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    Our Children and Technology: Part 3–Overexposure to Technology with Infants and Young Children

    Our Children and Technology: Part 3–Overexposure to Technology with Infants and Young Children

    Overexposure to Technology: Infants and Young Children  Our Habits as Caregivers It is caregivers’ relationship with technology and consumption of digital technology that shapes children’s usage of technology—especially when children are 12...
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    Posted August 18, 2023 | by Celeste Roseberry-McKibbin |in children and screen time, communication, Language delay, Speech delay
    Our Children and Technology: Part 2–Potential Drawbacks

    Our Children and Technology: Part 2–Potential Drawbacks

    POTENTIAL DRAWBACKS OF TECHNOLOGY FOR OUR CHILDREN  I believe in a balanced view of the use of technology with our children. Totally depriving them of it is impossible, and it is also irresponsible because then they will not be appropriately...
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    Posted August 1, 2023 | by Celeste Roseberry-McKibbin |in Health, Technology, Uncategorized

    Our Children and Technology: Part 1–Positive Aspects of Technology

    POSITIVE ASPECTS OF TECHNOLOGY FOR OUR CHILDREN Technology has often gotten a very bad rap around the topic of children’s use of it. It’s important to be realistic. We cannot and should not deny our children access to technology and screen time...
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    Posted July 28, 2023 | by Celeste Roseberry-McKibbin |in communication, Technology
    Improving Your Child’s Social Skills: Part 5–Learning to Speak in Public

    Improving Your Child’s Social Skills: Part 5–Learning to Speak in Public

    Learning to Speak in Public A great enhancement to any child’s social skills is the confidence to speak in public. Speaking successfully in public is a skill that will serve your child their whole life...
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    Posted July 23, 2023 | by Celeste Roseberry-McKibbin |in Child Communication, How to Develop Your Child's Language, Public speaking skills, Social skills
    Nurturing Our Children’s Gifts and Helping Them Find Their Purpose

    Nurturing Our Children’s Gifts and Helping Them Find Their Purpose

    Mark’s Story When our son Mark was 10 years old, he started showing a strong interest in local politics. Because of this, my husband Mike arranged for him to go door to door with us and advocate for a particular congressman we were...
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    Posted January 31, 2023 | by Celeste Roseberry-McKibbin |in Character, Child Communication, Purpose
    Improving Your Children’s Vocabulary Skills

    Improving Your Children’s Vocabulary Skills

    In today’s complex workforce, the worker with a powerful and rich vocabulary will have a major advantage indeed. To me as a mother and speech-language pathologist, vocabulary is one of the very most important skills for our children to develop...
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    Posted September 7, 2022 | by Celeste Roseberry-McKibbin |in Child Communication, How to Develop Your Child's Language, Literacy, Vocabulary

    First 100 Words

    Here is a list of the first 100 words that most children produce. This does depend on their environment, of course, but you can confidently work on these with your child. Remember that they might not pronounce all the sounds in the words...
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    Posted August 3, 2022 | by Celeste Roseberry-McKibbin |in Child Communication
    Your Child’s Social Skills

    Your Child’s Social Skills

    The Importance of Strong Social Skills in Our High Tech World We all know that in the 21st century, machines and technology have taken over many jobs that people used to do. The use of robots has expanded also. Given this scenario, socioemotional...
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    Posted July 30, 2022 | by Celeste Roseberry-McKibbin |in Child Communication, How to Develop Your Child's Language, People skills, Social skills

    The Super Seventy: 70 Activities to Boost Speech and Language Development in 0–5-Year-Old Children

    The Super Seventy: 70 Activities to Boost Speech and Language Development in 0–5-Year-Old Children **Many of these activities incorporate a sensory element. A lot of young children with speech and language delays have difficulties with sensory...
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    Posted July 30, 2022 | by Celeste Roseberry-McKibbin |in Uncategorized
    Supporting Your Child’s School Success

    Supporting Your Child’s School Success

    Here is a lesson I learned the hard way: whenever we allow our children to get away with things at home, they will think it is okay to do those things in outside settings like school. Because I worked full time and was tired when I got home...
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    Posted July 21, 2022 | by Celeste Roseberry-McKibbin |in Child Communication, Discipline
    Children in Ghana received free books

    Children in Ghana received free books

    I am just so thrilled that children in Ghana, Africa finally received the books we sent in spring, 2022. There is nothing better than knowing that thanks to your generous donations, children in Africa are being exposed to literacy and helped to...
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    Posted July 18, 2022 | by Celeste Roseberry-McKibbin |in Child Communication, Collecting books, Donating Books, Literacy, Reading with your child

    Label Items in the Home to Improve Print Reading Skills

    As caregivers, we want to have our children read early and well. Research conclusively shows that strong early reading skills predict later successful academic outcomes for children. We know that reading daily with children is important. There is...
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    Posted July 11, 2022 | by Celeste Roseberry-McKibbin |in Uncategorized
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    • Our Children and Technology: Part 3–Overexposure to Technology with Infants and Young Children
    • Our Children and Technology: Part 2–Potential Drawbacks
    • Our Children and Technology: Part 1–Positive Aspects of Technology
    • Improving Your Child’s Social Skills: Part 5–Learning to Speak in Public
    • Nurturing Our Children’s Gifts and Helping Them Find Their Purpose
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