Music and the mind
Your toddler is sitting on the kitchen floor humming to himself and making more noise than you thought possible with two wooden spoons and a saucepan. While it may seem like noise to you, you might want to consider that, to your child, this activity is experimentation in music. His little brain is being benefited, even as yours begins to throb.
In the past 10 years, research in the impact of music...
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Children need play
Unstructured play is not a luxury; it is essential to child development, experts agree. Yet in today’s harried, hurried, overscheduled world, children have less free time than ever, and that has consequences.
Children need to play out relationships and fantasies; that it is how they learn about themselves, says T. Berry Brazelton, the preeminent childhood specialist at Harvard University, in his...
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Book of the Month: Infants and Mothers — Differences in Development
by Ann Grauer, CD(DONA), IBCLC
Infants and Mothers:
Differences in Development
by T. Berry Brazelton, M.D.
(Reviewed by Columbia Center's Ann Grauer)
If you want to know about babies, T. Berry Brazelton, M.D., is the man to tell you! In the past, we've reviewed his fabulous book, Touchpoints and we decided it was time to call your attention to his first book, Infants and Mothers: Differences in Development. The first edition was...
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