Many psychologists consider Greenspan s work to be one of the most comprehensive undertakings within the last forty years. The Six Key Experiences That Build Healthy Minds Adapted from Building Healthy Minds by Stanley Greenspan 1 . Right from birth until three months, the baby learns to become calm and regulated enough to pay attention to the world around him. At two to four months, attachment becomes two-sides as the baby falls in love. She returns her mother and father's attentions with smiles, gurgles, wide eyes, and nestling, and begins a long chain reaction of passionate reciprocal affection which will fuel all later learning.
Real communication begins from four to ten months.
The parent learns to read the baby's signals and a wordless dialogue starts in which the baby learns that he can express what he needs, enlist his parents, and get what he wants. Without this choreography of gestures, spoken language will not develop. This is the time for the roots of logic, purpose, and motivation. A particularly crucial time, ten to eighteen months is when the child not only becomes a problem solver, but comes to recognize patterns in relationships and first begins to shape a sense of self. Newly mobile, she takes off to seek her fortune with parents in hot pursuit.