Baby Cognitive Development Through Stage-Based Play
A Program for the First Two Critical Years
The SmartBabies App shows parents what they can do to develop their babies' full intellectual potential!
Babies are born knowledge-seeking, knowledge-making, know-how inventing beings.
The SmartBabies App shows you how to play with babies at every stage of their development.
The activities are geared towards the way your baby develops and learns.
Don’t teach your baby a repertoire of tricks, or empty verbalisms.
Use activities matched to your baby’s abilities, geared to how your baby…
ABOUT US
SmartBabies is a dba of Inventive Minds LLC, a Delaware Corporation. SmartBabies is a specialty app that teaches new parents how to nurture their babies’ intellectual development based on the world’s most renowned psychologist, Jean Piaget. Dr. Jacob, the author of the app’s educational program, has the unique honor of having studied under Piaget. Since the 1990s, Dr. Jacob’s books have helped tens of thousands of new parents nurture the intellectual development of their children the world over. Our Mission We are dedicated to the development of independent thinking in young children so that they grow to become inventors, creators, and problem-solvers. We believe that action is the mother of intelligence hence, we provide parents the tools to optimize their babies’ natural, spontaneous cognitive abilities during the critical first years of life through meaningful, stage-appropriate interactive play that requires inventing ways of knowing.
Our Values
We are guided by a set of core values, among them are:
· To adhere strictly to scientific procedures, principles, and results.
· To utilize educational technology that applies such findings to actionable, simple methods. ·
To promote the right of every baby to experience good nutrition and meaningful stage-appropriate, interactive play.
· To educate parents about: o The critical importance of the first two years of their children’s life.
o The crucial role of early, interactive play in developing intelligence and knowing.
o How they can make a significant difference in their child’s intellectual development.
· To provide exceptional customer support.
· To collaborate with early childhood experts in major universities for academic guidance.
· To earn and keep our customer trust by offering quality content, anchored in science.
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What is SmartBabies App?
What is the most important thing you can do for your baby to make them smarter, and able to think critically?
It’s not teaching them the names of things, like animals, colors, and shapes. It’s not teaching the alphabet, rhymes, or reading. Important as these are, this type of memorized learning does not contribute much to cognition early on.
The essence of cognition is critical thinking which is nurtured through stage-appropriate play. The SmartBabies app uses short, animated videos of baby activities that show parents exactly how to perform them with their babies to promote critical thinking. The first two years are critical to a child’s intellectual development. If we want our children to grow and become problem solvers able to create, discover, and invent things, then we must focus on teaching them how to think critically. The SmartBabies app does just that – it is a cognitive development program for the first two years of a child’s life that is designed to promote critical thinking.
Using animated play activities that match a child’s stages of development, the app helps parents maximize this period of explosive growth so that their baby has every opportunity to develop the thinking skills that are crucial in todays and tomorrow’s world – curiosity, imagination, learning, understanding, problem-solving, discovery, and invention. There is no more critical time in human intellectual development!
Program Description
SmartBabies is a cognitive development program that is designed to help you engage your child so she can grow to be a problem solver, creative, imaginative, curious, interested in discovering, and yes, inventing. The overall goal is to enrich the inventive nature of your child. With over 110 brief animated videos covering explanations and intellectually enhancing activities, SmartBabies offers a balanced and accessible program for infant and toddler development based on the six recognized stages of early intellectual growth.
Why Start Early
The first 2 years are the most important in your child’s development and set the foundation for everything to follow.
Once born, a baby’s brain grows faster in his first two years than at any other time of his life. By the age of three, his brain forms approximately 1000 trillion cell connections. Early experience changes the brain, influencing the brain’s ability to function. This means that what you do early on will impact your baby’s mind in important ways. Intellectual growth is truly unparalleled in the early years. There is no more critical time in human intellectual development. Intellectual growth is nearly complete before a child enters school. Intellectual growth is nearly complete before a child enters school.
Before You Begin
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Why Choose SmartBabies?
Three Reasons to Choose Us...
1 Jean Piaget
Built from a brilliant mind!
2 Saied H. Jacob
Written byS aied H. Jacob, Ph.D. studied under Piaget, has developed an educational system that extends this intellectual giant’s work to its educational limits. The concepts upon which SmartBabies.io are based are detailed in Dr. Jacob’s numerous articles and books, most notably Foundations for Piagetian Education and Your Baby’s Mind: How to Make the Most of the Critical First Two Years.
3 Based on scientific evidence.
Based on scientific work in developmental psychology and neuroscience.
About SmartBabies
Do you want your baby to just memorize and parrot things she doesn’t understand?
Or do you want your child to understand?
With our animated, easy to use app, you will be able to empower your baby to:
learn how to learn
learn how to think as a problem solver, explorer, innovator & inventor!
Developmental Stages
Babies and children develop in discrete, well-known stages. With knowledge of these stage, you can enhance and enrich your baby's life by playing games and engaging in activities that excite her because they match the stage in which she is in – they are stage-appropriate. This is a vitally important process. Neglecting cognitive development can lead to boredom and perhaps even an incomplete preparation for later childhood. By the same token, pushing a child ahead of her own development runs the risk of leaving her frustrated, stressed, and convinced that most of her efforts will yield only a sense of failure.
The Six Stages of Cognitive Development
In the First Two Years
Stage 1 – Birth to 1 Month
Newborns are restricted to the use of reflex actions. Because their knowledge system is tied to such ways of knowing as grasping, sucking, eye-movements, etc., things are known only if they trigger these reflex actions. For example, when a nipple touches the area of a baby’s mouth, sucking begins. Such knowledge, or more precisely, such adaptations, are simply survival instincts. Moreover, these reflexes are not integrated with one another. They act independently from one another. Sucking and grasping, for example, are not put together into a coherent single action.
Stage 2 – 1 to 4 Months
Stage 2 babies develop a way of knowing that is superior to the rigid, fragmented way of knowing of Stage 1 babies: they learn to coordinate one reflex action with another, creating new action patterns that are more organized, elaborate, and complete. Stage 2 ushers in the possibility for acquiring new patterns of behavior because of integrating one act with another, then undoing the integration to coordinate acts in an entirely new way. The ability to coordinate and differentiate actions enables the baby to construct new ways of doing things, new ways of organizing and adapting to reality. This expands the realm of learning, enabling the baby to start “playing” and “imitating.”
Stage 3 – 4 to 8 Months
The ability to exercise skills by manipulating the external world of objects is the distinguishing characteristic of the Stage 3 baby (four to eight months). Baby can now reproduce an outcome that she had caused accidentally and found interesting. For example, when she thrashes her legs around in her crib, she notices that the mobile suspended above her moves. She thrashes around again, trying to make the mobile move once more. If she is successful, she will repeat the process again and again. She enjoys repeating the pattern of behavior she has just learned. She is forming a practical understanding of cause and effect, or the means-ends principle. Doing this, she had learned, produces that!
Stage 4 – 8 to 12 Months
After the rapid learning of Stage 3, the Stage IV baby (eight to twelve months) is busy consolidating her past learning and applying it to new situations. This is a time of reconciling the attainments of the past and extending them to new and different situations. In this stage several major attainments are being perfected, beginning with the concept of means-ends relations. The infant now knows an intentional, as opposed to accidental, selection of means to accomplish pre-established goals, and is developing his concept of space and time more fully. On a practical level only, concepts such as “in”, “out”, “behind”, “through”, etc., are understood. This helps the infant attain understanding of the concept of the permanence of objects. In the previous stage, baby could only search for a disappearing object visually; now, he begins to search manually! This important development shows the child’s advancement in understanding that objects can go out of sight without totally vanishing from the world.
Peek-a-boo becomes intensely interesting in this stage; the game gives the baby a chance to confirm this new understanding. Imitating has progressed to the point where the baby can reproduce an action that involves parts of her body she cannot see. Anticipation – associating certain events when they are preceded by others – is also being perfected. When a sequence is disrupted, the element of surprise enters her world.
Stage 5 – 12 to 18 Months
Now a toddler, the Stage 5 child (twelve to eighteen months) can experiment and solve problems, initially through trial and error, but later, quite efficiently. She intentionally and systematically varies an action to discover how changes in her actions effect outcomes. She understands that not only she, but other people and objects can cause things to happen. She has constructed some idea of time, of space, and of how objects fit in and out of things. She knows that if an object has been moved from one hiding place to another, she’ll find it by looking where it was last seen. And she can imitate novel acts – acts that she has not imitated before. Because she is beginning to develop the capacity to represent objects and events mentally through images, words, and abbreviated actions, she is freed from a knowledge system that was restricted to what she could touch, see, hear, smell, and taste. Now she is able to know things by imaging them. When it is completed, what an incredible accomplishment that will be! Stage V is the beginning of the end of sensory-motor intelligence. Over the next year or so, the symbolic system will have evolved to the point where an entirely new age of knowing becomes possible, the age of the wonderful, magical, make-believe world of early childhood.
Stage 6 – 18 thru 24 Months
In this last stage of the Sensory-motoric period (eighteen to twenty-four months), the symbolic system is so well developed that children can solve problems without resorting to the trial-and-error experimentation of the Stage 5 child; they can run through the solution to a problem mentally and then solve it. Stage 6 is a transition period, one that, upon its completion, will hurl the child into the world of thought. Parents delight in witnessing phenomenon of insight. when confronted with a problem, the child shows little or no physical groping before hitting on a solution. As this period ends, a new mode Even though your newborn is completely dependent on you, she is ready to learn. She can SEE, HEAR, FEEL, TASTE, and SMELL. Just as important, she arrives with the ability to ACT. This comes in the form of reflexes, such as sucking, rooting, blinking, and grasping.
The Science Behind Our Program
SmartBabies rests on three pillars of knowledge...
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This incredible growth spurt continues after birth.
A child’s brain undergoes an astounding period of growth in the first 3 years -- the fastest rate of brain development in the entire human lifespan.
Brain Weight
The brain grows at a staggering rate in the first five years.
· By six months, your baby’s brain weighs about half of what it will weigh when he becomes an adult.
· By two years, it weighs three-quarters of what it will weigh in adulthood.
· And by five years, it achieves ninety percent of its adult weight.
Neuronal Complexity
By the end of the third year, the number of synaptic connections would have reached about 1000 trillion.
We teach you how to empower your baby to think...Learn how your baby's mind works and how to help it grow.
OUR APP PROGRAM IS FULLY ANIMATED.
JUST WATCH & DO THE ACTIVITIES !
o Covers all 6 stages of cognitive development.
o Explains what your baby is trying to understand at each stage.
o Provides nurturing activities that match your baby’s stage.
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Activity is the building block of intelligence and knowing.
For over fifty years, we have had evidence suggesting that early experiences impact later cognitive, social, emotional, and behavioral functioning. One type of experience that incorporates all of these domains into one activity is stage-appropriate play. It is the key to cognitive growth.
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Parents can make a huge difference in their child’s development.
Parent-child interactions are key to a child’s overall development. The enrichment that parents can provide as a parent cannot be overstated. Your baby is born ready to learn, discover, and invent. The best time to start is right away!
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