When newborn infants are awake and alert, they move their heads, arms, and legs. Infants achieve control of their environment by acquiring the motor milestone skills in an identified sequence. First Weeks Research studies have shown infants during their first weeks have the capacity to select and use head turning as a means to gain visual and auditory stimulation from an overhead mobile. The foam pads are part of the apparatus to measure head turning.
Infants are positioned supine on a crib from where they can see the mobile.
I was born on August 1, during a period that has come to be known as the kinship family. My grandparents were of the Civil War generation and my parents were the postwar generation of the Civil War. Nevertheless many members of that generation, including myself, became motivated toward formal education. During her sophomore year of high school, she read a magazine with an article about John Dewey, who was a professor at Columbia University. She wrote his a fan letter.