Saturday, April 12, 2008
Sound advice from the AAP
We inherited a "Caring for your baby and young child" guide published by the American Academy of Pediatrics. One of the charts in it offers tips on stimulating infant brain growth and suggests things like providing healthful nutrition, giving consistent contact like hugs, talking and singing to your baby, and placing colorful objects of different shapes and sizes near your baby to stimulate them visually. Makes sense. Additionally, they recommend that we "avoid subjecting your baby to stressful or traumatic experiences, physical or psychological." Did they really need to add this to the list? Just to be on the safe side, though, we've now suspended our pre-naptime waterboarding game.
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An episode of "Love Boat" where Gopher gets a cream pie in the face made my 2 year old niece cry inconsolably for half an hour. I think it would be wise to avoid "Green Acres" as well.
Poor Gopher! Your niece must have a soft spot for Yeoman-Pursers. Hopefully she's able to watch episodes of the Love Boat as an adult without too many flashbacks.
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