Well there's a big secret about building focus and attention span; parents don't talk about it, experts don't talk about it. Magda Gerber, my mentor, talked about it and it is very simple. Don't interrupt babies. We interrupt babies all the time in our wonderful, well-meaning ways. Grandma comes in, mom comes home, there's a baby, "Hi sweetie!" instead of looking first and seeing, "Oh my gosh, the baby was staring at dust particles in the light and really examining them and really having thoughts and really doing something, and I interrupted the flow of what they were doing." So to understand this you have to understand that babies are whole people from the beginning, and they do have thoughts and they have a lot going on, just like you and I do. In fact, even more; they're so absorbent and ready to learn. But as adults, we don't value what a baby might be doing when it doesn't look like they're doing that much. And so we never think to not interrupt them. But if we interrupt children all the time at the infancy level then they learn to have a shorter attention span. Also, when parents are diaper changing or doing other caregiver activities like bathing the baby, there's a tendency to want to distract to get the job done. Right there we're teaching the child to be distracted from what's really going on instead of focusing on what's really happening. So these are some small things that we do that we can easily change if we really value a long attention span for our child.