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Beyonce Knowles, the famous American R&B singer, songwriter, record producer, actress and model was born on September 4, 1981 in Houston, Texas.

Family:  Beyonce's father Mathew Knowles and mother Tina Knowles always supported her and helped her in achieving a name in the world of music. Beyonce has a younger sister called Solange Knowles; she is also an actress and singer.

Education: By age seven, she was attending dance school.  As a teenager, Knowles attended the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Houston, where she showed her musical talents. She later went to Alief Hastings High School, in Houston.

Career:

• Knowles started her singing career in her church choir.

• Along with her cousin Kelly Rowland and friends LaTavia Robertson and Letoya Luckett, Beyonce formed a group called "Girl's Tyme".  Beyonce's father managed the group.
• The group became "Destiny's Child" and was an almost instant hit with the public. 

• Knowles was recognized as a songwriter during the run of Destiny's Child in the 1990s and early to mid-2000s.

• Destiny's Child released 7 albums over a period of almost ten years. With the great success that the group brought them, Beyonce Knowles decided to pursue a solo career and the band finished in 2005.

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Raising a child is the most gratifying as well toughest job. It's the duty of responsible parents to create the awareness of all social issues among children. There are lots of complex matters all around that are difficult for children to understand and for adults to explain. Educating children about sex, HIV/AIDS is very important so that they don't get any erroneous information from wrong sources. Also look through our other AIDS article.

Here are some tips on how to start the discussion:

• Discuss peer pressure, and encourage your child to use his or her own judgment when making critical decisions. Even if you don't agree with your child don't pass any judgment
• Provide them with educational material or web sites where they can learn in private. Then discuss their experiences later.

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As responsible parents it's our duty to make our child responsible and discipline. A sense of cleanliness should be developed among children from the very childhood and one of the first steps could be motivating them to keep their room clean. Normally your child will never find interest in cleaning their room so you need to follow some simple rules to encourage them.

Teaching your child to keep a clean room:

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Toddler develop great social skills through the interaction they have with people around them. Different activities help to develop mental, physical, social and emotional skills to stimulate your children's imagination and creativity. As a parent you should involve your child in such activities through which your toddler can understand and learn the world around him.

Some of the activities that can enhance your toddler's social skills are mentioned here:

• Importance of Money: Give your child different coins and ask them to count them. Teach your child how to use the money and about money which will enable them to understand the value of it.
• Indulge them in cooking: Accompany your child in mixing, baking, measuring the ingredients. These are the tasks your kid will enjoy doing and it goes not matter if they make a mess
• Cleaning work through game: This will give them the sense of responsibility and will be hygienic from the very beginning of their life and they will do it as part of the "norm".
• Encouraging Play with Others: Always involve and encourage your child to play in a group. This will inculcate the team skills in your child. They will watch and often copy what they see others do, even though they're not yet able to play with them. I am sure untill now your toddler thinks everything is MINE, but they need to learn the skill of sharing. As they grow and become more experienced at play, they'll learn to play with other children. This is called "cooperative" play, and usually happens after the age of 3. In cooperative play, children learn to work and solve problems together, and develop their social skills.

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Tom and Katie's sweetheart Suri Cruise is just 2 years old but she has a great fan following. The little angel shares the limelight along with her celebrity parents. "She's even more popular than her super famous parents," a source tells Star. "She has such a huge following that I'm surprised there isn't a Web site dedicated to her yet."

Mostly people are interested to know about the dress and sparkly Mary Jane shoes of Suri. It's not only letters, even her dresses are becoming trends among kids. She's "a major swag target," adds the source. "If Suri wears it out in public, it becomes a big seller, so designers are smart to flood her with their wares. She's the world's No. 1 fashion plate under 3!" Wow! Now this is known as the advantage of becoming daughter of renowned celebrities. But don't you think in the midst of lime light the small girl will somewhere losing her childhood innocence.

Look at her pictures. She looks adorably cute and her eyes are so magnetic.

(Source: starmagazine.com)

Flying with your toddler can be a wonderful experience or a miserable adventure, the choice is yours. A little bit of intelligent planning before your travel can gift your child a happy ride and everyone else as well.

1. Choose a non peak travel schedule if possible, as your child will be stress free in less crowd and so will you.
2. Try to take flight according to child's eating and sleeping schedule. It's a good idea to keep their schedule as normal as possible when flying.
3. If your child is used to of some comfort item like special blanket or any toy. Try to carry them along with you.
4. Pack your bag with lots of snacks and drinks for your baby. You never know flight can get delayed too.
5. Carry lots of activities that you baby love to play with. May be a video game or a music player. Children get bored very soon while sitting so you must have some interesting things to entertain them.
6. Before travelling do speak to your child. Try and explain them about the airport rules. Teach them how to behave during the security check and baggage screening. I know they are too small to understand all these technicalities but children learn very fast.

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Cute Suri Cruise, 2 years old, daughter of  Katie Homes and Tom Cruise does not get any interaction with other toddlers it has been said. Almost every day there are different shots of Suri with her mother.

Aren't Katie and Tom are not worried how lonely her daughter is! The little baby is locked in her $30.5 million Beverly Hills mansion surrounded by nannies and maids or at a Manhattan playground. Star Magazine reports on the rare occasions when she is around children her own age, Suri doesn't know how to act. "She does not interact well with them at all," reveals a source. "She doesn't like to share because she doesn't know how to - she never has anyone to share with!" Oh, how sad. But look at the photos she is a little cutie! By the way look at the security at the back holding the toys!!

(Source: starmagazine.com)

Foster care is a system by which a certified, stand-in parents, a social group or a government body provides safe, loving and nurturing homes for children and youth who are unable to be in their birth families because of a family crisis, physical, sexual or emotional abuse or neglect, substance abuse or parent/adolescent conflict.

Children come into care under the authority of The Child and Family Services Act either through a voluntary agreement between Social Services and the parents, or by an order of the court. The foster family's aim is to provide a stable, nurturing and supportive home environment that will encourage the growth and development of a child.

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As a new parent you may ask yourself how much sleep my child really need. Sleep deficiency can start with children? as young as a toddler. Lack of sleep or trouble sleeping can make it difficult for young children to concentrate and can cause them to have problems working and playing with peers. Children need a lot of sleep for proper development. How much sleep is enough? It all depends on your child's age. Most kids' sleep requirements fall within a predictable range of hours based on their age, but each child is a unique individual with distinct sleep needs. Here are some approximate numbers based on age, accompanied by age-appropriate pro-sleep tactics.

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Jaundice is a yellow color that can be seen in the skin, mucous membranes, or eyes. When red blood cells break down, bilirubin is released into the bloodstream. Jaundice is caused by a build-up of bilirubin in the blood. The liver changes bilirubin so that it can leave the body. Jaundice is very common in newborn babies. It is usually easy to spot because the baby's skin and whites of the eyes turn a yellow color. Babies become jaundiced when they have too much bilirubin in their blood. Jaundice usually is not a problem. But in rare cases, too much bilirubin in the blood can cause brain damage. This can lead to hearing loss, mental retardation, and behavior problems.

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