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Move Baby Move - A New Zealand Guide to Fostering Your Child’s Development Through Every Day Activity Written for New Zealand parents, Move Baby Move is a beautiful, inspirational book detailing why babies and children love and need to move, and how everyday activity links with learning and brain development. Its author Sophie Foster, an early childhood music teacher, is co-founder of the well-known Jumping Beans preschool exercise classes with co-author and Olympian Jerome Hartigan. Audited by respected American pediatrician, Dr. Bruce Perry, MD, PhD, Move Baby Move is written in a warm, accessible style and features photos by award-winning French photographer, Bertrand Demée. Its down-to-earth explanations of how exercise works on specific areas of a baby’s developing brain are essential reading for every new parent, and Sophie’s message is simple and straightforward: just go out there and have fun with your child! ‘…our babies are starving. Oh, they have plenty of food. Our children are starving for touch; they are starving for us. For 99 percent of the time we humans have been on the planet, we have lived in multi-generational groups of 40 or 50 people. For every developing child under the age of six, there were four developmentally more mature caregivers. Babies were held and carried – often skin to skin – continuously during the day. At night the baby slept next to the mother – not in a separate cave or hut. Yes we have become more advanced in some ways but, at present, our culture is developmentally ignorant. We are a child-illiterate culture. We think somehow that it is better for the child to learn letters and words from a television than from a parent talking with her baby. We have lost our core child-rearing truths. The great strength of humankind is the capacity to adapt – to change in ways that help us survive. A central aspect of this remarkable fl exibility is the ability to learn. And that is what this book can help us do. It teaches about the simple, powerful and transforming nature of touch. It seems so simple; it is so simple. Learning to hold, massage, move and dance with your child will help him and it will help you. And in doing so, you will be helping our society recapture the lost wisdom of healthy child-rearing.’ Bruce D. Perry, MD, PhD. By Sophie Foster & Jerome Hartigan
Photographs by Bertrand Demée Move Baby Move is published by Random House New Zealand. "This book will help you re-capture the lost wisdom of healthy childrearing"
- Leading American paediatrician Dr Bruce Perry Click HERE for radio interview with Sophie Foster |
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