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Play

Play is an essential part of your child’s learning, brain development, and overall health. This section discusses the importance of play in helping your child learn to navigate the world around her, and suggests appropriate toys and activities for various ages and stages.

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  • Nurture

    As your baby’s guide, you are in charge of setting limits and creating boundaries for her. Sometimes it can be challenging to know when your child i...

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    Seek Balance in Activity

  • Play

    You can support your baby’s cognitive development by encouraging creativity and the arts. Here are some ideas and activities to get you started.

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    Appreciate the Arts

  • Play

    Play is an essential part of your child’s learning, brain development, and health. All stages of your baby’s physical, emotional, and mental devel...

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    Play

  • Play

    Concept development, unlike memorization, builds on the other methods of learning and uses higher mental functions, such as being deliberate, solving ...

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    Concept Development

  • Play

    Memory helps your baby make sense of her world, recognize patterns, and create expectations for the future. With use, her memory gets stronger, fuller...

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    Memory

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Health

Discover the tools, foods, & timeline for healthy oral development. Grow Healthy. Grow Happy. is the comprehensive reference for natural parenting.

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Oral Health & Development

Products

Learn which synthetic fibers come from plastic, are manufactured fabric, treated with formaldehyde, retain shape, and much more. Learn information abo...

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Synthetic Performance Fabrics

Nurture

As your baby’s guide, you are in charge of setting limits and creating boundaries for her. Sometimes it can be challenging to know when your child i...

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Seek Balance in Activity

Wellness

To give your baby’s brain a rich environment in which it can grow and develop to its full potential, consider moderating the amount of media to whic...

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Moderate Media

Play

Your baby learns through active participation. The more she experiences, the more neural connections her brain makes, and the greater her capacity for...

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Encourage Active Experience

Play

Your baby’s brain will never be more receptive to language than it is between birth and 7 years old. Here are ways to introduce her to as many sound...

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Talk and Read to Your Baby

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Grow Healthy. Grow Happy. Guide
By Grow Healthy. Grow Happy. The Whole Baby Guide. ™

A comprehensive and accessible resource for natural baby care. Nurture your baby with nature's principles for a radiant life. Grow Healthy. Grow Happy. The Whole Baby Guide is a complete resource for parents to give their babies a healthy beginning for the first three years.

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