Chang Lim

Best Toys For 18 Month Old Kids

If you've been thinking about the best toys for 18 month old kids remember children are absolute sponges when it comes to learning. When you think about all of the major milestones they learn in their first two years of life it really is amazing. Toys are... Read >

Encouraging Potty Training

For many parents, potty training can be one of the most frustrating parts of early child rearing. In the act of weaning their children from diapers to the potty, a mother or father must learn to be a psychologist, a teacher, and, at times, a drill sergean... Read >

Buying Toys and Maternity Items for Baby Showers

The unspoken rule of any baby shower is that you are not really buying gifts for the new baby so much as you are buying gifts for the mother. Even when buying, say, new baby furniture or clothes for the baby, your ultimate goal is to make life easier on t... Read >

Strategic Board Games for the Thinking Gamer

Something all parents face by the time their kids have gotten through their teen years is that most kids between the ages of twelve and eighteen are just too cool for their parents. It's not difficult to get your younger kids to sit down and play a gam... Read >

Using Toys to Make Bath Time Fun

While we talk a lot about using toys to help children develop, one of the most appreciated side effects of providing our children with toys would have to be that it simply makes things easier on the parent. Giving a child a bath can be one of the most ... Read >

Kids and Vitamin C

It's important to get enough vitamin C into your kids' diet! Vitamin C, also known as ascorbic acid is water soluble vitamin that is not stored in the body and must be replaced each day. Kids need to ingest it from their diet or supplements (high dose... Read >

Toys for Early Childhood Development

It's said that a child learns more in their first year than they will throughout the rest of their lifetime. Very early in our lives, we discover the act of play. Playing continues throughout our entire lives. As adults, we may play chess or sports, we ma... Read >

Safety concerns with certain age groups

Toys come with a recommended age range for a few reasons. First of all, it has a lot to do with development levels. If a book is recommended for a twelve year old or older, that doesn't mean that your eight year old can't handle it, just that most eight y... Read >

Encouraging your musical prodigy

You may already be tired of singing along to the tune of "Toot toot, chugga chugga, big red car!" but you have to admit that The Wiggles are onto something here. They really are one of the best things to come along in kid's entertainment in quite some tim... Read >

Toys for the future engineer (K’nex, etc. toys that teach about machine functions)

You know why a lot of us didn't like school? It was simply kind of boring. For some of us, it was challenging, but for many, it's just that the material was already old to us by the time we got to it. If you were already reading Doctor Seuss before you... Read >

Cool toys for car kids (lego racers, remote control cars, etc)

If you walk into any classroom in the country, you're going to have every little boy and girl pegged within a few minutes when it comes to what they're into. That girl reading National Geographic loves animals, the boy over there doodling in his notebook ... Read >

How to shop for a niece’s birthday

Just as with shopping for any kid, the trick to getting the perfect present is to know what your niece is into. Some girls may love toys like My Little Pony. Oftentimes, sure, that's a safe guess, but what about the girls who consider My Little Pony a lit... Read >

Brainy Baby line of products in stock now

Brainy Baby® is the pioneer and leader in developing videos for very young children that introduce preschool basic concepts. For more than 12 years our expanded product line of DVDs, books, games and toys have presented these concepts by using bright col... Read >

How to shop for a nephew’s birthday (advice on selecting presents for kids that aren’t your own)

It's always a real trick to shop for boys toys for the little dude in the family who's not your kid. You may love your nephew, but you may also wind up being forced to admit to yourself that you don't really spend enough time with him because… he's got ... Read >

Affordable toy shopping

You know, it's ridiculous when people boast of how much money they spend on this or that. "I blew half my paycheck on these shoes, and they don't even look good on me, aren't I grand?' The only time you'll hear the smart shopper boasting of how much th... Read >