AMAZING TODDLERS ™ endorsemenets

What professionals are saying about the DVD:

"Beverly Stokes has done it again with Amazing Toddlers. As with Amazing Babies, the inner language of infant and child movement is beautifully explained in simple terms that any parent, as well as any professional, can see and understand for themselves. What is 'amazing' about these videos is not the babies or the movements themselves - they are, indeed, endearing but absolutely commonplace - the amazing part is how Beverly reveals the richness hidden within these simple everyday gestures. The love for these children, whom Beverly has been following for some time now, shines through, but the material is presented in an organized and economic fashion. These videos are not only useful for the new parent, child-care worker, or pediatric specialist, but should be seen by every therapist, since the patterns shown in these videos appear again and again in the adult, providing clues to the missing elements in posture and movement."
Thomas Myers, Rolfer® & Author of Anatomy Trains

" I found the video wonderful, It's so rewarding to know that the smallest gestures and movements hold such reverence in the learning process. I thrive on understanding how Benjamin grows, learns and develops."
Alison Spaulding, proud Mom of 22 month old Benjamin

"Amazing Toddlers helps parents, friends and teachers take notice of the miracles of growth and exploration. Every movement's rhythm is the music of life. Beverly Stokes' guidance helps us see and hear these often missed miracles."
Don Campbell , author of The Mozart Effect for Children and Rhythms of Learning March 2003

"Amazing Toddlers™ is a marvelous resource for parents, caregivers, professionals, and educators. Building on the previous video Amazing Babies®, this video shows how earlier motor development provides the foundation for the next stage. Although there are individual differences in rate of development, development is sequential. Development also requires a supportive environment. This video enables the viewer to recognize the motor development milestones of the toddler. It is wonderful to see these behaviors unfold spontaneously. Amazing Toddlers enables the viewer to recognize the meaning in the toddler’s motor development. A child that is responded to meaningfully grows in sense of self and self-confidence. Development is enhanced when the child experiences accurate parental and caregiver mirroring. Amazing Toddlers provides the key to unlocking the meaning in toddler motor development and to fostering optimal movement development. Parents and caregivers will be delighted by how this knowledge enhances the enjoyment of their baby’s motor development."
Eleanor Criswell Hanna, Ed.D. Professor of Psychology, Sonoma State University, California

"Like your video, Amazing Babies, you have been able to capture on film and then describe so accurately some of the major acquisitions of the young toddler. The sequences give a very clear picture and verbal description of how young toddlers move, communicate and socialize. I appreciate that this video shows the ongoing development of the 3 babies from your first video.
"It was helpful to see the "flashback" scenes from these babies earlier months and to see the beginning stages of the acquisitions made during the early toddler years. I look forward to using this video as an accompaniment to the Amazing Babies video with our students in the 0-3 Montessori training course this coming summer - and in Japan in April. Am now eagerly awaiting the video on the 2 year olds. I so appreciate your dedication to this documentary work."
Judi Orion, Director of Training, Assistants to Infancy Training The Montessori Institute, Denver, Colorado

"Beverly Stokes has created a world both inspiring and ordinary, where we are shown how to follow and encourage a child's own initiative, interest, and delight in learning through movement exploration. Amazing Toddlers™ is an excellent and accessible resource for parents, teachers, and therapists--or anyone involved in a child's life.
"What a delight!! I watched your video yesterday, with a colleague who works in Mainstream and special needs school with children, who also thought it was brilliant and incredibly useful for Dance/movement or play therapists to use to help teachers understand the value of the movement work they do. We will order both of them for our Goldsmiths course (she teaches Child Skills on the course with me)."
Janet Kaylo, MA, CMA, RMT, Lecturer in Movement Analysis, & Dance Movement Therapy, Goldsmiths College, Univ. of London, UK

“Beverly Stokes shows how to follow and encourage a child’s own initiative, interest, and delight in learning through movement exploration.”
Janet Kaylo

“I look forward to using the Amazing ToddlersTM video as an accompaniment to the Amazing Babies® video with our students in the 0-3 Montessori training course.”
Judi Orion

"This video enables the viewer to recognize the motor development milestones of the toddler. It is wonderful to see these behaviors unfold spontaneously."
Eleanor Criswell Hanna