Book : Experimenting With Babies 50 Amazing Science Projects

-Titulo Original : Experimenting With Babies 50 Amazing Science Projects You Can Perform On Your Kid

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Review Experimenting with Babies is a wonderful book, giving parents a hands-on way to understand their babys emerging mind. The experiments are easy, fun, and nicely annotated with the real science behind them. What a fabulous way for parents to get to know their new child! -Lise Eliot, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Neuroscience at the Chicago Medical School of Rosalind Franklin University and author of Whats Going On in There? How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life “With the marketplace urging parents to buy all manner of things to make their babies ‘smart,’ Gallagher’s book offers parents a view based in science on how much babies really know and figure out on their own. Parents will have fun with this book and gain new respect and awe for their babies’ amazing capabilities.” -Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Ph.D., H. Rodney Sharp Professor, University of Delaware and coauthor of How Babies Talk, Einstein Never Used Flash Cards, and a Mandate for Playful Learning in Preschool Babies can be a joy-and hard work. Now, they can also be a 50-in-1 science project kit! This fascinating and hands-on guide shows you how to re-create landmark scientific studies on cognitive, motor, language, and behavioral development-using your own bundle of joy as the research subject. Simple, engaging, and fun for both baby and parent, each project sheds light on how your baby is acquiring new skills-everything from recognizing faces, voices, and shapes to understanding new words, learning to walk, and even distinguishing between right and wrong. Whether your little research subject is a newborn, a few months old, or a toddler, these simple, surprising projects will help you see the world through your baby’s eyes-and discover ways to strengthen newly acquired skills during your everyday interactions. About the Author Shaun Gallagher, a father of three ongoing science experiments, is a writer and a former magazine and newspaper editor. His books include: Experimenting With Babies: 50 Amazing Science Projects You Can Perform on Your Kid (October 2013) Experiments for Newlyweds: 50 Amazing Science Projects You Can Perform With Your Spouse (April 2019) Experimenting With Preschoolers: 50 Amazing Science Projects You Can Perform on Kids Ages 2-5 (winter 2019)He also runs the popular website Correlated.org, which analyzes statistical data to find funny and surprising correlations. He lives in northern Delaware with his wife and children. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. When I was a kid, I begged Santa Claus for a Radio Shack 50-in-1 Electronic Projects Kit. The kit consisted of a “circuit board” with numerous capacitors, resistors, LEDs, and a buzzer for auditory output. For each project, you would connect various components with wires and then flip a switch and see what happens. It was great fun, and it contributed to my continued interest in science and engineering. Now that I’m a parent, though, I’ve outgrown the Radio Shack science kit and moved on to an experimental apparatus of significantly higher complexity: the baby. My kids are the most fun, intriguing, surprising (and exhausting) research subjects I have ever had the privilege to conduct weird and wacky experiments on. I’ve spent hours upon hours trying to figure out the optimal way to hold a baby to get him to fall asleep quickly-only to discover, as many parents have, that what works for one baby does not work at all for another. I’ve tried at least 20 different techniques to get a toddler to eat his peas. (The winner: “Please, whatever you do, don’t eat your peas.”) I’ve tracked my baby’s acquisition of fine motor skills based on how gently he touches my face- it progresses from painful scratching to awkward poking to soft whisker stroking. I’ve seen how early babies’ unique personalities emerge. Even at a few weeks old, you can already sense how their gears are turning by the way they look at you and obser