Understanding Your Baby: A WeekByWeek Development & Activity Guide For Playing With Your Baby From Birth to 12 Months,Used

If youve ever wished for a stepbystep guide to supporting your babys development... Distilled, researchbased developmental information paired with simple activities to play with your baby on a weekbyweek basis, guiding you and your baby through the first year of life. Theres no such thing as a "howtoparent" guide but this book comes close... a rare gem that helps parents feel informed. Learn how to "think outside the box" when it comes to play without any of the "mommy judgment" or guilt that often comes along with books (or discussions) on parenting infants. Whether you work fulltime or whether home is your work, the information and activities in "Understanding Your Baby" break down developmental concepts and offer simple, quick play activities to help parents and caregivers feel that theyre "winning" at parenthood!"Put yourself in Marinovichs hands and you can relax, knowing that you are building a natural, meaningful way of being with your baby." Tracy Cutchlow, author of Zero to Five: 70 Essential Parenting Tips Based on Science In this age of parenting, we feel enormous pressure (both societal and selfimposed) to ?et it right?when it comes to raising young children, and each of us has felt, at one point or another, that we?e ?oing it wrong.?Pediatric speechlanguage pathologist, parent educator, and mother of two young children, Ayelet Marinovich, is the creator of the early parenting resources at "Strength In Words." She believes that parenting is easier when we have resources we trust. We all want to do everything we can to support our babies, and, ultimately, to raise good human beings.There? a way to find joy in the mayhem, and it? a mixture of science of art. Understanding Your Baby offers an infant enrichment curriculum for parents and caregivers of infants, with 52 bitesized "modules" of palatable, researchbased developmental information and simple, enriching activities to support your babys development in the areas of cognitive, communicative, motor, and social/emotional development. Week by week, learn along with your growing, changing baby!YOULL LEARN:+ All about what your baby is likely to be working on in the areas of cognitive, communicative, motor/sensory, and social/emotional development+ Simple, practical ways to support those areas of development using nothing more than repurposed common household objects to create play materials and musical, early literacy and sensory experiences+ How to maximize your time with your infant whether you work out of the house fulltime or home is your work+ The developmental basis for simple activities you may already be doing helping to reaffirm what you already know and do innately, and helping to boost your likelihood to keep doing them!PRAISE FOR "UNDERSTANDING YOUR BABY:""Some of my favorite activities were the little ways of making our allthetime activities more stimulating it encouraged what was coming naturally for me, and helped me make a more conscientious effort. There were certain things that maybe I was doing already, but then I became more deliberate about doing them because I realized there was a benefit to it!" Dr. Anna Loeb, M.D., mother"Even though this is my second time moving through the baby months, I am learning all the time from this curriculum and as a result, finding infancy less daunting and more enjoyable this time around if only we had access to it when Marco was little! This book answer my early development questions before I have asked them and is a great source of reassurance. Ayelet distills the complex science behind how our babies develop in a wonderfully accessible way, and offers practical ideas and games to play to help families along their developmental journey.? Alexandra Nicoletti, mother