Your Self-Motivated Baby ─ Enhance Your Baby's Social and Cognitive Development in the First Six Months Through Movement

A hands-on guide for working with babies in their first six months on their physical, social, and cognitive development,Your Self-Motivated Baby shows caregivers how to interact with very young infants and understand what they are expressing in their movements. Color photographs throughout the book show how interaction builds bonding and subtly encourages steady development for the infant. Following advice from author Beverly Stokes, a seasoned somatics educator, adults learn how to relate to babies and communicate effectively with them. Beverly Stokes makes it clear that babies are giving cues for caregiver participation very early on; it's up to us to try to understand them better. By communicating with babies sensitively in the first six months of their lives, we help them to establish the foundation for a healthy, confident, and joyful life.

Beverly Stokes is a leader in somatic education whose DVD movement series Amazing Babies Movinghas been used in university graduate and undergraduate programs in early childhood education, somatic psychology and parenting programs internationally.

BEVERLY STOKES, CMA, RSME, is the founder and director of the Center for Experiential Learning established in 1985. A Certified Movement Analyst and registered Somatic Movement Educator, she is acknowledged as a leader in the field of baby movement development and nonverbal communication, having worked with babies and their families for more than 20 years. She leads workshops throughout the United States and Canada.