Baby Present
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- $6.99
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- $6.99
Publisher Description
Baby Present combines the inherent love babies have for one another with a tongue-in-cheek take on mindfulness for their parents and caretakers. This is for the perfect gift for the emerging generation of calm, cool, kids and their caretakers! A wide diversity of the most photogenic 6—9 month-olds, all from Oakland and Berkeley, California, has been captured mid-smile while making unmistakable eye-contact with the infants to whom this book will be read. Baby Present celebrates the unadulterated ability all infants have to be in the present, showcasing their natural, inherent mindfulness and reminding those reading to them to enjoy this time in their babies’ lives, to breathe and practice mindfulness along with their baby, and to knowingly laugh at the trend of it all. Cultivating the mindfulness habit with babies can set them up with a coping and happiness skill for life. And when you’re not reading it to them, this book is perfect for ruminating about while chewing: it’s printed on the highest quality non-toxic cardboard with soy inks and rounded corners.
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Calming, lightly playful text combines with photographs of babies representing a variety of racial backgrounds as Neumann and McConnell craft a Buddhist-inspired introduction to mindfulness. "The future is tricky and a long way off," writes Neumann as a boy in a tank top stares into the distance. "Right now is just right." Whether babies take Neumann's advice to sit "in the here and now" or "feel your belly rise and fall," phrases like "You are perfect just as you are" will resonate, and McConnell's intimate portraits should keep their attention in the "Present moment. Wonderful moment." Up to age 3.
