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e-Newsletter 6 October 2010
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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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  • We are delighted to announce that a number of Early Childhood Education Programs have expanded using the Amazing Babies Moving Book in their programs. Following are comments from Prof. Marsha Peralta:

"Iʼve been using your book for the past 7 years, every semester. I usually have 100 students a semester so they are really getting a taste for appreciating these early developmental movement patterns. I will definitely invite students to join your Free e-Newsletter. This is a welcome addition to the class."
Marsha Peralta, Early Childhood Education Dept. Chair
Folsom Lake College, Folsom, CA

  • If you know of other ECE Programs that would be interested in our workshops and materials for their programs, please contact us:
  • [email protected]
Cooing, Vocalizing and Singing to your Baby
See the Article: Speaking in Tones, July/August 2010 issue of Scientific American Mind "Music and language are partners in the brain. Our sense of song helps us learn to talk, read and even make friends".

CooingWhen you observe your baby closely, you notice by her rapt attention that during these early months, cooing, crooning and singing lullabies delight and soothe your baby and importantly enhance mother-baby bonding.

The article continues: "Infants echo the inherent melodies of their native language when they cry, long before they can speak."

Your babyʼs first cries and your responses are the essence of all vocalized ʻcall and responseʼ games in social interactions. In these early months, you are also becoming more attuned to your babyʼs different crying sounds that communicate her needs more specifically.
Parenting Through Movement for a Healthy Lifestyle
FloorMoves Tips for You and Your Baby
If this is your first e-Newsletter, please refer to our FloorMoves Tips in our previous e-Newsletters. We are continuing to focus on the theme of Balance in Stability and Mobility that we wrote about in our last two e-Newsletters.


Balance in Independent Sitting

SittingSitting upright for the first time is a complex process. Even though babies may have good stability when propped in the sitting position, babies need to practice all their previous movement skills so they can reach independent sitting by themselves. These actions challenge your babyʼs balance and equilibrium responses as she coordinates her body to change body levels to sitting upright and reverse the sequence (see our e-Newsletter 4 for more information on the protective extension reflex).

This developmental movement milestone opens up a whole new world for your baby! Changing levels to reach independent sitting, frees arms and hands for playing with toys and objects, for reaching and pulling up to a standing position, and for gestures in communication.

Balance in New Walking

The age at which a toddler starts walking is agevariable. New walkers propel themselves through space, with arms out for balance, fast speed, short step, and a wide base of support. Balance, body coordination, and physical exuberance are accumulating in new actions, like running and stopping.

Often new walkers hold a toy or object in their hand to maintain or gain balance. Tipping side-to-side this toddler isnʼt quite vertical yet. When the environment becomes more challenging, walking on uneven ground such as sand, gravel, muddy and rocky country roads, stimulate his balance responses.

multiMulti-sensory experiences increase your toddlerʼs spatial awareness and requires different combinations of kinesthetic, visual and vestibular inputs about body balance.

Although new verbal skills are emerging, mastery of their body and environment is fundamental.

One mother told me that her child surprised her every day "with all the little things he does," but then she paused for a moment, and in a twinkling she said, "when you stop to think about it, they aren't little things, are they? - they are really big things!
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� e-newsletter 6 Beverly Stokes amazingbabiesmoving.com Oct. 2010