CHILD DEVELOPMENT The First Two Years
Child Development: The First Two Years is a comprehensive guide to enhancing your child's physical and mental development. Designed with the assistance of leading authorities on childhood, this educational DVD & child rearing documentary guide will help you meet the challenge of nurturing your baby and creating the best possible environment in which your child can learn, grow, and flourish into a healthy, well adjusted adult. Raising a child is an exciting experience that can often seem overwhelming. This enhanced DVD will help give you the confidence to face this immense challenge at every stage of your baby s development, and assure that your children have the chance to benefit from the fullest and most supportive early care and guidance. You will see babies just like yours involved in everyday activities. Their developmental periods are divided into 4 segments: 0-3 months old, 3-6 months old, 6-12 months old, and 12-24 months old. These sections make understanding and application of the lessons learned through this educational film as easy as possible for you!The knowledge of what your child is experiencing, coupled with love, patience and a sense of humor, will add to your child s self-confidence ...and your own sense of satisfaction. This DVD will help you nurture your baby and create the best possible environment in which your child can learn and develop.
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Rating:2 out of 5 stars
Although this video contains some good information, it also is a bit misleading at times and omits important information.
Child Development: The First Two Years does not include the importance of placing babies on their backs for sleep nor does it include other key information that research has found to reduce the likelihood of SIDS, such as ceiling fans and pacifiers.
Encouraging parents to place birth to three-year-old children in infant seats is not best practice. Infants need to be held whenever possible and shown their world. It is likely that infants who are placed in seats for extended periods will develop a flat skull (back of head becomes flat)–this is NOT normal.
Although a “disclaimer” of sorts was tacked onto the end of the recommendation for using playpens, it would have been better to warn against over use of playpens in the beginning and stress the need for infants to freely explore (physically) their environment as much as possible.
The recommendation to read to infants at an early age is commendable; however, the video illustrates a picture book with busy and abstract drawings. Infants benefit most from simple photographs of real items–they need to learn about their real world first.