most vulnerable here!). Also, more self-absorbed or self-centered individual is, more susceptible they are (involve yourself with other's needs as a defense....others-centered rather than self-centered.......LOVE is what you do for ALL others that is in their highest or best interest, anytime, anywhere, selflessly! 24/7). People with good fortune shining on them would hardly listen to a suicide thought, as out of place as it would be there and a noticeable implant into their thought process. The bad guys have thousands of lures that get most of us (like $$money$$...which took place of Love in USA....entertainment, sports & business....which took place of Family, "soaps" {which robs people of emotions for other human beings}, etc.), but we can be inoculated against fooling trick of suicide and eradicate it now that REAL source has finally been revealed! JOIN fight, help dispel fog of myth that has for so long clouded real source of a lot of mankind's miseries, bring about end of suicide & other terrible stuff. "Light dispels darkness!" [Protect ones you love, and understand with kind of open mind that conquers unknown]...Other things above "truth-vaccine" {a life preserver made up of words} protects us from: self-injury, anxiety {excessive worry}, phobias, compulsive/obsessive/impulsive behavior.....remember, enemy has a lure for each one of us....like a master "fisherman", with 10,000 years of experience to use against our relative few; so it pays to be inoculated against "god of this world"'s deceptions!) World-wide deception takes a hit when truth sets us free!!! HELP to spread this objective truth around freely to PREVENT more needless deaths and tragedies, to PROTECT human race, including those you love!......"The enemy has only images and illusions behind which he hides his true motives; destroy images and you will break enemy; opportunity hits all by itself." [Bruce Lee:: Enter Dragon]...."People who don't believe that devil walks this earth have not seen things I've seen (terrible human slaughter). I believe that there is such a thing as true evil, and that there is true goodness." [Dr. Ronald Wright:: Broward County Medical Examiner, Florida].......For "defense" & "offense" against mankind's worst enemies, 'Keeper of Flame' shows how these two elements work to use truth to melt deception & free human race from miserable slavery to $$money$$/hate/greed-arrogance/violence/war/lovelessness.....[Defense
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