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The wonder weeks, how to stimulate your baby's mental development and help him turn his 10 predictable, great, fussy, phases into magical leaps forward, Hetty van de Rijt and Frans Plooij ; [translation by Stephen Sonderegger and Gayle Kidder]

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The wonder weeks

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Hetty van de Rijt and Frans Plooij ; [translation by Stephen Sonderegger and Gayle Kidder]

how to stimulate your baby's mental development and help him turn his 10 predictable, great, fussy, phases into magical leaps forward

The Wonder Weeks. How to stimulate your baby's mental development and help him turn his 10 predictable, great, fussy phases into magical leaps forward describes in easy-to-understand terms the incredible developmental changes that all babies go through during the first 20 months of their lives. This is the extended, "fat" edition with 2 more chapters covering 2 more leaps in the mental development of your baby up to the end of the sensorimotor period. The book is based on the discovery of a little known phenomenon: all normal, healthy babies appear to be more tearful, troublesome, demanding and clingy at very nearly the same ages. These age-related fluctuations in need for body contact and attention are related to major and quite dramatic changes in the brains of the children. These changes enable a baby to enter a whole new perceptual world and, as a consequence, to learn many new skills. This should be a reason for celebration, but as far as the baby is concerned these changes are bewildering. He's taken aback -- everything has changed overnight. It is as if he has woken up on a strange planet. --publisher

How to stimulate your baby's mental development and help him turn his 10 predictable, great, fussy, phases into magical leaps forward