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Baby's First Skills is based around Dr. Miriam Stoppard's Golden Hour of play. It's impossible to over-estimate the importance of play to babies and young children - it's the basis for all learning - and just one Golden Hour a day gives you and your baby structured play tailored to each month's development.

What is the Golden Hour?
The Golden Hour is simply an hour of different kinds of play. The suggested activities and games within the hour cover the major areas of your baby's development so that he or she goes forward all on fronts like a wave creeping up the shore and no area is neglected.

Occasionally, as with the waves on the shore, one area of your baby's development shoots ahead of the rest. To allow for this, each month of the Golden Hour is divided differently to give more time for activities linked to these development spurts.

The Golden Hour can be flexible, the 60 minutes don't have to run consecutively and you can share the hour between partners and family.