The Best Baby Stroller

I just found the best baby stroller. It is not very vintage looking. In fact it is the nicest baby stroller I have seen that has a contemporary style.

A company called Peg Perego makes this particular baby stroller, which is very lightweight and portable. They of course have their own website if you want to look at the features in detail but as a mom I can definitely describe it's virtues. The one you want to look at is called the Pliko P3 Classico stroller and it is a high fold up stroller.

This stroller is compact. It is so light and handy you can practially fold it up and put it in your pocket. It is very lightweight so you don't have to worry about straining your back as you throw it in the back of your car. It folds up really small. It reminds me of an origami paper sculpture.

This particular baby stroller has all of the benefits of a much larger stroller including a click on infant seat (that you have to buy separate), a clip on seat and a padded five point harness to keep your precious little passenger safe and also comfortable. The five point harness is crucial to look for when buying a stroller as it helps prevent your kid from falling forward, sideways or any which way should you somehow lose control of the stroller.

The big bonus with this stroller is that it is so easy to fold up as well. None of this kicking it with your foot or straining your elbows as you try to get rusty parts to click together. Who wants to arm wrestle with the aluminum limbs of a fold up stroller.

The Pliko P3 Classico stroller also has a lightweight aluminum frame and resembles an umbrella stroller. You can put it in your purse, never mind your car. You can take it on a train or plane with no worries. It weighs in at sixteen pounds so it can easily be packed away just about anyway.

This beautiful and comfortable designer stroller also has extendable handles that adjust easily to the height of differently sized parents. You simply adjust and secure the handles in one deft move. This really helps if one of you is way taller and is always bending over to push the stroller. Also once you adjust it just doesn't come loose. The stroller is very reliable this way.

It is also a very strong stroller considering that it seems so flimsy when you are folding it up. It can take a lot of weight including extra kids and shopping bags and other cargo. If you have a toddler as well this stroller is equipped with footrests so another kid can jump on the sideboard and hitch a ride just as if they were characters in the movie –Bonnie and Clyde

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Baby Sign Language

Baby Sign Language was supposed to be invented by a company called Baby Sign. However the jury is out on that one as it seems many companies nowadays are laying claim to the science. However to be far, the company has published a best selling book on the topic teaching your baby sign language called The Baby Sign Dictionary. It also runs and franchises programs and classes out of Baby Sign Institutes.

This company put forth its theories about babies to help mothers raise healthier and happier babies. Signing to your baby gives him or her a way to communicate before their tongues, lips and vocal cords have developed the coordination to allow them to speak.

Baby signing is simple for most moms, dads and other family members to learn because it is based on traditional American Sign Language (also known as ASL) it is used to communicate with individuals who are deaf. The company interviewed a focus group of parents and asked them to come up with the 100 most popular things that their babies try to communicate to them and then designed sign language to fit those requests.

Since hand-eye coordination is possible in advance of the acquisition of verbal skills, infants can learn to express their needs using simple signs for common words such as “eat”, “sleep”, “more”, “hug”, “play”, “cookie”, and 'milk”, etc., before they are able to produce understandable speech.

The great thing about Baby Signs is that you can start teaching it to your infants quite soon after they are born. Most children are ready to master it between seven and nine months. That is the age at which most infants have the eye and hand coordination to be able to sign a request to their parents.

Children who can sign have so far been show to have a higher intelligence quotient and a greater ability to learn a second language later in life.

Yet another benefit of Baby Signs is that it can help expand the vocabulary of a toddler. Once they have learned this simplified form of ASL most children continue to use it up until the ages of four and even five years old.

Studies done by Baby Sign also show that teaching your child sign language at an early age also stimulates brain development and gives your child of a head start when it comes to developing language and social skills.

Critics of Baby Sign say that it creates a reliance on non-verbal communication and therefore gives the baby no motivation as to how to learn how to speak. There have been no studies done to prove that this is true.

The benefits far outweigh the drawbacks when it comes to babies signing with the biggest benefit for a parent being able to enjoy a higher level of trust from your baby.

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