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Active Baby, Healthy Brain

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

by Margaret Sassé
Frances Page Glascoe
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"A fabulous legacy for our children and an excellent contribution to the area of children's health and well-being."—Oh Baby! magazine

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. Now Active Baby, Healthy Brain presents 135 massages, exercises, and activities that engage your child's love of play while also stimulating his or her brain development in multiple areas, including:

  • Balance
  • Cross-pattern movement
  • Visualization
  • Vestibular (inner ear) stimulation
  • Laterality
  • Fine and gross motor skills

    • Each activity is presented on its own page with step-by-step instructions, appealing illustrations, and illuminating sidebars. The detailed instructions tell you exactly how to do each activity, as well as how to incorporate toys, music, dance, and games. No single activity takes more than two minutes, and all that's required is ten minutes a day. More than thirty years in the making, Active Baby, Healthy Brain is an indispensable guide for everyone who is raising a child or who interacts with preschoolers.

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    • Release date

      January 12, 2010

    • Formats

      • OverDrive Read

        • ISBN: 9781615191109

      • EPUB ebook

        • ISBN: 9781615191109
        • File size: 6033 KB

    • Languages

      • English

    • Reviews

      • Publisher's Weekly

        December 21, 2009
        Sasse, founder of Australia-based ToddlerKindy GymbaROO, offers a practical handbook for parents hoping to boost their baby'sintellectual and physical development. The author, who died last year at the age of 80, divides her program into eight sections ranging from newborn to age five–and-a-half. In each, she offers specific, age-appropriate exercises and activities, accompanied by illustrations: each exercise takes only two minutes or less, totaling about 10 minutes per day. Along with instructions, the author provides the rationale behind each activity; for instance, in a section titled “vestibular fun,” she asserts that rocking chairs and swinging cradles not only lull an infant to sleep but also provide sensory stimulation, contributing to the accelerated development of motor skills. Sasse explains why “tummy time” is essential to building pathways in the baby's brain, and encourages the use of dance and music for stimulating nerve endings in the inner ear. For toddlers and older children, the author offers interactive activities that employ the use of beanbags, hoops, balls and other resources. Sasse's focus is on fun, but she also provides parents with an informative manual that outlines the crucial connections between movement and the health and development of body and brain.

      • Library Journal

        November 23, 2009
        Any time this columnist sees something about "maximizing brain development," a warning light goes off in her head. Like other paranoia-inducing texts, this book by late child development expert Sasse takes a normal, innate response like movement (just try to hold a baby and not rock) and says it's imperative to "overcom[e] primitive reflexes" and increase "vestibular stimulation." Whoa! Did you know motherhood required a Ph.D.? Get this: "To help your infant stimulate his eyes, show him flickering. Christmas tree lights, for a few minutes, four times a day." Approaching infancy like a recipe that will be spoiled should one misstep occur is not helpful or advisable. Too bad; the drawings are cute.-Julianne J. Smith, Ypsilanti Dist. Lib., MI

        Copyright 2009 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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