Making Baby Genius
Making Baby Genius
No More Mozart?
The No.1 way to give to children is to spend time with them, he says. "We can't have both parents working until 8 at night." He suggests the four-thirds approach: both parents work two-thirds time, or one parent works full time and the other works one-third time. Interestingly, he doesn't advocate having one parent stay at home. "Sharing the care is optimal," he says.
For single parents, he suggests they look long and hard to find an excellent caregiver or child care situation. "We have to improve child care in this country." Excellent caregivers can provide many of the benefits parents provide by spending time with their children.
Preschool and school-age children need an adult present when they come home from school, he says. And families with children in high school need regular time together from 6 p.m. through the evening.
As for playing Mozart concertos to a baby, Greenspan says it won't hurt but won't help much either. The so-called Mozart effect was launched by a study published in Nature in 1993 by Gordon Shaw, a neurobiologist at the University of California at Irvine, and Frances Rauscher, now a psychologist at the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh, who conducted their research on college students. He reported that the increase in performance on spatial imagery lasted for only a few minutes, and attempts to reproduce the results failed in a study published in the July 1999 issue of the journal Psychological Science.
But dancing with your baby to Mozart, singing, tapping out rhythmic beats, smiling at each other: That's real learning, says Greenspan.
Making Baby Genius
No More Mozart?
Together Time Is Teaching Time
The No.1 way to give to children is to spend time with them, he says. "We can't have both parents working until 8 at night." He suggests the four-thirds approach: both parents work two-thirds time, or one parent works full time and the other works one-third time. Interestingly, he doesn't advocate having one parent stay at home. "Sharing the care is optimal," he says.
For single parents, he suggests they look long and hard to find an excellent caregiver or child care situation. "We have to improve child care in this country." Excellent caregivers can provide many of the benefits parents provide by spending time with their children.
Preschool and school-age children need an adult present when they come home from school, he says. And families with children in high school need regular time together from 6 p.m. through the evening.
As for playing Mozart concertos to a baby, Greenspan says it won't hurt but won't help much either. The so-called Mozart effect was launched by a study published in Nature in 1993 by Gordon Shaw, a neurobiologist at the University of California at Irvine, and Frances Rauscher, now a psychologist at the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh, who conducted their research on college students. He reported that the increase in performance on spatial imagery lasted for only a few minutes, and attempts to reproduce the results failed in a study published in the July 1999 issue of the journal Psychological Science.
But dancing with your baby to Mozart, singing, tapping out rhythmic beats, smiling at each other: That's real learning, says Greenspan.
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