| Baby Minds: Brain-Building Games Your Baby Will Love, Birth to Age Three Contributor(s): Acredolo, Linda (Author), Goodwyn, Susan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0553380303 ISBN-13: 9780553380309 Publisher: Random House Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $18.05 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2000 Annotation: MORE THAN 65 DELIGHTFUL GAMES AND ACTIVITIES TO JUMP-START YOUR BABY'S AMAZING BRAINPOWER Can simply singing a song or blowing a dandelion under a toddler's nose help her mind to blossom? Can your baby count, remember events, and solve problems even before he can talk? The exciting answer to both questions is yes! Breakthrough research is revealing the extraordinary inborn abilities of infants. It is also showing how experiences during the first years of life profoundly influence intelligence, creativity, language development -- and even later reading and math skills. Now two psychologists and child development experts -- authors of the bestselling Baby Signs -- have created a delightful guide for parents based on the most up-to-date knowledge of how babies discover the world. You'll learn how to: Baby Minds is not another program for creating "super babies". Instead it builds on activities that babies instinctively love to develop their unique abilities and make your daily interactions full of the joy of discovery -- for both of you. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Family & Relationships | Life Stages - Infants & Toddlers - General - Psychology | Developmental - Child - Education | Decision Making & Problem Solving |
| Dewey: 649.122 |
| LCCN: 99462164 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.9" W x 8.9" (0.85 lbs) 240 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: More than 65 delightful games and activities to jump-start your baby's amazing brainpower Can simply singing a song or blowing a dandelion under a toddler's nose help her mind to blossom? Can your baby count, remember events, and solve problems even before he can talk? The exciting answer to both questions is yes Breakthrough research is revealing the extraordinary inborn abilities of infants. It is also showing how experiences during the first years of life profoundly influence intelligence, creativity, language development-and even later reading and math skills. Now two psychologists and child development experts-authors of the bestselling Baby Signs-have created a delightful guide for parents based on the most up-to-date knowledge of how babies discover the world. You'll learn how to: _ Create a homemade mobile to stimulate your three-month-old's delight in solving problems _ Play a patty-cake game to help your two-year-old make logical connections _ Initiate bedtime conversations that build your child's memory and sense of personal history _ Develop "Baby Signs" to help your toddler communicate before he or she can talk _ Stimulate your child's natural number skills with puppets and counting games _ Use nursery rhymes and special read-aloud techniques to foster reading readiness _ Nurture budding creativity with humor and fantasy play _ And much more Baby Minds is not another program for creating "super babies." Instead it builds on activities that babies instinctively love to develop their unique abilities and make your daily interactions full of the joy of discovery-for both of you. |