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"Want To Have Smart Child?"

Have you ever wondered why some children are so smart they are always in the top of the class?

When I was in medical school, we were told that it is in the genes. Now, new studies are showing that the genes are not as crucial as a nurturing environment.

What is a nurturing environment?

It is you, the parent, that makes the difference in having a happy, smart child. You are the model that will determine if your child will fail or succeed in college, in life.

The secret to creating a happy, smart child is talking, reading, counting, singing, hugging your child as often as possible.

Baby Signs can make huge difference also.

The best secret is having more time with your child and following simple methods that would propel brain development during the first 18 months of life. Simple and easy steps on how to stimulate the brain of a baby are featured in ...

BRILLIANT BABIES OF MAINE is a book by Leo Leonidas, MD, FAAP, Assistant Clinical Professor in Pediatrics, Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston that showed the most recent brain development theories and applied at the office. The methods revealed in this book made many children stay at the honor rolls year after year.

Many stories of his patients whose parents followed the recommended methods are now happy because their children are getting excellent report cards and at the same time showing no behavioral problems.

Here is one method that Dr. Leonidas created 10 years ago that he recommends for babies as early as six months old:

Apple and Orange Experiment

With your right hand, show your baby a red apple from about 8 to 10 inches from her eyes. Say, “Apple, apple, apple.” Then let her touch the apple, and say, “Apple.” Bring it near her nose and allow her to smell it, and say, “Apple.”

Do this apple experiment at least three times in two minutes, then repeat it three more times during the waking hours. Do this for three days.

On the fourth day, show her an Orange on your left hand. Repeat the same method as you did with the apple. Do it four times a day for three days.

On the seventh day, show the apple on your right hand and the orange on the left, from about 10 inches from her eyes. Make a space of about 8 inches apart between the two fruits.

Then say, “Where is the apple?” Observe her eyes and hands. See if she will look consistently at the apple every time you say, “Where is the apple?”

If you think she got it right, switch the apple and the orange. The apple should be on your left hand. Ask again, “Where is the apple?” If she looks at the left hand where the apple is, that means she knows the appearance of the apple and the sound associated with it.

You can start this experiment when your baby is as young as 4 months old.

It might about 2 to 4 weeks for your baby to know which is the apple or the orange.

Talk At Eye Level

Babies learn how to talk by closely watching how we move our lips and at the same time listen to the words or sounds associated with the lip movement. For this reason alone, we should talk to babies at their eye level from about 12 to 18 inches from their face. By being near to them, they can easily observe how we form words.

In one experiment, 10 to 16 weeks old babies watched tapes of a woman speaking. Most of the time the voice of the woman is in sync with the movements of her lips. However, at other times, the sound is deliberately delayed by 400 milliseconds (almost half a second) with the lip movement. The babies looked away from the video tape when the sound and the lip movement are out of sync. Who would have thought that babies as young as 16 weeks could detect such a subtle difference?

The lesson that I got from this clever experiment is to advise parents to talk in front of their baby and toddlers at their eye level. This small strategic move could make a big difference in their learning words faster.

With the book, there are 104 weekly activities, from one week to 24 months, that helps advanced brain development.

The principles in BRILLIANT BABIES OF MAINE was used by Dr. Leonidas to his son who just finished Med-Peds Residency program at Albany Medical Center. His son is now in private medical practice in Albany, New York area.

How would you like to have a happy and a smart child? I am sure all parents aspire of it. Unfortunately, only about 5% of children are really in this group. However, with the use of the recent early brain development ideas, your child can be among the top 5% of children! Read Brilliant Babies of Maine and learn all the new methods in having happier and smarter child.

      Some of the Brilliant Babies featured in the book:    

Caleb

I saw Caleb, a 25 month old boy who is a “graduate” of our smart baby program. He knows his cranium, mandible, clavicle, and pelvis. When asked where his mandible is he pointed at his jaw; his cranium he pointed at the top of his head; his clavicle he pointed at the clavicular area; and his pelvis he pointed at the hip area.

We have a clown statue about 20 inches tall at the hallway. Caleb walked near the clown and I asked him what is that? He said clown. Then I proceeded to asked where the mandible, cranium, clavicle, and pelvis of the clown. To my surprise, Caleb correctly pointed to the clown’s anatomical parts as I was mentioning each name.

Before the exercise on anatomy, I showed him three blue Mega Bloks. I asked Caleb how many is this? Without pointing and counting the blue blocks, he said, blue. Then I asked him again, “How many?” he quickly said “Three.” Then I took three white Mega Bloks and showed it to him, and I asked, “How many are these?” He said, without hesitation, “Three.

Emily, A Brilliant Girl

At six months old when asked where her nose is, Emily would point at it.

At 11 months old her first word was "Dada." Also at 11 months when her mother would sing "Head, shoulders, knee, and toes" and Emily would touch the right place of her body. She walked at 11 months.

On Jan 1998 she said "bible." At one year old said, "apple." On Feb 1998 she said, "uncle." and uttered, "all gone."

On Feb 1998 at 13 months old she took a box of cereals from the cupboard and her mom asked her to put it back and she did.

She recognized some letters of the alphabet at one year old. At 18 months old she knew the whole alphabet and started talking in sentences. At 22 months old she knew 5 colors. At 2 years and 3 months she knew the "Pledge of Allegiance." At 2 years and 4 months she could write 6 letters, E F O T P D At 22 months old she could do puzzles designed for 3 – 7 years old.

She knows her vowels at 2 years and 3 months.  She sang "Jesus Loves Me" and "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star."

At 2 years old routine visit, when she saw me reach for my stetoscope, she automatically lifted her dress expecting me to listen to her heart. She knew that I magically put the magic ball at her ears after I did my disappearing magic ball. (Most 2 year old children would look down at the floor and "look" for the magic black ball.)

At 3 years old Emily was about to say and pronounce clearly: otoscope, stethoscope, and opthalmoscope. She could write her name and she knew such words as: biology, zoology, and enunciation.

What made Emily advanced in development? She spent a lot of time with the grandmother who read to her frequently especially books on A B C and the small cardboard books. The grandmother played a piano at lot. Emily would look at the song books and pick out the ones she wanted to hear. Emily listened to "Little kids tapes" and bible tapes. She did not watch TV or video tapes. Her mother and grandmother read about 20 children books a day.

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Jenna, 21 months old

Just an update for you on Jenna's progress.  Jenna is 21 months old. She now can count to twenty, although she sometimes gets confused between 14 and 16. She knows all the basic colors:  red, green, blue, yellow, orange, purple, black, white, pink.  She knows all her body parts. She loves to play with her dollhouses and read books.

Jenna is a wonderful conversationalist!  She speaks in complete sentences, and can easily carry on a conversation with an adult. (She's great company when we have time by ourselves!)  Every morning when we wake up, she hugs me and says "Oh Mommy, I love you".  Then she goes to find her brothers, Richie and Nicholas.  She tells me "I go tell brothers get up!".  She is also very polite.  She says please when she wants something, and when anyone does something for her or gives her something, she says "Thank you very much!".  If you say thank you to her, she says "You're welcome". People are always very surprised to hear her speaking so clearly at such a young age.  When I ask her what she wants to eat, she says "How about...." and then she tells me whatever it is that she wants. One day when she was about 18 or 19 months old, she told me that she wanted a salad. She just came over to me and said "Mommy, I want salad!” So I asked her again, "Do you want a salad?" and she said "Yes!" So I made her a one, and she ate the whole thing! Now that's a girl who knows what she wants!

Sean at One Year Old

Sean is one year old boy whose parents and grandmother followed to the letter our Smart Baby Program. When the mother of Sean is working at the office, the grandmother is the one who takes of him. He does not go to a Day Care center. He is very healthy and did not have any recurrent “colds” or ear infections during the first 12 months.

Here is an e mail from the grandmother:

He says "all gone, bye bye & no no & he  said bye Bailey". He said "I want more" one time. These are the words he says at 13 mos: mama, dada, bye bye, all gone, doggie, rabbit, no no, bye Bailey, kitty,  deer, Dydee, balloon, bottle, book, moo, naughty, Dougie (he's my carpenter), more, please, peek ( when we play peek-a-boo) & hot & moo. These are  the words I can think of off the top of my head. There could be more actually. A  lot of these words he said at  10 1/2 months. He said his first two words together (all gone) at 10 1/2 months. His mother had a balloon hanging on his bed about 1 1/2 wks ago & she told Sean it was a balloon. Today at the grocery store he saw a balloon & kept pointing at it & saying balloon so I bought him a balloon. Every time his Mom is cooking at the stove he points to the stove & says "hot". He points to my propane stove & says "hot". If you ask him to get you something he will get it. I was reading him a book one  day & I said the cow says "moo". The next day when he was looking at that book & got to the page with the cow on it he said "moo". When his mother  tells him it is time for his bath he crawls right into the bathroom. When his mother says it is time to go get Daddy he crawls over & gets his coat. He  recognizes cats & dogs in books & will say the words when he sees them.  

Alexandria, understands concept of more
 
 Last year, I saw Alexandria, a 16-month-old girl, who was able to tell quantities of 1, 2, and 3. Her mother placed one white Mega Bloks (MB), two yellow MB, and 3 blue MB on top our examining table. The white is on the left side, the yellow at the middle, and the blue at the right side. There was a space of about four inches between each group.
 
 The mother asked Alexandria, "What has the most?" she pointed at the 3 blue MB. Then she said, "Where is one?" and she pointed at the one white MB. "Where is two?" she pointed at the 2 yellow blocks, and "Where is three?" she pointed at the 3 blue blocks.
 
On her 15 month old check up Alexandria could point at 12 different parts of her body. And she was starting to potty train.
 
 Not many 2 or 3 years old could count 1 to 3 with pointing one-on-one objects. Alexandria is very advanced in her cognitive and language development

                  

        

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To order for Brilliant Babies of Maine please send $18 dollars per copy (US$20 from outside USA and Canada). If after 30 days you feel this book will not help your child, you can return it without any questions asked. You have nothing to lose.

    The ideas you'll get from this book is priceless. Act now. The cost of school failure is endless! The consequences of poor school report card is a lifetime.

    Please send your e mail and check to:

    Writers Global Group,  698 Kenduskeag Ave.  Bangor, ME  04401   USA

Talk at a rate of 35 words per minute

Two psychologists from Kansas city studied 40 families and followed them for three years. They divided the families into three socio-economic groups: children whose parents are on welfare, children whose parents are from working-class, and children whose parents are professionals.

They found the following: children whose parents are on welfare heard about 600 words per hour, children whose parents are from working-class heard about 1,200 words per hour, and children whose parents are professionals heard 2,100 word (35 words per minute).

Hart and Risley found that the parenting style and the number of words the parents say per hour is more related with the language skill and school performance of the child rather than the financial and educational attainment of the parents. Parents who talked more and who responded in a positive rather than negative ways to their children’s speech and behavior, had children who are advanced in language and performed better in school.

The lesson in the Hart and Risley study is the more words are heard by young children, the better is their school performance.

Brain Parts You Should Know

There are four parts of the brain that you should know. These are the amygdala, hippocampus, pre-frontal cortex, and the fusiform face area (FFA).

The amygdala is the emotional center of the brain. Injury to this area will result to behavioral, emotional problems, and some features of autism.

The hippocampus is the memory center. If the amygdala is exposed to a happy and positive environment, the hippocampus functions more efficiently. Learning is easier and faster when the amygdala is having fun.

The pre-frontal cortex is the thinking part of the brain. For this part of the brain to function well, the hippocampus, the brain's primary hard drive, should have enough stored data for easy retrieval.

Fusiform face area (FFA) is the major area of the brain that is dedicated to “read” human face. In autistic children, the FFA is not active. Maybe this is the main reason why autistic children rarely look at the face of people. They prefer to look at objects instead. Watching TV during infancy and early childhood does not help turn-on the FFA. This is the one reason why infants should avoid television!

Fortunately, the FFA, amygdala, and hippocampus are easily turned-on by your happy, smiling, animated, enthusiastic face, and voice. Every minute of the day, when a baby sees your happy, smiling face, a positive development of the FFA and amygdala is a likely outcome. As a result, behavioral problems, school failure, and depression are reduced and a productive citizen is born.

On the other hand if your baby is exposed to unhappy faces, shouting, negative attitudes, naggings, and TV during the first few years of life, these four major parts of the brain will sustain some brain cell damage. This neural injury may be persists in some children.

You can save thousands of dollars of the cost of medical care and the agony of having a child with developmental delays by giving your baby a happy, animated, enthusiastic, and playful environment without television and technology.

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The Ten Commandments For Parents To Have a Smart Child

 1. Thou shall provide a home filled with love and joy

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 2. Thou shall respond promptly to the needs of your baby.

 3. Thou shall talk, read, dance, and count to your baby as often as possible.

  4. Thou shall be enthusiastic, energetic, and happy when talking, counting, playing, and stimulating your baby.

  5. Thou shall read to your baby every day as often as possible.

  6. Thou shall read the cues and temperament of your baby.  Thou shall stop reading or stimulating her at the early sign of tiredness or bored ness.

  7. Thou shall not let her watch Television, VCR, or computer until she is 6 year old.

  8. Thou shall not shout, fight, or be angry when baby is around her seeing or hearing distance.

  9. Thou shall provide her with adequate books and toys for stimulation of her brain.

  10. Thou shall maintain a stable and intact family.

To order for Brilliant Babies of Maine please send $18 dollars per copy (US$20 from outside USA and Canada). If after 30 days you feel this book will not help your child, you can return it without any questions asked. You have nothing to lose.

    The ideas you'll get from this book is priceless. Act now. This book will be $49 in 30 days. The cost of school failure is endless! The consequences of poor school report card is a lifetime.

    Please send your e mail and check to:

    Writers Global Group,  698 Kenduskeag Ave.  Bangor, ME  04401   USA

Haley and Tyler, smart siblings

Haley has been inquisitive since she was born. One of her first displays of intelligence came at her 4 month office visit with Dr. Leonidas. He was showing her his “disappearing ball” trick and when he made the ball disappear, she grabbed the prop and peered into the opening, looking for the ball. By 5 months she could loosely gesture to the appropriate hand when showed one finger and two fingers and asked which is the one (or two).

At seven months, Haley said her first word(s) “Hi Dada”. By 12 months, her vocabulary was more than 30 words (including elephant and hippopotamus). She was also forming 3 word sentences at 12 months.

Haley was doing addition and subtraction at 30 months.

Tyler has also been an inquisitive child. By 12 months, his vocabulary was approximately 20 words and was speaking in 3 word sentences. At 18 months, he could identify 1, 4 & 7, and about ½ of the alphabet when written. At 24 months, he could identify all 26 letters from sound. At 36 months he knows the ALS alphabet and can spell both his name and his sister’s name in sign. Today, at 37 months, when Haley was asked by Dr. Leo what c-a-r spelled, Tyler responded correctly.

(e mail from the Mom of Haley & Tyler)

 

 

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