Active Baby, Healthy Brain ─ 135 Fun Exercises and Activities to Maximize Your Child's Brain Development from Birth Through Age 5 1/2

Active Baby, Healthy Brain is an essential addition to the parenting shelf — based in the latest science on childhood development. Research now clearly shows movement, play and active exploration in the first five years of a child's life are essential to the development of his or her body and brain. This book presents 135 separate massages, exercises, and activities, each sequenced to follow the eight key stages of childhood development, from infancy through age five and a half. Using the detailed instructions — all of which include clear, lively illustrations showing exactly how to do the activity — parents will stimulate their children's neurological responses and coordination and enhance their capacity for learning. Each activity is presented on its own page, making this book immediately useful and accessible. No activity should last for more than two minutes — and all that's required is a total of ten minutes of stimulation a day. A book more than 30 years in the making, Active Baby, Healthy Brain is destined to become indispensable to everyone raising a child or who interacts regularly with preschool children.