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Teaching Basics

• Introduction to Early Learning
• The Fundamentals of Early Learning
• Why is Early Learning Important?
• The Survival Kit for Teaching Babies
• Methods for Teaching Babies
• 7-Day Lesson Sampler
• A Recipe for Success
• The Science of Early Learning
• What is Right Brain Learning?

Early Learning: for & against

• The Arguments For & Against
  Early Learning
• "Babies can't be taught"
• "Teaching will harm the child"
• "Teaching is pointless"

Flash Card FAQs

• Introduction to Flash Cards
• How are Flash Cards Used with Babies?
• How Fast Should Flash Cards Be Shown?

About the Experts

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• Rene Van de Carr
• Thomas Verny
• Glenn Doman
• Makoto Shichida
• Robert Titzer
• Timothy Kailing

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Nutrition

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From the time of conception, nutrition has an important role to play in brain development - as Lise Eliot, neurobiologist and author of What's Going On In There? explains…

• Between four months prenatal and two years after birth, your baby's brain is highly sensitive to the quantity and quality of nutrients he consumes.
  
  
• Malnourished children have smaller brains, fewer neurons and synapses, shorter dendrites and less myelin.
  
  
• Brain-building foods include protein, dairy products, fresh fruit and vegetables, and vitamin-fortified milk and grains.
  
  
• A deficiency in iron can cause anemia, with too few red blood cells carrying oxygen to the brain. Prolonged anemia at any time in infancy can stunt cognitive development.
  
  
• Of the 45 nutrients essential for body growth, 38 are essential for neurological development.
  
  
• Children reared on breast milk score up to eight points higher on IQ tests at the age of eight.
  

On to the next important ingredient - repetition...