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How to Teach Your Baby to Be Physically Superb

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The main issue of this book is that mental and physical development of a baby are tightly coupled. Physically perfect body gives more blood, oxygen and energy to the brain which reinforces the development of the body, which is most obvious for ages up to 36 months.

The author splits the development of the brain and the body to seven stages depending on age, and gives methods and joyful exercises for a baby to be physically superb.

I do not get enough time to follow all the methods, but I still did few things as per book. My son stands by himself at eactly 7 months. He started climbing stairs at 7 month. I put him on the floor more often. This book is surely helpful.
Only thing is it's difficult to make things like dowel between doors, track. They should sell those items too as part of the kit.

This book will give you a greater insight into the physical development of your child and what to do to fulfill its potential, instead of letting your child grow "by accident."

I love this book! I got it when my daughter was about 18 months old. We have made the dowel to hang on in the doorway, a balance beam, and recently made monkey bars and a trapeze, all in our house! She absolutely loves them and it takes up so much time during the day and is so good for her development, instead of us sitting around bored or doing the same old things. She is 2 years 4 months and can do the monkey bars, with my help. Her friends who come over also love all these things too! I have learned so much from this book, and other Doman books, it really has changed my thinking about babies and small kids, and my whole approach to raising them.

I am looking forward to doing the newborn and baby things with my baby who is due in a couple months. You can pick and choose what you feel comfortable with. I will not be putting my baby to sleep on her tummy, so I just ignore that part of the book. We have already made a crawling track for the baby and are excited to see her use it and get mobile and actually be able to do stuff instead of be stuck on her back upside down! I would also recommend the book How Smart Is Your Baby for birth to one year.

I cannot recommend this enough!

This book was great, easy to read and very informative. The author gives parents guidance on raising a "Superb" child, but then says that we should only do what we feel comfortable with. I recommend this book to all parents and expecting...

The main issue of this book is that mental and physical development of a baby are tightly coupled. Physically perfect body gives more blood, oxygen and energy to the brain which reinforces the development of the body, which is most obvious for ages up to 36 months.

The author splits the development of the brain and the body to seven stages depending on age, and gives methods and joyful exercises for a baby to be physically superb.

This book makes a very important point - TUMMY TIME. When I read the analogy of a baby lying face up in a cot to an upside down turtle, I thought, that is so right! But that is probably all you need to know from this book.

I followed much of the book for about 2 months when my baby was 4 months old but didn't notice any positive difference in her. We did the exercises and it happened that one of my friends has a crawling track and she lent it to us. The track was torture for my little girl. All she did was cry when placed on it and subsequently would cry even just catching sight of it. The exercises are not difficult, but I won't say she enjoyed them. Maybe if we started the program at birth she may have liked the crawling track. My daughter rolled over at 5 months, sat up at 5 months and then belly crawled at 6 months. She walked at 12 months.

In hindsight, I feel a little silly and selfish for putting my daughter through the program. So what if she walked at 9 months? Will that go on her resume? Doman's children may all have been physically superb as children, but did any of them become Olympians or important people? I'd be interested to know. I respect Doman for his work with children with special needs (I have one myself), but for a typically developing child without any delays, I think they'd be more happy with a few more cuddles and a walk in the park.

An amazing book that teaches parents, step by step, how can we help our children to be phisically superb. It includes fabolous charts about the brain stages development and the different competences that a child, between 0 months and 6 years, should accomplish, with detail exercises and games for you to practice with your kids. I totally recommend this book!

I can tell only on my own experience with my baby, the book works, largely has been said nobody teach us to be parents, well somehow this books taught me :) and has made the experience of raising a kid more enjoyable, usually with the first child we overprotect it but the book points lot of common sense along with practical methods that really has helped our baby greatly in just few months, she barely creep at 7 months and we started with the method at 10 months, now she is 1 year and 1 month (3 months later) she already walks and start to talk and climb stairs i mean she has developed so quickly and showed me that giving enough opportunity and encourage your baby while playing can do wonders, this is my first child and really feel I'm giving a great opportunity to develop her potential.

This book is quite a breath of fresh air - addresses an area that has been ignored. Pity that it's on limited availability at this time.

This is a guide to how parents can encourage and maximise the opportunities for babies to develop physically (from birth to pre-school). The underlying premise here is that not only is a baby a latent genius intellectually, but also physically.

The book shows how babies have to progress one step at a time, from crawling, to creeping, to balancing, to brachiating (ie swinging), to standing, to walking, to running. Various exercises are suggested for each stage to help development along. The key is that the development of each motor skill corresponds to the development of a specific part of the brain that manage such activity (medulla, pons, cortex, etc). Each activity is a prerequisite and foundation for the succeeding one. Mr Doman asserts that physical development will stimulate and maximise mental development. If you're looking for scientific research and citations for his assertions, you won't find much, as he says that most of the conclusions and practices were developed in-house at his Institutes.

The exercises (and instructions for making various equipment) are well described, with many photographs of joyful children doing them. Like his other books, Mr Doman's joy with his work and with children clearly shines through, and reading his book is an uplifting experience.

More controversially, he is an advocate of the baby spending more time on its tummy in order to develop the ability to crawl & creep. An increased risk of SIDS? He is also very negative on strollers and playpens that restrict mobility (and by implication, physical and mental development of the baby). To an extent, one will have to choose the extent to which one wants to integrate his recommendations into busy lives.

Personally, my conclusion is that what he says makes sense, and I will certainly try his recommendations after the birth of my first child.