Make Me a Reader Monday will highlight a great book each week. It will either be a book for children or a book for parents that helps them encourage reading and other developmental skills in their children.
For the first week, the book is Baby's First Skills, by Dr. Miriam Stoppard. This book, I feel, made a huge difference with my younger son. In his first year of life, he developed a love of music, books, clapping, and words which I mostly attribute to three things: the Baby's First Skills book, the Letter of the Week website, and our practice of independent playtime each day starting at four months old -- a staple of the Babywise philosophy.
As baby grows out of the newborn stage, there are more opportunities to interact and play...but what to do with a 4-month-old? Or a 7-month-old? Or a between-skills 11-month-old? I loved Baby's First Skills for making a plan to do activities from different areas of skills. Dr. Stoppard uses these areas: friendliness, talking, mind, hands, moving. The baby games included are fun, easy, and do not require money to do them.
Basically, this book is a map for organizing and doing activities with your baby that help your baby learn crucial skills. The only time I would NOT recommend that someone get this book is if your child is already 10 months old or older, because it only goes up to 12 months. If that is the case with your child, borrow it from the library! (Although the Amazon list price is quite high, there are copies available from other sellers for just over the cost of shipping.)
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