A slogan for parents to hold to as they plan for their baby's early life: "BE THERE!"
Day care Centers, which are businesses, rarely have the personnel available to do this to the most favorable extent.
Baby sitters, likewise, are typically not as motivated as parents to provide the maximum stimulation. Only informed parents will have the dedication.
There was an old TV show called the "The A Team," which popularized the slogan, "BE THERE!"
This is an extraordinarily salient slogan for parents to hold to as they plan for their baby's early life.
To summarize...the Haptic Modality includes the following modalities:
- Tactile
- Proprioceptive (which itself includes:)
We want to provide maximum opportunity to stimulate these neural tracts in the baby.