Five Best Baby Toys
Books (Age: from birth)
Although your newborn won't understand the concept of reading, it's a great way to spend time together and your baby will benefit from the intonation and inflection in your voice. Studies show that the earlier babies are exposed to reading, the better they perform in school later in life.
"Early on, babies like to focus on pictures of things that are familiar to them," says Dr. Tanya Remer Altmann. From six to nine months, books with pictures of babies and animals are great. Later, you can progress to more complex board books and, eventually, to longer stories and paper pages.
