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Little Steps for New Parents A Weekly Guide for Developing Your Baby’s Intelligence Sandy Briggs Parenting/Family Care $15.95 Pages: 128 pages, Size: 8 x 9 Published: April, 2003 ISBN: 1-932181-04-0

Description:

Organized into 52 weekly lessons corresponding with a baby's age, this guide teaches parents about their baby's brain development as it happens. Each week's activity combines building a child's intelligence and emotional control with natural parenting instincts. These activities support a baby's strong motivation to learn and teach parents how infants learn, allowing parents to create more fun and instructive activities on their own. Feeding, safety, and health are addressed in the appropriate weeks. Parents can also record fun things the baby learned or did that week, creating a personalized keepsake.

Author Biography:

Many people have told Sandy that they wish they’d had the information in her book when they first became parents.  She does, too! Sandy became a mother at a very young age.  Her two sons were born in less than optimal circumstances.  Fortunately for Sandy and her children, the grandparents embraced the family’s situation and her children grew up just fine.  For many years Sandy worked with people as a career coach and became fascinated by how people learn and think, and about what motivates them.  She asked herself: How do people develop a life that’s satisfying and fulfilling? When research began to appear about how important an infant’s formative years are to his future success, she became curious and excited. Two questions seemed to drive her as she plowed into a growing mass of research on early brain development. What do parents need to know and what do parents need to do? Little Steps grew out of her search for these answers.

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