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Here at DestinyBaby.com, to support our mission of bringing you the latest in educational toys, games and resources for the youngest children, we are starting a new feature, called “Kids Quiz” where you can play learning games online directly on our website with your toddler or pre-K little one! A new game will be posted periodically. Be sure to subscribe to the site so that you can stay up to date on everything we have to offer, not just these games, but the latest discounts and deals on educational learning toys and games!

In the past, we have talked about the educational potential of video games to stimulate learning. For this new series, all games were developed by Mama Destiny and our team using the wonderful and free curriculum development tools over at Classtools.net. If you are an educator, I highly encourage you to check out the website– you can easily create games from your lesson plans to be completed online, which lets you achieve two goals–promoting the use of computer technology and creating subject specific learning activities. Check out the first game below. It’s a really simple quiz to help little ones learn about the human body. One of the first things Destiny Baby could do was identify his eyes, nose, fingers, and toes, and we still like to play the naming game today. Hope you enjoy!

This is not an ad. It is a free educational game you can play right now!

Click here for full screen version

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From the experts over at eBeanstalk.com, this is another article on how to get your toddler to behave:

How Do I Get My Child to Say ‘Yes’?
By: Shari Harpaz, CCC-SLP (Speech-Language
Pathologist)

Does your child often respond ‘no’ when you ask them a question? When asked a ‘yes’ or ‘no’, most children will respond ‘no’ more often than ‘yes.’

Toddlers and pre-schoolers are at an age when they are egocentric and/or establishing independence (see all milestones). By saying ‘no’ they are making a clear statement that they don’t want to do something and now your hands are tied if you really needed them to do it. So what should a parent do?

Here are some tips to help get more of the response you’re looking for:

1. Try and ask questions in a “what”? Or “where”? Format instead of yes/no whenever possible. For example: if you’re child is pointing and you can’t determine what they want instead of saying “Do you want juice?” and having to go thru a list of items, ask “what do you want?”

2. Give your child a choice of 2-3 things you are willing to give them. (“Do you want to go to the park or to the book store”)? This way they feel empowered that they chose the activity, and you didn’t have to negotiate after a ‘no’ response.

3. Sometimes your best option is to simply TELL your child that this is what you are going to do/eat/have etc. Remember you’re the parent and know what’s best so don’t let your little negotiators always get their way!

For some activities that don’t involve ‘yes/no’ answers, check out…

You pick the game you want to play: Hand Picked Games at ebeanstalk.com

Which puzzle do you want to play with: Hand Picked Puzzles by the ebeanstalk.com Team of Mothers

Let’s “Pretend Play” and have some fun: Hand Picked Pretend Toys by the ebeanstalk.com Team of Experts

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