Mind nutrition....

Sophia's room has always been bright and busy from the start. Not deliberately - thats just the way it kinda panned out.....I thought one thing might be nice and then something else might work well with it and so on. Many people said that her room was too bright from the start and there's no way she'd sleep and you would think that they might have been right but she slept in our room with us till she was nearly 9 months old and wouldn't sleep there either so who knows! The reason why I'm putting this in is because of a study that I had read about years and years and years ago that left me wondering....

This scientist decided he was going to try and acertain exactly what newborns and babies looked at. He discovered that they look directly at edges like the outline of their mothers face or the bars of their cot. And not only that, he discovered that when they look at edges, their brains are stimulated. Hmmmm.......something to think about perhaps?

And of course, there's books. Books, books and more books. We have read to Sophia everyday of her life because she has always enjoyed it. The first books we  showed her tended to be basic color, number and picture books.

We had our first indicators that she was absorbing more than we thought when we were at a playgroup that we would frequent once a week. They had something on the TV to do with colors and shapes and things - the normal child development kind of programs you get. Sophia runs up to the TV and slaps her hand on a shape that was blue and shouts, "BLUE!" She must have been about 16 months old. Somebody said...."that's impressive," and I thought - "It is?". A couple of months later, she was shouting out the letter's of the Alphabet in a school my husband worked at.