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First published February 21, 2005
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July 24, 2008
I got this from the library and plan on purchasing it because it has some helpful games/activities for baby development.
August 5, 2025
While I find mums’ groups predominantly filled with concerns of breastfeeding, sleeping and weaning when it comes to babies and toddlers, the most recurring questions I see in baby development groups are along the lines of; “How can I entertain my baby”, “I’m worried my baby is bored, any ideas for games for a … month old”, and “my son/daughter isn’t rolling/crawling/cruising/walking yet, any tips/games to help encourage him/her?”
Some babies take to a schedule really well, some need some assistance from their parents, and some create their own. Those of us lucky enough to be landed with a baby with the latter tendencies for our first child are lucky enough to just mostly need to follow their lead, and notice what changes might be leading to any problems with their self-set schedule (teething/growth spurts/illness/food intolerances or allergies).
When our babies have eaten and slept sufficiently they’re happy, when they’re happy they want to interact with us and play with toys. Sounds easy, but we can all get bored of certain toys and activities ourselves and assume our babies must be bored too, be unsure of something being introduced too soon or too much, and not knowing how long to spend on a task with our baby.
Conventionally, and still the reality for most of us, once paternity leave is over for your partner or spouse, maternity leave for you means you are suddenly your baby’s sole teacher, all day every day, responsible for the most influential first stage of their development – the year that will shape the person they are. So, I’m sure most of us (even those of who are teachers/childminders by profession) have bought/borrowed a book on games for babies and toddlers, promising us ways to keep our previous little one entertained, focused, and educated.
There are endless blog sites, books and online groups that detail a cacophony of ‘messy play’ ideas, and arts and crafts projects which require spending money and time – two things we certainly don’t have an abundance of as new parents!
There are far more toys on the market now than ever before, and Instagram is full of all kinds of elaborate play advice. However, analysts of breastfeeding to neurologists and psychologists; scientists from all different specialisms often agree on one thing when it comes to supporting child development – loving and focused interaction with their main caregiver within the first year sets them up for life.
Normally, when a baby reaches around four to seven months and can sit up and shows an interest in toys (and around the time they show signs of being ready to start being weaned from milk/formula onto real food) that’s when they can also start to show an interest in their siblings or other babies and children, and can profit tremendously from playing with others. Sadly, for those of us new parents of a single baby who were on maternity leave during the nationwide Lockdown to prevent further spreading of the COVID-19 pandemic, we did not have any siblings for them to interact with or the normal opportunities mothers and fathers of parental leave are given. We didn’t have siblings for our babies to play with and learn from. Baby groups had to be closed. Birthing class meet-ups had to wait. Our baby couldn’t mix with their cousins, or the babies and children of our friends.
‘Baby’s First Skills: Help Your Baby Learn Through Creative Play’ by Dr. Miriam Stoppard (MD FRCP OBE) has been one of my favourite mum-reads over the last year.
Originally published as part of the ‘Baby Skills Pack’ produced in 2000, printed as a book in 2005 and reprinted with revisions in 2009 and 2019, it is not a big book of newfangled, modern, complicated, artistic games for you and your baby. It is, nevertheless, a very compact handbook of activities that can be used from birth to when your child is toddling around.
Stoppard identifies 5 main skills essential in baby development; “Mind”, “Moving”, “Talking”, “Hands”, and “Friendliness”. She assigns a colour to each of these skills, whether discussing them in speech bubbles on each monthly block, assigning them to segments in the “Golden Hour” diagram, or labels on the double page spread “Baby Skills Map.”
At nearly a year and a month old, my daughter **** still shows as much adoration for her board books and toddler books as she does for her electronic books, wooden and plastic toys, and electronic toys. She loves turning the pages herself. We think she loves looking at them quietly by herself or babbling to them because of how frequently I read to her. ‘Baby’s First Skills’ has a few tips that encouraged me to let Isla be more involved with her books at the optimum time for her development.
On page 10 and 11 we are shown “The Golden Hour of Play” diagram. This is simply a wheel of segments (filled with numbers which correspond to games) placed inside a clock to represent a guide of which toys and activities are best suited to each developmental stage, and which of the skills these help to build on.
From pouting to blowing air out of your nose, tapping your hands on something or dancing, **** has always enjoyed copying our gestures and facial expressions, found it hilarious, done them on command and instigated them to get us to join her.
The toys and games mentioned in this book are not revolutionary, they do not take a lot of prep time and, more often than not, do not require you buying anything you do not already have lying around the house or have already bought or been given for your child. For instance, “Matching and Sorting” on page 78 of ‘Baby’s First Skills’ is named as activity number 21, the picture alongside it is of 4 different items which are the colour red – a tomato, a sock, a strawberry, and a toy plane. Also other mentioned are types of sorting and matching, such as “shapes” and “animal groups”. These activities, which are labelled as “21”, appear in the “Golden Hour” diagram for age 7 and 8 month olds, in the pink segment for ‘Hands’. On the adjacent page under “Hands” the type of grip your baby likely possesses at this age is detailed, and, how “Her ability to keep herself amused for quite long periods of time on her own is helped by her increasing dexterity.”
I found “The Baby Skills Map” on pages 12 and 13 helpful because it is much more fluid than a rigid list with specific expected ages for baby milestones. For instance, Stoppard’s label “touches your face and touches another baby” shows on the map as being a dark purple from 5 months to 8 months, petering out at around 3 or 4 months and at 8 to 9 months, therefore, reassuring parents that it’s normal for your baby to show an interest in this form (developing his/her ‘Friendliness’ skills) from anywhere between 3 and 9 months. “Pointing” (nestled into the ‘hands’ skill-set) is detailed here by Stoppard to likely occur between 6 and 11 months from your child, it is highlighted pink to signify being considered by Stoppard in skills involving ‘Hands’. “Waves goodbye” is adorned in orange and comes under Stoppard’s ‘Mind’ baby skill category, and is marked to probably happen at around age 5 to 9 months. “Sits unsupported” is coloured blue for ‘Moving and classified on the Baby Skill Map at any time between your baby being 5 and 8 months old. And, “squeals” is green for ‘Talking’ and situated on the graph at being a behaviour most likely to appear when your baby is between 1 month and 5 months of age. The map details a lots more useful little baby milestones, and I found it a great visual chart to tick things off on with pencil as we went along. It is quite similar to the diagram in the back of your ‘red book’ given to you by the hospital where you deliver your baby in the U.K. (or, by your midwife if it’s a home birth).
I found this map helpful when having the 9 month check conducted by our health visitor for our daughter **** (which, unfortunately, had to be done over the phone due to Lockdown rules). There is also space on this map for you to add your own milestones if you want to!
My daughter loved playing “Obstacle Course”, with reaching our dog as her finish line.
Before reading the fifth activity in ‘Baby’s First Skills’ I had not considered the bath as a place for learning new moves like “kicking” to improve mobility, their language skills, breath control, social skills, experimentation, and enjoying anticipation. Since our daughter became confident enough to sit in her baby bath we have used lots of these ideas with her, which she has adored, and even utilised a few more things on our own, such as imaginative play by giving her bath toys voices, drawing with bath-crayons on the tiles together, and showing her how to clean it off, and narrating her playing on her own with bath toys to introduce and reinforce counting, colours, and concepts like “[did you put the duck] on top of [the floating lily pad”. These are all games that can be used in a baby-bath, a main bath, a paddling pool or swimming pool too. We also take this opportunity to sing certain songs or play our educational songs and Disney playlists while she’s bathing to associate them with a happy play-time where she gets our full attention. Bath-time has now become a place where anything can happen. It’s no longer simply a bonding experience, nor just a perfunctory task that needs performing in order to turn our food-smothered/painted child back to her normal complexion and sweet-smelling self.
This book may not suit everyone. If you only peruse it quickly and see suggestions like “Treasure Trove”, “In the Sandpit” and “Peekaboo” without reading the boxes of tips of when, when, how and best to use them combined with the golden hour theory, you might initially overlook Stoppard’s manual as too simplistic and uninspired to be useful for wrangling your demanding little person. However, she will help you save the time and effort of trying to facilitate messy play ideas with a baby who can’t even sit up by themselves yet enough to steady themselves to enjoy it confidently, and she could make sure you make the most of when your baby learns to clap with all the different suggestions for hand play together, and she might get you to start hiding your baby’s toys just out of sight at around the time when they can truly understand and participate with the mystery. Additionally, if you attempt to perform the golden hour as a set full hour, every day, this could exhaust both you and your “LO” (an abbreviation for “little one” that is often used in mums’ groups).
Stoppard states on her very first page of ‘Baby’s First a Skills:’
“In this book I suggest activities that cover all the main areas of development and fit in with your baby’s natural milestones so that her truly astonishing skills will be acquired in concert with growth of her brain and body. Not before, because that would be forcing her, and not after, for that would hold her back. Instead, you’ll be helping at just the right time. And if you follow the Baby Skill Map” you will avoid falling into the trap of expecting too much too soon”.
(Miriam Stoppard, Baby’s First Skills, published by Dorling Kinderlsey Limited, 2014, page 4).
Lady Miriam Hogg (maiden name Miriam Stern, but goes by her previous married name, Stoppard, for publishing) is a medical doctor, a TV presenter and columnist for the Daily Mirror, along with being an author. While her books are distributed around the world to places like Delhi, New York, Munich and Melbourne, as well as London, Hogg originates from Newcastle Upon Tyne with a school lunch worker and dressmaker mother and nurse father. Her publications mainly centre on child development and women’s health, with titles such as: Conception, Pregnancy and Birth: The Childbirth Bible for Today’s Parents, Dr. Miriam Stoppard: Pregnancy and Birth Handbook, New Babycare: A Practical Guide to The First Three Years, Your New Baby, Questions Children Ask and How to Answer Them, Woman to Woman, and Practical Guide to Menopause.
I have yet to read Miriam’s other texts on motherhood, but I can say that at just £5 on Amazon at the moment (and with possibly more isolation with our baby on the horizon with another nationwide or local lockdown looming) ‘Baby’s First Skills’ is worth a go.
From cruising to taking her first steps, to confidently walking unaided, to now wandering around babbling to herself and her toys and running along beds and sofas!
Some babies take to a schedule really well, some need some assistance from their parents, and some create their own. Those of us lucky enough to be landed with a baby with the latter tendencies for our first child are lucky enough to just mostly need to follow their lead, and notice what changes might be leading to any problems with their self-set schedule (teething/growth spurts/illness/food intolerances or allergies).
When our babies have eaten and slept sufficiently they’re happy, when they’re happy they want to interact with us and play with toys. Sounds easy, but we can all get bored of certain toys and activities ourselves and assume our babies must be bored too, be unsure of something being introduced too soon or too much, and not knowing how long to spend on a task with our baby.
Conventionally, and still the reality for most of us, once paternity leave is over for your partner or spouse, maternity leave for you means you are suddenly your baby’s sole teacher, all day every day, responsible for the most influential first stage of their development – the year that will shape the person they are. So, I’m sure most of us (even those of who are teachers/childminders by profession) have bought/borrowed a book on games for babies and toddlers, promising us ways to keep our previous little one entertained, focused, and educated.
There are endless blog sites, books and online groups that detail a cacophony of ‘messy play’ ideas, and arts and crafts projects which require spending money and time – two things we certainly don’t have an abundance of as new parents!
There are far more toys on the market now than ever before, and Instagram is full of all kinds of elaborate play advice. However, analysts of breastfeeding to neurologists and psychologists; scientists from all different specialisms often agree on one thing when it comes to supporting child development – loving and focused interaction with their main caregiver within the first year sets them up for life.
Normally, when a baby reaches around four to seven months and can sit up and shows an interest in toys (and around the time they show signs of being ready to start being weaned from milk/formula onto real food) that’s when they can also start to show an interest in their siblings or other babies and children, and can profit tremendously from playing with others. Sadly, for those of us new parents of a single baby who were on maternity leave during the nationwide Lockdown to prevent further spreading of the COVID-19 pandemic, we did not have any siblings for them to interact with or the normal opportunities mothers and fathers of parental leave are given. We didn’t have siblings for our babies to play with and learn from. Baby groups had to be closed. Birthing class meet-ups had to wait. Our baby couldn’t mix with their cousins, or the babies and children of our friends.
‘Baby’s First Skills: Help Your Baby Learn Through Creative Play’ by Dr. Miriam Stoppard (MD FRCP OBE) has been one of my favourite mum-reads over the last year.
Originally published as part of the ‘Baby Skills Pack’ produced in 2000, printed as a book in 2005 and reprinted with revisions in 2009 and 2019, it is not a big book of newfangled, modern, complicated, artistic games for you and your baby. It is, nevertheless, a very compact handbook of activities that can be used from birth to when your child is toddling around.
Stoppard identifies 5 main skills essential in baby development; “Mind”, “Moving”, “Talking”, “Hands”, and “Friendliness”. She assigns a colour to each of these skills, whether discussing them in speech bubbles on each monthly block, assigning them to segments in the “Golden Hour” diagram, or labels on the double page spread “Baby Skills Map.”
At nearly a year and a month old, my daughter **** still shows as much adoration for her board books and toddler books as she does for her electronic books, wooden and plastic toys, and electronic toys. She loves turning the pages herself. We think she loves looking at them quietly by herself or babbling to them because of how frequently I read to her. ‘Baby’s First Skills’ has a few tips that encouraged me to let Isla be more involved with her books at the optimum time for her development.
On page 10 and 11 we are shown “The Golden Hour of Play” diagram. This is simply a wheel of segments (filled with numbers which correspond to games) placed inside a clock to represent a guide of which toys and activities are best suited to each developmental stage, and which of the skills these help to build on.
From pouting to blowing air out of your nose, tapping your hands on something or dancing, **** has always enjoyed copying our gestures and facial expressions, found it hilarious, done them on command and instigated them to get us to join her.
The toys and games mentioned in this book are not revolutionary, they do not take a lot of prep time and, more often than not, do not require you buying anything you do not already have lying around the house or have already bought or been given for your child. For instance, “Matching and Sorting” on page 78 of ‘Baby’s First Skills’ is named as activity number 21, the picture alongside it is of 4 different items which are the colour red – a tomato, a sock, a strawberry, and a toy plane. Also other mentioned are types of sorting and matching, such as “shapes” and “animal groups”. These activities, which are labelled as “21”, appear in the “Golden Hour” diagram for age 7 and 8 month olds, in the pink segment for ‘Hands’. On the adjacent page under “Hands” the type of grip your baby likely possesses at this age is detailed, and, how “Her ability to keep herself amused for quite long periods of time on her own is helped by her increasing dexterity.”
I found “The Baby Skills Map” on pages 12 and 13 helpful because it is much more fluid than a rigid list with specific expected ages for baby milestones. For instance, Stoppard’s label “touches your face and touches another baby” shows on the map as being a dark purple from 5 months to 8 months, petering out at around 3 or 4 months and at 8 to 9 months, therefore, reassuring parents that it’s normal for your baby to show an interest in this form (developing his/her ‘Friendliness’ skills) from anywhere between 3 and 9 months. “Pointing” (nestled into the ‘hands’ skill-set) is detailed here by Stoppard to likely occur between 6 and 11 months from your child, it is highlighted pink to signify being considered by Stoppard in skills involving ‘Hands’. “Waves goodbye” is adorned in orange and comes under Stoppard’s ‘Mind’ baby skill category, and is marked to probably happen at around age 5 to 9 months. “Sits unsupported” is coloured blue for ‘Moving and classified on the Baby Skill Map at any time between your baby being 5 and 8 months old. And, “squeals” is green for ‘Talking’ and situated on the graph at being a behaviour most likely to appear when your baby is between 1 month and 5 months of age. The map details a lots more useful little baby milestones, and I found it a great visual chart to tick things off on with pencil as we went along. It is quite similar to the diagram in the back of your ‘red book’ given to you by the hospital where you deliver your baby in the U.K. (or, by your midwife if it’s a home birth).
I found this map helpful when having the 9 month check conducted by our health visitor for our daughter **** (which, unfortunately, had to be done over the phone due to Lockdown rules). There is also space on this map for you to add your own milestones if you want to!
My daughter loved playing “Obstacle Course”, with reaching our dog as her finish line.
Before reading the fifth activity in ‘Baby’s First Skills’ I had not considered the bath as a place for learning new moves like “kicking” to improve mobility, their language skills, breath control, social skills, experimentation, and enjoying anticipation. Since our daughter became confident enough to sit in her baby bath we have used lots of these ideas with her, which she has adored, and even utilised a few more things on our own, such as imaginative play by giving her bath toys voices, drawing with bath-crayons on the tiles together, and showing her how to clean it off, and narrating her playing on her own with bath toys to introduce and reinforce counting, colours, and concepts like “[did you put the duck] on top of [the floating lily pad”. These are all games that can be used in a baby-bath, a main bath, a paddling pool or swimming pool too. We also take this opportunity to sing certain songs or play our educational songs and Disney playlists while she’s bathing to associate them with a happy play-time where she gets our full attention. Bath-time has now become a place where anything can happen. It’s no longer simply a bonding experience, nor just a perfunctory task that needs performing in order to turn our food-smothered/painted child back to her normal complexion and sweet-smelling self.
This book may not suit everyone. If you only peruse it quickly and see suggestions like “Treasure Trove”, “In the Sandpit” and “Peekaboo” without reading the boxes of tips of when, when, how and best to use them combined with the golden hour theory, you might initially overlook Stoppard’s manual as too simplistic and uninspired to be useful for wrangling your demanding little person. However, she will help you save the time and effort of trying to facilitate messy play ideas with a baby who can’t even sit up by themselves yet enough to steady themselves to enjoy it confidently, and she could make sure you make the most of when your baby learns to clap with all the different suggestions for hand play together, and she might get you to start hiding your baby’s toys just out of sight at around the time when they can truly understand and participate with the mystery. Additionally, if you attempt to perform the golden hour as a set full hour, every day, this could exhaust both you and your “LO” (an abbreviation for “little one” that is often used in mums’ groups).
Stoppard states on her very first page of ‘Baby’s First a Skills:’
“In this book I suggest activities that cover all the main areas of development and fit in with your baby’s natural milestones so that her truly astonishing skills will be acquired in concert with growth of her brain and body. Not before, because that would be forcing her, and not after, for that would hold her back. Instead, you’ll be helping at just the right time. And if you follow the Baby Skill Map” you will avoid falling into the trap of expecting too much too soon”.
(Miriam Stoppard, Baby’s First Skills, published by Dorling Kinderlsey Limited, 2014, page 4).
Lady Miriam Hogg (maiden name Miriam Stern, but goes by her previous married name, Stoppard, for publishing) is a medical doctor, a TV presenter and columnist for the Daily Mirror, along with being an author. While her books are distributed around the world to places like Delhi, New York, Munich and Melbourne, as well as London, Hogg originates from Newcastle Upon Tyne with a school lunch worker and dressmaker mother and nurse father. Her publications mainly centre on child development and women’s health, with titles such as: Conception, Pregnancy and Birth: The Childbirth Bible for Today’s Parents, Dr. Miriam Stoppard: Pregnancy and Birth Handbook, New Babycare: A Practical Guide to The First Three Years, Your New Baby, Questions Children Ask and How to Answer Them, Woman to Woman, and Practical Guide to Menopause.
I have yet to read Miriam’s other texts on motherhood, but I can say that at just £5 on Amazon at the moment (and with possibly more isolation with our baby on the horizon with another nationwide or local lockdown looming) ‘Baby’s First Skills’ is worth a go.
From cruising to taking her first steps, to confidently walking unaided, to now wandering around babbling to herself and her toys and running along beds and sofas!
February 7, 2017
It's obviously quite an old book (the incredibly 1990s pictures make this clear), but some of the advice was consequently outdated (e. G. Leaving a cloth book in baby's cot from birth- big no!)
Generally the principles seemed sound, and perhaps I would have liked this book better if I had read it when baby was tiny. Coming to it at six months old, it seemed overly optimistic about skill development - some things were listed as 3-4 month skills that I would have said my little one still isn't really doing. The photos in each section were often of a much older baby doing a more advanced version of the skill - which to me just seems a recipe for parental anxiety that the child isn't developing quickly enough.
The ideas were good, and I will use some of them.
However the book layout felt cluttered and it was difficult to navigate and that interfered with enjoying it.
Generally the principles seemed sound, and perhaps I would have liked this book better if I had read it when baby was tiny. Coming to it at six months old, it seemed overly optimistic about skill development - some things were listed as 3-4 month skills that I would have said my little one still isn't really doing. The photos in each section were often of a much older baby doing a more advanced version of the skill - which to me just seems a recipe for parental anxiety that the child isn't developing quickly enough.
The ideas were good, and I will use some of them.
However the book layout felt cluttered and it was difficult to navigate and that interfered with enjoying it.
August 5, 2023
While this book did have a lot of great activities in it there were two main things I would like to see in a future edition. The copy I read was published in 2005 so maybe there is an updated version. It mentions leaving a soft book in the crib with a baby, the current recommendation is nothing in the crib at all with the baby (so this is a potential safety concern). I would have also liked to see a small section talking about how premature babies fit into the month categories. Should we go by their actual age or adjusted age? I know every baby is different but it would be nice to have a little bit of information on that. Overall I did like this book though and it gave me a lot of great ideas of things I can do with my twins now that they’re staying awake longer!
March 21, 2019
Easy to read and understand. I found it very useful to know what I can do to support my mindee (I’m a child minder) to grow and develop. It was encouraging to read I was doing relevant things with them. I love learning how we develop and this helped me to gain a better understanding. I couldn’t put the book down.
February 28, 2018
Seems excellent on those skills. Now looking forward to apply them in practice.
March 17, 2024
✅ simple, easy to do activities
✅ clearly shows child progression
✅ feels achievable and practical
✅ clearly shows child progression
✅ feels achievable and practical
March 5, 2017
Not everything in this book is for everybody but there are some very good ideas for play activities for babies in here. It's important to remember that not every child progresses at the same rate. My son was walking way before the threshold stated in this book, but talked far later. So take the timelines with a grain of salt. I would recommend this book to parents of infants and caregivers looking for some new play and stimulation ideas.
October 14, 2011
yay: "...from the moment of birth, your newborn is a highly developed person with many accomplishments."
slightly unnerving to read that a baby is "wired to.." and "programmed to.." ;Z i understand what is meant but the wording throws me off. "it's natural for a baby to.." would be way better.
good run-through of milestones and appropriate games for the first year of a baby's life. some super cute pics, though all of them were a tad dated looking. all in all, a solid book, typical for DK.
slightly unnerving to read that a baby is "wired to.." and "programmed to.." ;Z i understand what is meant but the wording throws me off. "it's natural for a baby to.." would be way better.
good run-through of milestones and appropriate games for the first year of a baby's life. some super cute pics, though all of them were a tad dated looking. all in all, a solid book, typical for DK.
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August 9, 2011I was very disappointed. This is the kind of book that gives parents a complex about the child’s abilities. It might lead one to think they had a baby Einstein or, alternatively, the village idiot. They way child development theories are presented is patronising and there is nothing innovative about the activities and games suggested – Play School is a better resource for songs and games.
April 27, 2019
خوندن این کتاب رو با تولد پسرم شروع کردم و هرماه بخش مرتبط رو خوندم. این کتاب توضیحات نسبتا کاملی در مورد فرایند رشد و تکامل نوزاد ارائه داده و در پایان هر بخش فعالیت هایی رو برای گسترش مهارت کودک معرفی میکنه. علی رغم ترجمه خوب و حجم کم، خوندنش ملال اور بوده شاید بخاطر اینکه بیشتر این موارد رو میدونستم
September 11, 2014
This is a fun book to get some good ideas on how to spend quality time with a baby. I liked it's general theory, and most of it's ideas.
May 31, 2011
Very informative! Especially about the differences between boys and girls, as well as ideas on teaching all the skills explained.
July 23, 2012
Good book, full of ideas for playtime.
July 30, 2012
She needs to get more creative about creative play. There were few activities that I hadn't already done. The simple explanations of cognitive development were nicely laid out.
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May 3, 2015Great book. Tots from 0-12m
January 19, 2010
Pretty cute! With lots of cute baby play ideas.
February 24, 2016
Excellent for new moms who want to encourage their kids be independent!
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