Baby Minds : Brain-Building Games Your Baby Will Love

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Summary: Good book for developing baby's mind
Review: This book recommends what types of stimulus help to promote optimal mental and emotional development. It's laid out fairly well and it a quick read. Use this book as a supplement to other baby mind books you'll get. What I like best about this book is at the end, it summarizes (in chart form) all the things you should be doing with the baby and at what age (such as what type of stimulus you should be giving the baby and what areas of cognitive or emotional development it stimulates). Again, get this in conjunction with other books, such as my favorite, "What's Going On In There?".

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Summary: Scientifically backed simple games
Review: This easy to read book presents scientific references, not merely personal opinions. A great source of useful ideas for constructive fun to have with baby from 0 to 3 years. Excellent layout of theory-evidence-game for each point gives pointers on how to create not "superbabies" but lively, alert and secure children who can actually read and interact, for instance, not just sit there watching TV and drooling from gaping maws.

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Summary: Brain-building for baby
Review: This is a great guide for parents who want to know how, when, and what to teach their babies. It goes into a thorough, but not complex description of how the brain grows and learns as well as how to teach baby.

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Summary: Brain-building for baby
Review: This is a great guide for parents who want to know how, when, and what to teach their babies. It goes into a thorough, but not complex description of how the brain grows and learns as well as how to teach baby.

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Summary: Deceptive Title
Review: When a book is titled "Baby Minds: Brain Building Games Your Baby Will Love", you would expect that games would be the focus of the book -- at least I did! Instead, the "games" are limited to a few tips. In fact, the authors summarize the "games" in a mere 4 pages at the end of the 190 page book. And as other reviewers have noted, many of the games are regurgitated ideas. (like "Have a Tea Party" or "limit television time" or "Read Nursery Rhymes") The informationon brain development is interesting, but I expected that to be the lesser portion of the book, give the focus of the title.