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Sending a letter is sooo last century!!! There are a vast range of ways to communicate with people now a days and sending a letter is very out of date, it takes a long time to send a letter, you have to be bothered to go and find a post box.

In comparison to this, sending an email is instantaneous, you write it, you press send, it is free and off it goes. Letters can get lost in the post, there is the risk of letters being stolen by dodgy postmen and finally there is the risk of postmen going on strike and your post being delayed.

There are many advantages of sending a letter. Sending letters are much more personal. When you receive a letter it makes you feel privilege that someone has taken the time to write a letter, buy an envelope, buy a stamp and find a post box to post the letter into.

Why not send a letter, rather than sending an email? It is a direct and a more personal way of staying in touch with someone, it makes the person who receives the letter feel more appreciated and you will build up a strong relationship and reinforce your friendship.

The main advantage of sending emails is that they are FREE!!! Sending an email is completely free, all you have to do is set up an email account, such as Hotmail, Yahoo! Or Googlemail and they you can send as many emails as you like, you can include images, send photos, include invites and PDFs. Emails can be sent and received instantly and can be as long or as short as you like.

You also don’t have to worry about interrupting someone when you send email and you can deal with your own email at a time that is convenient to you.

There are many advantages of communicating by text message. Text messages are often extremely cheap and you can keep your messages brief. Millions of people sent millions of text messages every day and there is now a text message language, which includes abbreviating all the words to keep the characters low so that the text message is short. For example, lol, omg, lmao, gr8. 2moz. The list of shortened words is endless.

How many shortened words do you know? Do you think the text message language is ruining the English language?

Back in the olden days verbal communication was the only form of communication people could use and they had to travel across fields and miles on horse to get the message to someone who lived far away. However, in today’s modern times there are a vast number of ways to communicate with people. Methods of communication include, by letter, by email, by telephone, by mobile phone, by text message or by fax.

Ultimately, verbal and face to face communication is always best and this allows you to build lasting relationships, which can in turn create friendships which can make your life much happier.

If you have brothers or sisters then you can easily relate to how pulling a face at your sibling can make you feel much better – especially if they have just got you in trouble and you pull a face at them behind your parents back.

You can use your facial expression to express emotion, it may be anger or happiness. In the work place it is important to keep your cool and if you are not impressed with one of your colleagues it is more professional to keep your facial expressions to a minimum. For example pulling a funny face behind your boss’s back would not be very professional and could lead to you being disciplined.

A study found that 93% of communication is effective only if you pick up on nonverbal cues. If you are great at reading non verbal cues then you will be able to read people like an open book!

94% of communication is nonverbal and the remaining 6% is verbal – actually engaging in conversations with people. Non-verbal communication is very important when you are playing poker.

There are two methods of non verbal communications when playing poker, the first is a ‘gesture’ which is intentional and reinforces communication. The second type of non verbal communication is a ‘tell’ this is unintentional and reveals emotions that a good poker player would prefer to hide from his fellow poker players. I am not a big fan of poker because I am not entirely sure of the rules but I am going to learn them and use my non verbal communication skills to get inside information about the poker players I am competing against. And then BEAT them!

Baby sign language is a great way to communicate with your baby when they are still too young to tell you their feelings verbally. My sister’s aim with my nephew is to be able to know exactly what he wants. In time my nephew will instantly be able to make a hand sign to indicate that he is thirsty, and what his preference is, for example, if he would like juice rather than milk or water.

Learning how to understand baby sign language allows parents or carers to immediately understand what your baby is trying to tell you – making life much easier and hassle free for you!

Baby babble is used by babies to imitate our conversations, they imitate sounds and learn their language. My nephew is 6 months old and rather than just crying all the time, when he is in a good mood he now gurgles out loud.

I have read up on this and when you meet a gurgle or coo with a response, my nephew gets excited and he continues to babble back and forth with me as he realises that he is communicating with me. I believe baby babble is a great way to ensure your baby’s development and progression into childhood.

My sister has recently had a baby (it was a big family issue because she was a holiday rep abroad so none of my family have ever met the father) Anyway she came home and had my nephew and he is really cute (however I am biased). As she is on maternity leave she has all day to fill with activities to carry out with the baby.

One activity she has chosen to sign up for is baby babble. Baby babble can be used to communicate with babies, they can make cooing or gurgling noises and practice using their vocal chords. If parents speak slowly to their babies and repeat words infants will become encouraged and will come to understand what you are saying.