28 JUL 2011 by ideonexus Talk to Your Babies
2,100 words per hour in a variety of words. Babies are listening.
Folksonomies: parenting,babies,child development

21 JUL 2011 by ideonexus The Theory of Neuromuscular Maturation
Exercising babies in neuromotor skills appears to have no effect on the development of those skills. The infants body will acquire those skills when they are sufficiently developed for them.
Folksonomies: parenting,babies,infant development

21 JUL 2011 by ideonexus Hyperacuity and Obligatory Looking
Two visual phenomena in the developing infant. One is the ability to make out visual details for which the eye does not appear physically capable of registering and the other is a conflict between the visual cortex and the brain stem that gets the baby stuck staring at something.
Folksonomies: babies,vision,infant development

21 JUL 2011 by ideonexus Varying Breast Milk Flavoring
By eating a variety of differently flavored foods, like garlic, mint, vanilla, etc, the infant is exposed to a variety of flavors of breast milk,
Folksonomies: parenting,babies,breast feeding,infants,infant development

19 JUL 2011 by ideonexus The Importance of Nutrition in the Developing Mind
There is a crucial period in fetal development where nutrition is of the utmost importance to the growing brain. If these nutritional needs are not met, then the baby's intelligence may suffer.
Folksonomies: pregnancy,babies,health,fetal development

08 JUL 2011 by ideonexus Scientists Emulate Babies
We have even institutionalized an environment of infancy for scientists in academia, where they are allowed to explore freely in general research, understanding that the discoveries made there may hold great benefits for the human race. This meme also suggests that free inquiry is an important aspect of raising children and maintaining an environment of free inquiry for parents is important as well.
Folksonomies: science,babies,infancy,academia

08 JUL 2011 by ideonexus Looking at babies attentively makes us treat them differently.
Seeing babies as young adults makes us treat them humanely; whereas, in the past, babies were denied analgesia because it was thought that their primitive minds did not sense pain the way an adult's mind did.
Folksonomies: pseudoscience,babies,infancy,human rights

08 JUL 2011 by ideonexus Babies are Scientists
Their drive to play is a drive to explore, they are equipped with the cognitive and physical tools to explore their world and feed their curiosity about it.
Folksonomies: scientists,babies,development

08 JUL 2011 by ideonexus Nature VS Nurture in Child Development
Are babies programmed to go through their cognitive developments or are they the natural result of their reaching a certain critical mass of understanding?
Folksonomies: babies,development,nature vs nurture

08 JUL 2011 by ideonexus How Motherese Teaches Babies Language
With its characteristic slow, repetitive enunciation of the words in culture's language, Motherese seems like an instinctual way a mother habituates their child to the sound categorizations of their language. This begs the question: if the Motherese imitates the sounds of another language, would that stave off the child's failure to distinguish foreign sounds later on?
Folksonomies: babies,development,language