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Learning Early

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I bought this book when my now 3.3 year old was an infant. I have followed the checklist, completed the activities and now I have what I would call an active, well balanced, extremely smart (dare I say gifted) precocious child that everyone loves and declares is a pistol.

If you are looking for true milestone marks and are truly interested in developing your child then this is the book for you. If you are just into the whole unschooling---"my child will pick this up on their own..." then this is not the book for you. This book is a how to help your child develop and to keep developing. If your child is showing reading readiness then you will know what to do next.

This book is consulted before I buy toys, new curriculum and almost weekly I just review where he is headed. It is easy to use and if we are needing help in a particular area I know this is the book I can turn to because it is divided into easy to understand sections.

This book and "Your Self Confident Baby" , and "You are Your Child's First Teacher" are the parenting books that are still on my shelves. Sadly, those other experts are packed away with the other baby things he has outgrown.

Buy this and know that it is money well spent and that your child will benefit greatly.

The book is one of the best I've run into around the topic of child development. This is NOT a book about children's issues when growing up or what to do if they run a fever (you need to get your copy of the APA's book "Caring for Your Baby and Young Child: Birth to Age 5" for that purpose!). It is a book that covers the different aspects of child development (movement, senses, language, etc.) by time periods, so that you can understand what you child can or cannot do at a point in his/her life, as well as what you -as a caring parent- can do to help stimulate the child with games and activities. Complementing the excellent and well laid out content, the book is packed with lots of color photos (not illustrations) and comes with a very solid binding -in spite of being a paperback edition- which is important considering that it wil have to last you at least five years.

After having searched for a while, we settled on this book, along with Edward De Bono's "Teach Your Child How to Think", to help with the physical and intellectual growth of our little one.

I bought this book for a friend of mine who was about to have her first child. I am a speech-language pathologist, so I am versed in the language development of children. After reviewing a lot of child development books, found that most of them have TOO much information and read a little like a medical dictionary. The information in this book is brief, to the point, and easy to access. It also includes suggestions for activities to encourage development across a multitude of areas including fine motor skills, language, gross motor, and social. It is not a reference book for figuring out different ailments, more of a reference of what to expect at what age, from birth through 6 years of age.

As a new parent, I consult this book every now and then to find activities that are age appropriate for my child. The book explains how children develop and what to expect. It certainly helped me to deal with my concerns that my son would not look at me or turn his head when he was a one-month old baby.

This book is great for study at university. My professor didn't say anything about it because he didn't know the book, but for the student is very easy to learn all the development stages, so necessary for later in teaching.
Great!!
I hope to find the same structure book for kids in school 6-12 years

This is a book that helps parents learn about how their children learn. I really appreciated how the author included charts, pictures, and subtitles for the topics. It makes a fun read, but it can also be scanned for quick reference. Ever wonder when your child will start to ________, and why? This book probably has the answer. For example, "Hand training activities" is one section with activities to help this area of development. The content of the book is helpful for those of us who have the time to direct our children toward certain activities and games in order to foster development. Also, great for those of us to whom this knowledge is not common sense - lots of great ideas. The author gives background about why things develop they way they do, followed by activites to help development, stages, time frames. It is a practical, helpful book. One point of interest is that the book is structured like a quick reference book, a plus, but it does make it seem over-whelming. Overall, a gem (should be on every parents bookshelf).