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OH BABY, BABY - Jump in The Cooking Couple's Baby Pool

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OH BABY, BABY

Jump in The Cooking Couple's Baby Pool
And Win a Romantic Weekend Getaway AT THE COLONNADE

DATELINE: BOSTON AND NEWTON, MA, ISSUED MARCH 9, 2001.
Weekend fun delayed because taxes must be paid? Take a chance on The Cooking Couple's Baby Pool to win dinner and a romantic weekend getaway for two!

GET IN ON THE ACTION
The Cooking Couple?, Ellen and Michael Albertson, hosts of the best tasting radio on the dial where hot talk is served for breakfast, lunch and dinner are giving away dinner for two, brunch and a romantic weekend to the "Baby Pool" winner who guesses the closest of birth of their second child. Time of birth to be determined by birth certificate.

DINNER'S ON US - DESSERT'S UP TO YOU!
For the most accurate guess, The Cooking Couple? will be giving away a romantic weekend at the luxurious Colonnade Hotel, located at 120 Huntington Avenue in Boston. Included in the package is a sumptuous dinner for two and brunch at Brasserie Jo, Boston's only true French brasserie.
Brasserie Jo is conveniently located inside the Colonnade Hotel and valet, garage and off-street parking is available.

Joyfully anticipating their second child's arrival on the estimated due date of April 5th, (but Ellen swears this one is coming early!) The Cooking Couple encourages contestants to submit their guess for the Baby Pool through the website at www.cookingcouple.com or by fax at (781) 646-5194 or by calling the show during broadcast at 888-205-2263. Contestants must include their name, address, and telephone number. The winner will be announced following the birth on The Cooking Couple? Show which airs Saturdays from 2 to 4 p.m. on WBNW AM 1120 AND WPLM AM 1390.

PLAYFULLY ENLIGHTENING

The Cooking Couple? and their special guests share strategies for improving life as well as advice for enhancing love, optimizing health and increasing happiness. Known for their frisky banter, The Cooking Couple? spice up their acclaimed "Hot-Talk" show with spontaneity, warmth and wit. The unique show features interviews with food celebrities, taste and trend reports, restaurant profiles and personal recommendations from The Cooking Couple, cutting edge health and nutrition news, wine wisdom, delicious recipes and product reviews, as well as relationship and parenting advice.

COPIOUS FEATS
The Cooking Couple? are the authors of best-selling cookbook and romance guide Food as Foreplay: Recipes for Romance, Love and Lust. They have been the featured guests on the Phantom Gourmet's "Prime Cuts" on New England Cable News and their column "Food, Family and Fun" regularly appears in the Metro-West Daily and the weekly community newspaper
chain. The Cooking Couple have appeared in The Boston Globe, Boston magazine, Glamour, Playboy, The Boston Herald, The New York Daily News and USA Today.


Ellen Albertson, M.S., R.D. is a Registered Dietitian and well regarded health and nutrition journalist who regularly contributes to Better Homes and Gardens, Good Housekeeping, Self and Taste for Life. Michael Albertson, a former chef and stand up comedian, has penned articles for
Playboy, the New York Daily News, the Boston Herald, and Booming. She makes it healthy, he makes it taste good and together they make it fun.

The proud parents of four-year-old upcoming chef, Alexandria, plus one in the oven (for a couple more weeks), this dynamic husband and wife duo dish on everything from food, love, and life to child rearing and raising hell. (After the baby is put to bed of course.) They have appeared on EXTRA, Maury, the Food Network, WCVB Channel 5 News and NBC News.

INDULGENT VIEWS
The Cooking Couple's deliciously informative and indulgent views are captured online at www.cookingcouple.com.



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Welcome to the Jungle Baby! Take a trip to the newest destination in the Baby Road Trip Video Series: Baby Road Trip JUNGLE

By Anonymous

NEW YORK, NY, January 26 2004--To kick off the new year, Baby Road Trip has released Baby Road Trip JUNGLE, the newest video in the award winning Baby Road Trip Video Series.

Baby Road Trip JUNGLE engages children through sight and sound on an amazing adventure through the jungle. While on the journey, children will discover animals, children at play and captivating real world images. Little ones will be excited to see a friendly puppet friend, Road Trip Ryan as he pops in and out along the way. The originally composed music throughout the video includes Safari symphonies, Jungle foot tapping rhythms and melodic sounds of the wild. Baby Road Trip JUNGLE focuses on word associations as well as a particular learning principle – the wonder of color!

Created by Laura Kronen, founder of the Baby Road Trip Company, Baby Road Trip JUNGLE makes a visit to the Jungle, the journey of a lifetime! “We concentrated on the simple things – the things that make children laugh - and combined those elements with proven educational principles to produce a superior learning tool for today’s child.” Kronen states. “The response that we have been getting has been really phenomenal. We have received positively glowing reviews from psychologists, elementary educators and parents alike. Read the testimonials on the website - they speak volumes!"

"Baby Road Trip was created for parents just as much as it was created for their children," says Kronen. "At Baby Road Trip, we do not believe in using videos as the "ultimate babysitter" for children, instead we encourage parents to watch them with their child. We understand the fine balance between what children love and what parents can tolerate."

A portion of the profits from Baby Road Trip goes to benefit the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, in an effort to find a cure in our lifetime.

Baby Road Trip JUNGLE is available on VHS ($14.99 S.R.P) and DVD ($18.99 S.R.P.) and will first be sold through the www.babyroadtrip.com website and www.amazon.com. The Baby Road Trip website also features editorial content focusing on traveling with small children. Baby Road Trip BEACH is also currently available and was released in November 2003.

At Baby Road Trip, we strive to provide adventure, amusement and delight while taking children on musically themed journeys to far away, and sometimes, not so far away places. The Baby Road Trip Video Series was thoughtfully created to nurture cognitive, sensory and emotional developments throughout a child’s first four years.

© 2004 Baby is a Star, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Baby Road Trip logo is a pending trademarks of Baby is a Star, Inc. All Rights Reserved.                   




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Signing With Your Baby: Signing and Babysitters

By Monica Beyer

Imagine this: You come to pick up your baby from her day-care after a long day at work or after a quick run to the store. Expecting to find a delighted baby, you're greeted by your child's frustrated caregiver and your fussy infant. "What does this mean?" the babysitter asks, rotating her fists. You unhappily realize that your baby has been trying to ask for a changed diaper for the last hour and her caregiver didn't understand the sign she was using.

Some parents who sign with their babies are stay-at-home-mothers, while some moms work outside the home. Working presents a unique situation because your baby likely goes to a babysitter for a certain amount of time during the day and he or she may not be aware that you sign with your baby. Even SAHM's can understand the problems that may arise when they leave their babies in the care of a grandmother or favorite aunt for a night out or a baby-free grocery-shopping event.

My husband cares for the children during the day while I'm at school, and he works at night while I'm home. So, I am not intimately familiar with the concerns of those who use outside help on a full-time basis. I do, however, understand how it can be a big concern for those trying to establish signing with the baby and are unsure of how daycare will affect their efforts.

Michelle, located in the UK, put her daughter Rio into full-time day-care at the age of 8 months. "I had mentioned from day one that I was teaching her to sign," she said. "The nursery were very interested in what I was doing and Rio's two main carers borrowed the book and video to watch before she started there full time so that they had an insight into what she was doing." Her experience was a positive one because she had caregivers who were open-minded and positive about baby signing. "On the whole I found that there was a growing interest and very positive approach to baby signing," she said.

Gill, also from the UK, is getting ready to put her 2-year-old daughter Meadow in a day-care setting two days a week. As Meadow is an established signer and no longer a young baby, her concerns are less about the care providers using signs with Meadow and more about Meadow communicating with other children. "We've decided that we won't show the nursery anything more than HELP and a couple of other important signs," she said. "She's 2 years old now and will be in a group of 2- and 3-year-olds who she will interact with, but they won't be using signs."

Hints for consistency between home and day-care:

Let your sitter know from the very beginning that you are signing with your baby.

Demonstrate the signs your baby is likely to use.

Bring along a sign language book or something similar that you can leave with the sitter each day for reference (the SWYB quick reference guide is great for this).

Let your sitter know which signs you're working on and tell her how to use them so your baby can learn new signs at the sitter's too.

Keep the lines of communication open between you and your child's care giver, and invite questions at every opportunity.

With these ideas in mind, baby sitters and care givers will be an added benefit in your child's sign language communication.

Monica Beyer is the mother of two sons and has been signing with her younger son for over 1 year. Visit her website at http://www.signingbaby.com or email her at monica@signingbaby.com




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