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« on: September 30, 2009, 08:25:23 PM »

Folks shall we start discuss about how to coach and mentor baby from the day 1.
Please share your experience with your babies how they have learned things and how you have teached and mentored them.


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Re: Teaching baby from the Day 1

« Reply #1 on: November 10, 2009, 06:41:21 AM »

I would be very much interested in the replies.

Is it that Glenn Doman methods must start after 3 months.

Does anybody has any schedule about day when what should start.

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Re: Teaching baby from the Day 1

« Reply #2 on: November 10, 2009, 05:38:28 PM »

Hi,

I am 3.5 months pregnant and planning on teaching my baby from day one as well. I began reading "How Smart is Your Baby" by Glenn Doman and his team. It breaks everything down from day one and has schedules and timelines to correspond with. But it does require reading the entire book.....which I have not done yet. I have my other children I'm teaching Doman too at the moment.

I hope other parents that have tought their babies from the beginning share their experiences and schedules. HTHS!

*hope we get some great feedback from the more experienced parents

Sincerely,
Autumn


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Vidyut

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Re: Teaching baby from the Day 1

« Reply #3 on: November 19, 2009, 02:03:19 PM »

Hi,

Nisarg is 2.5 months old. What I have done to encourage his development is:

Lots of body contact - carrying around, cuddling, baby wearing...
Talking to him
Music, singing, humming...
Using sign language with him - for example, signing milk while feeding
Infant stimulation cards
Flash cards - words and dots
Breast feeding
Balance related stuff - holding vertical, horizontal, tummy down horizontal, swaying, swinging (with careful neck support)
Tummy time
Deep listening - my own communication method based on my experience with behavioural science. I have described it to some extent over here

So far, I have seen great "results". At 2.5 months:

Nisarg and I can communicate when he wants to pee most of the time. It is quite common for us to have a full day without wetting a single diaper.
He seems to be signing milk, early as it seems
He is able to recognize family members and smile when he sees them
He lifts hands slightly when he would like to be picked up
He has pretty good head control - holds his head steady when held upright, lifts it for minutes at a time when lying on his tummy and briefly when lying on his back
He sits for brief periods with support
He can let me know when he doesn't like something by looking directly at me and frowning, rather than crying
Crawls about a foot or so easily - about 5ft is the max so far
Climbs his father (and me, sometimes) with minimal assistance - mostly neck support
Uses the tone of his "coos" to communicate moods - particularly with eye contact, when he wants me to notice (or so I imagine, but it works)

Seems pretty good for his age. I enjoy doing all this. Pretty much nothing is too sacred for us to touch. We do what whim hits us, as long as we are careful with the more "extreme stuff" (swinging, climbing father, etc).

Some of this may seem pretty strange for his age. I would like to believe that it is a direct result of the communication stuff I do with him (the deep listening thing I wrote about). I don't think I'm imagining things. We can do this pretty reliably.


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Re: Teaching baby from the Day 1

« Reply #4 on: November 19, 2009, 03:58:52 PM »

Vidyut,

Its awesome what you are doing!

And its truly something "great" to indicate peeing at 2 months. So far, I have read that from one person in this forum, I think Skylark, that her baby signs and indicates that she wants to pee. I think its something really great to go without a single wet diaper.

Congrats and please do share with us more updates on Nisarg.

Regards,
Questers.