Mommy-made lesson plans!

Probably one of the most common (and in my opinion, grounded) fears of a working parent is leaving their baby with the 'yaya' (nanny) the whole day, while they spend most of the day's decent hours in the office. There's so much to worry about! What is baby is doing all day? Is he picking up all this nonsense from watching noontime shows? Watching cartoons all day? Listening to those terribly annoying radio stations? What is he/she learning from 'yaya'?

Of course, I went through the same. And so ever since my son Nico was an infant (or at least, old enough to understand simple phrases and words), I tried as often as I could to prepare a 'lesson plan' for yaya  to go through while my husband and I were at work. Nothing grand - just simple stuff everyday --  the alphabet on one day, counting to 20 on another, knowing the difference between big and small, identifying colors, shapes, animals and their homes, identifying body parts, practicing reciting his full name, the list goes on!  Am thankful for a hardworking yaya who ensures that Nico goes through the lesson and more.

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
eyes, nose, belly	neck, feet, hands	cheeks, ears	mouth, elbow	eyebrow, back
circle	triangle	square	oval	diamond
red	blue	green	yellow	orange
dog	cat	bird	mouse	horse

Now that we're done with the simple things like colors and shapes that all babies know, however, I find myself at a loss on what else to leave as part of the 'lesson plan'. And so you can imagine my excitement about my latest purchase from http://www.amazon.com/.

I saw this book for sale at Lakeshore Learning, but it was cheaper on Amazon (with a feature to preview some pages) -- hooray!  While designed for the classroom, I now have so many new ideas on what else we can teach Nico at home! I can't wait! Stay tuned for future posts about what I've actually done ! ;)

Makes me wonder about taking the dive into homeschooling (which is a post for another time)!