BabyPlus

Last night, I decided to get my 13-year-old son's opinion on exactly what I do at BabyPlus.  He thought for a second and answered, "I think it's a company that sells technology to make a baby smarter before they are born."  I told him it was close but that using BabyPlus just enhances what the baby is born with.  Keeping it simple, I gave him a quick summary about how a mom's heartbeat encourages learning before birth and that BabyPlus is like that by also encouraging the learning process.  I didn't use big terms like prenatal curriculum, prenatal environment or fetal development so it would make sense to him.  I told him a few of the benefits that he would understand like sleeping better.  I then asked him what he would think if he saw his aunt using one since she will be starting soon.  He said now that he knew exactly what it was, he would think it was helping the baby. 

That made me think.  Maybe the more we talk about the benefits of using a prenatal curriculum, the more it will seem like a typical part of pregnancy, like a prenatal vitamin, when my son has children someday.