50 Fantastic Things to Do With Babies

By Gryphon House
Price $16.95
Age 0-16 mo.

Babies' brains are amazing sponges, but not in any passive way. They constantly soak up information and process it, making connections and building neural pathways. Consequently, the stimulation you provide your baby during those early months of life can have a dramatic impact on how they learn and what they know going forward into adulthood. This book is filled with 50 simple activities to do with your baby that take just a few minutes apiece and require little or no props or equipment. Some are variations on well-known classics like peek-a-boo and hide-and-seek. Many you wouldn't have thought to do on your own. Each activity's description consists of a few steps outlined on a single page under the heading 'What To Do.' If you're in the mood to know more about what your baby is learning or how he or she develops with respect to the activity at hand, that information is provided concisely in colored text boxes on the page, and can be taken in almost at a glance. This easy-to-absorb format is invaluable because it affords you, the parent or caregiver, the ability to weave these activities into the fabric of your day as available moments arise, without it seeming daunting to do so. Equally valuable are the playfulness and intimacy that grow between you and baby as a result of these activities.