How to teach easier alphabet? Printables is a good choice for this educational activity

Printables.... How I even haven't find them before?...but, I'm happy that I find them now.

It is not so easy to teach a child a language living in a multicultural environment, when you come from a bilingual family and the city where you live as well have 2 languages. It is difficult, but who told that this is impossible. I always tried to speak to my child just one language, and to learn with him songs in the same language, watch youtube videos in this language. I have seen a really good progress, but I didn't know that printables can help me so much on our educational path. Last week me and my husband prepared this printables in the alphabet order, as we wanted him to be familiar with the letters and all the words which begin with that letter. This educational activity I think is good way to teach your toddler new words and makes this task easier for mums.

Preparation: dad looked for good quality images on google search, each image have to begin with a letter of the alphabet, then I made a power point slides with images, printed, cut and the printables were ready for use.

See below in the images how these look likes. The amazing part of the printables was that my toddler told me clearly two new words just this weekend.

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Feel the soul of Barcelona, go to Plaça Catalunya

This is our second post on our project: Discover Barcelona. Today I will talk about Plaça Catalunya, but before introducing this amazing place to you, I would like to mention that if you travel with children it is great to take a Tourist Bus, as this bus takes you by all most touristy places and you can easily see all the city in 3 or 4 days and enjoy sightseeings without going out from the bus. I tried this in London and I'm pretty happy that we've seen a lot of amazing places in one weekend. Pl.Catalunya is a very, very touristy place, I don't really like very touristy places, but this one is special, as it is a big square where children and not only children, adults as well, all feed pigeons, and these ones know this thing and are a lot of them there. As you can see in the picture, people love this place for its happiness. Here you can simply sit anywhere and enjoy the amazing views and if you are not tired enough and want to take a walk, just great, there are a lot of shops, or even hand-made shops where you can buy different amazing things, as well you won't have to be surprised if you see somebody singing, dancing or making shows on the street.

And if you like architecture, Barcelona is one of the cities that you can enjoy it everywhere.

My advice as mum, always take a stroller with you, water and some food. See you next time xoxoxo

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Researches demonstrate eating together with kids makes them be happier.

How often do you eat together with your kid or toddler during the week? Do you try to eat together every time when this is possible or you don't care about this?

Almost for one week we have our dinner together like a family. Before I thought, that it is too early to start eating together, as I thought that we won't enjoy it, but it happened to be the opposite. The idea came when Damian refused to eat in his chair, and we were going there and forth and I was following him to get him to eat anything. I thought why not to try to eat all together, as we have a little table and chairs. I prepared the dinner for all three of us, and it was amazing. Firstly, Damian was very happy that we ate at his table, as well he ate alone and we enjoyed our dinner. The amazing thing was that he ate all his soup alone, and it was a success for the last days. Now we have our dinner all together. I feel that this step made easier my life at the dinner time.

Here I would like to share with you, that on the second day of our dinner together I found a really great article about the importance to have dinner together with your child, the article was about children a little bit bigger than our toddler, but anyway I think that it is great to create a tradition in our family. The importance of having meal together with our children is mostly because, our kids have higher attention during the meal hours than otherwise, so it is a great time to share with your kid your feelings, teach him about the life, or other things that you think that are important for your kid. “A recent wave of research shows that children who eat dinner with their families are less likely to drink, smoke, do drugs, get pregnant, become depressed, and develop eating disorders.” I understand that it is too early to talk about these problems when you have a baby or a toddler like me, but think about this, and it is never early or late to make a tradition in your house.

Sorry, no picture from that great evening.

I love this picture, Damian is in the nursery :)

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Have you decided what to see in Barcelona? Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes will be a good choice if you travel with kids

Today I run a new project: Discover Barcelona. The main idea of this project is to show to my dear readers the prettiest places of Barcelona and not from the tourist view, but from the view of a mum with a toddler.  For those who want just to come to visit Barcelona for a weekend, I will do later a post with the most touristy places, just shout when you need this post. But for now, I want to share with you some places that not all of the tourists have time to visit.

Today I will speak about Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes and 22@. Most often known as Glòries(Glorias), is a large square in Barcelona, has started with a big renewal project in 2000s and then in 2007, and the last in 2014. The first installment of this project was the construction of the controversial Torre Agbar skyscraper and finishing last year the park around the Design Museum of Barcelona. When we came for the first time to Barcelona in 2010, there were just Commercial Center Les Glories with its' children attractions and Torre Agbar, now, you can go with your child for a walk, play with a toddler, or run with your kids, all these opportunities were opened to a large public recently. If you, my dear reader do not have children, but want to come to this place you are very welcome, as you can go to Design Museum or just to make picture with one of the biggest skylines of Barcelona. As well there is a lot of space just to lay out and enjoy the sunny wether of Barcelona.

For mums with toddles: just when you go out from the Subway Station Glories L1(red line) , you will see a big open space where toddlers and kids run there and forth. The amazing thing which they can enjoy from staying there are neon lights, right on the ground, these change their colors and amuse children, toddlers skip, run, jump on these lights and you as mum can take a seat and enjoy their happiness.

Below some images from these amazing places.

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