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Welcome to the Jungle Baby! Take a trip to the newest destination in the Baby Road Trip Video Series: Baby Road Trip JUNGLE

By Anonymous

NEW YORK, NY, January 26 2004--To kick off the new year, Baby Road Trip has released Baby Road Trip JUNGLE, the newest video in the award winning Baby Road Trip Video Series.

Baby Road Trip JUNGLE engages children through sight and sound on an amazing adventure through the jungle. While on the journey, children will discover animals, children at play and captivating real world images. Little ones will be excited to see a friendly puppet friend, Road Trip Ryan as he pops in and out along the way. The originally composed music throughout the video includes Safari symphonies, Jungle foot tapping rhythms and melodic sounds of the wild. Baby Road Trip JUNGLE focuses on word associations as well as a particular learning principle – the wonder of color!

Created by Laura Kronen, founder of the Baby Road Trip Company, Baby Road Trip JUNGLE makes a visit to the Jungle, the journey of a lifetime! “We concentrated on the simple things – the things that make children laugh - and combined those elements with proven educational principles to produce a superior learning tool for today’s child.” Kronen states. “The response that we have been getting has been really phenomenal. We have received positively glowing reviews from psychologists, elementary educators and parents alike. Read the testimonials on the website - they speak volumes!"

"Baby Road Trip was created for parents just as much as it was created for their children," says Kronen. "At Baby Road Trip, we do not believe in using videos as the "ultimate babysitter" for children, instead we encourage parents to watch them with their child. We understand the fine balance between what children love and what parents can tolerate."

A portion of the profits from Baby Road Trip goes to benefit the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, in an effort to find a cure in our lifetime.

Baby Road Trip JUNGLE is available on VHS ($14.99 S.R.P) and DVD ($18.99 S.R.P.) and will first be sold through the www.babyroadtrip.com website and www.amazon.com. The Baby Road Trip website also features editorial content focusing on traveling with small children. Baby Road Trip BEACH is also currently available and was released in November 2003.

At Baby Road Trip, we strive to provide adventure, amusement and delight while taking children on musically themed journeys to far away, and sometimes, not so far away places. The Baby Road Trip Video Series was thoughtfully created to nurture cognitive, sensory and emotional developments throughout a child’s first four years.

© 2004 Baby is a Star, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Baby Road Trip logo is a pending trademarks of Baby is a Star, Inc. All Rights Reserved.                   




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Signing With Your Baby: Signing and Babysitters

By Monica Beyer

Imagine this: You come to pick up your baby from her day-care after a long day at work or after a quick run to the store. Expecting to find a delighted baby, you're greeted by your child's frustrated caregiver and your fussy infant. "What does this mean?" the babysitter asks, rotating her fists. You unhappily realize that your baby has been trying to ask for a changed diaper for the last hour and her caregiver didn't understand the sign she was using.

Some parents who sign with their babies are stay-at-home-mothers, while some moms work outside the home. Working presents a unique situation because your baby likely goes to a babysitter for a certain amount of time during the day and he or she may not be aware that you sign with your baby. Even SAHM's can understand the problems that may arise when they leave their babies in the care of a grandmother or favorite aunt for a night out or a baby-free grocery-shopping event.

My husband cares for the children during the day while I'm at school, and he works at night while I'm home. So, I am not intimately familiar with the concerns of those who use outside help on a full-time basis. I do, however, understand how it can be a big concern for those trying to establish signing with the baby and are unsure of how daycare will affect their efforts.

Michelle, located in the UK, put her daughter Rio into full-time day-care at the age of 8 months. "I had mentioned from day one that I was teaching her to sign," she said. "The nursery were very interested in what I was doing and Rio's two main carers borrowed the book and video to watch before she started there full time so that they had an insight into what she was doing." Her experience was a positive one because she had caregivers who were open-minded and positive about baby signing. "On the whole I found that there was a growing interest and very positive approach to baby signing," she said.

Gill, also from the UK, is getting ready to put her 2-year-old daughter Meadow in a day-care setting two days a week. As Meadow is an established signer and no longer a young baby, her concerns are less about the care providers using signs with Meadow and more about Meadow communicating with other children. "We've decided that we won't show the nursery anything more than HELP and a couple of other important signs," she said. "She's 2 years old now and will be in a group of 2- and 3-year-olds who she will interact with, but they won't be using signs."

Hints for consistency between home and day-care:

Let your sitter know from the very beginning that you are signing with your baby.

Demonstrate the signs your baby is likely to use.

Bring along a sign language book or something similar that you can leave with the sitter each day for reference (the SWYB quick reference guide is great for this).

Let your sitter know which signs you're working on and tell her how to use them so your baby can learn new signs at the sitter's too.

Keep the lines of communication open between you and your child's care giver, and invite questions at every opportunity.

With these ideas in mind, baby sitters and care givers will be an added benefit in your child's sign language communication.

Monica Beyer is the mother of two sons and has been signing with her younger son for over 1 year. Visit her website at http://www.signingbaby.com or email her at monica@signingbaby.com




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Cute Baby Photo Contest by Baby Bedding Town – Free Participation – Win Prizes

By Anonymous

Piuma Cerritos, CA December 31 2003--Enter your cute baby photo to win bragging rights to your friends, adoration from thousands of web visitors all over the world, and prizes from Baby Toytown, Inc (http://www.babybeddingtown.com. The photo which scores highest by *you* our voters in this month will receive a $100 gift certificate to Baby Toytown, Inc. and have their cute baby photo displayed on our http://www.babytoytown.com website homepage for 1 full month.

"It's always fun to host the contest because we have such cute baby picture entries. Although the site programming decide the winner, selecting the cutest photo becomes tough at the end of the month with so many adorable submissions, but we ask our customers to choose the cutest photographic moment, not the baby." says Bernard Zwick-President, C.E.O Baby Toytown, Inc..

How it works: You signup for free at http://www.babyphototown.com/ and become a member. Once signed up you can upload your baby’s cute image. You may also link to your image if you already have it on another server. Once your image is approved by us, it will begin to appear on our website which is looked upon by thousand’s of visitors from all around the world everyday. Visitors will view your photograph and rate it depending on their own personal opinion. There is also a very user friendly option to have the link to your baby’s photo sent to your friends, relatives and other family members and you can thus invite them to come to the website and rate your baby picture. Rating a baby does not require registration or any fees.

About Baby Toytown, Inc.
Established in 1936, Baby Toytown was a pioneering company in the baby bedding market. Started by Murray and Betty Zwick, Baby Toytown began with a small store located in Rosemead, CA. They hoped to bring a large selection of high quality baby bedding to customers in one location. Over time the one location grew to 19 retail stores across California.

Now 66 years later, Baby Toytown is still family owned, providing the same excellent quality products with the same excellent customer service. Son Bernard Zwick, along with wife Margie, has been helping soon-to-be parents with their baby bedding needs, since 1969.

With a large 25,000 square foot warehouse and an online website, Baby Toytown now has one of the largest selections of baby bedding around. We are committed to giving each and every customer the best prices on the best items available for their new babies. For every nursery need, Baby Toytown can help.

Baby bedding is not the end of Baby Toytown's items. Cribs, bassinets and changing tables are also available. Baby Toytown has every item needed to make a special baby's nursery ready.



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