If you are about to have or have a new baby, there is much information available to you now about your baby's first three years of rapid brain growth which will make a difference for the baby's entire lifetime!
Most new parents have seen at least some of the new information. All are certainly aware of possibilities which were always present, but of which science had not yet availed us as to significance until there was access to the developing brain.
Now, while a mother is carrying the baby, parents know to be thoughtful of conditions which will affect the baby's health and lifelong abilities. They know the baby will bear direct results of the mother's emotional life during the pregnancy -- which encourages the mother to remain calm and unirritated throughout the pregnancy. They also know the baby will respond physically to music played for the mother to hear, and will respond to the mother, and others, reading to the unborn baby.
After the baby is born, for three whole years, the brain produces additional cells continuously and rapidly, while dynamic possibilities exist for increasing the baby's life-long intelligence if the parents are aware of how to provide specific experiences to assure this! Much that was true for the developing fetus remains true for the newborn baby, i.e., the baby's overall health will be affected by activities, emotion, and thoughts which are expressed in its environment.
All the information has been made available by science -- much of it is available in books, and there are certain programs which manufacturers have put together to take advantage of the new demands. These, generally, address one or more areas of the research.
Nothing will be found, however, which can compare with the Balanced Beginnings Program! This Program was not put together by business people to exploit a new idea for financial gain! Instead, it was developed by volunteer parents and certified teachers, including a registered nurse, working in a non-profit, fully accredited, alternative School, with real live babies (over a nine year period), to include every aspect of the new, clearly documented research. The Program was not reproduced until a demand for the results of the effort was made by those who found out about it through their interest in the innovative work of the School. Balanced Beginnings takes into account what should be experienced with a baby to optimize learning possibilities, when these experiences should take place in sequence, and why. All of this is in addition to the heartfelt LOVE and natural care for every infant. The Program has now been used by hundreds of parents and nurseries around the world and the effects are already being reaped by those who had the foresight to take advantage of the opportunity to implement it with their babies.
If you have a new baby, and you wish to heed the results of all the research, you will have to go through a process which amounts to designing your own "program" of activities and experiences to somehow utilize the information which you gather for yourself. The question is, will you be able to equal what has already been done in Balanced Beginnings, and how much difference will it make if you cannot? If you care enough to use the new information at all, aren't you, nevertheless, liable to omit some area which Balanced Beginnings does not overlook? Or, might you not miss experience in the sequence which will have the best and most rewarding results for your baby?
Balanced Beginnings allows for much innovation on your part, but it leaves nothing out. Use it with your baby! See to it that your baby's "genius" will have complete expression in life!
