Gavin Recommends Mickey Mouse Clubhouse
Hello! I see you’re new here. Welcome to Babylicious! You might like to subscribe to my RSS feed to get regular updates on what’s new at Babylicious. Thanks for visiting!Being ill with morning sickness and feeling tired all the time, I confess I’ve allowed Gavin to watch far more TV than I [...]
Thomas and Friends: The Great Discovery
My son is a huge fan of Thomas and Friends. As any parent would know – what your child is interested in, you will also be interested in by default. So when I discovered there was a new Thomas and Friends feature length movie out called “The Great Discovery“, I was very keen to get it. [...]
New Baby Signing Time DVDs
Ever since I heard about Baby Signing Time through a friend, I have been keen to teach Gavin how to sign. Anything that would help to head off toddler tantrums and help us get through the “terrible twos” more smoothly was, in my book, definitely worth looking into. When I bought the Baby Signing Time [...]
Inculcating Good Reading Habits
In an effort to reduce the non-interactive effect of TV on Gavin, I started turning off the volume and reading the subtitles out to Gavin. I’ve only been doing this with his Thomas and Friends VCDs because they come with subtitles and each episode reads like a story from a book.
Since I started to do [...]
Reducing the “Idiot Effect” of TV
Before I became pregnant, my plan was not to allow Gavin to watch TV until he was at least two years old because of the recommendations that TV is not interactive and delay the development of a child due to the lack of interactivity. Unfortunately, I have been unable to stick to my ideal and [...]
