essential movement to enhance your baby's development in the first year
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August 2010
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Greetings!
If this is your first visit, we are delighted to introduce our new Amazing Babies Moving™ interactive website for parents, caregivers, educators and professionals. If you are a previous customer or have visited our Amazing Babies website before, you will notice that we have changed our logo to better reflect our focus on Movement. Our team has been working behind the scenes for many months to make this an informative and interactive learning experience for you.
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News! June 2010 |
| EI-CEU Credit for Early Intervention Professionals:
The Amazing Toddlers: Moving, Communicating, Learning Age 1 - DVD has once again been approved for EI CEU credit, available from the University of Illinois.
Abstract: This video helps the viewer discover how toddlers move to learn, communicate and interact in their environment.
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| Babies on the Move
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|  When we see babies as moving scientists, expansive explorers, eager investigators, delightful communicators, and improvisers in play, we can share in the joy of their self-motivated explorations as they move naturally to interact in their environment and gain a new perspective of their surroundings.
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| Parenting Through Movement for a Healthy Lifestyle
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FloorMoves Tips for You and Your Baby
If this is your first e-newsletter, refer to our FloorMoves Tips in our previous e-newsletters.
FloorMoves play with your baby is a delightful daily routine. when you provide your baby with enough floor space to play, your baby can in itiate her own movement explorations, making significant discoveries at each stage. When you are at your baby's level, she will be content to be on the floor, too. when she has completed an exploration, she may look up, wanting to play with you, and you will be right there, ready to join in one of her many spontaneous play interactions.
Minds on the Move
Creeping on hands and knees is the most sophisticated early locomotion pattern, a distinctly important stage of development.
One day when your baby is attracted by a toy, pet or flower in the garden she will rise to the occasion and begin creeping  forward to reach for it. At first, she may look a little awkward as she raises her belly off the floor and balances on hands and knees. It is incredible to think that it will take the next six months for your baby to refine her creeping skills in this cross-lateral movement pattern. Provide your baby with lots of opportunities to practice her creeping skills every day inside and outside.
Sense of Balance
Our sense of balance is located in the inner ear. The vestibular system analyzes movements throughout our whole body, contributing to the awareness of where we are in space and integrates with the reflexes to promote balance when we are moving.
Six-month-old babies reach forward or to the side to keep from falling when they lose their balance. This protective extension  reflex develops when babies are learning to sit and is essential for standing, cruising and walking.
Think of all the actions your baby will learn from infancy to toddlerhood that depend on the smooth functioning of this system: visual-movement coordination, locomotion, balance and equilibrium responses that we continue to rely on as adults.
Movement is Functional and Expressive
You can observe the functional aspect of movement in the way your baby performs a desired action - for example, when your baby comes to independent sitting or creeps away to get a toy. Functional movement includes a baby's motor development and learning skills. You can observe expressive movement in your baby's body language during social interactions. Notice the two aspects are not mutually exclusive.
· Your baby can accomplish her objective of pushing away a spoonful of spinach with a gesture that communicates exactly how she feels! |
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© e-newsletter 4 Beverly Stokes amazingbabiesmoving.com August 2010 |
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