Incredible Babies: A Guide and Journal of Your Babys First Year

The Incredible Babies book shows you how to promote and understand your baby's physical, social, emotional and language development. It includes safety alerts, developmental principles, and a journal section where you can capture and preserve your memories of your baby's likes and dislikes, favourite songs, stories and daily routines. Organized around the developmental baby stages of 0-3 months, 4-6 months and 6-12 months, the book provides simple but effective techniques to help you observe, read and learn about your babies' cues, signals and unique temperament: Cope with babies' crying and fussy periods, Baby-proof your home, Understand how babies learn from your responsive interactions, Speak parent-ese, sing and read to your baby, provide optimal physical, tactile, auditory and visual stimulation, Begin to set up predictable routines and rituals, Learn strategies to keep your baby and yourself calm. And also how to get support from others and involve other family members and friends in your baby's life. This book is for parents and Group Leaders of Incredible Years Parenting programs.