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I have a B.A. in English and an M.Ed. in English Education. I have experience teaching students from the sixth grade to college age. Currently, I am teaching high school English and raising two boisterous boys.

My passion is ...

being a mother and writing

I know too much about ...

the challenges of parenthood.

My childhood ambition ...

to be a teacher

Why I write ...

to tell the stories that I need my children to hear.

My inspiration ...

my boys and the swirling vortex of chaos that they create.

Parenting & Pregnancy > Toddlers Increasing your toddler's vocabulary in everyday life

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As with any other stage of development, children will learn to talk in their own time and at their own pace. As anxious as we are to hear their first utterances, there isn't much we can do to rush them along. However, as they begin to talk and express themselves in words as opposed to grunts, there are some ways that we can enlarge the number of words that they are adding to their ever-growing vocabularies. The real key to growing your child's vocabulary is exposure. Toddlers absorb information constantly from the world around them and words are no exception. The more times they hear any s...

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