When my first son was born I developed an obsession fascination with Early Learning. The more I dove into the world, the more I learned and put together. I ended up finding a great peer group of other early learning parents that also serve as a great resource to guide me on the journey. Now that I find myself starting over with a newborn, 7 years after the first, I thought it might be helpful to other parents beginning on the journey to have an organized location of resources, by age (kind of).
This is by no means a definitive list. Every child and every family is different. Use what works for you.
General Early Learning and Parenting Books
- Here's my Reading List for this preparing for baby #2
- There are many other books by Glenn Doman that I did not include
General Early Learning and Parenting Articles
- Thinking Skills Zero to Three
- Introduction to Early Learning
- Common Criticisms of Teaching Babies to Read
- The Gentle Revolution
- http://www.janetlansbury.com/2010/03/praising-children-risking-failure/
- Praising Children Risking Failure
Newborn Stage
- Physical Ability
- Free Printable Infant Stimulation Cards from Doman Mom
- Mirror and Infant Stimulation Cards (I received these as a gift and think they'll be great)
- Crawling Track
- Tummy Time
- Baby gym
- Reading & Language
- Reading books together (with any and all family members)
Little Baby Stage ~3-6 months
- Physical Ability
- Crawling track
- Tummy Time - with mirror, toys, water mat
- Grasping toys - teethers, rattles, Mommy's hair
- Reading & Language
- Reading LOTS of books together
- Signing important words
- Doman style flash cards
- Little Reader
- Your Baby Can Read - (This is how I showered when Xander was little)
- Math
- Doman dot cards
- Little Math
- Spanish
- Your Baby Can Learn Spanish
- Music
- Little Musician
- Misc DVDs (rotated and viewed only occasionally)
- Tweedlewink
- Sparkabilities Babies
- Your Baby Can Discover
Bigger Baby Stage ~6-12 months
- Physical Ability
- Sitting activities
- Grasping and stacking toys
- Sensory play
- Reading & Language
- Reading LOTS of books together
- Reading books with large fonts
- Signing important words
- Doman style flash cards
- Little Reader
- Your Baby Can Read
- Baby Signing Time
- Math
- Doman dot cards
- Little Math
- Spanish
- Your Baby Can Learn Spanish
- Little Reader Spanish
- Music
- Little Musician
- Misc DVDs (rotated and viewed occasionally)
- Tweedlewink
- Sparkabilities Babies
- Your Baby Can Discover
- Start Color Themes when baby is ready and interested
Toddler Stage ~12-24 months
- Physical Ability
- Sensory play
- Balance games and activities (like chasing big brother)
- Tracing and fine motor activities
- Reading & Language
- Reading LOTS of books together
- Reading books with large fonts
- Little Reader
- Your Baby Can Read
- Baby Signing Time
- Tot Packs and Vocabulary Cards - I have a bunch of free ones here.
- Preschool Prep - Many early learning parents love these, Xander did not.
- Math
- Doman dot cards
- Little Math
- Math manipulatives - pattern blocks, linking chains, counting bears
- Spanish
- Your Baby Can Learn Spanish
- Little Reader Spanish
- Little Pim Spanish
- Music
- Little Musician
- Misc DVDs (rotated and viewed occasionally)
- Tweedlewink
- Sparkabilities Babies
- Your Baby Can Discover
- Start Shape Themes when baby is ready and interested
2-3 Years
- Our "Preschool Curriculum" for Xander
- Our "Curriculum" choices for Archer at 39 months
- Mommy and Me ABC - several animal themed alphabet activities
- Fine motor skills
- Tracing
- My free ABC Cut and Past
- Kumon books
- Sensory play
No comments:
Post a Comment