Fisher Price Peek-a-BlocksTouch Sensations Blocks

I think Peek a Blocks are a brilliant invention. They are little blocks with all sorts of things inside, animals, vehicles, patterns, noisy things, moving things, things for little fingers to twiddle...The ones above are a bit different though, they are for little hands to discover textures etc. We saw all the different sets you could get in a shop (Toys R Us probably) when my daughter was about 4 or 5 months old and thought about buying them there and then because they looked so cool, but money was tight so we decided against it. Then later at home I thought I would check to see if they had any on Ebay and they did! Loads of people were selling them, and we got ...

Through the advances in brain-imaging techniques it has been proven what researchers have said for over twenty years- a baby's environment has a dramatic affect on brain development. In the first years of a baby's life, the brain is busy building its wiring system. The amount of stimulation a baby receives has a direct affect on how well that wiring is established. Repetitive stimulation strengthens the wiring and makes it permanent, whereas young wiring that doesn't get used will eventually die out. A baby's first years are a very important and pivotal time for a developing young brain. This intense period of brain growth and network building ...