Great Minds Start Little: A Guide for Parents

Title: Great Minds Start Little By: The Baby Einstein Company, LLC
Type: Hardcover

About: Great Minds Start Little: A Guide for Parents is the first Baby Einstein product created especially for parents.

The Baby Einstein Great Minds Start Little guidebook provides numerous wonderful ideas, projects and activities that help you foster confidence, encourage self-expression, and celebrate learning with your child.

The first Baby Einstein title for Parents!
Unlimited experiences for interaction between you and your little one
Helpful, age-coded, resource guide
Appropriate for ages birth and up

Organized in three easy-to-follow sections, Great Minds Start Little offers unlimited interactive possibilities for you and your little one. The Great Minds Start Little Baby-Friendly Home is a room-by-room guide filled with ideas to make every room in the house an inviting, baby-friendly space.

The Great Minds Start Little Tools for Discovery section offers dozens of fun everyday activities that encourage language development and celebrate the arts and sciences. Great Minds Start Little Tools for Learning is a carefully selected resource compiling some of the world’s greatest poems, anthologies, books, and classical music compositions & masterpieces of human expression that promote a lifetime of learning for your child.

Great Minds Start Little is designed for parents of children age one month to three years old and contains age-appropriate coding for easy access to ideas and concepts. This unique coding system leads you through the stages of your little one’s early childhood development and provides related concepts throughout each developmental stage. Hardcover bound, Great Minds Start Little offers inspiring ideas to spark curiosity and fill each day with wonderful new discoveries.

Ulasan:
Sebagai ibu muda di awal usia 19 tahun, buku ini memberi saya cara pembelajaran dan pengajaran yang sangat berkesan buat bayi saya. Alhamdulillah, terlalu banyak perkara yang perlu saya pelajari dapat saya realisasikan dengan bantuan bahan bacaan ini.

Saya bertambah keyakinan dalam meneruskan “Homeschool” buat bayi saya kerana saya yakin sebelum mengambil apa-apa tindakan, ibubapa berperanan memperkasa ilmu di dada buat asuhan kepada anak-anak.

Komitmen dan kasih sayang ibubapa yang paling penting dapat membina daya kecerdasan minda anak-anak.Konsep dan idea kreatif yang diterapkan membuatkan saya menjadi seorang yang tidak boleh memberi apa-apa alasan demi kegembiraan dan kecerdasan anak saya.

Penguat semangat dan motivasi yang baik buat ibubapa, kerana benar sekali sabda baginda Rasulullah s.a.w:”Tuntutlah ilmu di mana sahaja walau sampai ke negara China”Moga ibubapa hari ini dapat menerapkan cara menyayangi ilmu dan memupuk minat membaca dikalangan ibubapa sendiri bagi teladan buat anak-anak serta mengurangkan pembacaan karya picisan.

October 8, 2006 | Filed Under e-Bookstore For Mama | 4 Comments

Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window

Title: Totto-chan By: Tetsuko Kuroyanagi (Author), Dorothy Britton (Translator)
Type: Paperback

About: This engaging series of childhood recollections tells about an ideal school in Tokyo during World War II that combined learning with fun, freedom, and love.

This unusual school had old railroad cars for classrooms, and it was run by an extraordinary man-its founder and headmaster, Sosaku Kobayashi-who was a firm believer in freedom of expression and activity.

In real life, the Totto-chan of the book has become one of Japan’s most popular television personalities-Tetsuko Kuroyanagi.

She attributes her success in life to this wonderful school and its headmaster.

The charm of this account has won the hearts of millions of people of all ages and made this book a ruanaway bestseller in Japan, with sales hitting the 4.5 million mark in its first year.

Author: Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, daughter of the celebrated violinist, was voted Japan’s most popular television personality fourteen times. She studied to become an opera singer but then became an actress instead, winning a prestigious award for her work in radio and television.

She spent 1972 in New York studying acting, and was critically acclaimed in Japan for her leading role in works by Albee and Shaffer and in Melchior Lengyel’s Ninotchka: Her daily television talk show, Tetsuko’s Room, is still going strong after more than twenty years. Japan’s first such program, it was recently awarded television’s highest prize. This and the other shows on which she regularly appears all enjoy top viewer ratings.

Devoted to welfare and conservation, Kuroyanagi is Asia’s first UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and serves on the board of the Worldwide Fun for Nature. The Totto Foundation-financed with her book royalties-provides professional training to deaf actors, with whom Kuroyanagi often appears. Kuroyanagi has twicw brought America’s National Theater of the Deaf to Japan, acting with them in sign language.

She is the author of ten books.

Ulasan:
Perasaan saya sangat teruja sewaktu pertama kali membaca karya ini (ketika saya berumur 16 tahun) kerana kisah benar yang dipaparkan terlalu unik dan berbeza daripada pengalaman biasa. Cara ibubapa cik Tetsuko dalam mendidiknya sangat kritis, penyayang malah cukup progresif dalam pembinaan sahsiah anaknya bagi jangka masa panjang. Saya kagumi sikap ibubapa beliau yang tidak pernah ambil jalan mudah bagi mengasuh beliau tetapi memberi kepercayaan dan pilihan terbaik untuk anak mereka serta prihatin untuk mendengar cerita si anak kecil walaupun tampak remeh di mata masyarakat.

Tuan Sosaku Kobayashi, guru besar di sekolah Tomoe Gakuen tempat beliau belajar telah beri impak terbesar kepada saya. Cara didikan beliau yang sungguh luar biasa dan pemikiran meluas beliau dalam isu pendidikan kanak-kanak telah membuat saya mengambil keputusan rasmi dalam hidup saya untuk membuat “Home School” kepada bakal anak-anak saya. Saya ingin terapkan budaya ilmu yang diperkenalkan oleh beliau buat anak-anak saya kerana beliau sangat mementingkan pendapat dan kebebasan menuntut ilmu bagi kanak-kanak yang nyata malah terbukti dapat meningkatkan tahap IQ kanak-kanak tersebut (semua anak didiknya berjaya di persada dunia dengan kasih sayang yang di tunjukkan oleh beliau).

Belajar di dalam gerabak keretapi, boleh belajar apa sahaja yang di minati, cara pemakanan, nyanyian, sukan, kebajikan; semuanya begitu berbeza dari pendidikan formal.

Alhamdulillah, saya gembira dan kini saya telah pun mendidik anak-anak saya mengikut acuan hasil pembacaan saya ini. Ianya buku kecil namun memberi impak besar kepada saya, suami dan anak-anak.