tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89519383722865767622024-03-05T22:32:29.084-08:00Baby PlayLee Goodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05911261310514786271noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8951938372286576762.post-18515644210637173172017-02-19T14:18:00.000-08:002017-02-19T17:08:31.034-08:00At how many months can a baby laugh<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; white-space: nowrap;">Every parent looks forward to their baby's first smile and their baby's first laugh. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; white-space: nowrap;">It is a feeling of real connection beyond the day to day routine of feeding </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; white-space: nowrap;">and changing nappies that is very special. Also laughter, like a smile, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; white-space: nowrap;">is a communication that everyone in the whole world can understand.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>At what age should my baby start to laugh?</b> is a question asked by many parents. You can expect your baby to laugh somewhere between 3 to 6 months but keep in mind, as with all child development, most babies are different. So don't worry if your baby is not laughing at 4 months because everyone is unique and some babies just don't laugh as much as others. Please don't compare your baby to other babies, even other siblings.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>What's in a Laugh?</b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">A laugh may seem like a simple and spontaneous act but it is quite complex - it even has it's own science called gelotology. It is a brain development involved with various regions of the brain. When we laugh we use the diaphragm and parts of the respiratory system. </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br />Laughing is a form of communication and babies will be babbling and cooing before they laugh. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Laughte</span><span style="font-style: italic;">r consists o</span><span style="font-style: italic;">f two parts -- a set of gestures and the production of a sound. When we laugh, the </span><i>brain</i><span style="font-style: italic;"> pressures us to conduct both those activities simultaneously. When we laugh heartily, changes occur in many parts of the body, even the arm, leg and trunk </span><i>muscles</i><span style="background-color: white;"><i>.</i><a href="https://www.blogger.com/goog_2095116231"> </a></span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://science.howstuffworks.com/life/inside-the-mind/emotions/laughter1.htm">science.howstuffworks.com</a></span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You may also like this interesting article: <span style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><a href="https://scroll.in/article/827868/how-five-month-old-babies-know-whats-funny" target="_blank">How five-month-old babies know what’s funny</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Before they speak or crawl or walk or achieve many of the other amazing developmental milestones in the first year of life, babies laugh. This simple act makes its debut around the fourth month of life, ushering in a host of social and cognitive opportunities for the infant.</i></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><em>"It is through our hands that we speak to the child. That we communicate. Touch is the child’s first language, understanding comes long after feeling"<strong> ~ </strong></em></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Dr Frederick Leboyer</span> *</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"></span>I have done an Infant Massage course and use to teach parents to massage their baby from birth as I understood the calming and bonding nature of this ancient activity. <br />
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Massage is easy, beneficial and mostly intuitive.<br />
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Massage in a warm room</div>
Massage after a bath or after a sleep or before a sleep<br />
Lie baby on <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B073BGFWFT/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B073BGFWFT&linkCode=as2&tag=cowbochron-20&linkId=2f602f8a6f6efe10a08521081b8a2f37" target="_blank">a soft surface</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="//ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=cowbochron-20&l=am2&o=1&a=B073BGFWFT" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br />
Use long gentle strokes that go from shoulder to toes using the palms of the hands<br />
Start with light touch and slowly increase pressure if your baby enjoys the massage<br />
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<li>Touch is an essential sense and develops trust</li>
<li>Quality sharing time that Dad's or grandparents can do</li>
<li>Calming or stimulating depending on the strokes you use</li>
<li>Bonding with baby: develops attachment</li>
<li>Improves muscle tone, digestion, elimination, sleep, circulation and respiration</li>
<li>Promotes weight gain in premature babies</li>
<li>Relaxing</li>
<li>Can help relieve colic and constipation</li>
<li>Develops loving communication between parent and child</li>
<li>Develops body awareness</li>
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If you are new to massage there is a <a href="http://raisingchildren.net.au/articles/baby_massage_video.html" target="_blank">quick worthwhile video</a> at Raising Children Network.<br />
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by <span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Dr Frederick Leboyer.</span> </span>This book shows how to use the flowing rhythms of the art of baby massage to communicate love and strength to infants in the weeks and months following birth.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.4em;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;">Have you noticed that newborn infants have strong grasps?</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;">This is caused by the Grasp Reflex, also called the Palmar grasp. At 2 months of age t</span>he grasp reflex should still be present in your baby’s fingers. It is a part of normal early development. Newborn babies are miracles, moving in response to stimulation and inbuilt body reflexes.</span><br />
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The Grasp Reflex, happens when you place a finger on your baby's open palm. Your baby's finger will slowly curl and close around your finger. Trying to remove your finger can cause the baby's grip to tighten. (as in the photo above) Older children will love it when baby grasps their finger so let them have a turn. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.4em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">So for the first eight weeks </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">your baby's hands will mostly be in a fist, but soon baby should be starting to open and close their fists all by them self and on purpose. by around six months of age the Grasp Reflex will be disappearing.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.4em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Put on some of your own favourite music: </span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.4em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">it doesn't matter if it is rock, pop, classical, hip hop or jazz. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.4em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hold baby close to you.</span></span><br />
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Support your baby's head by holding the back of their neck (as shown in photo).<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.4em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sway gently to the music. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.4em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dancing gently with your baby is a great way to calm them. </span></span><br />
Information from the eyes, ears, balance and the movement work together, in this simple activity, to give baby an awareness of where they are in relation to the space around them. <br />
It also stimulates the balance centre in the inner ear and baby's vision.<br />
By 5 months of age you can sway more vigorously and baby should have good head control and not need to be supported behind the neck.<br />
This is a fun activity that you and baby can enjoy together.<br />
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Lee Goodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05911261310514786271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8951938372286576762.post-71307760152260000622013-07-15T03:54:00.001-07:002014-09-23T00:20:53.495-07:00Healthy recipes for baby foods <span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">How you feed your baby will be one of the many important decisions you make in the first year of your baby's life.</span><br />
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<b>What first foods to feed baby</b>.<br />
I have had 5 babies and always found that they loved sweet vegetables as their first foods. Sweet vegetables like carrot and sweet potato. There is nothing better than making your own baby foods as most commercial foods have been heated so highly to sterilize them, which takes out most of the good nutrients found in fresh fruits and vegetables. This is also why bananas and pears also make a wonderful first fruit, when ripe, as they need no cooking and therefore retain all their vitamins and <a href="http://mineralhealth.synthasite.com/" target="_blank">minerals</a>.<a name='more'></a><br />
Steaming vegetables is always recommended as the way to retain the most goodness in foods and salt and sugar are not required or recommended. I also introduce small amounts of iron fortified cereal very soon after introducing veges and fruit. Why "iron fortified" is important is interesting - A baby is born with a store of iron that lasts for 6 months and then depletes so it is important that <a href="http://mineralhealth.synthasite.com/children-and-minerals.php" target="_blank">iron</a> is in the food.<br />
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<b>Allergy connection.</b><br />
As a family of allergy people I also found it very helpful to introduce one new food at a time and wait three days before introducing a new food. This way it was easy to see if the food caused a reaction that was a food intolerance or allergy.<br />
I think we as parents get tired of the same food quicker than a baby does and feel the need to give too many combinations and types of foods, so my advice is to go slowly.<br />
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<b>When to introduce food to baby.</b><br />
The Dietary Guidelines for Children and Adolescents, in Australia, is to introduce solids from 6 months of age.<br />
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<b>Texture of food for baby.</b><br />
First offer purees that are easy for baby to digest and then later mashed foods, then minced and finally chopped foods when baby has teeth.<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Recommended:</span></b><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Making your own baby food is not only more economical than buying commercial brands, it also assures that your child consumes only the freshest, top-quality ingredients. Children's nutrition expert Annabel Karmel's collection of best-ever purees grants new parents their wish: one hundred quick and easy recipes that will make for a healthy and happy baby. From first tastes and weaning, right through to meals for older babies, all the recipes are suitable for children aged six months and older. The fruit and vegetable favorites, and innovative fish, meat, and chicken purees, are so tasty you will want to eat them yourself!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In addition to easy and delicious recipes, <i><b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0743289579/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0743289579&linkCode=as2&tag=cowbochron-20">Top 100 Baby Purees</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=cowbochron-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0743289579" height="1" style="border: currentColor !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
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<li style="margin: 0.5em 0em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Weaning your baby and transitioning to solid foods</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0.5em 0em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Food allergies</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0.5em 0em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Time-saving food preparation tips</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0.5em 0em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Freezing and reheating your homemade baby food</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0.5em 0em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tricks on finding the hidden nutrition in everyday foods</span></li>
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<b>More supporting information:</b><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://raisingchildren.net.au/articles/when_to_introduce_solids.html" target="_blank">Introducing solids</a> at raising children network, a site that is supported by the Australian Government.</span></span><br />
<a href="https://www.eatforhealth.gov.au/guidelines" target="_blank">Eat for Health</a>: Government site with 2013 Australian Dietary Guidelines<br />
<a href="http://www.nhmrc.gov.au/_files_nhmrc/publications/attachments/n55e_infant_brochure.pdf" target="_blank">Giving your baby the best start</a> brochure<br />
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Lee Goodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05911261310514786271noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8951938372286576762.post-55090137925057494662013-06-01T21:46:00.002-07:002014-09-23T01:29:44.673-07:00Developmental baby toys for 3-6 month olds<table border="0" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; height: 242px; width: 500px;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #999999;">As I've mentioned previously, </span><a href="http://earlyplaybabyplay.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/what-babies-really-need.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">babies do not need lots of toys. </span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">But what if you need to buy a gift for a new born baby or a baby who is having a naming day or christening - what should you buy?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #999999;">Developmental baby toys for 3-6 month olds would make a great gift for a newborn because this is the age when they would start to appreciate a toy.</span><strong> </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Babies at this age are developing their senses so great gifts would be soft, tactile and safe to put in baby's mouth which is where they get the most sensory input at this stage.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #999999; font-family: inherit;"><em>Row, row, row your boat,</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999;"><span style="background-color: white;"><em><span style="font-family: inherit;">Gently down the stream.</span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 15px;"> </span></em></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #999999; font-family: inherit; line-height: 15px;"><em>Life is but a dream.</em></span></div>
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<em>The way we care for our babies is how they experience our love.</em> <cite>– Magda Gerber </cite><br />
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Magda Gerber was an amazing woman who taught how we can have a great relationship and appreciation of our baby and embrace their ability for self-discovery.<br />
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In her book 'Dear Parent: Caring for Infants With Respect' you can learn about meeting the needs of the infant <strong>AND the parent</strong>. You can learn about how to implement these ideas in your home, how to help children feel secure and become competent.<br />
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</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: small; line-height: 19.18px;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; line-height: 27px;">Golden slumbers kiss your eyes,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #383838; line-height: 1em;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; line-height: 27px;">Smiles await you when you rise;</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #383838; line-height: 1em;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 27px;"><span style="color: #383838;">Sleep</span>, </span><span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD3" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-color: white; background-image: none !important; background-position: 0% 50%; border-bottom-color: rgb(32, 146, 154) !important; border-bottom-style: dotted !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1px !important; position: static; vertical-align: baseline;">pretty baby</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 27px;">,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #383838; line-height: 1em;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; line-height: 27px;">Do not cry,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #383838; line-height: 1em;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; line-height: 27px;">And I will sing a lullaby.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #383838; line-height: 1em;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #383838; line-height: 1em;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; line-height: 27px;">Care you know not, therefore sleep;</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #383838; line-height: 1em;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; line-height: 27px;">While I watch over you do not weep;</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #383838; line-height: 1em;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; line-height: 27px;">Sleep, pretty loved one,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #383838; line-height: 1em;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; line-height: 27px;">Do not cry,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #383838; line-height: 1em;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; line-height: 27px;">And I will sing, I will sing,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #383838; line-height: 1em;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; line-height: 27px;">I will sing a lullaby.</span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Rock-a-bye baby, in the tree top,</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">And down will come baby, cradle and all.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><i>Hush a bye don't you cry,</i></span></div>
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<span style="-ms-zoom: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">All the pretty little horses.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="-ms-zoom: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="-ms-zoom: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px currentColor; color: #383838; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Your father tends his sheep</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; line-height: 18px;"> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="-ms-zoom: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="-ms-zoom: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px currentColor; color: #383838; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Your mother shakes the dreamland tree</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; line-height: 18px;"> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="-ms-zoom: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="-ms-zoom: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px currentColor; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #383838;">And softly dreams do fall for </span><span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD3" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-position: 0% 50%; border-bottom-color: rgb(32, 146, 154) !important; border-bottom-style: dotted !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1px !important; position: static; vertical-align: baseline;">thee</span>;</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"> </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="-ms-zoom: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; line-height: 27px;">Lullaby, and good night,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #383838; line-height: 1em;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; line-height: 27px;">With </span><span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD4" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-color: white; background-image: none !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat repeat !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(32, 146, 154) !important; border-bottom-style: dotted !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1px !important; position: static; vertical-align: baseline;">pink roses</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 27px;"> <span style="color: #383838;">bedight,</span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #383838; line-height: 1em;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; line-height: 27px;">With lilies o'erspread,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #383838; line-height: 1em;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; line-height: 27px;">Is my baby's sweet head.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #383838; line-height: 1em;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; line-height: 27px;">Lay you down now, and rest,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #383838; line-height: 1em;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; line-height: 27px;">May your slumber be blessed.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #383838; line-height: 1em;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; line-height: 27px;">Lay you down now, and rest,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #383838; line-height: 1em;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; line-height: 27px;">May thy slumber be blessed.</span></span></span><br />
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Libraries are a free source of wonderful learning materials and now, in Australia and many other countries, they are a way for parents of young children to connect and learn.<br />
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You can borrow <a href="http://earlyplaybabyplay.blogspot.com.au/#!/2012/04/books-for-babies.html" target="_blank">great baby books</a>, for free, from your local library and there is usually a specific section of board books which are the absolute best for babies. <br />
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This means you can have lots of books in your home for your baby to explore and you can change books regularly. If one or two become favourites then you know which ones to <a href="http://astore.amazon.com/earlychild00d-20?_encoding=UTF8&node=4" target="_blank">purchase</a> or request for birthday gifts.<br />
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Did you know that your library stocks CD's specifically for children, such as relaxing Baby Einstein or upbeat Wiggles, audio books, books in other languages and dual-language books? <br />
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Libraries also often offer story times and lapsit programs where baby sits on the parent's lap for songs and music and storytime. These sessions are a great way to learn some <a href="http://earlyplayrhymes.blogspot.com.au/" target="_blank">rhymes</a> you can sing to your baby and meet other parents with babies who live in your area. <br />
<a href="http://www.nla.gov.au/libraries/" target="_blank">Find a library in Australia</a><br />
Visit <a href="http://australianpicturebooks.blogspot.com.au/" target="_blank">Australian Picture Books</a> for book reviews.Lee Goodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05911261310514786271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8951938372286576762.post-18165169681752591432012-07-16T01:00:00.004-07:002014-09-23T01:20:55.488-07:00Peek a boo<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Babies seem to love this Peek a boo game, from around 3 months of age, and are happy to play it over and over again.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: inherit; line-height: 25px;">1.You can play it in four different ways:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">2. Place your hands in front of your baby's eyes, remove them and say </span>
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<span style="color: #4d4d4d; line-height: 25px;">4. By around 8 months of age your baby may want to use their own hands to cover your eyes or their own eyes.</span>
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<span style="color: #4d4d4d; line-height: 25px;">5. PEEK A BOO RHYME</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4d4d4d; line-height: 25px;"><i> Peek a boo, Peek a boo,</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4d4d4d; line-height: 25px;"><i> Peek a boo, I see you.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4d4d4d;"><span style="line-height: 25px;"><i> Where are you, where are you?</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4d4d4d;"><span style="line-height: 25px;"><i> I see you, PEEK A BOO!</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">PLAYING THIS GAME DEVELOPS: </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">Understanding that objects exist even if you can't see them. From about birth to two years of age, babies do not understand this concept of o</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">bject permanence</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">Also it is great for vision and bonding and mostly a sense of fun.</span></div>
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Give your baby the chance to experience calm contentment.<br />
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Wisdom, depth, understanding and insight come to children who have learned how to be calm, relaxed, at ease with themselves and able to watch and listen, not just be constantly involved. *<br />
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Research says that stimulation is good for baby and that their brain is developing now more than any other time. This does not mean that they need continual stimulation. Too much stimulation can be overwhelming.<br />
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A baby blissfully staring into space does not need to be interrupted. They are listening to sounds, looking at colours and learning the great skill of enjoying one's own company and being centred in that. <br />
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Ideally, a parent should leave the room as little as possible.<br />
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Babies and young children need the same thing that we do when we feel the need to spend a lazy day around the house to recharge our inner spirit. Your baby is learning so much from their environment, processing so much information as everything is new.<br />
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If you have been spending every moment your child is awake stimulating them you need to start slowly giving them 5 minutes "meditation" time a day and increase it slowly over a few weeks.<br />
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<em><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The more our kids love books, </span></em></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the more they’ll pretend to read them, </span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>and the more they pretend to read, </em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>the more quickly they’ll learn to read.</em> MEM FOX<span style="color: red;">*</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you are wondering what to do with your brand new baby, or your 3 month old baby or your crawler, you won't go wrong if you read to them. Children need to hear 1000 stories read aloud before they begin to learn to read on their own (Fox, 2001).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You can read anything to babies, even the newspaper, especially in the first few months, but if you are looking for books specifically for babies there is a<strong> </strong></span><a href="http://earlyplay.blogspot.com.au/2012/04/books-for-babies.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>list of some of my favourites here</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. (Older children </span><a href="http://earlyplay.blogspot.com.au/p/books.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">here</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">) You can purchase many of these books at<strong> </strong></span><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/earlychild00d-20?_encoding=UTF8&node=4" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>my baby bookstore</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> but you should really make <a href="http://earlyplaybabyplay.blogspot.com.au/#!/2012/07/libraries-have-lot-to-offer.html" target="_blank">the library your second lounge room.</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Reading aloud to your baby has many benefits. It actually impacts on most of the<strong> areas of School Readiness:</strong></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sharing regular time together reading helps healthy </span><a href="http://echildhood.synthasite.com/social-and-emotional-development---feeling.php" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Social emotional development</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> as it is a positive interaction which give us a sense of comfort, confidence and safety. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Reading affects a child's approach toward learning and makes them see that the significant people in their life value reading.</span><br />
<a href="http://echildhood.synthasite.com/communication-skills.php" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Communication</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> and language use is developed by listening to others read.</span><br />
<a href="http://echildhood.synthasite.com/thinking-skills.php" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cognition</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> or thinking skills and general knowledge are developed as babies look and listen to books.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;">*</span>Mem Fox is one of my favourite Australian authors and has written many wonderful children's books including </span><a href="http://australianpicturebooks.blogspot.com.au/2011/11/hello-baby.html"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hello
Baby!</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> and </span><a href="http://australianpicturebooks.blogspot.com.au/2011/09/ten-little-fingers-and-ten-little-toes.html"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ten
Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> and my most favourite children's book </span><a href="http://australianpicturebooks.blogspot.com.au/2011/08/where-is-green-sheep.html"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">WHERE
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here are her<strong> Read Aloud Commandments</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1. Spend at least ten wildly happy minutes <em>every single day</em> reading aloud.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2. Read at least three stories a day: it may be the same story three times. Children need to hear a thousand stories before they can begin to learn to read.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These are the main "commandments" that relate to babies but you can read the rest at </span><a href="http://www.memfox.com/ten-read-aloud-commandments.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mem's site</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> or in her book </span><a asin="B000012345" href="http://www.blogger.com/" type="amzn"></a><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0156035103/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0156035103&linkCode=am2&tag=cowbochron-20"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Reading Magic: Why Reading Aloud to Our Children Will Change Their Lives Forever</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=cowbochron-20&l=am2&o=1&a=0156035103" style="border: currentColor !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>Babies Need Books</em>, by Dorothy Butler in 1980 encouraged parents to read to their babies and toddlers. She argued that scientific research showed by the age of four approximately half of an individual's ultimate intelligence was formed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>Set for Success: </em>Espinosa, L. M. (2002). The connection between social-emotional development and early literacy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">NEGP - National Education Goals Panel is a bipartisan and
intergovernmental body of US federal and state officials created to
assess and report progress toward achieving the National
Education Goals that created the Dimensions of School Readiness.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Golden slumbers kiss your eyes,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Smiles awake you when you rise:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 26px;">I found that taking my b</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 26px;">abies outside every day helped them sleep better. Fresh air can both soothe and stimulate. When we had a garden we would spend half an hour or more outside in a shady spot both morning and afternoon. If I was busy hanging the washing out or gardening I would place the baby in their pram. Many times they would fall asleep under a tree and I would put a net cover over the pram. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 26px;">Hammocks, like the one pictured, only work when baby is very young and cannot roll or sit up. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 26px;">I always went for a walk with the baby in the stroller every day if we were living in an apartment and noticed that on stormy days or days when I did not get outside then sleep time was either less or baby was unsettled.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Establishing sleep rhythms means creating the conditions that help baby to let go and fall to sleep. Being calm ourselves, really helps baby to relax and let go of all the excitement of the day. </span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Baby has had some floor time to stretch and move</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">Baby has had some fresh air, preferably outdoors</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Predictable bedtime routines</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Calming stories like <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0061998230/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0061998230&linkCode=as2&tag=cowbochron-20&linkId=VTSQZCXENHOIQLVM">Goodnight Moon </a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=cowbochron-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0061998230" height="1" style="border: currentColor !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Lullabies and quiet songs like <a href="http://earlyplayrhymes.blogspot.com.au/2012/04/all-of-twinkle.html" target="_blank">Twinkle Twinkle</a></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.tresillian.net/tresillian-tips/settling-techniques-newborn-12-months.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;">Settling techniques: newborn - 12 months</span></a> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">from Tresillian</span></span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/baby-sleep/FL00118" target="_blank">Baby sleep: Helping baby sleep through the night</a><span style="font-size: small;"> from <span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">M</span>ayo Clinic </span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: small;">A quick solution which worked for my grandson is to download the safe MP3 sounds</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Babies need food, somewhere to sleep, and to be kept warm. <span style="line-height: 19.18px;">Air, water, sleep and food and excretion are </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabolism" style="background-image: none; line-height: 19.18px; text-decoration: none;" title="Metabolism"><span style="color: black;">metabolic</span></a><span style="line-height: 19.18px;"> requirements for survival in all humans. Clothing and shelter provide necessary protection from the elements. </span>These are babies basic physical needs or physiological needs<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Babies need safety, which meets their security needs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Babies need to be loved, these are their social needs. Your baby needs you or a significant other to give them a sense of belonging!</span></div>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">a place to sleep - usually a cot, in some cultures a hammock</span></b></li>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Babies do not need hundreds of toys.</span></b></div>
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Lee Goodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05911261310514786271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8951938372286576762.post-80988631580480338282012-05-07T14:56:00.000-07:002013-06-01T22:30:24.861-07:00Baby Learning: the showing and talking game<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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We have been taking our daily environment for granted for years, unlike babies and toddlers who are intrigued by everything they see and hear. Seeing the world through the eyes of a child is an amazing experience of curiosity. Their brain is stimulated by new sights and sounds and their language is developed by us talking to them. <br />
Sometimes I pick up a baby and just walk around the room showing them light switches and door handles, cupboards and pictures, all the while telling them what we are looking at. They never seem to get bored of this as long as I am showing them new wonders.<br />
I am very privileged to see this first hand as the proud grandmother of two beautiful baby boys and working with babies. After having 5 children of my own I am still constantly amazed and awakened when I see this world through their eyes.Lee Goodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05911261310514786271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8951938372286576762.post-9446511891605947772012-04-30T00:48:00.001-07:002013-05-28T13:24:47.408-07:00Finding faces<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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ACTIVITY: Looking at your baby's face, looking into baby's eyes and making animated expressions and smiling.<br />
This is a simple activity that can be done anytime and there is a lot of science backing up the reasons why it is an important daily activity with your baby.<br />
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Babies are born with a remarkable ability that helps them identify faces. In experiments, newborn infants have shown preference for looking at faces over other visual stimuli ( Batki et al 2000). They also prefer faces with open eyes and happy faces over frowning ones. (Farroni et al 2007). Eye contact is an important signal in interactions with other people and successful communication depends on the ability to detect the intention to communicate (<a class="cite-reflink bibr popnode tag_hotlink tag_tooltip" href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17255010" id="__tag_172318867" ref="reftype=pubmed&article-id=2572680&issue-id=174672&journal-id=137&FROM=Article%7CBody&TO=Entrez%7CPubMed%7CRecord&rendering-type=normal" rid="bib25">Frith 2007</a>).<br />
When your baby sees you smile, it releases chemicals in her body. This makes her feel good – and the chemicals also help babies brain grow.<br />
<a href="http://raisingchildren.net.au/verve/_resources/smiling_baby_flowchart2.pdf">See a diagram explaining the science behind this.</a><br />
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Parents' faces entertains baby and actually make baby feel more secure and safe. (Study at University of Delaware USA)<br />
So this activity is important because it:<br />
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<li>creates and nurtures the bond between parent and child</li>
<li>helps baby feel secure and safe</li>
<li>helps baby develop and learn about the world</li>
<li>helps develop communication skills</li>
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<span style="font-size: small;">So make direct eye contact but remember that babies don't always want to look into your eyes: they will look all over your face and tire of doing this quite quickly.</span><br />
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PHOTO CREDIT: Portrait of <a href="http://deography.com/?photo=672">Zenon Thomas O'Donnell</a> and his mother taken by <a href="http://deography.com/">Dylan O'Donnell</a> <br />
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SCIENTIFIC SOURCES:<br />
<span class="citation" id="__citation7">Batki A, Baron-Cohen S, Wheelwright S, Connellan J, Ahluwalia J. <a href="doi:10.1016/S0163-6383(01)00037-6">Is there an innate gaze module? Evidence from human neonates.</a> </span><span class="citation"></span><br />
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<span class="citation"><span class="citation" id="__citation21">Farroni T, Mansfield E.M, Lai C, Johnson M.H. <a href="doi:10.1016/S0022-0965(03)00022-5[PubMed]">Infants perceiving and acting on the eyes: tests of an evolutionary hypothesis.</a> </span></span></div>
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<span class="citation" id="__citation22">Farroni T, Johnson M.H, Menon E, Zulian L, Faraguna D, Csibra G.<a href="doi:10.1073/pnas.0502205102"> Newborn's preference for face-relevant stimuli: effects of contrast polarity.</a> </span><br />
<span class="citation" id="__citation25">Frith C.D. <a href="http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/362/1480/671">The social brain?</a> </span>
</span><span class="citation" id="__citation26">Frith C.D, Frith U.<a href="doi:10.1016/j.cub.2007.05.068"> Social cognition in humans.</a> </span><br />
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Grossmann T, Mark H Johnson, Sarah Lloyd-Fox, Anna Blasi, Fani Deligianni, Clare Elwell, and Gergely Csibra. <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2572680/#bib6">Early cortical specialization for face-to-face communication in human infants.</a></div>
Lee Goodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05911261310514786271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8951938372286576762.post-8580325349988581642012-04-28T22:37:00.000-07:002014-09-22T23:27:18.446-07:00Songs for babies<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As requested, here are some song and rhyme ideas to do with your baby. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I always find that children love to hear others singing, rather than listening to a CD. So try and remember some rhymes from when you were growing up or learn a few new ones. Don't worry about whether you think you have a good singing voice - your baby will love it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Singing songs with your child has many<strong> </strong></span><a href="http://kidsongs.synthasite.com/benefits.php"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #2288bb;">benefits</span></span></strong></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> but the main ones are connection and fun. Click on the underlined links to find the full rhyme.</span><br />
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</span><span style="color: #669900; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><a href="http://earlyplayrhymes.blogspot.com.au/2012/04/this-little-froggy.html"><span style="color: #2288bb;">This little froggy</span></a></strong> - <em>a toe tickling rhyme like three little pigs.</em></span><br />
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Lee Goodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05911261310514786271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8951938372286576762.post-39966360594093575382012-04-27T22:15:00.000-07:002014-06-03T23:46:59.012-07:00B is for Ball: the best baby toy you can buy<br />
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<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I say balls are the best baby toy <b>you can buy</b> as I really love "toys" for baby that you do not need to buy. (That's another story) But every baby should have at least 1 ball.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">ACTIVITY: Offer your baby a ball to explore - touch, taste and look at. Watch it roll. Encourage her to see what else she can do with it. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">This will eventually help her learn to roll it, drop it in a box, and take it out again.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">EXTENSION: T</span></span><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">ry balls with different shapes and textures (bumpy, "kooshy", squishy etc.) </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Why? Because they </span></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">they make baby start to think about cause and affect</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">they can be played with alone or with a friend</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">vision as they watch the ball roll</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">eyes and hands working together as they try to reach and grab the ball</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">thinking as they try and work it out</span></li>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">You don't need a lot of toys for your baby but if you need to purchase something, maybe a gift for a child's friend, please consider buying it from <a href="http://astore.amazon.com/earlyplay-20?_encoding=UTF8&node=1" target="_blank"><b>my store</b></a>, where you will find 5 different balls and some other educational toys. The purchases at my Amazon store are at no extra cost to you than what you would pay directly from Amazon and they help support all the free information you find on this site. Thank you.</span></span></div>
Lee Goodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05911261310514786271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8951938372286576762.post-88898015416692590022012-04-27T22:11:00.001-07:002014-10-31T18:00:31.878-07:00Talking with your baby<div class="post-header">
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">"<em>Simply talking with an infant is a wonderful way to build attention, working memory, and self-control</em>." <span style="font-size: x-small;">Center on the Developing Child HARVARD UNIVERSITY</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Babies love "conversations" where there is give and take. Their response IS with gurgling and babbling. Talking with your baby will help them talk, trust and learn. Somewhere around 4 to 6 months of age many babies will start to make sounds like "mmm" or "bbb" to interact with you.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">The first language skill to develop is understanding what is heard. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">By around 6 months of age, most babies recognize the basic sounds of their parent's language.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Babies have the need for social interactions and lots of talk from loving adults also builds healthy relationships and social skills: building trust, dealing with emotional and physical needs, and interacting with others in positive ways. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Many babies will calm down or smile when spoken to like the baby in the photo above.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">By around 8 months of age some babies will try and imitate sounds that they hear. Keep in mind that all children vary in their development of language skills.</span></div>
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Reading aloud to your baby is a wonderful way to spend time together. Being read to is the beginning of the literacy and language skills needed for later reading. <br />
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It will help children understand that books are important, that you value books and what books are all about. <br />
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<b>When should you start reading to your baby?</b> <br />
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As early as possible. <br />
From birth they will enjoy being held and listening to your voice so this is a good time to read rhyming books like nursery rhymes or the Mem Fox selections below.<br />
By about 2 months babies may like to look at brightly coloured or contrasting pictures like the Tana Hoban books. <br />
By 4 or 5 months they will be reaching and grasping and enjoying books with different textures like touch and feel books.<br />
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<b>What books should I get for baby?</b><br />
Board books are great for babies up to 2 year olds or even older. They are strong enough not to tear when little fingers reach for them. <br />
Books made of material or plastic are also good.<br />
Any book you enjoy reading is wonderful as it is about baby hearing your voice. <br />
Books with simple, large pictures on a white background. <br />
Books with babies in them or animals in them.<br />
Books with photos of real things.<br />
Books with a few words on each page.<br />
Rhyming stories. <br />
Touch and feel books.<br />
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I Went Walking by Julie Vivas<br />
<a href="http://australianpicturebooks.blogspot.com.au/2011/09/ten-little-fingers-and-ten-little-toes.html"><span style="color: #2288bb;">Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes</span></a> by Mem Fox<br />
<a href="http://australianpicturebooks.blogspot.com.au/2011/08/where-is-green-sheep.html"><span style="color: #2288bb;">Where is the Green Sheep?</span></a> by Mem Fox<br />
Time for Bed by Mem Fox<br />
<a href="http://australianpicturebooks.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/nanas-colours-by-pamela-allen.html"><span style="color: #2288bb;">Nana's Colours</span></a> by Pamela Allen<br />
When I Was a Baby by Deborah Niland<br />
I can by Helen Oxenbury<br />
I touch by Helen Oxenbury<br />
Tickle tickle by Helen Oxenbury<br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0688119182/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0688119182&linkCode=as2&tag=cowbochron-20">Black on White by Tana Hoban</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=cowbochron-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0688119182" style="border: currentColor !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0688065635/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0688065635&linkCode=as2&tag=cowbochron-20">Red, Blue, Yellow Shoe by Tana Hoban</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=cowbochron-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0688065635" style="border: currentColor !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br />
White on black by Tana Hoban<br />
Who are they? by Tana Hoban<br />
Night-Night Baby, a Touch and Feel book<br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0746037821/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0746037821&linkCode=as2&tag=cowbochron-20">That's Not My Teddy by Fiona Watt</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=cowbochron-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0746037821" style="border: currentColor !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BR9V62O/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00BR9V62O&linkCode=as2&tag=cowbochron-20">Peek-A Who? by Nina Laden</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=cowbochron-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B00BR9V62O" style="border: currentColor !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
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<b>Reading tips</b><br />
Reading the same book over and over is usually enjoyed by babies and helps develop their language.<br />
Hold your baby when you are reading.<br />
You don't need to read the whole book at once.<br />
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Lee Goodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05911261310514786271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8951938372286576762.post-56502788855159847762012-04-27T19:15:00.002-07:002013-05-28T13:44:48.527-07:00Games for baby: Tummy Time<br />
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Please read my <a href="http://earlyplay.blogspot.com.au/2012/01/tummy-time.html">Tummy time article</a> to find out how to play this fun game</div>
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and why it is important.</div>
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Lee Goodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05911261310514786271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8951938372286576762.post-25146170685978435452012-04-27T19:01:00.002-07:002013-05-28T13:48:20.918-07:00Top 10 baby play activities<br />
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In no particular order:<br />
1. <a href="http://www.cyh.com/HealthTopics/HealthTopicDetails.aspx?p=114&np=301&id=1883"><span style="color: #2288bb;">Baby massage</span></a><br />
2. <a href="http://earlyplaybabyplay.blogspot.com.au/#!/2012/04/finding-faces.html">Finding Faces</a><br />
3. <a href="http://earlyplay.blogspot.com.au/2011/10/talking-with-your-baby.html"><span style="color: #2288bb;">Talking with your baby</span></a><br />
4. <a href="http://earlyplay.blogspot.com.au/2012/01/tummy-time.html"><span style="color: #2288bb;">Tummy Time</span></a> and Floor Time<br />
5. Outdoors<br />
6. <a href="http://earlyplay.blogspot.com.au/2011/03/songs-for-babies-and-toddlers.html"><span style="color: #2288bb;">Singing songs</span></a><br />
7. Dancing<br />
8. Stories and <a href="http://earlyplay.blogspot.com.au/2012/04/books-for-babies.html"><span style="color: #2288bb;">books</span></a><br />
9. <a href="http://earlyplaybabyplay.blogspot.com.au/#!/2012/06/baby-meditation.html">Meditation</a><br />
10. Make a mobile<br />
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What else would you add to the list for playing with babies?</div>
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