How to Teach Your Baby to Be Physically Superb (The Gentle Revolution Series) Hardcover – February 8, 2006

THIS BOOK TEACH THE PARENTS THE IMPORTANCE OF PUTTING THE BABY OVER THEIRTUMMY SINCE BIRTH. THE IMPORTANCE OF CREEPING, CRAWLING AND BE ON THE FLOOR.WE ARE LIMITING THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE FOUNDATION OF THEIR BRAINS.THE FIRST YEAR IN THE MOST IMPORTANT IN OUR LIVES, IS WHERE THE BRAINMAKES THE FIRST SYNAPSES STRONGER. WITH THIS DISCIPLINE WE AS PARENTS CANPREVENT ADH AND ALL THOSE SPEECH AND LEARNING PROBLEMS THAT ARE SO COMMONTODAY; BECAUSE TODAY THE CHILDREN GOES TO DAYCARE SINCE TWO MONTHS ALL.THIS IS SOMETHING THAT IT'S BEEN DOING SINCE 1947.IF SOMEONE OUT THERE CAN HELP TO EDUCATE MORE ABOUT "HUMAN NEUROLOGICALORGANIZATION" THE WORLD WOULD BE BETTER. THANKS

An amazing book that teaches parents, step by step, how can we help our children to be phisically superb. It includes fabolous charts about the brain stages development and the different competences that a child, between 0 months and 6 years, should accomplish, with detail exercises and games for you to practice with your kids. I totally recommend this book!

El mejor libro para padres de bebés recién nacidos, recomiendo leerlo desde el embarazo. Super recomendable

I love this book! If you’re dedicated, your child will thrive.

Book condition just as described. I would recommend this book to anyone with young children!

This book makes a very important point - TUMMY TIME. When I read the analogy of a baby lying face up in a cot to an upside down turtle, I thought, that is so right! But that is probably all you need to know from this book.I followed much of the book for about 2 months when my baby was 4 months old but didn't notice any positive difference in her. We did the exercises and it happened that one of my friends has a crawling track and she lent it to us. The track was torture for my little girl. All she did was cry when placed on it and subsequently would cry even just catching sight of it. The exercises are not difficult, but I won't say she enjoyed them. Maybe if we started the program at birth she may have liked the crawling track. My daughter rolled over at 5 months, sat up at 5 months and then belly crawled at 6 months. She walked at 12 months.In hindsight, I feel a little silly and selfish for putting my daughter through the program. So what if she walked at 9 months? Will that go on her resume? Doman's children may all have been physically superb as children, but did any of them become Olympians or important people? I'd be interested to know. I respect Doman for his work with children with special needs (I have one myself), but for a typically developing child without any delays, I think they'd be more happy with a few more cuddles and a walk in the park.

This book is an eye opener, and it just makes sense. If you think about it, what is taught in the book is common sense.

I really wanted to like this book upon reading all the rave reviews. I eagerly opened it when it arrived imagining it would contain helpful "baby exercises" based on the latest neurological research that would help me encourage my child towards healthy development. I did my best to ignore the arrogant/self-righteous tone carried through by the author during the introduction, but was considerably disappointed to find nothing but banal generalizations and self-aggrandizing remarks about his program. Example: "Michelle has the time of her life all day long. (So do all the other kids)". Forgive me but, Michelle doesn't sound human! It's human to not have the time of your life *perpetually* doing acrobatics and reciting indoctrinated "encyclopedic knowledge" "all day long". A critical reader will immediately begin to suspect grandiosity and gross exaggeration on behalf of the author from remarks like these, but all this could be forgiven if it were not simultaneously juxtaposed with a not so subtle undertone of looking down on non-programmed "average" kids. It's this tone that comes out strongly in the charts - appending a number - along with helpful advice that, if a child hasn't achieved a certain physical feat by a certain time frame a good parent should "seek professional help" and also classify their children as "slow" (i.e, if they don't crawl by 5 months). Might I ask whose professional help one should seek? The author's online repository of medicating materials?All this seems innocuous until you get to the real kicker: "Sometimes, at this stage, babies cry when crawling. This is good, not bad. They're crying for a reason. The fast, deep respiration of crying actually gives them the additional oxygen they need to make easier the movement of their arms and legs for crawling." Please, parents, stop and read this statement again and ask yourself - when you hear your child crying - the only thing they can do to let you know something causes them pain, stress, or discomfort - aside from this "medical advice" - what does your God given heart and mind guide you to do? For me, it's to soothe my child. That's my first job as a parent; not raising my baby's cortisol levels and, forgive me but - traumatizing them and betraying their trust.When I got to that sentence, I really started treating the book with great skepticism. Who was this author, and what had any of his pupils achieved? The author was a combat infantry officer in World War II; he's not a doctor, no, not even really a real researcher - he's a man whose experiences have been largely shaped by an organization whose job it is to break grown adults and turn them into highly efficient killing machines. I have no doubt he means well - he put his own son through his program - but, for all that, what has his son achieved? He's got an associates in Biology and a bachelor's in History and went no further than his father's institute. All that for crawling at 3 1/2 months. Furthermore, though little is known of the children that went through his institution - he tells us quite a bit about their parents - who, presumably did not: they are NASA engineers and a myriad of government officials, none of whom can play the violin. Now, ask yourself - if this is meant as a compliment to the parents - who did NOT use these methods presumably, then, doesn't the question arise - are these methods necessary? We hear great exaggerations of how well these children do in early life; but, what about later? Does the conditional love and neglect to their feelings take a toll on their psychological development? Is it worth it - this?I asked my Mom about how she raised my 2 sisters and I. Apparently we were all very "slow" babies in that we did not crawl until about a year old, and did not walk till about 15 months. Depraved, I know! My elder sister was valedictorian and went to Harvard, I went to Duke. My younger sister is the only one who crawled then walked, and she has frequently struggled in school. I asked my sister, out of curiosity, if out of her friends she knew of any who had used these methods (out of her Harvard friends); out of the doctors she knew, she did not know of any.I guess I'm writing this review more for myself. I got this book hoping to give my kid a head start. While I am sure it is good to encourage crawling, for my part, I'm not going to assign my kid a number. I'm not going to force them, or show them lack of empathy: not when they are so young and vulnerable - not ever, I remember what it was like when my parents enrolled us in a gymnastic academy (one of the few ways out of the 3rd world country we lived in) - and I remember seeing parents almost out right torture their kids via these "instructors" all the while thinking they were bettering their chances of success in life (specifically there, in sports). Those institutions were nothing but torture-chambers - attracting the very worst of parents: the ones who, having achieved little in life themselves -pushed and pushed their kids to become the "performers" they could not.We all die. The point of our life is to show each other love, compassion, and to do good for the world. Encourage your kids to exercise. Encourage them to succeed. But if you find yourself, even for a moment as I did, staring at a ranking system built by human pride, and the desire to "rise above" your fellow man - the men and women God gave to you as your support network - not adversaries - but your deepest friends - then, you've gone far off course.Don't let your baby cry.

It is very difficult to find but worth it.

great book.

No way am I going to follow the program outlined in this book. It gives a few heads ups and a ideas about exercises you can do with your infant, but if you want to truly follow the full program and train your baby to be physically superb, you will have to make a lot of sacrifices on other ends. Most importantly, all Doman books are based on the paradigm that the exercises should be fun and not forceful. You should train only as long as the baby wants to. Well here is the news. It doesn't want to. It's fun at first and then it will get more and more difficult to persuade your child to do an exercise and it will come down to the decision whether you want physical excellence at the cost of being demanding, or if you allow your child to go on its own way and explore other things. I chose the latter. We bought several Doman books and this is the conclusion we made from all of them.