Douglas Doman Lectures in Malaysia on Early Child Development
Welcome back to Babylicious! Thanks for visiting again. If you’ve enjoyed reading my blog, subscribe to my RSS feed to get regular updates on what’s new at Babylicious.Douglas Doman, author of “How to Teach Your Baby to be Physically Superb” and “How to Teach Your Baby to Swim“, will be lecturing about early [...]
Glenn Doman: How to Teach Your Baby – Part 2
Part 1
Gareth has finished going through the black and white visual stimulation cards so I’ve started him on the red dot cards and words from “family”, “things around the house”, and “parts of the body”. Gareth is enjoying the program and looks attentively whenever I bring out the cards. I find the best time is [...]
Tools of the Mind: Supporting Development in Preschool and Kindergarten
This article is written as my interpretation of the Tools of the Mind program. If you wish to read the words from the horse’s mouth, you should purchase your own copy of “Tools of the Mind: The Vygotskian Approach to Early Childhood Education” by Elena Bodrova and Deborah J. Leong.
Read about Supporting Infant Development.
Supporting Development [...]
School Readiness from the Vygotskian Aspect
In my haste to publish the last post on defining school readiness, I missed some of the salient points of school readiness as defined by Vygotsky which I felt were interesting because they differ somewhat from the traditional considerations regarding a toddler’s readiness for school.
What were Vygotsky’s views on school readiness?
Vygotsky believed there were two [...]
Classes at Henguru
So we’ve started taking Gavin to Henguru. He was generally very receptive to the idea of going because it meant I’d be there and he seems eager to do things with me these days. So far he’s attended two classes and we seem to be getting mixed reactions from him regarding the class. After the [...]
