STEM skills really take off as your baby’s fine motor skills continue to refine and they can use their little hands to explore. The ability to move each finger separately and bring the thumb and first two fingers together is also a huge stride in your baby’s ability to have some independence. Now she is able to manipulate...
While you are talking to your baby, incorporate some movement. This helps him link two senses together, makes the language and communication more engaging, and is great for the development of hearing and body awareness. We love wrist rattles and bootie rattles for cause and effect, body awareness, movement, and linking two senses together. Talk...
Play is great fun, but structured play teaches your baby about the world and it is a great way for your baby to learn some early STEM skills. Object Permanence Games: Play peek a boo Hide toys under blanket or scarves and help your baby find them Play with toys that hide such as...
An inexpensive laundry basket can serve as a tool to teach functional sitting to your baby! *Never leave your baby unattended in a laundry basket. *Never put your baby in the bathtub in a laundry basket. *Avoid wicker baskets that can have sharp edges. Activities: Put a blanket or pillow in the basket to help...
Her sense of hearing is acute, but still being refined. Use this sense to help her learn about her world and make sense of everything around her. In addition to talking, singing, and reading to her, try these “listening games” to make her aware of all the sounds in her world: 1. Rattles on...
Between the age of six to nine months babies hit a huge milestone that they will continue to do every day, sometimes for several hours a day, for the rest of their life…sitting. Your baby may be already starting to sit unsupported for a few seconds at a time. They look so adorable when...
Sensory development, often called sensory processing, is the process of your baby taking in all the information from the world and making sense of it. Sensory processing lays the foundation for learning and development. You can dramatically improve your baby’s development by providing experiences to stimulate each of the sensory areas. It is also...
Around four months, he is still refining his vision, and will continue to refine his vision until well after his fifth birthday. Along with visual acuity, visual motor skills (or coordination of the tiny muscles around the eyes) are developing throughout the first year and both components need to be exercised simultaneously. Visual motor skills...
Everywhere I go I see babies looking at the world from the five-point-harness of a car seat. These car seats are truly incredible! They snap right out of their base and transform into a carrier in a stroller, a carrier in a shopping cart, even a high chair by flipping a restaurant high chair...
When babies are born, their vision is not completely developed. The newborn’s visual acuity is approximately 20/600, developing to 20/20 well after the age of five years in most children. Most visual development takes place during the first six months. We consider these first six months a critical period because after that early visual development...
