Infant and toddler is the period of rapid learning development, the younger the age, the faster the development. Under the age of 3, especially 0-1 years, the intellectual development of infants is changing rapidly.
The early stages are a critical period for the development of children's intelligence, personality and social behavior.
Early experiences of the brain are important for brain formation and functioning.
Therefore, the sooner children receive attention in moral, intellectual, physical, emotional and other aspects, the better their overall development.
Today, we will detail the developmental milestones for infants aged 0-1 years and list related games in order to provide early education demonstrations for everyone.
1 month old baby
The head can be rotated from side to side, occasionally observing everything around it, and has a clear response to movement.
This month's development focus: visual ability, tactile sensitivity
Recommended method
While the newborn sleeps more, you have to talk to him while he's awake.
Method 1: Early skin contact between mother and baby, more touching and hugging of the baby. Give your baby a baby touch, caress and stroke your baby's entire body.
Method 2: Follow the game. You can prepare some black and white cards for your baby to see. The distance between the black and white card and the baby is 20-30 cm. From far to near, from left to right, move in front of the baby to see if the baby's vision is tracked.
2 months baby
The head can rotate with the sound and light, has a certain grasping ability, and can make a beeping sound to express feelings.
This month's development focus: the first major action, the ability to smell in response to the baby's babies and talk to them.
Method 1: Prepare a rattle or sand hammer, move from far to near, from left to right, in front of the baby, and observe how the baby's eyes react and whether they will look for the sound source after hearing the sound.
Method 2: Practice raising your head in a prone position and keeping your head upright.
Method 3: Let your baby touch various toys and practice grasping.
3 months baby
When lying prone, you can look up to 90 degrees, and the level of visual, auditory, and tactile development increases.
This month's early education focuses: lying down exercises, improving visual and auditory skills
Method 1: Lie flat and exercise two to three times a day to exercise the strength of your baby's neck and upper arms.
Method 2: Make a variety of sounds, such as rattles, squeeze plastic toys, and cultivate your baby's ability to distinguish sounds.
Method 3: Walk around in brightly colored clothes and observe your baby's gait.
4 months baby
You can grab a toy and shake it, be curious about what's around you, learn to observe objects and put them in your mouth to explore.
This month's early education focuses: language enlightenment, grasping ability of the hand
Method 1: Tell your baby a story where the shape of the mouth can be exaggerated.
Method 2: Give your baby a handkerchief and a toy with a handle to increase the chances of grasping.
Method 3: Give your baby more opportunities to practice lying and turning over.
5-6 months old baby
Small hands can grasp and put down objects, gradually understand the logical relationship between things, will express their needs with sound, and will find the source of sound.
This month's early education focus: hand-eye coordination ability, big movement ability
Give your baby more things to grasp with his hands, so that he has the opportunity to learn about the world with his hands.
Method 1: Parents should consciously cultivate the hand-eye coordination of this month-old baby, and parents can place various items in front of the baby when the baby is sitting in the position, such as small bricks, plastic animals, etc.
Items can be placed from near to far, guiding him to try to reach them, giving them to him from different directions, so that both hands are exercised.
Method two: Slowly pull the baby's hands to let him sit up, or support the baby to sit for a while. Appropriately reduce the time spent holding the baby and give him more opportunities to move freely.
Babies aged 7-9 months
Beginning to be able to crawl, have the willingness to eat independently, there will be a "recognition" reaction, and begin to be interested in children of the same age.
This month's early education focuses: two-hand coordination, crawling skills, language skills, cognitive skills
Method 1: Encourage your baby to pat objects with both hands.
Method 2: Use yourself or a toy to tease the baby to climb forward in front of the baby to exercise the baby's crawling ability. Using toys or items in the home, setting more variations during the trip, he will be very happy to crawl.
Method 3: Develop language comprehension skills and teach babies to pronounce double consonants "Daddy, Mommy". Consciously call others so that your baby starts to get to know them.
Method 4: Start practicing grabbing and eating, and practice pinching activities of your thumb and forefinger.
Babies aged 10-12 months
With an autonomous consciousness, the behavior of grabbing a toy or pushing and hitting a peer occurs, and the small hand can play with the toy flexibly.
This month's early education focuses: fine movements, big movements, cognitive ability, language ability
Method 1: Consciously teach him to use simple gestures to express some meaning, such as eating, hugging, hugging, and saying goodbye.
Method two: Babies now like to imitate the most. Under the premise of safety, let your baby participate in what you usually do.
Method 3: If your baby likes to stand, give him more opportunities to practice and slowly encourage your child to walk.
Method four: Give your baby a doll and give him a chance to take care of others.
Method 5: Prepare some small toys and sprinkle them in different places. Have the baby find all the toys and put them in the toy box. This game can also be derived as a cognitive game. For example, when a baby is looking for a toy, he will ask him where the blocks are and where the car is.
Method 6: Encourage your baby to talk more. Parents should talk to the baby as he dresses, bathes, eats, plays, walks and rides. Don't use childish language, but speak in normal adult language. Don't make sentences too long.