My mom sent me this link today to a Huffington Post article about raising a brilliant baby. Since that's the title, I was initially a little turned off because, let's face it, most stuff like that is a bunch of poppycock. That's right, I said poppycock. Anyway, skip the annoying title and check out the book description, or skip that site altogether and just go directly to John Medina's website on Brain Rules. He's a developmental molecular biologist who has written two books based on a lot of legitimate research. The first is Brain Rules and the second is Brain Rules for Baby. I think they sound fascinating, but I love reading about various studies. Unfortunately, my library doesn't have Brain Rules for Baby, but they do have his first book so I'm going to start there.
Oh, and there's a fun 20 question quiz on his site to test your parental braininess if you're bored. I missed three so I only scored an 85%. Boooooo!!!
Interesting. You did well on the test. :)
ReplyDeleteI like that quiz. I got an 85 too.
ReplyDeleteI must be out of practice - I only got a 70%.
ReplyDeleteWelllllll, I watched the first half of the video before taking it so that helped me out a bit. Some of it seemed intuitive, but a lot of it was also contradictory to main stream parenting so it was a little tricky!
ReplyDeleteYou're sweet for making me feel better - I didn't watch the website video.
ReplyDeleteYou're the one who sent me the link!!! And you didn't even watch it. Hmph. Serves you right then :)
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