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How Smart Is Your Baby?: Develop and Nurture Your Newborn's Full Potential (Gentle Revolution): Develop and Nurture Your Newborn's Full Potential (Gentle Revolution)Snagging.org In association with Amazon.co.ukOnline Shop | Property Guides | Kitchen & Home | Garden Tools | Power Tools | Consumer Electronics Get the Snagging Checklist Here! How Smart Is Your Baby?: Develop and Nurture Your Newborn's Full Potential (Gentle Revolution): Develop and Nurture Your Newborn's Full Potential (Gentle Revolution) by: Glenn Doman, Janet Doman  List Price: £13.99 Amazon.co.uk's Price: £11.39 You Save: £2.60 (19%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 649.122 EAN: 9780757001949 ISBN: 0757001947 Label: Square One Publishers Manufacturer: Square One Publishers Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 266 Publication Date: April 20, 2006 Publisher: Square One Publishers Studio: Square One Publishers Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Hothousing babies - scary stuff!Oh my goodness! Wouldn't generally give up my time to review something but felt an obligation to balance the 5 star reviews above. As an Educational Psychologist, mother of three and someone who is passionate about optimising child development, I was rather perturbed by this book. Indeed, I would strongly suggest that anyone set on buying it should ensure they obtain a balanced view of child rearing by agreeing to read something like 'Einstein Never Used Flashcards' before making up their mind about following some of the advice contained in here. The daily checklists here are insane and overwhelming - here's just a brief example for a 3-6month old: shining a light on and off for your baby 10x daily showing black and white pictorial cards 10x daily banging blocks to startle your baby 10x daily stimulating a vital response 12x daily (and that's just half of the daily sensory programme - bear in mind there's a daily motor programme too and lots of kit to make, such as crawling tracks around your bed, a neck brace, a climbing ladder). In fact, I wonder what SIDS researchers would make of the picture on page 71 where the newborn is encouraged to sleep face-down on a crawling track around the parents bed, with a blanket the child could easily slip down underneath and with not enough room each side of the baby for her to roll back to her back or free herself from being entangled in the bedcover??? The rationale for this is that "precious time will be wasted" (direct quote) is an infant is left to just sleep, without making the most of this opportunity to direct any sleep movements towards crawling behaviour. Worrying stuff!!!! The authors come from a background of working with brain-injured children, and I imagine that the repetitive drilling of some of the sensory activities might be warranted and help recovery in certain cases of special need (I have had experience of LOVAAS type drills having a similar beneficial effect with toddlers with autism) HOWEVER I would certainly be highly concerned about the artificiality, intensity, lack of spontaneity and adult-led rather than child-directed nature of this programme. If you're need any further convincing on the 'hothousing' aspect to this book, just check out the other titles from these authors - e.g. 'How to Give your Baby Encyclopedic Knowledge' or 'How to Teach your Baby to be Physically Superb'. I certainly believe in scaffolding an infant's development through a wide range of developmental opportunities (preferably spontaneously embedded in child-directed play and general day to day life) but this book does not fulfil such aims. Read with caution!!! Inflict/Impose upon your precious baby at your own peril!!!!! Rating:  - It's all about stimulationThis book is great if you are interested in the things you can do to support your baby's mental and physical development. There are some suggestions you may find too ambitous like building a crawling track around your own bed. Anyway I prefer having too much information rather than too little. You can then make up your mind what you use and how you can adapt things to your circumstances. If you use this as a workbook you will do at least six assessments with your child to find out what he/she can and cannot do yet. I think the book is brilliant if you want to know about the development of children within the first six years generally and how your own child fits into this; additionally it will have a lot suggestions how you can help your child on its way growing up. I highly recommend this book - there is nothing about it I did not like! Should be in every parents library I think. Rating: - Wrong Title :(I'm expecting my first child in 8 weeks and received this book (and How to teach your baby encylopedic knowledge) from my brother. At first I was highly sceptical because of the title. I expected it to be a book about pushing children into areas of skill or expertise at the worst or performing endless tests so a parent can brag to neighbours about how intelligent their child is at the best. How wrong I was and how delighted I am that my clever brother gave me these books. The idea of the book IS to use testing on your baby, but not for bragging rights. Tests include things like eye constriction monitoring (at the start of the babies life) to balance monitoring (a month or two later). The aim of the tests is to see where along the route of NATURAL human progression the child is so we can spot anything suspect and fix it so the child doesn't lag behind its own best potential. (If a childs eyes aren't responding efficiently to light then they aren't going to be able to see fine images properly and hence be slow developing reading. If their hearing isn't great then they aren't going to be able to speak properly or develop language correctly) With regards to the book itself-it is an easy to understand book in a pleasing format. Topics/tests build upon each other and the reasons for them are explained easily. A number of tools are required to perform some aspects, but all are cheap to make and instructions are given in very good detail. I haven't started yet but I'm looking forward to collecting the pictures of butterflies and ladybugs that the book suggest. Any parent who loves their child and wants to take an active role in developing them, instead of letting it happen by accident, will like this book too.  Try searching the Internet for "How Smart Is Your Baby?: Develop and Nurture Your Newborn's Full Potential (Gentle Revolution): Develop and Nurture Your Newborn's Full Potential (Gentle Revolution)" or Ebay for "How Smart Is Your Baby?: Develop and Nurture Your Newborn's Full Potential (Gentle Revolution): Develop and Nurture Your Newborn's Full Potential (Gentle Revolution)". You might also be interested in the following great products:
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