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Summary: Wonderful resource for parents.
Review: Acredolo and Goodwyn have done it again! Their first book Baby Signs is a godsend to many of the families I serve in my practice. I am a clinical psychologist working with parents and children and have been recommending Baby Signs for several years as an easy way to reduce frustration and to enrich the attachment relationship. Now Baby Minds helps parents understand the impact they can have on their child's life. As a clinician, I especially appreciate Acredolo and Goodwyn's commitment to bringing the latest findings in infant research to parents and giving them specific ideas for how to use this information.
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Summary: A great gift for new parents
Review: As a new father, I can recommend this book to other new parents interested in learning more about how learning and memory development works, and how much fun playing with your baby can be. This book will help you enjoy play-time even more, in that it demonstrates that children learn and develop best when doing just what they naturally want to do-play and laugh with us. If you have friends with a new baby, this book will make a nice gift they will remember you for.
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Summary: Grandpas will love this book too
Review: Baby Minds is a great book for anyone who has ever wondered what's going on inside their baby's or their grandchild's head and I'm sure that is just about everyone. The book is full of surprising things that researchers have discovered. I'd bet most adults have no idea, for example, that even 6 month-olds know something about adding and subtracting, or that they can remember things for incredibly long periods of time. After highlighting specific examples, the authors tie these remarkable skills to games parents and grandparents can play with their babies, not only to stimulate them intellectually, but also just to have fun. Grandpas will love it too.
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Summary: Very well put together
Review: Great collection of child development activities for little ones! I loved the quick-reference at the back of the book too. As a speech pathologist doing transdisciplinary therapy, I'll recommend this to many parents.
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Summary: An insult to MY intelligence!
Review: I agree witht the reader who said the book was weak and recommended the Doman series. This preface of this book started off great citing scientific studies which encourage listening to classical music and other activities which "wire" the brain. However, in no less than the first chapter, the book attempts to discourage the reader from games and activities with your child beyond the regular run-of-the-mill stimuli you will probably expose your baby to anyway (mobiles, etc.) The most useful tip in this book, is the chapter on baby sign language, and is positive in that it may introduce some readers who have not discovered this option yet. However, for the reader that has already explored signing possibilites, the benefit is nuetralized in my oppinion, because the authors encourage parents to make up their own signs rather than go with the established sign languages such as ASL. To my way of thinking, learning the real sign language is an extra "foreign" language to learn for a lifetime and opens a neat opportunity of communicating with hearing impaired people!
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Summary: What a neat book!
Review: I always knew that babies were smarter than most adults gave them credit for, and this book proves it. It was facinating to read about how babies learn. As a first-time mom with twins, I struggled with what to do with these new bundles of joy. This book encouraged me to use the world around us as a learning experience for them at such a young age.
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Summary: What a neat book!
Review: I always knew that babies were smarter than most adults gave them credit for, and this book proves it. It was facinating to read about how babies learn. As a first-time mom with twins, I struggled with what to do with these new bundles of joy. This book encouraged me to use the world around us as a learning experience for them at such a young age.
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Summary: The only book that offer practical advices
Review: I am the mother of new twins and I do not have a lot of time on my hands. What I was looking for in this book was specific games to play with my new babies to stimulate them and engage them. However, this book goes into lengthy details about the development of the babies brain, gives all types of theories on neurological development. If I wanted that I would have bought a text book. I am not impressed with this book at all.
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Summary: Authors really stretched 3 pages of info into a whole book.
Review: I found about 3 useful tips in the entire book. Not that the information was inaccurate, just very piece meal and basic. If one is not very well versed with how the entire environment affects a child then this book may be of some use. For me, the data pulled from isolated studies and extrapolated into theories on how to enhance brain function was weak. I HIGHLY reccomend going with the Glen Doman series ('How to teach you baby to read', 'How to teach you baby math' etc.). They are based decades of proven work with real parents teaching real children and getting real (superior) results. Do be fooled by the 'baby minds' lack of approach. Get the kits, they are fun and they work!
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Summary: Authors really stretched 3 pages of info into a whole book.
Review: I found about 3 useful tips in the entire book. Not that the information was inaccurate, just very piece meal and basic. If one is not very well versed with how the entire environment affects a child then this book may be of some use. For me, the data pulled from isolated studies and extrapolated into theories on how to enhance brain function was weak. I HIGHLY reccomend going with the Glen Doman series ('How to teach you baby to read', 'How to teach you baby math' etc.). They are based decades of proven work with real parents teaching real children and getting real (superior) results. Do be fooled by the 'baby minds' lack of approach. Get the kits, they are fun and they work!
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