Active Baby, Healthy Brain: 135 Fun Exercises and Activities to Maximize Your Child's Brain Development from Birth Through Age 5 1/2

Active Baby, Healthy Brain: 135 Fun Exercises and Activities to Maximize Your Child's Brain Development from Birth Through Age 5 1/2

Active Baby, Healthy Brain: 135 Fun Exercises and Activities to Maximize Your Child's Brain Development from Birth Through Age 5 1/2

Active Baby, Healthy Brain: 135 Fun Exercises and Activities to Maximize Your Child's Brain Development from Birth Through Age 5 1/2

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Overview

“A fabulous legacy for our children and an excellent contribution to the area of children’s health and well-being.”—Oh Baby! magazine

Movement, play, and active exploration in the first five years of a child’s life are essential to the development of his or her body and brain. Now Active Baby, Healthy Brain presents 135 massages, exercises, and activities that engage your child’s love of play while also stimulating his or her brain development in multiple areas, including:

  • Balance
  • Cross-pattern movement
  • Visualization
  • Vestibular (inner ear) stimulation
  • Laterality
  • Fine and gross motor skills

Each activity is presented on its own page with step-by-step instructions, appealing illustrations, and illuminating sidebars. The detailed instructions tell you exactly how to do each activity, as well as how to incorporate toys, music, dance, and games. No single activity takes more than two minutes, and all that’s required is ten minutes a day. More than thirty years in the making, Active Baby, Healthy Brain is an indispensable guide for everyone who is raising a child or who interacts with preschoolers.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781615191109
Publisher: The Experiment
Publication date: 01/12/2010
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 160
Sales rank: 873,190
File size: 6 MB

About the Author

Margaret Sasse founded Toddler Kindy GymbaROO in Australia in 1982, which now has 85 centers, 16 of them based internationally. She is an acknowledged authority on infant development, and has written and produced several books and videos.

Melbourne-based artist Georges McKail has supplied many delightful illustrations for Margaret Sasse's books.

Table of Contents

Foreword Frances Page Glascoe, PhD 9

Terms used in this book 10

Preface 13

Nutrition 14

Stage A Birth to 6 months 15

Basic activities 15

Helping your infant's development 16

Inhibition of the primitive reflexes 17

Massage, massage, massage ... 18

... and more massage 19

General infant activities 20

Infant exercises 21

Vestibular stimulation 22

Floor playtime 23

Tummy time is vital 24

Brain stimulation: dancing 25

Music for all ages 26

Exercises: 2-6 months 27

Exercises for hips and limbs 28

Vestibular fun 29

More vestibular fun 30

Nursery rhymes, rhythm, and song 31

Vision: Birth to 2 months 32

Vision: 2-6 months 33

Forward movement: 3-6 months 34

Muscle tone development 35

Legs, feet, and hands stimulation 36

Movement stimulation 37

Vestibular stimulation 38

Stage B 6-12 months 39

Creeping, cruising, walking 39

Massage 40

Massage, exercises, music 41

Tummy time 42

Crawling on the front 43

Bottom shufflers 44

Shoulders, arms, and hands development 45

Balance through muscle tone stimulation 46

Creeping activities 47

Ladders 48

Cruising, bobbing, and thinking 49

Exercises: 10-12 months 50

Dancing 51

Rocking, swinging, and jiggling 52

Visualization 53

Stage C Walking to 18 months 54

Massage, music, and songs 55

Basic motor planning: 12-15 months 56

Balance: 15-18 months 57

Developmental activities: 15-18 months 58

Upper body development: 15-18 months 59

Vestibular stimulation 60

Rolling and tipping backward 61

Rockin' and rollin' 62

Music, rhythm, and song 63

Dance exercises 64

Vision 65

Visualization 66

Stage D 18-24 months 67

Massage68

Massage through exercise and song 69

Exercise to music 70

Nursery rhyme movements 71

Muscle tone development 72

Upper body development 73

Animal locomotion 74

Vestibular bending and spinning 75

Wheelbarrows, swinging, and spinning 76

Balance 77

Further Balance 78

Rhythm band 79

Motor planning through dance 80

Sensory motor perceptual activities 81

Beanbags and balloons 82

Balls 83

Hoops 84

Ribbons and cords 85

Visual tracking 86

Visualization 87

Stage E 2-2½ years 88

Massage in crocodile position 89

Angels in the sand 90

Body awareness and vestibular stimulation 91

Rolling and tumbling 92

Swinging and spinning 93

Wobble board and balance beam 94

Motor planning: dance 95

Music, rhythm, nursery rhymes, and songs 96

Rhythm sticks 97

Beanbags 98

Balls 99

Hoops 100

Ribbons and cords 101

Vision 102

Visualization 103

Stage F 2½-3½ years 104

Massage in crocodile position 105

Tiger creeping 106

Finger awareness 107

Mini-trampoline exercises 108

Body awareness and concepts 109

Spinning and swinging 110

Animal balance positions 111

Wobble board 112

Laterality for 3-year-olds 113

Cross-pattern movements 114

Music, dance, and rhythm 115

Rhythm sticks 116

Beanbags 117

Balls 118

Hoops 119

Ribbons and cords 120

Visual stimulation 121

Visualization 122

Stage G 3½-4½ years 123

Massage and cross-pattern commando 124

Angels in the sand 125

Balance 126

Scooter boards 127

Mini-trampoline 128

Laterality 129

Dance 130

Rhythm sticks for 3-year-olds 131

Rhythm sticks for 4-year-olds 132

Beanbags 133

Balls 134

Hoops 135

Ropes and cords 136

Vision 137

Visualization 138

Stage H 4½-5½ years 139

Massage: crocodile and commando positions 140

Squirming, crawling, and creeping 141

Tumbling, rocking, swinging 142

Balance 143

Mini-trampoline 144

Cross-pattern actions 145

Aerobic dance 146

Rest period with Mozart 147

Homemade band 148

Rhythm sticks 149

Beanbags 150

Balls 151

Hoops 152

Ropes and cords 153

Vision 154

Visualization 155

Bibliography 156

Index 159

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