My husband is always full of analogies to try and help me clarify my thoughts – usually they relate to the early care of babies and young children. I’ve found an analogy of my own! Last week I was talking to an old friend who is caring for her step-granddaughter. She has never had children […]
Can ‘control’ issues cause ailments, disease or developmental delays in infants, young children or adults, inhibiting healing of many conditions? I truly believe it can happen. It wasn’t until I got my mother-in-law totally out of my life that I learned what retaining control of one’s life could do to better the physical body. She […]
This article is from my 2008 collection of unposted blogs. With time on my hands (something for another post) to read those unposted articles it is very interesting for me to note that my opinions haven’t changed much in four years — perhaps you have noticed the same? But now to my subject of that […]
This is frequently the scenario in my experience of early childhood care when a mother isn’t sufficiently connected with her baby from his earliest days. ‘Bonding’ is often used to describe the connection that mother and baby ought to have and many mothers use the term. However, I don’t always see the mutual bonding that […]
Receptive language, trust and continuity of quality care are three of the critical building blocks in the first year of life. If the childcare you give or pay for is of a high quality the other two ought to fall into place. The neurotypical development of any one building block doesn’t happen without the presence […]
My husband and I really enjoy watching NCIS together, a simple pleasure born of the days when we were very dependent on staying at home and watching television as our main source of entertainment. Somehow in the past few years we’ve become attached to the cast of characters who’ve permeated the show over its nine […]
I now believe that if we teachers and parents of babies and young children began playing the music we love and the music that makes us truly happy we could develop a lifetime passion for music in those children. I am assuming of course that the music you really love is tuneful and has an […]
This is the trademark phrase of Brooklyn Beta, a conference held in Brooklyn, NY each October. 2012 will be its third year. The phrase refers to the apps and web designs the majority of attendees spend their days creating. Some are just creating for clients but are still striving to affect the world in more […]
As adults some of us use music as our therapy. If we are lucky it is a daily occurrence, no matter if it’s playing an instrument, listening to a favourite CD or singing alone in the car (my preference!). It is intensely personal. I do not always find the music my husband plays in our […]
Jan 17th, 2012 – 10:48 am
This is exciting, a developmental psychologist from Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida, suggests that babies as young as 6 months are lip readers. My daily work for 34 years has been to care for, observe and teach, babies from 6 weeks of age (from birth in the case of my own two sons!). […]