The Philosophical Baby: What Children's Minds Tell Us About Truth, Love, and the Meaning of Life

Great Topics Great Writing
I have not finished this book yet; but so far I love it. The author has great voice. It is very funny and informative. It's the kind of book you'l just zip through and learn a lot in the process.

Makes a great gift.
I bought this for my sister who now has a 4 month old son. I don't know how much time she'll have to read it now, but the content is well researched and interesting.

The magic of babies!
What a delightful book this is. It confirms what every mother always suspected: babies are purposeful and intent little beings and they should be allowed to do what they do best - learn!

The Author should create an iPod app for parents to send feedback
Babies seem to be very intelligent. Babies have an unique cutests that attracts attention. Babies don't have a verbal language but have excellent non-verbal skills, the eye contact, the concentration, the smiling facial gestures, the relaxed body movement. Toddlers have incredible imaginations. Toddlers can create imaginary friends or societies called paracosms.

The cognitive maps that children rivals mathematical Bayesian logic systems. Children are thinking about the past, present, and future and making predictions using their cognitive maps of perceptions. They are literally projecting their view of realty and transforming their reality. It is very interesting to think about how imagination, playfulness, and intelligence combine to create understanding.

Children understand cause and affect. Children can image being a super hero, but they know they can walk through a table. They often know the consequence of their actions.

Children have emotional intelligence. A child can give an parent a hug that bonds them. A parent can decide the child has won their heart and work all their lives to ensure the safety and well being of the child.

Children learn by trial and error, but sometimes they can imagine solutions that go beyond random experimenting. Mozart created music through the creative wonder of his mind. Mechanical precision and technique could never create the master pieces that Mozart created. Children have the same creative power to construct realities and objects that are unique and creative.

What I want?
1. I think the author should create an iPod app for access to child imagintion research case studies and for parents to provide feedback on their parenting experience.

Quite interesting
This is a very interesting book, reviewing various research and results of how children's brain's work, particularly focused on the early years. Like the Scientist in the Crib, it is a valuable book for any parent, especially of a young child, in that it will completely change your perception of how your child is thinking and what they are doing and, to a lesser extent, your role as a parent.

I did find Scientist in the Crib more interesting, but it could simply be that having read it first, this book had less new content.

Still, the author's writing is clear and easy to read, and the studies of brain dynamics are always interesting.

I highly recommend this or Scientist in the Crib for any parent.