Active Baby, Healthy Brain: 135 Fun Exercises and Activities to Maximize Your Child’s Brain Development from Birth Through Age 5½

Easy to implement, fun "games". I buy copies for baby shower gifts. Helps give years of activities in a format busy, exhausted parents can add to help their child develop and strengthen the bond between parent and child.

Daughter has strabismus (vision issue with eye-turn) and one of the vision therapy groups recommended this book. It has great suggestions for babies to be active and get the brain, body and eyes to all work together.

Such great information in this book. I have a 2 year and Twin girls (5 months) and there is so much good stuff in there for all of them! Highly recommend

This book is great for first time moms to help keep their kids up with milestones. It has good advice to help cognitive ability and promote growth. Now that my daughter is almost two though, I don't think I've even picked up the book since she was 14 months old. i feel like we've out grown it and the advice becomes redundant. Some of the tactics seem difficult to accomplish with a sleep deprived mommy brain and grumpy baby. Other exercises require special equipment. but some don't require anything except mommy or daddy.I would recommend to others because their experiences may differ from mine. Hopefully they can get more from the book than I did.The seller was amazing, it arrived a day early with little damage from shipping. Thank you

As a pediatric OT and a grandma to a baby and toddler, I am really appreciating the thorough yet user-friendly approach of this book. Great ideas that are easy to implement (often requiring nothing but your own fully-engaged self and a little time!) Highly recommend for helping babies thru age 4/5 maximize abilities/learning/motor skills and have fun doing it!

This book is amazing! It is easy to read and offers development activities from a more comprehensive lens than just the traditional five domains. Great book for new parent and/or professionals in the field.

I like that this book talks about the brain/body connection, and I like that there are activities laid out for different ages. I just wish there were more activities suggested or more recommendations on how to implement them. For example, one activity for 12-15 months is walking up a ramp. Other than going out to buy something to create a ramp, I wasn't sure how to do this. I ended up taking cushions off of my couch and tilting a cushion so that they could walk up the cushion ramp onto the couch, but this wasn't as sable as I would have liked. I would have appreciated ideas (cheap ones) for how I could make this work along with some other ideas.There is a lot of research on how the brain and body are connected. I would have appreciated more of the science behind each activity, but I don't think that is a reason to dislike this book. For parents who are not looking for the science, this book really is pretty straight forward with activities for you to do with your child.

I have twin sons who are 7 months old now. I bought the book when they were about 4 months old as I noticed my nanny had it among her items she brought on a frequent basis. The book is AMAZING! My boys love all of the activities, and my pediatrician tells me they are "extremely advanced" beyond most babies she treats! My boys were crawling by 6 months old, and they have excellent dexterity and fine motor skills. They pull themselves up already, and have begun creeping (walking along furniture while holding on, not walking freely). I know much of their advanced skills are just in who they are, but I absolutely credit this book with giving me the tools to really take them to the next level. BUY THIS BOOK - YOU WON'T REGRET IT!!!

Recommended by my son’s optometrist. Very happy with this purchase.

Good book with easy to follow exercises, fun for child and parent!

Really nice book.It covers all the aspects .Worth it.

This is a great book with a lot of different activities to do with babies / infants / toddlers! It’s nice to flip through it to get new ideas. There are images showing each activity. It is not the type of book to read cover to cover - rather just flip to the section corresponding to the age of your baby and flip through the pages to get activity ideas!

Great book, plenty of good tips.