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Last week, my daughter was invited to a birthday party of a girl with whom she is friendly at daycare. Next day when I picked my lil one from the babysitter, she told me that her friend had got some read and write pad as a gift from one of her aunts.

I happened to meet her mother the other day and asked her about read and write pad that her daughter was talking about. She told me that it was Read & Write LeapPad from LeapFrog and she told me how helpful it is.

I searched online for Read & Write LeapPad and found it on sale on Amazon and company’s website.

Read & Write LeapPad is for preschoolers in the age group of 4 – 8 years. The LeapPad brings the magic of books to life. The uniquely designed learning system makes stories come alive right on the page through talking characters, engaging narration, music and playful sound effects.

Your child chooses from a collection of wonderful interactive storybooks featuring their favorite characters. Let your child touch the pages of the book with a magic pencil to hear letter sounds and words read aloud, characters coming to life and play thrilling learning activities.

Besides the Read & Write LeapPad, there are LeapPad Plus Writing Books, which helps your child practice writing letters, words, play games and even solve math problems.

By teaching - reading, writing, phonics skills and mathematics, Read & Write LeapPad offers a right touch to inspire a love of books that will last your child a lifetime.

If you are buying from Amazon buy this in collaboration with LeapFrog LeapPad® Educational Book: Kindergarten - Reading/Writing (5 - 6 year olds), which teaches your child how to write capital and lowercase letters, short and long vowels, consonant blends, digraphs, writing simple words, beginning sounds, middle sounds, rhyming and spellings. Amazon is offering the Read & Write LeapPad with the above-mentioned educational book.

I now have to get my husband to use his credit card to buy this for our girl.

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In this day and age there are so many impressive and advanced toys for young children that parents can spend a lot of time and a lot of money on baby toys. My husband and I were parents who bought the latest trends in baby and toddler toys on the market until one large ball changed everything.

Our daughter was smothered with many intricate learning toys from the time that she arrived through our front door. Educational toys, interactive books and complex robotic toys quickly added up in no time. Little did we know, our daughter would rather play with a large ball than the most costly and impressive toys available on the market today.

Everyone loves to see wonder in a baby’s face and we work really hard to get our children to gaze with awe at something new. What we often fail to notice is that the baby is going to be in awe of just about anything. After all, everything is new and interesting to them. A large ball can fill a baby’s eyes full of wonder as quickly as a robot can. This little known fact can save you a lot of money in the long run.

We discovered our daughter’s interest in the large ball mostly by accident. We were trying to get her to pay attention to a complex video designed especially for babies. The DVD came with an interactive stuffed animal that made comments in sync with the program. Creepy as this may seem, it worked but it failed to keep our daughter’s attention.

My husband and I spent more time trying to figure out how on earth the thing worked than she did watching the program. And in one fell swoop, the stuffed toy was quickly knocked over because it annoyed her. She wandered off and our efforts to keep her occupied by the expensive interactive film had failed.

We decided to clean out her nursery that day, sorting through all of the electronic devices along the way. A large ball was among the items we were about to toss into the basement. My husband let the large ball drop to the delight of our daughter who ran laughing after it.

They played with the large ball for a countless number of minutes and I was shocked to find her so intrigued by something so simple. Now my husband brings a large ball (or two) home with him at least once a week. Our daughter never gets tired of playing with them and they cost next to nothing.

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Before I was a mom, I was a teacher, so I always prided myself on the idea that someday, when I had kids, they would be good students. Of course I was a teacher in the days before Kindergarten homework, so I am starting to wonder if I really have to hold myself to my early teacher ideals.

I was pretty shocked when I sent my baby off to school and he came home with kindergarten homework. I am not talking about easy kindergarten homework either. I am talking about kindergarten homework that practically required a scientific calculator. My husband and I spent the whole first night of our sons first day of school trying to assemble a family tree for him to share the next morning. By the time it was finished being pasted and painted, we didnt have the energy to scrub down the table and vacuum up all the scraps of paper and glitter that littered our dining room floor.

If I thought that first bit of kindergarten homework was bad, I really shuddered the next week when his assignment was to learn about fractions by helping me with dinner. The teacher also specified that we were not to cheat and order pizza.

So we measured, we stirred, we spilled and I longed for the days when kindergarten homework only involved a few crayons or maybe a little paste. As we mixed up a pie crust and my son spilled flour all over the floor I wondered if his teacher understood who really did the work in kindergarten homework assignments.

I finally lost it the third week of school when the kindergarten homework assignment forced us to make a volcano that erupted all over my kitchen counter, floors and ceiling. I stood there in the kitchen as bits of red foam dripped from the ceiling fan onto my head. I wanted to meet the teacher that dared to assign kindergarten homework.

The next day I marched into her classroom and asked her if I could see her lesson plan for the day. Just as I suspected it was pretty tame. No glue pots necessary. Not even a pair of scissors. There were a few mentions of a phonics review, but I couldnt picture her classroom floor getting sticky reviewing phonics. She didnt even have the kindergarten standards like finger painting planned. That’s when the idea hit me. Oh, I know it was cruel, but for some reason I couldn’t help myself. I decided then and there that if Ms. Sheldon didn’t stop with her kindergarten homework from Hell, she was getting a class hamster for Christmas.

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