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By clicking on the button below you can access the Free Mini-Course on Psychomotor Development in the first months of a newborn's life.
Inside the course you will find exclusive content taken from the video courses on Motor, Cognitive and Language Development, created for you by:
- Dr. Matteo Silva - Pediatric Osteopath
- Dr. Sabrina Verzeletti - Neuropsychologist
- Dr. Dana Dell'Ariccia - Speech Therapist
Before accessing the course I recommend you read to the end of this page, you will find valuable information for the Development of your child.
Neuroscience and Child Development
Our mission is to promote the best development of mother and child, from pregnancy to the first two years of life; in the so-called first 1000 golden days for its development.
We want to do this because neuroscience says without a shadow of a doubt that if you change the beginning of the story , you can change the whole story, you can shape it to your liking.
The term "first 1000 days of life", in fact, was coined by the World Health Organization to indicate that unique and unrepeatable period in a child's development that goes from conception, therefore from the beginning of pregnancy, up to the first 2 years of life.
During this period your baby lays the foundations for his health and psychomotor development.
It is no coincidence that in the first 1000 days of life your baby's brain grows at an astonishing speed , multiplying its cerebral connections at a rate of a thousand neurons per second and absorbing like a sponge all the stimuli that the outside world offers.
In just 6 months the weight of your baby's brain almost doubles and at just 3 years of age it will have reached 80% of its development .
His motor development, relational and emotional development, language development and cognitive development represent a universe in progress, a blank canvas that is not painted so much by genetic inheritance as by the stimulation that parents offer their child every day.
But who teaches parents how to best support the development of their child's full potential ?
Who teaches mom and dad who come home from the maternity ward with their adorable human fluff how to take care of those precious 250 grams of brain that the newborn has?
Who teaches them how to stimulate language, motor development, relational and emotional development, cognitive development, postural development and so much more?
The differences in IQ that can be detected at the time of entering elementary school , that is, around the age of 6, already exist at the age of 3 and even earlier.
These scientific observations demonstrate without a shadow of a doubt that it is in the first 1000 days (first 2-3 years) that the child builds his aptitude to learn, imagine, explore, think, interact, relate and so on...
It is no coincidence that at 6 years old , when the child enters primary school, he will have already developed 95% of his neural connections so that, as Piero Angela sarcastically says, the child, from a certain point of view, is already old .
At birth, however, your baby is a brain billionaire , ready to shape himself on everything that exists around him and that his parents and caregivers offer him.
The first thousand days are a golden period that every parent can and must exploit to offer the best for the health and development of their child .
This is why, after having explained to you how much every mother and father can do, our advice is to shift your attention from the superfluous to what is truly important .
Invest in your child's development and let us guide you on this exciting journey.
We will be the best travel companions you can have, we will offer you all our knowledge so that you know how to best paint the extraordinary growth path of your child.
Its development is truly in your hands .