The ideas of raising a baby after brainwashed by Doman

After the fall on Saturday, I cancelled all social activities and spent the whole weekend staying at home and making the infant stimuluation cards for our bean after I read heaps of things on website about Glenn Doman and his theory of baby's brain development. The project was bigger and more time consumming than what I thought, but I enjoyed doing it. In the end of Sunday, I was pround of the cards I made. I showed them to Chris and he complimented my efforts by saying they're very beautiful cards and he's very stimulated by looking at them. Gee... "You can give that another try after trying for 40 years." I wanted to be naughty to joke back, but finanly I chose to be nice and smiled at him instead.

There are four things that are fundamental in early eduction - affection, nutrition, repetition and stimulation, based on Doman's theory. It's like a moto in my head these days and I think about it all the time. The first three years are the best time for a person to learn things. Once you pass three, you will never learn things as fast as you could. It's just the way how human brain grows.

Another fascinating point is that the intellence of a brain is not gifted. Geans partly help decide if a well-fuctioned brain is formed, however, a well-fuctioned brain alone doesn't give a smart brain. If anything, it only gives potentiality to be a smart brain. Indeed, how smart a brain is depends on how well it is developed and how often it has been used. The more often a brain is used, the more it is developed, the more and deeper areas it can reach, the faster and better it can function, therefore the smarter it is.

Stimulaiton is the way of development. You can learn better and quicker when you are stimulated and interested. It's the rule that applies to both adults and babies. The only difference is adults have decipline that we sometimes learn things that we don't like when we have to whereas babies just don't give a shit, excuse my language. :) They only learn when they think it's interesting and stop at the first minute when they are bored. Therefore, it's crutial for parents to try as various ways as possible to stimulate your baby and carefully observe the first sign of their boredom.

It's fascinating, isn't it?