How to Boost Your Baby's Brain Power
Alice Sterling Honig, Ph. D. at Syracuse University offers 20 ways to help nurture and develop your baby's brain power. Among them:
1. "Sing songs... The body motions and finger play will help your baby integrate sounds with large and small motor actions. Songs also enhance your child's learning of rhythms, rhymes, and language patterns."
2. "Use body massage to decrease your infant's stress and enhance her feelings of well-being and emotional security. Loving touches promote growth in young babies."
3. "Have meaningful conversations. Respond to infant coos with delighted vocalizations. Slowly draw out your syllables in a high-pitched voice as you exclaim, 'Pretty baby!' This talk is called 'parentese.' The areas in the brain for understanding speech and producing language need your rich input."
4. "Build trust by being attentive and focused. Babies who are securely attached to you emotionally will be able to invest more life energy in the pleasures of exploration, learning, and discovery."
5. "Express joy and interest in your baby. Let your body language, your shining eyes, your attentiveness to babbling and baby activities, and your gentle caresses and smiles validate the deeply lovable nature of your little one."
Hmmm, this sounds a lot like our Kindermusik Village classes! You can read her full article here: 20 Ways to Boost Your Child's Brain Power
Alice Sterling Honig, Ph.D. Alice Sterling Honig is a professor emerita of child development at Syracuse University. She has done extensive research and written books and articles on infants and toddlers, language development, child care practices, preschooler social development, fathering, and the effects of divorce on children. Annually, she teaches workshops for caregivers of infants and toddlers, and she has lectured widely. Dr. Honig is a licensed psychologist and a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and of the Society for Research in Child Development.
1. "Sing songs... The body motions and finger play will help your baby integrate sounds with large and small motor actions. Songs also enhance your child's learning of rhythms, rhymes, and language patterns."
2. "Use body massage to decrease your infant's stress and enhance her feelings of well-being and emotional security. Loving touches promote growth in young babies."
3. "Have meaningful conversations. Respond to infant coos with delighted vocalizations. Slowly draw out your syllables in a high-pitched voice as you exclaim, 'Pretty baby!' This talk is called 'parentese.' The areas in the brain for understanding speech and producing language need your rich input."
4. "Build trust by being attentive and focused. Babies who are securely attached to you emotionally will be able to invest more life energy in the pleasures of exploration, learning, and discovery."
5. "Express joy and interest in your baby. Let your body language, your shining eyes, your attentiveness to babbling and baby activities, and your gentle caresses and smiles validate the deeply lovable nature of your little one."
Hmmm, this sounds a lot like our Kindermusik Village classes! You can read her full article here: 20 Ways to Boost Your Child's Brain Power
Alice Sterling Honig, Ph.D. Alice Sterling Honig is a professor emerita of child development at Syracuse University. She has done extensive research and written books and articles on infants and toddlers, language development, child care practices, preschooler social development, fathering, and the effects of divorce on children. Annually, she teaches workshops for caregivers of infants and toddlers, and she has lectured widely. Dr. Honig is a licensed psychologist and a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and of the Society for Research in Child Development.
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