SUPERBABY
12 Ways to Give Your Child a Head Start in the First 3 Years
By Dr. Jenn Berman
Foreword by Alan Greene, MD, author of Raising Baby Green
Straight from the Publisher:
Raising a superbaby is not about creating an überbaby: a perfect, genius who will get into all the right preschools and colleges. Instead, it is about raising a child who is empathetic, resilient, and is emotionally intelligent. It is about nurturing a baby to help her reach her full potential.
The first three years of life are the most important in a child’s development: babies start forming attachments, developing a sense of self, and learning to trust. During this time, there are critical windows of opportunity that parents can take advantage of—if they know how. In SuperBaby: 12 Ways to Give Your Child a Head Start in the First 3 Years Dr. Jenn Berman gives parents the knowledge they need to make the most of these windows for their child’s optimal mental and emotional growth.
In each chapter of SuperBaby, Dr. Jenn focuses on one of twelve areas that greatly impact a baby’s development. These include respectful communication, responding to cues, creating security and predictability, the importance of touch, promoting language development, sign language, foreign language, the importance of play, reading, screen (tv) time, reducing exposure to toxic chemicals, and eating & nutrition. You’ll learn:
! Easy steps to reduce resistance and avoid tantrums
! The two “Qs” parents need to know about to promote language development
! The truth about learning toys and videos
! How to use play to develop key social, intellectual, and emotional skills
! When and how to start reading to your child
! The three ASL signs that will make your baby’s life easier
! The seven most important ingredients to avoid in your child’s food
! How to teach good sleep habits from the start
! Simple ways to reduce toxic chemical exposure at home
Dr. Jenn shares important research, her clinical experience, and her personal stories as a mother of twins. She has also included “From the Experts” sidebars from leading experts such as Dr. Harvey Karp, Dr. Bob Sears, Dr. Jane Nelson, Jim & Charles Fay, Dr. Tanya Remer-Altmann, Dr. Scott Cohen, Ruth Yaron, The Campaign for Commercial-free Childhood, The Alliance for Childhood, Healthy Child Healthy World, the Environmental Working Group, and many others. Filled with tables, lists, helpful scripts, recommended books, and resources, SuperBaby is a book you’ll refer to again and again for common sense and research-based advice on successful, real-world parenting.
So far this book is great though I don't agree with everything in it, it's a logical explanation of everyday situations. In the first 24 pages I have already learned so much I love it. Can't wait to finish and read it again.
Tobyn's first Christmas was a simple celebration with just our newly started family. We kept warm and personal just as any Hawaii holiday. I am so proud of our ohana though we are sad that all of our family could not be together we made the best of this special day. I especially loves our charlie brown tree it was not very big with few decorations on one side it was enough to bring out some christmas cheer. In Hawaii its easy to lose your sense of winter and Christmas when it's a consistent 80 degrees outside. It defiantly snuck up on us this year. All of the presents were for Toby it's to hard to resist buying him items especially when he needed winter clothing. He enjoy it so much that he got so excited he threw up all over his Christmas outfit, before I could get a picture of him in it :( It was cute too it said Daddy's little elf. These holidays has surely been in the Green side of things; we received Tobyn in Thanksgiving and then have more than enough gifts and love for Christmas. I look forward to what the new year has in store for us. There is our adventure in Korea and a brand new start as a family. I can't wait to see what God has planned, I know it's going to be something extraordinary. Wishing Everyone the best for the holidays. We are thankful for all the wonderful people in our live and especially thankful for our little miracle.
