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Minds Wide Open: July 2009
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Bringing child development research to you and your child. Thursday, July 2, 2009. As humans, imagination is one of our most wonderful traits. It is what lets us laugh at a joke, appreciate a good book, even empathize with our fellow human beings. Thanks to our imagination, we can picture a funny event, conjure images of vistas described in a travelogue, and put ourselves in someone else's shoes. At it's most basic level, imagination allows us to form representations. The baby will start looking for it, ...
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Minds Wide Open: Just imagine
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Bringing child development research to you and your child. Thursday, July 2, 2009. As humans, imagination is one of our most wonderful traits. It is what lets us laugh at a joke, appreciate a good book, even empathize with our fellow human beings. Thanks to our imagination, we can picture a funny event, conjure images of vistas described in a travelogue, and put ourselves in someone else's shoes. At it's most basic level, imagination allows us to form representations. The baby will start looking for it, ...
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Minds Wide Open: What this blog is about
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Bringing child development research to you and your child. Friday, March 13, 2009. What this blog is about. Our findings in prestigious academic journals, where they would be read by other diligent scientists, and that would be the end of it until an eager graduate student was inspired by our findings to launch a new study, in which case, his/her results in turn would follow the same fate. Now that I have graduated with those three elusive letters, p h d. Those minds are wide open, ready to soak up all t...
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Minds Wide Open: Who's the leader?
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Bringing child development research to you and your child. Friday, March 13, 2009. Dylan, look here, look here, look at this cool red car! No, stop playing with the wrapping, look at the car! Does that sound familiar? How often do you try to engage your little one in something that, in your eyes, is obviously exciting, but he just seems to be fascinated by something else altogether? Bottomline: Try to 'follow-in' on what your child is attending to, as far as possible. Let him/her take the lead!
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Minds Wide Open: March 2009
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Bringing child development research to you and your child. Friday, March 13, 2009. Dylan, look here, look here, look at this cool red car! No, stop playing with the wrapping, look at the car! Does that sound familiar? How often do you try to engage your little one in something that, in your eyes, is obviously exciting, but he just seems to be fascinated by something else altogether? Bottomline: Try to 'follow-in' on what your child is attending to, as far as possible. Let him/her take the lead! And all t...
