Boosting Brain Power

If you want the children in your care to thrive, you need to know how the brain wires up from birth to age five, and what to do to support it. In easy to understand nuggets of information, this books provides scientifically based research explaining what you can do every day to stimulate healthy brain growth in young children. If the timeing is right, the learning that occurs in the first five years can be a gold mine, promoting valuable cognitive and physical development that lasts a lifetime. By reading this primer on brain development, you'll be armed with the basics about how young minds grown and connect with the world. You'll see how important attention, bonding, and communication are in this critical stage. From there, you can explore 52 easy-to-implement strategies - one for every week of the year - that can build on their exicting growth and prime them for future learning. By using your newfound knowledge of the brain intentionally with infants, toddlers, and preschoolers, you can ignite sparks that will light up their world!