I've never heard of using peanuts to help kids grow taller though in theory that does make sense, as peanuts is a good source of protein. But it's also one of the less healthy nuts and can cause serious allergies in children. You should be careful with that. In any case, the child should have a variety of sources for protein.


Not eating well definitely contributes to less-than-ideal growth. In fact, not eating well at any age has ill effects on health in many ways.

Based on this chart http://www.hpb.gov.sg/edumaterials/download.aspx?id=5496

... your observations about your DD being smaller than her peers is probably correct. She appears to be in the 10 percentile.

I don't think it's too late to help though. You may want to consider doing something about her diet and eating habits. And don't forget she should get enough sleep!

MMM:

Actually, I thought milk is the key to growth for those who are still growing ...


My kids are milk lover when they are young and even now. My P4 and P3 are around 1.5m while my K2 is around 1.2+m. The P3 and K2 were premature babies which people cannot believe due to their size.

I am 1.62m while my hubby is around 1.75m so we are average height folks. I foresee that my girls will be taller than me and they will \"look down\" on me soon....

Has anyone mentioned sleep? I believe that is also an important factor - because sleep is the time when the body is repairing and constructing new cells. Of course, to do this, the correct ingredients are needed, such as protein. And that is abundant in milk.

daisyt:

sashimi:

Ah ha, the LATEST rumour is \"iPad\".

Hur !!! Makes me think of the women's once a month thingy :shock: :!: :lol:

There're worse things in IT history. For example, when Google first rolled out a test service for online payment, they called it \"G-Buy.\"

:shock: :shock: :shock: :!:

Edit: cos skunk is right!


Skills then. Well I continue to train my dd’s sense of aesthetic taste. Eg. To be able to coordinate colours and in the process develop good dress sense. I think this is very important because it affects how you feel ant yourself, how others view you and an ability to be aesthetically sensible affects almost everything we do from manners to design.

ChiefKiasu:

sashimi:

... I have put off buying a netbook for ages, but I plan to take the plunge with the \"iTablet\".

Rumors abound that it will be called the iSlate

Ah ha, the LATEST rumour is \"iPad\".

VitoRelax:

sashimi:

*If you wait a leeeeetle bit more, on 27 Jan, Apple will officially announce... something....

Hi sashimi are you a Mac fan ?

Not really LOL! My first ever computer was an Apple IIe back in the 1980s, but after that it was PCs. I've always admired Apple's devices and design, BUT I really hate the elitist and exclusive attitudes. So when Singtel brought in the iphone exclusively, I was really fed up and resisted buying one (I'm with M1). Guess my patience paid off.

I do my best nowadays to not be an apple fanboy. I like to praise the technology and design but I refuse to join in the elitist holier-than-thou attitudes!

I have put off buying a netbook for ages, but I plan to take the plunge with the \"iTablet\".

penglee:

hi,


beware of lure of internet. Our telcos are suckers when u exceed their data-quotas. and bills in $Thousands for 50mb to 100Mb per month are not uncommon
If you really need to surf, go for unlimited plan
(generally, Green and Orange's bills are more user-friendly compared to Red telco. All still expensive) :?:

This should not apply at all when it comes to all the current *iphone*-specific plans (not the \"normal\" mobile plans with data). They are now all given 12GB, and your DATA bill is capped at $30. That's the max you will pay. (but rem you still have to pay the base fee for the plan).

I.e. if you use an iphone with a \"normal\" mobile+data plan, it's kinda of pointless. Unlimited mobile plan is too much; so might as well go for the iphone plans.

And of course red is evil.

Jennifer:

The language instruction is the one feature that caught my attention when it was advertised very briefly in a TV commercial flash. I thought it would be useful for my boy who will be learning a 3rd language, convenient for him to revise his 3rd language anywhere anytime. Is an iPhone very expensive?

Can a Smartphone do this too?

MTIA your input.

I use a free app, Kotoba, on my iphone. It's a Japanese-English dictionary. You can enter words in English - activate the Japanese and Chinese keyboards and you can tap in Japanese as well as draw kanji characters for the dictionary to search. The dictionary provides sample sentences, and IIRC you can connect to the net for more samples. And it's completely free. Slashed more than 50% of the time I used to spend on my Jap homework! :lol:

What I like to tell people nowadays is that the least important function of the iPhone is the phone part. In fact, its most important function, arguably, depending on your needs, is internet access - for all sorts of reasons, not just for surfing websites. The iPhone is a PDA, browser, social computing, etc. device.


Eg, there is a grocery app where you can sync shopping lists with your spouse. The idea is that say you are shopping at different ends of Carrefour. If one person picks up something and indicates in his iphone, your iphone will also update. This is an example of mobile social computing.

Regarding surfing the net or accessing web services on a mobile, bear in mind that not all phones are equal. The Safari browser on the iphone is very decent, but has no flash if that's important to you. Android/Nexus One supposedly wins there. But mainly, be careful about older phones, eg. those on Symbian OS... by and large, those can't really perform on the web well.

Regarding the price of an iPhone - the argument is simple: it's pointless to own an iphone without a data subscription (because it's meaningless, if you ask me, to own an iphone if you only plan to use it as a mobile phone - this is my question to the hokkien aunties queueing at M1, LOL).

Thanks to M1 (\"we led, they followed\"), you can now get 12Gb of data, capped at $30. As some pple say, 12GB you can surf like \"siao\" and still won't finish. So, it would seem like a perfectly logical idea to sign a contract, get the 12GB, and pay less for the phone itself.


Regarding mobile computing, this year 2010 will a very special year for this aspect of technology in our lives. With Android maturing and the rumoured iPhone 4G* and Apple iTablet*, among other things - it is a very good time to look into this - not because we want to show off gadgets, but because this is the beginning of a new era of mobile computing. It's going to change our lives (like the grocery cart example).


*If you wait a leeeeetle bit more, on 27 Jan, Apple will officially announce... something....

Joyen, first of all, a very frank question - does anyone in your family hit her? As a form of punishment, for example. That’s sometimes where it starts.


If not, check her school - is someone hitting her in the first place? Did she learn it from someone else?

At 20 months, did she experience some traumatic experience which you don’t know about? Sometimes some things happen, say in school, and the teachers may brush it off as "normal" or "nothing" but in fact it can cause permanent change in a child. I’m not saying this actually happened, but it may help for you to think back.

Eg. my DD1 when she was about 2+ she, one day, suddenly started to hit us at home. We were very surprised cos we never hit her, and she has never ever hit us in the past. When we investigated, it turned out simply that she was being hit by a boy in her playgroup at Montessori (so much for the big name). The teachers thought this was "normal behaviour" and actually decided we did not need to be informed. Needless to say, we pulled her out immediately. Within a few weeks, she stopped the habit.


Consider also that your girl may be going through the Terrible Twos. She may be experiencing some frustration with something but she does not have the words to explain to you exactly why/how. So, trying to "rationalize" this out of her own mouth may only cause her more frustration.