Think Like a Baby: 33 Simple Research Experiments You Can Do at Home to Better Understand Your Child's Developing Mind
Raising a baby is joyful, amazing . . . and ridiculously difficult. But with some insight into what’s actually going on inside your little one’s head, your job as a parent can become a little bit easier—and a lot more fun.

In Think Like a Baby, coauthors Amber and Andy Ankowski—The Doctor and the Dad—show parents how to re-create classic child development experiments using common household items. These simple step-by-step experiments apply from the third trimester through age seven and beyond and help parents understand their children’s physical, cognitive, language, and social development. Amazed parents won’t just read about how their kids are behaving, changing, and thinking at various stages, they’ll actually see it for themselves while interacting and having fun with them at the same time. Each experiment is followed by a discussion of its practical implications for parents, such as why to always bring more than one toy to a restaurant, which baby gadgets to buy (and which ones to avoid), how to get kids to be perfectly happy eating just half of their dessert, and much more.
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Think Like a Baby: 33 Simple Research Experiments You Can Do at Home to Better Understand Your Child's Developing Mind
Raising a baby is joyful, amazing . . . and ridiculously difficult. But with some insight into what’s actually going on inside your little one’s head, your job as a parent can become a little bit easier—and a lot more fun.

In Think Like a Baby, coauthors Amber and Andy Ankowski—The Doctor and the Dad—show parents how to re-create classic child development experiments using common household items. These simple step-by-step experiments apply from the third trimester through age seven and beyond and help parents understand their children’s physical, cognitive, language, and social development. Amazed parents won’t just read about how their kids are behaving, changing, and thinking at various stages, they’ll actually see it for themselves while interacting and having fun with them at the same time. Each experiment is followed by a discussion of its practical implications for parents, such as why to always bring more than one toy to a restaurant, which baby gadgets to buy (and which ones to avoid), how to get kids to be perfectly happy eating just half of their dessert, and much more.
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Think Like a Baby: 33 Simple Research Experiments You Can Do at Home to Better Understand Your Child's Developing Mind

Think Like a Baby: 33 Simple Research Experiments You Can Do at Home to Better Understand Your Child's Developing Mind

by Amber Ankowski PhD, Andy Ankowski
Think Like a Baby: 33 Simple Research Experiments You Can Do at Home to Better Understand Your Child's Developing Mind

Think Like a Baby: 33 Simple Research Experiments You Can Do at Home to Better Understand Your Child's Developing Mind

by Amber Ankowski PhD, Andy Ankowski

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Overview

Raising a baby is joyful, amazing . . . and ridiculously difficult. But with some insight into what’s actually going on inside your little one’s head, your job as a parent can become a little bit easier—and a lot more fun.

In Think Like a Baby, coauthors Amber and Andy Ankowski—The Doctor and the Dad—show parents how to re-create classic child development experiments using common household items. These simple step-by-step experiments apply from the third trimester through age seven and beyond and help parents understand their children’s physical, cognitive, language, and social development. Amazed parents won’t just read about how their kids are behaving, changing, and thinking at various stages, they’ll actually see it for themselves while interacting and having fun with them at the same time. Each experiment is followed by a discussion of its practical implications for parents, such as why to always bring more than one toy to a restaurant, which baby gadgets to buy (and which ones to avoid), how to get kids to be perfectly happy eating just half of their dessert, and much more.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781613730638
Publisher: Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 04/01/2015
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 2.20(d)

About the Author

Amber Ankowski earned her PhD in developmental psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles. She teaches psychology at various California universities, including courses designed to instruct future educators how best to teach young children. Andy Ankowski is an award-winning advertising copywriter who specializes in explaining complex products and services in simple and humorous ways. They are the parents of a baby and a toddler. Visit The Doctor and the Dad online at www.doctoranddad.com.

Table of Contents

Introduction ix

The First Year 1

Experiment #1 Tiny Tunes (3rd trimester-1 month) 3

Experiment #2 A Face Only a Baby Could Love (0-3 weeks) 9

Experiment #3 One Small Step for Baby (0-3 months) 14

Experiment #4 Scrambled, with Cheeks (0-4 months) 19

Experiment #5 Getting a Leg Up (2-5 months) 24

Experiment #6 Baby Boredom (2-8 months) 29

Experiment #7 Mad Mobile Skillz (3-6 months) 33

Experiment #8 Tipsy Tots (3-12 months) 41

Experiment #9 Now You See It…(7-9 months) 45

Experiment #10 …Now You Don't (8-10 months) 50

Experiment #11 My Kind of Doll (10-12 months) 55

The Second Year 61

Experiment #12 The Honeydew Whisperer (12-14 months) 63

Experiment #13 Do I Know You? (12-18 months) 69

Experiment #14 The Magic Touch (12-18 months) 75

Experiment #15 Talk to the Hand (12-24 months) 80

Experiment #16 Monkey See (14-18 months) 85

Experiment #17 That's Why There's Broccoli and Vanilla (14-18 months) 90

Experiment #18 School Belt (14-24 months) 102

Experiment #19 Getting Into Shapes (14-24 months) 102

Experiment #20 Quick Learner (15-24 months) 107

Experiment #21 Hey, Good Lookin'! (15-24 months) 115

Experiment #22 Yo-Yo Moppet (24 months and older) 119

The Third Year and Beyond 125

Experiment #23 That's Good Enough for Me (2-6 years) 127

Experiment #24 Think Inside the Box (2½-4 years) 133

Experiment #25 It's the Thought That Counts (2½-4 years) 138

Experiment #26 Mini Memorizer (3-4 years) 145

Experiment #27 The Young Switcheroo (3-4 years) 151

Experiment #28 For Realsies (3-5 years) 157

Experiment #29 I Am Not an Animal! (3-7 years) 164

Experiment #30 Pants on Fire (3-7 years) 168

Experiment #31 Doodle-y Noted (3 years and Older) 175

Experiment #32 The Sweet, Sticky Squish of Success (4-5 years) 180

Experiment #33 Imagine That! (4 years and older) 186

Final Thoughts 193

Acknowledgments 195

References 197

Index 199

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