DVD promotes baby basics.

• Author: Pounds, Nancy
• Position: INSIDE ALASKA BUSINESS

Best Beginnings created a 14-minute DVD called "Babies on Track" to help parents support their children's early learning and healthy brain development. Best Beginnings is a nonprofit advocate for early learning in Alaska. The DVD shows how interactions with babies during everyday activities help them learn language, sounds and social skills. The DVD comes with two companion baby board books, "Let's Talk Alaska!" and "Our Alaska Family."

The basic message of Babies on Track is that the more parents talk with their babies and young children--the more conversation and positive interaction that occur--the easier it is for them to pick up language when they're ready to start talking themselves...