Top 7 skills that your child needs to develop for success in the 21st century

It is said that every generation of humanity faces more significant challenges than the last. Therefore, each new generation needs to be better prepared and equipped with smarter skills to meet the challenges of their time. Your children will have to navigate the complicated world of the internet and information technology as they grow up. In the 21st Century, children need more than the three R’s (reading, writing, and arithmetic skills) to survive and succeed.

The next generation parents must focus on developing these seven smart skills for their children:

Creative Thinking

Children are far more creative than grown-ups. Pushing them to focus too much on structured education can make their creative thinking fade away. Instead, as parents, we must encourage children to use their imagination and creativity. Regularly exercising creativity in arts or sciences from a young age develops creative thinking and imagination.

Critical Thinking

Critical thinking is an essential life-skill. Encourage your child to be curious and try your best to answer their questions. Playing problem-solving games together and discussing topics that compel children to think, helps develop their critical thinking abilities. Critical thinking is the capability to analyze and evaluate information.

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Public Speaking

Expressing your thoughts to an audience without fear is an essential life-skill for everyone. Public speaking for kids develops better speech, leadership skills, and confidence. Encourage your children to participate in activities like debates and storytelling competitions to help them overcome their fear of public speaking.

Communication Skills

Communication skills refer to the ability to communicate in-person and through technology. Meeting new people and learning to express themselves with clarity is essential for children in the 21stCentury. Instead of just spending time online for entertainment, allow your children to explore the internet for constructive interaction.

Social Skills

Social media and online networking have changed the nature of human interaction forever. But learning the skill of socializing well and forging relationships will always be relevant. Personality traits such as politeness, good manners and good conversation still play an important role in life.

Collaboration

Collaboration includes working together with others in a team, maintaining good relationships and co-operating with others. Encourage your child to do their share of household chores to help them understand the importance of joint effort, engage them in  a team sport, and talk to them about the importance of cooperation.

Problem Solving Skills

The proficiency of comparing, contrasting, evaluating and applying their resultant learnings without the need of a teacher shows problem-solving skills in a child. This skill can be learnt over time. Discuss news and politics with children when you can to encourage them to find, analyze and evaluate details of important issues to develop better problem-solving skills.

Growing up in the age of digital technology is an excellent advantage for the children of our time. But this also subjects them to greater competition and higher standards for success. Developing some smart skills at the right age can go a long way to help your children to succeed in the 21st Century.

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Author Bio:

Samidha Raj works as part of the content marketing team at Planet Spark, a platform that provides online classes to K8 learners on "New Age Skills" like, English Communication, Public Speaking, Grammar, Creative Writing, Debating, etc. She is passionate about empowering the youth by educating parents about the importance of 21st-century skills. In her free time, you can find her watching documentaries or animated movies and organizing game nights (board games are her thing)!

BabyLux new comers: SUYON nail polish 100% safe for kids

For most parents, painting a toddler's fingernails and toenails seems like harmless fun; some salons even offer manicures and pedicures for children. And the idea often delights young children who love bright colors or who want new ways to express themselves. Today we want to introduce our new comer: SUYON nail polish that is 100% safe for kids.

Content:

| About SUYON nail polish

| SUYON nail polish collection

| Why BabyLux choose SUYON nail polish?

About SUYON nail polish

SUYON nail polish using the safest and finest water as nail polishes base make it 100% safe for all young kids to use and even expecting mothers. SUYON is designed in Canada, made in France. SUYON provides non-toxic, odor-free, and water-based products that meets the strictest worldwide safety regulations: FDA, Europe, Japan Safety requirements. Yet, SUYON never compromise on quality.

All of SUYON products are tested and evaluated by a reliable and recognized testing institution to make sure that every product SUYON offer is safe to our children and everyone. SUYON insist on only safe ingredients that are all FDA approved for cosmetics: No formaldehyde, toluene, phthalates, A, Bisphenol A, ethyl acetate and acetone… Free of all harsh and smelly chemicals

Happiness in a bottle is SUYON’s goal. SUYON characters are made for happiness our children: Through their lovely characters, we hope that kids can learn positive and beautiful traits in our lives.

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Meet SUYON family member

SUYON family member: Happy Arong (left) and Funny Koko (right).

SUYON family member: Stylish Tina (left) and Awesome Owlia (right).

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SUYON nail polish collection

They also have a gift set edition which contain 3 nail polishes, 2 pencils, 1 nail art sticker.

Why BabyLux choose SUYON nail polish?

1. We only choose the safest product for your little one, SUYON is 100% safe and free of toxic chemicals.

2. It complies the strictest worldwide safety regulations: FDA, Europe and Japan safety requirements.

3. It peels off, no need for nail polish remover.

4. It’s odor free.

5. It’s an innovative and creative product that can be used as a pencil topper or toy with a play dough.

6. It encourages creativity in a fun and safe way.

Beautiful pictures from little users

Welcoming you to be part of BabyLux family, planning to start own business by being baby products distributors but not sure where to start, drop us a message!

“Beauty has no age.”

— BabyLux

The importance to let your baby self-feeding, it's worth the mess

As a new parents, you might being really protective of you kids. You are afraid of choking issue, so you may always feed your children. Of course I know every parents might have different perception about self-feeding for children, let we discuss the importance of allowing children to be in charge of their own feeding and learn how to listen to their bodies, it is also called BLW (baby-led weaning).

This article will let you know why you should stop feeding them and let your little one self-feeding, and yes, letting them self-feeding definitely worth the mess.

Why baby self-feeding is worth the mess?

Learning to eat alone (self-feeding) must be trained early so that the child is active in various things later. When a child is able to grasp something it's good to let them eat by themselves so that his fingers are stimulated.

Children who learn to grab food and put it in their mouths are expected to be more skilled in using their hands for other positive activities such as coloring or drawing.

The more they learns to hold, after a long time their fine motor muscles or small muscles become stronger. When they gets bigger, we stimulate him to self-feeding using a utensils according to his size, and then he gets more skilled, which means he gets stronger again.

What is a good age to start self-feeding and why?

Once you introduce solid food, your child might show signs of wanting to feed himself. Just wait until your child is able to pick up food and get it into their mouths successfully, whether using their hands or utensils, then it is the right time to begin the transition to self-feeding. It is an important stage of children to self-feeding. Self-feeding involves lots of feeling, squeezing and dropping food. It might seem messy, but it’s one of the ways your child develops fine motor skills like learning to hold a spoon.

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Start baby self-feeding with..

Finger foods

In BLW method there is mentioned about letting your children observe food by their own. Soft, bite-sized pieces of food that are easy for baby to pick up and mash between his gums or teeth. Like a small piece of soft fruit or soft and cooked vegetables like potato or pumpkin. You can add more if they’re finish their meal or if they’re drop it.

Start introduce solid food to them while they are 6 months old, the important thing is finger foods are not their main nutrition resource, by that time we encourage you to keep breastfeeding your baby, but, let them observe foods. You will find out that when they have interested in foods, then it would be easier to let them self-feeding.

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Using utensils

Technically there is no right or wrong about giving children use utensils to self-feeding, as long as utensils was made for children, like Grabease. The self-feeding journey with hands is very important as it helps a baby to experience texture and it is all important for the gag reflex. Utensils then bring to the table the next developmental step in learning about mealtime etiquette and motor development.

Why Grabease is the best fork and spoon to start with?

Let’s talk about traditional children’s cutlery. They look very much like adult cutlery, just scaled down to a small size. However, if you put a traditional child’s spoon next to a baby’s arm, you will see that a “child size” spoon is actually the same length as a 12-month old’s forearm! If adults used the same proportions in utensils when we ate we’d be eating with a serving spoon.  So, traditional children’s utensils are too big.

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Then there is improper hand-hold in “child size” spoon. Due to the long handle, a child can’t use a proper vertical hand grasp to use them, so they hold these handles with a fist. This doesn’t encourage fine motor development.

There really is only one solution and that’s Grabease. They encourage vertical and horizontal hold because of the short ergonomic handle and have been endorsed by Occupational Therapists due to this revolutionary feature.

-The Real Nutritionist-

If you're interested in learning more about the transition to utensils for self-feeding baby, check out this.

Last but not least, messy eating and playing with food are normal parts of your baby’s development when they’re learning to eat independently. It’s normal for your baby to drop or throw food on the floor. If you react when they do this, he might think it’s the start of an exciting new game. One way to handle this is ignore it. Pick up the food calmly, without a fuss. Or you can leave the food on the floor until they finish their meal so you just have the one clean-up.

“Needless to say, teaching children self-feeding is often a long and messy journey. Just let the food fly!!”

— The Real Nutritionist

Dena, a special open-ended toy that every parents are looking for

Dena means "everything" in the Basque language (*Basque is a member of a people living in the Basque Country of France and Spain) spoken. Dena toys are a high-quality, versatile toy that could be used in open-ended play to promote creativity and imagination. With Dena toys, everything is possible!

The options are endless in the ways Dena toys can be used as a teether, for stacking, as a sensory toy for children with special needs, at the beach and even as a baking mold. What can you play with Dena toys? You'll never think about it!

Parents can have peace of mind that that their child, no matter the age, is playing safely and children love the freedom to play without rules of how it should be used!

We know your customers will be thrilled to find a high-quality, creative toy like Dena toys!

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What makes Dena so special?

Dena toys are an unstructured toy that contributes to the early stimulation of babies and the development of their imagination and creativity. You know what, Dena is a STEAM toy.

Dena is a safe, fun and creative toy!!

We all know kids like to play and we like to let them play wild and free. We like simple toys that stimulate their imagination, creativity, and can help them develop future skills. We really like wooden toys, but one day we realized that wood doesn’t adapt well to the needs of younger children, who instinctively bite, hit or throw their toys...

Dena, teether and playmate, all in one.

Thanks to its soft material and its design, with Dena toys your baby will begin to stimulate her creativity from the first day. They will spend the day experimenting, playing and chewing safely. Dena toys are very useful for psychomotor development.

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Is Dena ideal for all stages of kids?

The answer is YES! Why? Let’s take a look below.

More about Dena

Dena made of platinum-based silicone, can resist temperatures between -60ºC and 220ºC. Suitable for microwave, oven, dishwasher, fridge and freezer. This toy is BPA free, PVC free, Latex free and Phthalate free.

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Did you know you can help your child succeed in the future by developing skills with playing toys at home? Far from taking time away from your child’s current curriculum, there are skills that can all be worked into other lessons — both in school and at home. Experts say all kids will need these skills to succeed, no matter what field they go into.

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If you have interest in being Dena reseller, no matter where you are, in HongKong, Vietnam, Indonesia, Korea, Japan or any other countries in Asia, send us an email and I will reply you shortly.

Hope that BabyLux can be parents’ best assistant.

BabyLux is looking for Dena Toys distributor, especially for those who located in China and Vietnam, send us message and show us your enthusiasm!!