Luvable Friends gets a new home online!

Luvable Friends Launches New Website!

Thursday, August 23, 2007

BabyVision, Inc. is the owner of the Luvable Friends brand, and is pleased to announce the launch of the new www.luvablefriends.com to better serve the needs of customers and retailers who are interested in learning more about the brand. After 8 years Luvable Friends finally has its own homestead on the World Wide Web!

There are a variety of ways to find information that you may be seeking on the new Luvable Friends website, including a search bar at the top of every page that currently uses Google's search technology.

The fly-out menu is a way to organize a large number of pages into a variety of topics and categories that will be most relevant, while allowing the page to stay clean and easy to navigate. The fly-out menu was designed for compatability with Microsoft's Internet Explorer, and the drop-downs may not appear on browsers using Mozilla's Firefox or Apple's Safari browsers.

The major topics will still take you to a page that has all relevant links in a side-bar at the left, and the gray box under the search bar has been placed so to make it as easy as possible to find the most commonly needed links for site visitors.

Any problems or concerns can be directed to the webmaster using the contact link at the top of each page.

Current Cost of a child from birth to age 17: $290,000

http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/CollegeAndFamily/RaiseKids/RaisingYour290000Baby.aspx

MSN's Money section shows a surprising number of details about the average cost of raising a child, broken down by income level, number of children, as well as how much you'll spend on the various aspects of raising a child at different ages.

Household Income	Expect to Spend
Over $74,900	$289,380
$44,500 to $74,900	$197,700
Below $44,500	$143,790

The article also suggests some good ideas on how you can try to reduce some of those costs.

Newborn News Corner presents...

All About Baby Products!

All About Baby Products is a new site founded in a partnership between several online ventures, including the Newborn News Corner. The ultimate goal is to provide a central website that offers advice, ratings, and recommendations about baby products.

One of the most important things about the All About Baby Products site, one that we can't offer here on our blog, is that it offers an online Forum for parents and baby care givers to register and offer their own advice, opinions, reviews and more about whatever baby products they have liked, loved, or been disappointed by.

So we invite you to venture over to www.allaboutbabyproducts.com and sign up in the forums there. Start voicing your opinions, and let others know what items worked great, which ones you can maybe do without, or anything else in regards to baby products!

Once enough reviews and postings have been collected, the programmers will have something to work with to start creating a browse-able catalog with reviews, forum posts, and more all attached!

Baby Einstein & Brainy Baby videos weaken infant vocabulary

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1650352,00.html

Excerpt from the article:
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Led by Frederick Zimmerman and Dr. Dimitri Christakis, both at the University of Washington, the research team found that with every hour per day spent watching baby DVDs and videos, infants learned six to eight fewer new vocabulary words than babies who never watched the videos. These products had the strongest detrimental effect on babies 8 to 16 months old, the age at which language skills are starting to form. "The more videos they watched, the fewer words they knew," says Christakis. "These babies scored about 10% lower on language skills than infants who had not watched these videos."
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The summary of it all is that babies need face to face, personal interaction in order to learn the best, and the authors recommend the old mainstay of reading to your baby.

The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends no television viewing for children under 2 years old, not even educational tv.

Whatever you choose to do, whether it be playing peek-a-boo or reading aloud a charles dickens novel, the underlying fact is that the best thing you can do during the first months and years of your baby's life is to just spend time together.