Letting your baby “Cry it Out”

Amanda, an expectant parent who took The Love and Logic Early Childhood Parenting Made Fun!™ course with High Five Parenting said, “This was the most beneficial class I took as an expectant mommy. I was able to think about the concepts and the philosophy with a clean slate and clear mind. I knew I was...

Tips for Raising your Child Bilingual

Whether you are a mixed language couple or a monolingual family that wants to expose their child to a second language, you may wonder what the best practices are for raising your child bilingual. While there is no winning formula at this moment for how to raise bilingual children, a key factor in this...

Using Sign Language to Read Books

One of my favorite things to do with my boys is to read and sign books. As babies my boys started out enjoying turning pages, pointing out pictures and lifting flaps.  Then it was reading a story and them memorizing the words as a read the book for the hundredth time.  Now that my oldest is 3 year olds, he...

Boosting your Baby’s Brain Development

Research shows that a child’s brain contains over 100 billion neurons at birth, which will continue to grow during his first years. Your baby’s brain neural connections need to be “wired together” to ensure proper cognitive development. For this reason, parents need to provide their children with...