Of all the senses, hearing is the most well-developed at birth, providing one of the best opportunities to stimulate new babies and introduce their world to them. The development of hearing in newborns is so acute and rapid that by the age of five months, infants are typically able to determine the difference between two...
Tummy time is so important for babies to build a foundation of core strength that will help them in many motor developmental milestones. Babies can start tummy time as soon as they are born for just a few minutes per day and this can increase every day until they are getting up to an...
We read to our babies, sing to our babies, play Mozart, hang mobiles, buy brightly lit toys, always concerned with our babies’ senses of vision and hearing, but how often do we think about taste? The sense of taste is very acute at birth. At just seven to eight weeks gestation, taste buds start emerging and...
Your baby gains so much information from the world around her in her first year that her brain will actually double in weight and triple by age three. When she was born, the brain cells or neurons were all in place but there were very few connections between these cells. These connections occur through new...
The senses of smell and taste are both powerful and very acute at birth. Although the two senses are interpreted in different parts of the brain, the neural messages for taste and smell meet in the same part of the brain, called the insula. Babies are born with a very well-developed, almost primal sense...
Have you heard of the Word Gap? The Word Gap is a term that represents how many fewer words babies are exposed to in their first three years when parents don’t interact with them as often. Some parents just aren’t talkative, or they’re too busy, or dealing with stress in their lives. Other parents just...
The first way that babies are able to explore their world is though their skin. It is the largest organ, so it has the largest representation in their brain. By providing stimulation to your baby’s skin, you are teaching him a lot about his world. Tips to teach your baby about the world through touch:...
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math; our future, our present, our world! These concepts are not just relevant in terms of the job market or the future of education, but it is what’s important and relevant right now and it is trickling down to babies. Do babies need to have STEM skills? They most certainly do...
