How Smart Is Your Baby?: Develop And Nurture Your Newborn's Full Potential (Gentle Revolution) [Paperback]

Glenn J. Doman (Author), Janet Doman (Author)

Book Description

Series: Gentle Revolution | Publication Date: February 28, 2006

The first months after birth are vital to the long-term well-being of a child. Yet parents do not have the information they need to make their baby’s life as stimulating as it should be. How Smart Is Your Baby? provides parents with all the information required to help their baby achieve full potential. The authors first explain infant growth, and then guide parents in creating a home environment that enhances brain development. A developmental profile allows parents to track their child’s progress, determine strengths, and recognize where additional stimulation is needed.

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About the Author

Glenn Doman received his degree in physical therapy from the University of Pennsylvania in 1940. From that point on, he began pioneering the field of child brain development. In 1955, he founded The Institutes' world-renowned work with brain-injured children had led to vital discoveries regarding the growth and development of well children. The author has lived with, studied, and worked with children in more than one hundred nations, ranging from the most civilized to the most primitive. Doman is also the international best-selling author of six books, all part of the Gentle Revolution Series, including How To Teach Yor Baby To Read, How To Teach Your Baby Math, and How To Give Your Baby Encyclopedic Knowledge.

Janet Doman is the director of The Institutes and Glenn’s daughter. She was actively involved in helping brain-injured children by the time she was nine years old, and after completing her studies at the University of Pennsylvania, devoted herself to helping parents discover the vast potential of their babies and their own potential as teachers.

Product Details

• Paperback: 266 pages
• Publisher: Square One Pub (February 28, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0757001947
• ISBN-13: 978-0757001949
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #158,997 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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35 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book, very practical, *very* effective!!!, August 11, 2006

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This review is from: How Smart Is Your Baby?: Develop And Nurture Your Newborn's Full Potential (Gentle Revolution) (Paperback)

As an Engineer, I feel much more comfortable with proven methods over theory and hearsay. So, when I first read "How to Teach Your Baby Math" and "How to Teach Your Baby to Read", I was a bit skeptical. I wanted to see results for myself. After just a few months of working with our daughters, the methods' positive effects were obvious. We stopped wondering if the programs worked, and started wishing we had started from birth.

"How Smart is Your Baby" was released the following year, the same month our son Vaughn was born. We applied the book's suggestions from the moment we brought him home from the hospital.

Vaughn is our 3rd child, and he has far exceeded the developmental rate of his siblings. Childcare professionals have commented on how strong, alert, and developed he seems. Even our pediatrician was taken aback. At his 4 month check-up, I received the usual string of questions: "can he do this yet... is he doing that yet...". After repeatedly answering, "he's been doing that for over a month now", I ran down his list of milestones... crawled 10-football fields by 2 months, baby-talk and laughing by 2½, rolling over by 3, holding breath underwater, etc. For the first time in 3 babies, our doctor looked up from her clipboard and said "wow, whatever you guys are doing at home, keep it up... he's doing great!"

"What we're doing at home" is covered quite explicitly in "How Smart is Your Baby?" This book is very reader-friendly and the suggestions are incredibly effective. It has become unquestionably clear to me that a child's abilities are dependent on his opportunities to develop those abilities. This book gives every parent the tools to play an active role in that development.

Thank you, IAHP!

17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If you read one book on infant stimulation, make it "How Smart is Your Baby", August 13, 2006

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Apollonio Canepa "Mariposa" (Phildelphia, PA) - See all my reviews
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When I became pregnant with my first child six years ago, one of the first things that I did was go to a bookstore to begin my reference library for babies. Along with the classics "What to Expect When Your Expecting" and the like, there are a sea of infant stimulation books. I think that I read the good majority of them, if not all. At that time, "How Smart is Your Baby" had not been published, but the book that did stay with me was "How To Teach Your Baby to Read". It was the only book that actually teaches you how to joyously and systematically stimulate your child. I have since read "How Smart is Your Baby" and it combines the principles of infant stimulation contained in all the other books written by Janet, Douglas and Glenn Doman.

Many years and three children later, I live the principles of this book every day. The joie de vivre that infuses our lives cannot be measured.

This is an easy to read book. Even if you decide not to apply the principles, you owe it to your child to read this book. You'll never see child development in the same way again and your understanding of your own child will be the reward.

16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Needs the sequel + helpful for brain injured too, November 9, 2006

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I'm not going to say what the book is about as I think some of the other reviews cover this fairly well. I'll recommend the book for the following reasons:

1) This is a nice companion to the book "What To Do About Your Brain-injured Child..." It is an organized guide that takes you step by step through the first four levels of the IAHP Developmental Profile showing you specifically what to look for during evaluations and giving you clear guidelines for how to address areas that need further improvement. Now a book is needed to address the next three levels.

2) Though I was seriously considering home schooling my child on the condition that he still be allowed to participate in school sports/activities to socialize, I probably wouldn't have bothered with a book like this prior to my son being born, figuring kids should be allowed to enjoy their childhood, but Doman makes alot of sense to me and I think you can still apply alot of their techniques and simultaneously let kids enjoy being children.

3) Had I used this book with my son from the start, I might have discovered some of the brain injuries much sooner and certainly addressed them via their techniques much sooner. So even if you don't want to make a super kid, I recommend you at least use the book as a diagnostic because it will help you catch things that your child's doctor might miss as he/she rushes through a so-called "well checkup" or more importantly it might help you catch subtle changes that occur in your child if he gets injured after he or she is born.