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Match Adult Software to Baby Hardware
March 6, 2018
But it's not just learning things that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things at all that matters.
-Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

An article in Psychology Today, asserts that "experts are now beginning to look more broadly, in an integrated fashion, at the first few months of a baby's life. And so should you." The author explains that "psychological theorists are moving away from focusing on single areas such as physical development, genetic inheritance, cognitive skills or emotional attachment, which give at best a limited view of how babies develop. Instead, they are attempting to synthesize and integrate all the separate pieces of the infant-development puzzle. The results so far have been enlightening, and are beginning to suggest new ways of parenting.

"The most important part of the emerging revelations is that the key to stimulating emotional and intellectual growth in your child is your own behavior— what you do, what you don't do, how you scold, how you reward and how you show affection. If the baby's brain is the hardware, then you, the parents, provide the software. When you understand the hardware (your baby's brain), you will be better able to design the software (your own behavior) to promote baby's well-being."

Source: "Raising Baby: What You Need to Know," by Joanna Lipari, Psychology Today, June 9, 2016





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