• List of major child development books – things you can start doing even with a newborn
• Slow and Steady Get me Ready by June Oberlander – terrific list of activities that can be done using things available in every home for every week since birth to age five. We jump all over those activities.

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How To Teach Your Baby To Swim from birth to age six by Douglas Doman is a long awaited book on introducing newborns to swimming. A detailed set of instructions, beautifully illustrated with photographs, is separated into 8 chapters, having a chapter dedicated to each age segment. Well written and easy to understand, it has quite a lot of wonderful techniques:

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Books that helped me tremendously were "What Babies Say Before They Can Talk : The Nine Signals Infants Use to Express Their Feelings" by Paul Holinger, Kalia Doner and "Playful Parenting" by Lawrence J. Cohen.

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This book is a fabulous book for explaining how important the physical development is to brain development. It covers every stage of development up to school age.

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TeachYourBabyToRead yahoo group files, special thanks to Laurie Tiemens:

This is the book to start with. It is a fabulous introduction to the why’s and wherefore’s as well as exactly how to implement a reading program for your child. Just remember that he is describing a maximum program. And that it is only a guideline – not rules to follow.

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Quote From the 3rd edition of the Book*:

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