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...that by the time babies are two months old, they are already fluent in the complex language of their parents' faces, and count on them for their sense of well-being. "Think about the human face," says Sparrow, "the wrinkles, the expressions in the eyes - and think about the infant brain being stimulated by that." To believe that even the best video game or toy could replace this kind of learning, Sparrow thinks, misses the point of just what it is babies are truly hungering to know...
SIDS DANGER According to an article in the current issue of Pediatrics, babies can be too warm for their own good. Overheating caused by too much clothing, heavy bedding and cranked-up radiators may increase the risk of sudden infant death syndrome for a baby. To help keep a baby safe, pediatricians recommend maintaining a consistent room temperature and dressing your baby in as much or as little as you would wear...
...years ago, I finally decided that I was working on one long novel," Erdrich says, sitting in a comfortable chair in Birchbark Books, the store she opened last June in a residential neighborhood in Minneapolis. Strapped to her chest in a Baby Bjorn carrier is Azure, the infant daughter whom the author, 46, bore in early January to an Ojibwe father whose identity she is keeping to herself. Recognizing that all her books are parts of a larger saga eased her mind, she says, about repeating herself. "I stopped being concerned about whether the same characters show...
...commercials. The toddler announced that she planned to take ballet lessons, followed by bride lessons. That helped inspire her mother, then 37, to quit her $150,000-a-year job as a marketing executive. She and her husband, Brent, a bank officer, decided that Betsy and their infant son Andrew needed more parental attention if they were going to develop the right sort of values. Marsha explained, ''I found myself wondering, How wealthy do we need to be? I don't care if I have a great car, or if people are impressed with what I'm doing...
BREVITY IS THE SOUL OF WIT Talking to your infant is good, but uttering individual words might be better. According to a study by a professor at Washington University, children younger than 15 months learn words like kitty, red or come more quickly when their parents say them frequently and by themselves. Such isolated words form the foundation for early vocabulary learning. The study challenges recent theories that infants learn language by hearing sentences and segmenting them into individual words...