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articles The Amazing Power of Baby Love and A Year to Cheer (written by Dr. StanleyGreenspan and Emily Abedon, respectively) advocate intense coexistence between thechild and the caregiver. These articles (taken from parenting magazine) are, in essence,guidelines to be used by the parents or caregiver to ensure proper development of theirchild up to the second year. The article also educates the reader that every child developsat their own pace, and there is no exact time table that one can easily look at to see howwell their child is doing. Either way the two articles overly support deep mutualinteraction between both the child and the caregiver. Stanley Greenspan's The Amazing Power of Baby Love teaches that simplegestures and interactions help babies develop intelligence, language and character. Itstates that at 2 to 4 months (notice the allowance of time Greenspan gives) the childbecomes more involved with the caregiver. Notice the correlation between the authorsstatement and Ainsworth's Stages of Attachment (p463-465): Birth through 2 months- indiscriminate social responsiveness- "at first, babies do not focus their attention exclusively on their mothers and
" This period is also a transition from babies imitating others to learning andexpecting things from them. The rest of the essay is a list of the basic breakthroughs acaregiver can expect to see for 12 to 24 months. In Piaget's theory object permanence is a major achievement of the sensorimotor period. At the first year the childgenerally knows one or two words, but the important part is they understand dozensmore. Two-wayconversations also make the child more empathetic. Social- Unresponsive to stimulation to people/playthings. The textbook states that even thoughthis is a pretty significant parents really do not take too much consideration to these"word" (p. Generally speaking these two articles are very basic in their techniques andexplanations. When interacting with a child one should study how the child reacts, and then do whatthe child seemed to enjoy to "bring the most pleasure," that should not be too obvious. Gestures instead take place of verbal communication. or wiggle in anticipation when she hears you approaching. All of these have to developbefore the child can walk. At 24 months the child usually speak short sentences, speak politely, and know up350 words. The ability to walk isa combination of many different aspects; from muscle tone, coordination, the ability tostand independently, and in general, the need/want to walk.
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