How to Have a Smarter Baby
How to Have a Smarter Baby

Author: Susan Ludington-Hoe

Publisher: Bantam

Published: 1987-05-01

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 0553265415

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15 minutes a day to a healther, happier, smarter baby Dr. Susan Ludington-Hoe’s internationally acclaimed Infant Stimulation Program has shown thousands of parents how to have healthier, happier, and smarter babies. In this important book, Dr. Ludington-Hoe shares with you the remarkable techniques and learning toys she developed and tested—with dramatic results—with parents and children. Stressing the development of a close and loving relationship between you and your child, she shows you what to do at every stage—during pregnancy, the first days after birth and the crucial first six months—to expand your joys in parenting and maximize your baby’s physical and mental potential. You’ll learn how to: • Plan a pregnancy diet to promote your baby’s brain growth • Design a nursery that will stimulate mental and physical development • Make and/or buy inexpensive toys to accelerate muscular and eye coordination • Tailor your program to your infant’s needs • Talk to baby in captivating ways that will encourage language development • Include father to bond the whole family in a relaxed, nurturing, and loving environment “An extremely clear treatise on infant development and the use of various toys and techniques designed for each stage.”—Los Angeles Times

Smart Babies
Smart Babies

Author: Kathleen Casper

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2018-04-21

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 9781717269225

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Smart Babies is a guide to help parents, caregivers, and others who work with very young children to identify potential giftedness in infants and young children from ages birth to five, and to provide them with strategies to support them at home and potentially anywhere. Meant to help alleviate the worries parents of gifted children often have when their development and behaviors are different from other children, Smart Babies further provides support and resources that can be shared with others who are also partners in child development (such as medical professionals, preschool teachers, friends and family, and program administrators). The materials for the book were originally compiled for educational trainings of early learning coalition partners including program administrators and teachers who are concerned with early childhood development. And it can potentially also be used for similar types of professional development training for early childhood educators and caretakers. But most importantly, it can be used for those working with gifted infants, toddlers, and preschoolers to focus on the individual needs of the children in their care so they can grow to their fullest potential.

Brain Rules for Baby (Updated and Expanded)
Brain Rules for Baby (Updated and Expanded)

Author: John Medina

Publisher: Pear Press

Published: 2014-04-22

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 0983263396

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What’s the single most important thing you can do during pregnancy? What does watching TV do to a child’s brain? What’s the best way to handle temper tantrums? Scientists know. In his New York Times bestseller Brain Rules, Dr. John Medina showed us how our brains really work—and why we ought to redesign our workplaces and schools. Now, in Brain Rules for Baby, he shares what the latest science says about how to raise smart and happy children from zero to five. This book is destined to revolutionize parenting. Just one of the surprises: The best way to get your children into the college of their choice? Teach them impulse control. Brain Rules for Baby bridges the gap between what scientists know and what parents practice. Through fascinating and funny stories, Medina, a developmental molecular biologist and dad, unravels how a child’s brain develops – and what you can do to optimize it. You will view your children—and how to raise them—in a whole new light. You’ll learn: Where nature ends and nurture begins Why men should do more household chores What you do when emotions run hot affects how your baby turns out, because babies need to feel safe above all TV is harmful for children under 2 Your child’s ability to relate to others predicts her future math performance Smart and happy are inseparable. Pursuing your child’s intellectual success at the expense of his happiness achieves neither Praising effort is better than praising intelligence The best predictor of academic performance is not IQ. It’s self-control What you do right now—before pregnancy, during pregnancy, and through the first five years—will affect your children for the rest of their lives. Brain Rules for Baby is an indispensable guide.

The Formula
The Formula

Author: Ronald F. Ferguson

Publisher: BenBella Books

Published: 2019-02-05

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 1946885614

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We all want our children to reach their fullest potential—to be smart and well adjusted, and to make a difference in the world. We wonder why, for some people, success seems to come so naturally. Could the secret be how they were parented? This book unveils how parenting helped shape some of the most fascinating people you will ever encounter, by doing things that almost any parent can do. You don't have to be wealthy or influential to ensure your child reaches their greatest potential. What you do need is commitment—and the strategies outlined in this book. In The Formula: Unlocking the Secrets to Raising Highly Successful Children, Harvard economist Ronald Ferguson, named in a New York Times profile as the foremost expert on the US educational "achievement gap," along with award-winning journalist Tatsha Robertson, reveal an intriguing blueprint for helping children from all types of backgrounds become successful adults. Informed by hundreds of interviews, the book includes never-before-published insights from the "How I was Parented Project" at Harvard University, which draws on the varying life experiences of 120 Harvard students. Ferguson and Robertson have isolated a pattern with eight roles of the "Master Parent" that make up the Formula: the Early Learning Partner, the Flight Engineer, the Fixer, the Revealer, the Philosopher, the Model, the Negotiator, and the GPS Navigational Voice. The Formula combines the latest scientific research on child development, learning, and brain growth and illustrates with life stories of extraordinary individuals—from the Harvard-educated Ghanian entrepreneur who, as the young child of a rural doctor, was welcomed in his father's secretive late-night political meetings; to the nation's youngest state-wide elected official, whose hardworking father taught him math and science during grueling days on the family farm in Kentucky; to the DREAMer immigration lawyer whose low-wage mother pawned her wedding ring to buy her academically outstanding child a special flute. The Formula reveals strategies on how you—regardless of race, class, or background—can help your children become the best they can be and shows ways to maximize their chances for happy and purposeful lives.

365 Games Smart Babies Play
365 Games Smart Babies Play

Author: Sheila Ellison

Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.

Published: 2005-06-01

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 1402250703

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"A marvelously simple, clear and practical guide to parenting in the first days, months and years!"—Diana Huss Green, Parents' Choice "Wonderful ways to help parents and babies enrich each other's lives."—Sesame Street Parents Each day with your baby brings new moments of caring, teaching, holding and growing through baby's first experiences. Filled with magical ways to create and enhance those special everyday moments, 365 Games Smart Babies Play will help you celebrate each once-in-a-lifetime opportunity you and your baby share. Illustrated by children.

Smart Parenting, Smarter Kids
Smart Parenting, Smarter Kids

Author: David Walsh

Publisher: Atria Books

Published: 2011-06-14

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781439121177

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Every week new discoveries about the brain make the news, often promising parents the latest “right” way to nurture their kids’ developing brains and behavior. And every day there’s a new technology that demands your child’s attention, a new game or toy that purports to make your kid smarter, and a new snack promising to be healthy as well as tasty. How’s a busy parent to make heads or tails of all these claims? You turn to Dr. David Walsh, an expert at translating the headline-making, cutting-edge findings into practical suggestions for parenting today. In his previous bestseller, Why Do They Act That Way?, Walsh showed how to manage the difficult teenage years by understanding how the adolescent brain develops. Now he’s written a complete guide to parenting from birth through the teen years, with recommendations that will help maximize any child’s potential. Smart Parenting, Smarter Kids doesn’t just describe new research findings or explain interesting brain facts. It equips parents with usable information across a range of topics, like exercise, nutrition, play, sleep, stress, self-discipline, emotional intelligence, and connection. Some discoveries in neuroscience confirm age-old parental wisdom while others may prompt you to make immediate changes. Still other brain discoveries help explain behaviors that have puzzled parents forever, like why friendly, easygoing kids can become withdrawn and sullen dragons overnight when they enter adolescence, or why girls and boys tend to have such different classroom experiences. Filled with helpful quizzes and checklists for easy reference, Smart Parenting, Smarter Kids gives specific advice about how to make the best daycare, preschool, and schooling decisions for your kids; for example, how to deal with stressful events as a family, and how to manage your child’s internet and media use. And all these findings across different fields of research work together in reaching the same goal: When children are guided to eat, sleep, play, exercise, learn, and connect with others in healthy ways, their minds blossom and they are able to reach their full potential—academically, socially, physically, and emotionally. These real-life applications in Dr. Walsh’s new book put science into practice with a personal plan that explains how (and why) you can parent with the brain in mind.

Signing Smart with Babies and Toddlers
Signing Smart with Babies and Toddlers

Author: Michelle Anthony

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2005-05

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 0312337035

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With simple and effective methods, this book offers practical techniques and activities for communicating with a baby or toddler using easy-to-learn signs. 200 photos & 50 line drawings throughout.

Fit Baby, Smart Baby, Your Baby!
Fit Baby, Smart Baby, Your Baby!

Author: Glenn Doman

Publisher: Hodder Christian Books

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9780757003769

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Full Color charts, photos,, illustrations and detailed easy to follow instructions to help create an effective home program.

Reading for Our Lives
Reading for Our Lives

Author: Maya Payne Smart

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2022-08-02

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0593332180

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An award-winning journalist and literacy advocate provides a clear, step-by-step guide to helping your child thrive as a reader and a learner. When her child went off to school, Maya Smart was shocked to discover that a good education in America is a long shot, in ways that few parents fully appreciate. Our current approach to literacy offers too little, too late, and attempting to play catch-up when our kids get to kindergarten can no longer be our default strategy. We have to start at the top. The brain architecture for reading develops rapidly during infancy, and early language experiences are critical to building it. That means parents’ work as children’s first teachers begins from day one too—and we need deeper knowledge to play our positions. Reading for Our Lives challenges the bath-book-bed mantra and the idea that reading aloud to our kids is enough to ensure school readiness. Instead, it gives parents easy, immediate, and accessible ways to nurture language and literacy development from the start. Through personal stories, historical accounts, scholarly research, and practical tips, this book presents the life-and-death urgency of literacy, investigates inequity in reading achievement, and illuminates a path to a true, transformative education for all.