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| 80% Recommended by our customers. Publisher: Bantam Catalog: Book Release date: 2000-07-05 Media: Paperback Number of pages: 240 Ean: 9780553380309 Book Isbn: 0553380303  Tip: compare prices with similar booksAuthors:
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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. |
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Written on August 5, 2006 Summary: Fascinating but not a quick game guide As a teacher, child psychology graduate and mother I have to say that this book was very useful. Even having studied most of the material in this book in university, it was a excellent reminder of the many ways to stimulate a child's mind. Yes there are not many gmaes - and the ones included are simple and sometimes obvious. However the connection the book makes between the games, that most parents play with their babies anyway, and how those games stimulate the mind is fascinating and is what this book is really trying to do. Once you understand the function of a particular game you can adapt and modify and make new games that stimulate the same parts of the brain. If you are looking for a strictly games book with less psychology and more actual games and songs, definitely buy Baby Play by Gymboree. It has games organized by age and then color coded on each page to highlight the game, song, skill, related research etc and you can easily find just what you want without reading all the extra stuff. Plus, there are fantastic pictures! But I digress. Baby Minds is a book with a lot of information. It is designed, I believe, for the parent or teacher who wants to understand what their child is learning when they play. Can you successfully raise your child without reading this book? Absolutely! Will this book make you more aware of the types of activities you do with your child and what your child is gaining? Absolutely!  Written on June 21, 2006 Summary: Excellent book. As a first time mother with zero child development knowledge, other than my own personal experience, I found this book very informative and useful. It is easy to read and gives you a good foundation for your child's development. I found it helpful the way it is broken down into age appropriate chapters so as my daughter prosgresses, so does the book. I would recommend this book over "What's going on in there?..." by Lise Eliot. The information is duplicated and this one is easier to read. I also have some of those "125 games to play with baby...etc", but if you want to learn about your child, this is the book to have. Written on March 7, 2006 Summary: Changes the way you think about learning I wanted to address one theme I've seen in other reviews. Some reviewers have been disappointed that there weren't more specific games/activities in the book. However, I've found that the information is so compelling and well-written that it changed the way I think about learning in babies and therefore changed how I interact with my baby. Rather than giving me specific activities, they changed the way I think so that I can come up with the specific activities that maximize learning in my child. It's day to day life that impacts a child most and this book helps you understand how to use day to day life to its fullest.  Written on March 27, 2005 Summary: Expected something different While I think this is a great book, I expected it to be a better resource of games. It is more general than expected and you have to wade through the chapters to find the game suggestions. This makes it more difficult to use as a resource later when you are likely to want to look up games for a specific age-group. While they do have a "Tips Revisited" chapter where they list the games by age, I wasn't pleased with the generalness of the descriptions given. I just wasn't excited about the organization of the book. I much preferred "Your Baby's Mind" by S. H. Jacobs (except his dismissal of early exposure to books). I did however love the book "Baby Signs' by these same authors. Written on November 27, 2004 Summary: A great start to understanding a child's mind I thought this was a great intro to understanding an infant or toddlers mind, and gives some very basic but very useful ideas for parents to incorporate into a child's daily routine. It IS very basic, however I know for a fact that some parents would never give thought to the importance of some of these simple ideas. This book also has a lot of excellent research articles which are very interesting, and of importance to any parent. |
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| Catalog | Book | Book | Book | Book | Book | Book |
| Release date | 2000-07-05 | 2001-04 | 2000-10-03 | 2002-06-24 | 2005-06-28 | 2002-03-28 |
| Media | Paperback | Paperback | Paperback | Paperback | Paperback | Paperback |
| Number of pages | 240 | 192 | 544 | 192 | 336 | 254 |
| Ean | 9780553380309 | 9780865734340 | 9780553378252 | 9780071387767 | 9780553382204 | 9780071381390 |
| Book Isbn | 0553380303 | 0865734348 | 0553378252 | 0071387765 | 0553382209 | 0071381392 |
| Upc | - | 052944012717 | - | 639785401582 | - | 639785400233 |
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