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:

• how to utilize your own bathtub and shower for introducing newborns to holding a breath
• how to walk backwards in a pool creating a current that makes it easier for the little ones to swim continuously

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.

Don't be mislead by the title: the first book is not purely for infants – the principles described there helped me with my husband, with my friends, and, of course, with my almost 2 year old. The first book is more "what you are trying to achieve", and Playful parenting is more "how to get there". I keep rereading parts of both.

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.

Doman Newborn Baby Exercises Checklist

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.

See also author’s special word regarding the third edition of this book.

Read more how to jump start teaching your child to read using Glenn Doman’s method and our Glenn Doman Method FAQ.

Quote From the 3rd edition of the Book*: