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November 28, 2001
 | | | | | | | | Dear Dr. Needlman,
We have a wonderful nanny who takes care of our three-month-old for 10-plus hours a day. She is very attentive to him, and he is a very happy baby. We wonder if we should be concerned that he's getting too much attention and needs more time to play by himself. We have read that you can't give too much love/attention to an infant, but that as he approaches one year, we might want to encourage him to play more by himself. What guidance, if any, should we give her?
Dear Happy Baby,
Your question shows that you are well tuned in to your baby's needs. Primarily, he needs loving attention. As a secondary issue, he needs to learn how...
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Nurturing Early Language Development
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Literacy: Birth to Six Months
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Language, Speech, and Communication
Explore the differences between language, speech, and communication to enrich your understanding of this fascinating area of development.
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| |  Language is one of the most important areas of human development. Our communication skills set us apart from the rest of the animal kingdom, and they're also what bring us together. Babies are born without language. By five years, however, most children know several thousand words and have mastered almost all the rules of grammar. This incredible feat of learning is accomplished with little or no formal schooling. But it has everything to do with how you, as a parent, talk with your child.
| PARENTS ARE TALKING | |  | AUTHOR: Melisromanello
SUBJECT: He smiled at me!!!
DATE: November 24, 2001 |
Michael is five weeks old today and it seems in just the past two days, he's turning more into a little person and less like a newborn. Last night at his 3am feeding, he just stopped crying, looked into my eyes, and gave me the biggest grin you could imagine! I thought maybe it was one of those 'gas,' smiles but this morning when I got him up, he did it again!!! I'm so psyched! now if i could just get him to sleep at night!
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Many children are alert to quiet sounds within the first days after birth. By one month of age, every child should be showing awareness of sounds, turning his head--or at least his eyes--in the direction of voices or rattles. |
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