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Seven Month Old Developmental Check-In (Stage III, Midbrain and Subcortical Areas)

Early last June, sitting in a hospital bed holding my tiny newborn, all wrinkled, blotchy-skinned, and helpless, it was hard to fathom that in just a little over 200 days he would be creeping [crawling], standing, “talking”, understanding, and charming

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Tutorial: How to Make a Picture Detail Checkerboard (Infant Visual Stimulation)

In How Smart is Your Baby, Glenn Doman recommends adding different colored silhouettes of various objects to your baby’s checkerboard, and rotating them regularly so that they don’t become “like old wallpaper: beloved but not very stimulating“. Once baby is seeing

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Tutorial: How to Make a Checkerboard (Infant Stimulation)

It is now well-recognized that newborns prefer looking at bold, black and white patterns.< Less recognized is that by looking at these patterns, baby’s vision will actually grow because he is using it and strengthening his weak eye muscles by

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Sensory Play: Mud

Hunter and Anthony had a fun little encounter with nature today – mud. They were playing in the backyard and wandered back by the garden area, and when I went back to check on them they had both been dabbling

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