Joybearer
Because my baby is the cutest!
Xuan & Xiang
Aug 19th
Hey!! Xuan & Xiang’s mummy would like to share with all her two little sweet hearts. Because of them, her life became so wonderful….mummy love u oh !!! 
more of them at http://xuannxiang.blogspot.com/
1 for 1 at Singapore Bird Park + Night Safari
Aug 18th
Bring your child to celebrate Singapore’s 44th Birthday at the Jurong Bird Park and enjoy one-for-one admission offer and special National Day activities! Spend the day at the Bird Park and then head down to the Night Safari to continue the adventure.
Buy 1 Get 1 Free!
Simply print the coupons below and present them at the ticketing booth to enjoy the offer.
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Terms and Conditions:
- Valid from 1 – 31 Aug 2009
- Valid for Singaporeans, PRs & Employment Pass Holders
- Coupon & proof of identity required
- Max purchase of 2 tickets per coupon
- 1 free admission ticket of equal or lower value can be redeemed with every ticket purchased
- Excludes panorail ride
- Not valid with other offers
Ninja De De
Aug 18th
He is the cutest cause he is his mummy’s little ninja dede! 
more of him at http://www.yandeloo.blogspot.com/
Ayden
Aug 18th
Ayden is the cool girl (see previous entry), Chloe’s brother. Their blog is at http://mibebepreciosio.blogspot.com/
Takashimaya Baby Fair 2009
Aug 13th
The next takashimaya baby fair (taka baby fair 2009) will be from Aug 27 2009 at Takashimaya Square (B2)!
Intelligent infant = Intelligent adult?
Aug 13th
Infants who excel at processing new information at 6- and 12-months-old, typically excel in intelligence and academic achievements as young adults in their 20’s, according to a study directed by Case Western Reserve University Psychologist Joseph Fagan.
Researchers examined the question of whether the more intelligent infant becomes the more intelligent and more highly achieving adult.
“Yes” is the answer Fagan and his research team found.
Intelligence involves processing new information and then making associations with other information an individual encounters throughout life. These processes work together to allow an individual to grow in knowledge, says Fagan.
Over 20 years ago, Fagan developed the Fagan Test of Infant Intelligence. The test measures the response infants have to pictures of novel objects.
The infant test works by pairing two pictures together for a set period of time. A researcher watches the length of time an infant looks at the pictures. Then one of these pictures is paired with a new image and again the time the infant focuses on the new and old images is recorded. Infants generally spend about 60 percent of the time looking at new images.
In the research project for the award-winning paper, Fagan and his co-investigators Cynthia Holland from Cuyahoga Community College and undergraduate student Karyn Wheeler revisited 61 young adults, who had taken the Fagan Test as babies in their first year of life. They also looked at their first IQ tests at the age of 3 and compared them with their scores at 21 years old.
They discovered an association with intelligence between this early ability to process information and IQ during their young adult years. These infants with ability to process new information at an early age showed higher levels of academic achievement later in life.
The researchers say that attention to novelty “tells us that intelligence is continuous from infancy to adulthood” and “underscore the importance of information processing as a means for studying intelligence.”
They added that this knowledge may help researchers also understand how genetics and environment can influence intelligence.
source: www.sciencedaily.com
Active kids sleep better
Jul 31st
A paper in Archives of Disease in Children documents a New Zealand experiment in which children’s sleep habits were tracked against their activity, as measured by an actigraph. The conclusion won’t surprise many parents: kids who run around all day sleep more at night (and kids who sleep more at night are more apt to run around all day). The study included 519 healthy 7-year-olds from New Zealand, who each wore a device called an actigraph for 24 hours. An actigraph records movement, providing an objective measure of a child’s activity level and sleep time. Parents also noted when their child went to bed, which allowed researchers to calculate how long after bedtime children actually fell asleep. The researchers found a wide variation in how quickly children fell asleep, with some taking as little as 13 minutes and others needing more than 40 minutes after going to bed. Within this range, there was a close relationship between the onset of sleep and daytime activity. On average, children took an extra three minutes to fall asleep for every hour they weren’t moving about. Also, the children who fell asleep faster slept longer overall. On average, children got one extra hour of slumber for every 11-minute drop in how long they took to get to sleep.
Source: http://www.boingboing.net/2009/07/29/active-kids-sleep-be.html
