BOOK REVIEW
Develop and Nurture Your Newborn’s Full Potential
By Glenn Doman and Janet Doman
The book takes parents to gradually progress toward achieving their babies’ full potential. The authors provide the necessary information that guides parents on how to develop the newborn with physical, verbal and cognitive stimulation from first days after birth.
Every chapter comprises step-by-step guidance on creating a home environment potential to enhance your baby’s brain development. This includes advices on how to test your baby’s current abilities, as well as providing you with charts and to-do lists.
Domans also includes a developmental profile that allows parents to track the progress of their children, to determine the babies’ strengths, and how to stimulate their strength to unlock their learning potential.
No less important, the book contains clear steps to recognize the right time for you to teach your baby how to read, to introduce crawling tracks, and to use cognitive stimulation components – all are essentials to enhance your children’s motor skills at best.
Once parents, particularly mothers as they have strong intuitive parenting, have the potential to become the best teachers for their babies. The book will reveal the secret to reach such a goal, which can be achieved as long as you understand how your children develop.
Best of all, both Glenn and Janet have combined their expertise to design a joyous program to bring parents and babies closer together. Here, the book provides the opportunity for parents to instill in their babies a life-long bond of learning and love.
By Aulia R. Sungkar. Published in Bambini, 2012