Sing and play with your little one as you learn all about the body!

Create the brain connections needed for future learning all while having fun.

Play that stimulates young minds. Play is the language that babies know best. Here, readers will find over 300 games to play with infants from one week to eighteen months old. Divided into games that stimulate cognitive, language, emotional, and social development, this book will delight parents and babies as it helps foster mental and physical growth. • Written by an internationally recognized authority on brain games for babies • No other book on infant play has as many games or is as effective in linking games with their mental and physical health benefits • Focused on helping parents teach their babies how to learn, rather than pushing them beyond their developmental level

Finger plays (creative bodily movement opportunities) have been used with children for many years. However, no one stressed the fact that one of the best reasons for using them with learners ties in with motor and language development. By using finger plays we offer the learner an opportunity to not only strengthen motor and language development but also to develop more positive self-esteem and memory development as enjoyment of these finger plays occurs.

“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.

125 Brain Games for Toddlers and Twos Did You Know the Brain of a Toddler... has formed 1000 trillion working connections by the end of the third year (twice as many as adults have!); is twice as active as that of a college student ; can absorb and organize new information much faster than an adult's brain can. A young child's brain grows at a phenomenal rate in the first years of life, opening a window of opportunity for learning that occurs only once in a lifetime. 125 Brain Games for Toddlers and Twos is a fun-filled collection of ways to lay the groundwork for your child's future. It is packed with everyday opportunities to contribute to brain development during the critical period from 12-36 months. Each game is accompanied by information on related brain research and a description of how the activity promotes brain power in your child.

Every child needs love and physical care, but also play that stimulates their thinking and helps boost their brain power. By playing with parents, grandparents and carers children can build their social and creative skills and get the mental stimulus that develops their brains. In Brain Games for Your Child Robert Fisher draws on his thirty years of research into children's thinking and learning to provide over 200 games to help children to build their thinking, number, language and social skills.From music and art games, treasure hunts and card games, word games and number battles there are games that can be played by all the family that will create bonds and build memories and help boost your child's brain power. Included are old favourites as well as new games, but what is common to all the games is interaction with other people, rather than with electronic screens, where communicating and playing with others provides the basis for developing the full range of a child's abilities.Brain Games for Your Child provides games to create a happy learning environment, encouraging educational skills through games that are fun. It provides a wealth of games to play with children of all abilities during the all-important first 10 years of life. This is an essential guide for raising a happier, brighter and more sociable child.

We are handed the baby after delivery, which is the most important job we will ever have. Birth is an amazing experience but then what do we do? We are given the enormous task of promoting child development from birth through adolescence. Whether the baby is born with or without challenges, this book will help guide you to integrate primitive reflexes, achieve motor milestones and attain goals. Ten Fingers Ten Toes will teach you specific therapeutic sequencing. These techniques can lead to rewiring the brain to achieve neuroplasticity for children.

In Games to Play with Babies, readers will find over 250 exciting games which allow babies to explore the world around them. The sections, like Growing and Learning Games, Laughing and Having Fun Games, and Going to Sleep Games, are grouped according to age and describe what babies will learn at each developmental level. 236 illustrations.