The benefits of music to your new baby's development are enormous. Using music with your baby can be defined in any of the following ways: first songs and rhymes making music musical games and simply having music all around them. In the book "Brilliant Brain games for Kids to enjoy" published by Hamlyn there are several research statistics about the benefits of music to your babies development and I thought I would share some of them with you: "Early childhood musical (or rhythm and rhyme) experiences, especially if they involve the parents are one of the most powerful ways to acclerate the 'wiring up' of a child's brain" "Music stimulates all the senses, training your child's brain t
Roadtest: Activity Books for Babies I am constantly reading early childhood development books for ideas to use in my classes and thought that you may all be interested in my thoughts on three of the best that I have come across. Games Babies Play: from birth to twelve months - Vicky Lanky (Book Peddlers) http://www.bookpeddlers.com/ http://www.practicalparenting.com/ This book divides the games into a chronological order that has inspired the structure of the BabyLoveMusicFun program. The four sections are:birth to 3 months; 3-6 months; 6-9 months and 9-12 months. I found the book perfect for the first 12 months with my baby and could easily flip to a section have a quick read an
