About the authors
Glenn Doman received his degree in physical therapy from the University of Pennsylvania in 1940, and began pioneering the field of child brain development. In 1955, he founded The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential^® , whose work with brain-injured children led to vital discoveries regarding well children. Glenn is the best-selling author of 6 books, all part of the Gentle Revolution Series.

Janet Doman is the director of The Institutes and Glenn's daughter. After completing her studies at the University of Pennsylvania, Janet devoted herself to helping parents discover the vast potential of their babies and their own potential as teachers.

 

How Smart Is Your Baby?

Mothers know intuitively that the first months of life are vital to the long-term well-being of their children. In this, they are absolutely correct, say authors Glenn and Janet Doman. But mothers and fathers do not have the information they need to use these first months to their baby's best advantage, or to make the first six years of life as stimulating and rewarding as they could and should be. That's because until now, the world has had little understanding of the true potential of a newborn. How Smart Is Your Baby? provides parents with all the information they need to help their baby achieve his or her full potential. The authors first explain the newborn's growth and development, including all of the critical stages involved. They then guide the parents in creating a home environment that enhances and enriches brain development. A developmental profile, which parents complete, allows Mom and Dad to track the progress of their child, to determine the baby's strengths, and to recognize where additional stimulation and opportunity are needed. Most importantly, parents learn how to design an effective and balanced daily program for physical and intellectual growth. When parents understand how their child develops, they can become the best teachers their babies will ever have. Best of all, this joyous program brings parents and babies closer together, establishing a life-long bond of learning and love.

 

How to Multiply Your Baby's Intelligence

How To Multiply Your Baby's Intelligence provides a comprehensive program that shows you just how easy and pleasurable it is to teach your young child how to read, understand mathematics, and expand his or her general learning potential. It explains how to begin and expand this remarkable program, how to make and organize necessary materials, and how to more fully develop your child's learning ability. By following the simple daily program in a relaxed and loving way, you will enable your child to experience the joy of learning--as have millions of children the world over. With How To Multiply Your Baby's Intelligence, you can give your baby a powerful advantage that will last a lifetime.

 

How to Teach Your Baby to Read

How To Teach Your Baby To Read shows just how easy and pleasurable it is to teach a young child to read by providing skills that are basic to academic success. It explains how to begin and expand the reading program, how to make and organize necessary materials, and how to more fully develop your child's reading potential. By following the simple daily program in a relaxed and loving way, you will enable your child to experience the joy of learning--as have millions of children the world over. With How To Teach Your Baby To Read, you can give your baby a powerful advantage that will last a lifetime.

 

How to Teach Your Baby Math

How To Teach Your Baby Math shows just how easy and pleasurable it is to teach young child mathematics through the development of thinking and reasoning skills. It explains how to begin and expand the math program, how to make and organize necessary materials, and how to more fully develop your child's math potential. By following the simple daily program in a relaxed and loving way, you will enable your child to experience the joy of learning--as have millions of children the world over. With How To Teach Your Baby Math, you can give your baby a powerful advantage that will last a lifetime.

 

How to Give Your Baby Encyclopedic Knowledge

How To Give Your Baby Encyclopedic Knowledge shows you just how easy and pleasurable it is to teach a young child about the arts, science, and nature. Your child will recognize the insects in the garden, know the countries of the world, discover the beauty of a painting by Van Gogh, and much more. This book explains how to begin and expand this remarkable program, how to make and organize necessary materials, and how to more fully develop your child's learning ability. By following the simple daily program in a relaxed and loving way, you will enable your child to experience the joy of learning--as have millions of children the world over. With How To Give Your Baby Encyclopedic Knowledge, you can give your baby a powerful advantage that will last a lifetime.

 

How To Teach Your Baby To Be Physically Superb

The early development of mobility in newborns is a vital part of their future ability to learn and grow to full potential. We may be wasting our children's most important years by preventing them from physically exploring their world and maximizing their mobility development when they are young--the time that it is easiest for them to do so. In How To Teach Your Baby To Be Physically Superb, Glenn Doman--founder of The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential--along with Douglas Doman and Bruce Hagy guide you in maximizing your child's physical capabilities. They clearly explain each stage of mobility and show how to create an environment that will help your baby more easily achieve that stage. Full-color charts, photographs, illustrations, and detailed yet easy-to-follow instructions are included to help you in creating an effective home program. This inspiring book shows how the team of mother, father, and baby can explore and discover together the joys of human mobility. From learning the simple but vital stage of crawling to the beginnings of the sophisticated skills of the gymnast, this athletic team is a baby's most important one.

 

What to Do About Your Brain-Injured Child

In this updated classic, Glenn Doman--founder of The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential and pioneer in the treatment of the brain-injured children--brings real hope to thousands of children who have been sentenced to a life of institutional confinement. Based upon a half-century of successful work performed at The Institutes, this book explains why old theories and techniques fail, and why the philosophy and revolutionary treatment of The Institutes succeed. In What To Do About Your Brain-Injured Child, Doman recounts the story of The Institutes' worldwide research--setbacks as well as history-making breakthroughs--during its tireless effort to refine treatment of the brain injured. He shares the staff's lifesaving techniques and the tools used to measure (and ultimately improve) visual, auditory, tactile, mobile, and manual development. Doman explains the unique methods of treatment that are constantly being improved and expanded, and then describes the program with which parents are able to treat their own children at home in a familiar and loving environment. Included throughout are case histories, drawings, and helpful charts and diagrams. Twenty thousand families from over one hundred nations have brought their children to The Institutes. The great majority of these children have done better than their parents had hoped based on prior experience with conventional methods. For each of these families, this book was the starting point.

 

How to Maximize Your Child's Learning Ability

Here is a book that offers parents hundreds of practical things they can do in daily life to influence, encourage, and--best of all--maximize their child's learning ability. Whether you have a young child attending preschool or a teen in high school, you can provide the essential experiences to enable your child to excel in many areas. In private practice for over twenty-five years, Dr. Lauren Bradway has observed that children, beginning in infancy, tend to favor a particular way of taking in and recalling information. Some children prefer sights, others sounds, and still others, touch and movement. Dr. Bradway refers to these three style of learners as Lookers, Listeners, and Movers, respectively. After determining a particular child's learning style, she selects toys, games, and learning strategies to reinforce talents a child was blessed with at birth and to encourage skills that do not come as naturally. In How to Maximize Your Child's Learning Ability, Dr. Bradway shares the techniques and methods she utilizes in a clinical setting with children. She'll teach you how to develop an individual program for your child designed to produce a more self-assured and balanced learner.

 

Massaging Your Baby

The power of touch is real and has been scientifically shown to have remarkable effects. For children, it encourages relaxation; improves sleep patterns; reduces discomfort from teething, colic, and gas; strengthens digestive and circulatory systems; and does so much more. For parents, it nurtures bonding, increases communication, promotes parenting skills, and actually reduces stress levels. Now, to help parents understand the power of massage and incorporate it into their daily childcare routine, massage expert Dr. Elaine Fogel Schneider has written the ultimate guide to using infant massage at home. Based on the latest research, Massaging Your Baby begins by explaining how and why massage is so beneficial to young ones. This is followed by the basics: an explanation of the items you will need to have on hand, and of the best times to massage your child. The book then provides an easy-to-follow step-by-step guide to effective massage techniques. Included is a section on songs and rhymes that complement massage time. And as the child gets bigger, additional techniques are offered to treat sore muscles from sports and play. There is even a wonderful section designed for children with special needs, from autism to ADD, Down Syndrome, and spina bifida. Whether you are a first-time parent, a seasoned pro, or a helpful grandparent, you will find that Massaging Your Baby can provide children with the gift of health, communication, and love that can last a lifetime.

 

Potty Training Your Baby

Contrary to traditional belief, the transition from diaper to potty can be started even before your child's first birthday--and be fully completed by the second! Katie Warren advises taking advantage of the early months--when babies do most of their communicating on an emotional level. For children understand things intuitively much sooner than they understand words or actions. The author stresses the importance of a friendly, positive environment--one that lovingly encourages a child's performance on the potty. For a child responds much better to a parent's smiles, laughter, and enthusiastic support than to fear and coercion. If such an atmosphere prevails whenever children are on their potties--and they are made to feel happy and proud each time they are successful in their training--then they will repeat these performances just to get that same, happy response from their parents. This is the underlying principle of Katie's method. Potty Training Your Baby includes information on everything from where to buy a potty to dealing with those inevitable little "accidents." The material is presented in a down-to-earth fashion, and is enhanced by personal flashbacks from the author's own parenting experience. Perhaps most importantly, the book shows you how to turn this often dreaded and frustrating task into a time of mutual growth and learning for both you and your child.

 

Why Johnny Hates Sports

"Mom! Do I really have to go to the game? Can't I just stay home?" All across this country, an ever-increasing number of children are dropping out of organized sports--soccer, baseball, football, swimming, and more--not because they don't like to play, but because the system they play in is failing them. Written by one of this country's leading advocates of children's sports, Why Johnny Hates Sports is the first book to look at the growing problems inherent in the way we introduce our children to sports. In this timely book, Fred Engh examines the unsettling state of youth sports in America. He explains how and why many of the original goals of the youth leagues have been affected by today's win-at-all-costs attitude. He then documents the negative physical and psychological impact that parents, coaches, and administrators can have on children. Most importantly, he provides a wide variety of proven solutions to each and every one of the problems covered. Throughout the book, Engh relates stories drawn from hundreds of real-life experiences. Why Johnny Hates Sports is both an exposŽ of abuses and a call to arms. It clearly shows us a serious problem that has been going on too long--a problem that, until now, has been tolerated by most, with little concern for its effect on our children. It also provides practical answers that can alter the destructive course that youth sports have taken.

 

Your Child's First Journey

Pregnancy and childbirth are not what they used to be. Back in the good ol' days, mothers-to-be visited their obstetricians once a month, did exactly what they were told, and gave birth to their babies while heavily sedated or anesthetized. Their husbands, who most likely had never even once accompanied them to the doctor, paced nervously in the waiting room, barred from the inner sanctum of the labor and delivery rooms. Today, some expectant parents still stand on the sidelines. But more choose to be active players. If you want to be a participant, not a spectator, in the birth of your baby, Your Child's First Journey is your playbook. The labor and birth options available to modern parents-to-be are numerous, and Your Child's First Journey covers them all. Taking you from your first day of pregnancy through your child's first year, it presents everything from relaxation exercises to practice during pregnancy, to birth positions and breathing techniques--a treasure-trove of information designed to make your labor and delivery easier. This comprehensive guide offers a month-by-month breakdown of the physical changes to expect during pregnancy; describes the emotional aspects of pregnancy; and discusses the dos and don'ts of sex during and after pregnancy. It also provides a nutrition plan for the pregnant woman; exercise plans for the mother-to-be, new mother, and cesarean mother; and a wealth of hints for the father-to-be, labor partner, and new father. In addition, the basics of infant care and an in-depth discussion of breastfeeding are included. Over 200 photographs and illustrations summarize and highlight the text, while witty cartoons offer humorous insights into parenthood and serve as welcome proof that you're not alone in your fears and frustrations. Whether you're having your first child or your fourth, Your Child's First Journey is an invaluable guide to keep at your elbow until your little one blows out that first birthday candle. A step-by-step handbook, a ready reference, and a source of practical advice, it is a book you'll turn to time and time again.

 

How To Teach Your Baby To Swim

Teaching an infant or a toddler to swim is not only a matter of safety, it's also a great way to stimulate the child's physical coordination, concentration, and intelligence. That's right. By teaching yourbaby the proper swimming techniques, you can actually enhance his or her learning ability, while aslo making your child happier, healthier, and more self-confident. Based on th revolutionary learning priciples developed at The Institutes of Human Potential, How To Teach Your Baby To Swim is a clear and easy- to-follow guide to teaching your child swimming basics. With more than 160 photographs, this book presents detailed instructions on all the core skills necessary to swim properly, including breath control, kicking, and submersion. All of these skills come together as you teach your baby to dive, float, and swim—both on and under the water. Thousands of young children have utilzied this swimming program with execellent results. Now for the first time, child development expert Douglas Doman makes this time-tested program available to the general public. With How To Teach Your Baby To Swimin hand, you can be certain that the time spent with your child will pay dividends that last a life time.