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Foot and Mouth - Tane and Lauren's blog: Bringing baby up bi-lingual
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Foot and Mouth - Tane and Lauren's blog. A joint blog about travel, parenthood, and whatever else tickles our fancy. Tuesday, 24 July 2012. Bringing baby up bi-lingual. The studies detailing the benefit of a second language are endless - it's good for brain development, cultural awareness, and helps children learn other languages later. But, in practice, how can I bring up Amotai learning another language? Does anyone have any tips of how to make this work? 7 September 2012 at 09:22:00 BST. The Other Bol...
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Foot and Mouth - Tane and Lauren's blog: Tane's reviews - The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
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Foot and Mouth - Tane and Lauren's blog. A joint blog about travel, parenthood, and whatever else tickles our fancy. Sunday, 16 December 2012. Tane's reviews - The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Doing this has reminded me of two things: firstly, I love Tolkien; secondly, there's so much material in The Hobbit and the background of Middle Earth you could easily make another trilogy. Whether Peter Jackson should. It's a good cast though, with Martin Freeman nailing Bilbo and Ian McKellen still delivering t...
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Foot and Mouth - Tane and Lauren's blog: All gone raisins
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Foot and Mouth - Tane and Lauren's blog. A joint blog about travel, parenthood, and whatever else tickles our fancy. Wednesday, 6 March 2013. Amotai's favourite tar - Grandad Ray's Mondomobile. Born to be wild. Then suddenly, around Christmas, he started coming out with a flood of words. By the time we went to the Keenan family gathering in Taranaki in mid-January, we worked out that he say about twenty. Since then we've lost count. The bigger vocabulary is an obvious sign of his increasing smarts, but t...
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Foot and Mouth - Tane and Lauren's blog: New land for old
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Foot and Mouth - Tane and Lauren's blog. A joint blog about travel, parenthood, and whatever else tickles our fancy. Wednesday, 24 April 2013. New land for old. Lauren, Amotai and I recently returned from Amotai's first trip overseas, and our big holiday for the year. It was a trip all about new stuff - we treaded new ground, heading to Sydney, the Blue Mountains and Adelaide, which we've not been to before (except for airport stopovers and a short trip to Sydney for work by Lauren. If I ruled New Zealan...
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Foot and Mouth - Tane and Lauren's blog: Would a Lily, by another name ...
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Foot and Mouth - Tane and Lauren's blog. A joint blog about travel, parenthood, and whatever else tickles our fancy. Saturday, 23 November 2013. Would a Lily, by another name . Names are strange and wonderful things. Name the Devil, and he will appear. Find out someone's True Name. And you will have power over them. Name a baby and you turn sound into an identity. Something that was an apostle, a flower, your friend from primary school's brother or a weather system. Too posh. What about Michael? Interest...
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Foot and Mouth - Tane and Lauren's blog: Non-motherhood things that have changed
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Foot and Mouth - Tane and Lauren's blog. A joint blog about travel, parenthood, and whatever else tickles our fancy. Thursday, 18 October 2012. Non-motherhood things that have changed. I never really listened to this before, but have grown to love it. There were days when Amotai was small and I was drowning in nappies that National Radio was the only time I engaged my brain for an entire day. 2 Getting to know the 'burbs. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The ones to blame. Travel ın the Brıtısh Isles.
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Foot and Mouth - Tane and Lauren's blog: 10 ways you know you're getting older
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Foot and Mouth - Tane and Lauren's blog. A joint blog about travel, parenthood, and whatever else tickles our fancy. Monday, 2 July 2012. 10 ways you know you're getting older. This is one of many things recently that has made me feel that I am getting older. Wiser, of course, and happy with my age, but still older. These are others:. 1 Feeling a little miffed when kids in uniform don't give up their seats on the bus. What an old fogey! 8 Thinking of the number of gadgets that have become obselete in my ...
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Foot and Mouth - Tane and Lauren's blog: A Memory of Light and The Wheel of Time series reviews
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Foot and Mouth - Tane and Lauren's blog. A joint blog about travel, parenthood, and whatever else tickles our fancy. Saturday, 22 June 2013. A Memory of Light and The Wheel of Time series reviews. It took more than two decades, 14 books and more than four million words. Hundreds of characters fighting and angsting and sniffing through dozens of intertwining and sometimes interminable plots. But finally, finally. The Wheel of Time. A few weeks ago. If you're planning to read A Memory of Light. S main prob...
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Foot and Mouth - Tane and Lauren's blog: Pregnancy take two
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Foot and Mouth - Tane and Lauren's blog. A joint blog about travel, parenthood, and whatever else tickles our fancy. Wednesday, 21 August 2013. There are differences, though, doing this pregnancy malarkey a second time. Of note:. 1 It really is more tiring with a toddler. This is what everyone says, and everyone is right. Amotai is a delight, but is also a ball of energy who loves running, dancing, singing, and "Mum read a book! Am I ruining Amotai's life? Will he feel betrayed? 3 Fewer smug thoughts.
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Foot and Mouth - Tane and Lauren's blog: Road trip ... with two kids
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Foot and Mouth - Tane and Lauren's blog. A joint blog about travel, parenthood, and whatever else tickles our fancy. Sunday, 5 January 2014. Road trip . with two kids. Variety occurs often, and shenanigans includes a naked swim in Lake Taupo (by a toddler). So, it's just like the movies, although the lake swimming scenes may be edited out so the rating doesn't creep to high. Sometimes the passenger seat is the best place for a rest. Know that hearing complaints about the trip is inevitable. "No! I am int...
