Pregnant women rejoice. Eating chocolate is good for your unborn baby.

Scientists at the University of Helsinki, who asked 350 pregnant women to record their chocolate consumption and stress levels, found that daily chocolate treats had a positive effect on the baby’s behaviour.

Six months after the infants were born the mothers who had eaten chocolate reported more reactions such as smiling and laughter in their offspring.

The babies of stressed women who had regularly consumed chocolate showed less fear of new situations than babies of women who had abstained, New Scientist magazine said.

- Reuters

Baby Blinks Back at You

Most people would just make funny faces and do baby-talk just to coax out a smile from a baby. After all the goo-goo’s and the kuchi-kuchi’s they then ignore the kids and move on to adult conversations. What people almost always fail to realize is that children absorb everything around them like a sponge.

Sometime babies are totally ignored while those that take care of them during the day either watches TV or engage in long phone conversations. The babies are either left in their cribs or on their playmats. In order to encourage speech so they can verbalize early on what they want is to give them due attention. Speak to them. Talk even if they just blink back at you. They are actually trying to understand you.

Baby is Starting to Talk

The moment quarreling parents start dissing each other, the child would later on think that it is normal to diss people.

Some children as early as two years old already know how to diss people because that is what he hears around him. The adults’ mannerisms are then copied by the children and parents would be surprised to see a miniature copy of themselves. When the couples scream at each other, the child would either start screaming later on or move deeper back in silence.

So your kid starts to scream

When children wail and scream over something try listening. They are crying because that is the language they learned earlier when they were still infants. Teach them how to verbalize what they need. Calm them down and tell them that it would be nicer for them to speak out what they need without screaming. A reward would be nice for the obedient babies.