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Playing With Your Baby
Do you wonder what kind of games to play with a baby besides peek-a-boo and patty cake? Are you wondering how to stimulate his mind?
The first condition for successful learning is that the learning experience should be enjoyable. A positive play experience will make your baby feel “I am good, I am successful”, which will increase his motivation to look for new learning opportunities.
Choose a time when your baby is alert and relaxed, and not when he is hungry and tired. Watch for any signs of discomfort, boredom or distress that your baby may express, so that he will feel that you understand him. This kind of sensitivity on your part will make him feel safe and want to experience and learn more and more together with you. Remember that a newborn's attention span is very short: After birth it will only be between a few seconds to a few minutes. Adapt yourself to this span, which is continually increasing as your baby grows.
A few months old baby doesn't really do a lot of interactive playing yet. As your baby becomes more mature and aware of the world around him, playing will become more natural for him. .
So what can you do? You can help stimulate his mind (and your own) by concentrating on his senses. Play lovely music and dance around the room, take him for a walk and show him flowers and help him smell them, introduce him to new places, let him watch squirrels in the park and dogs running on the lawn.
Talk to your baby a lot. Sing to him when you're feeding him or changing his diaper or bathing him. Read to him. No, it's not too early! Studies showed that babies respond to rhythm and there is a lot of fun books at your library. Your baby will respond to YOUR interest as well… so keep yourself interested and occupied and incorporate him into your daily life. You can also walk your baby in a stroller down to the local cafe and place him under an interesting light fixture or umbrella and watch him while you sip your latté.
If you need to get things done at home as laundry, cleaning etc, you can place your baby into a jolly jumper, playpen or anywhere safe where he could be near you. While you do your chores, you can play baby tapes and sang or move in a joyful way with the music.
You can get also get down on the floor with your baby. In spending floor time with your baby, you can just watch and see what your child does, where he looks, how he moves. You can see the world from his perspective. You could sing or talk to your child. Just being on his level allows him to communicate with you using all the subtleties of his nonverbal, as well as verbal communication.
Give your baby plenty of floor time. Putting your little one on the floor is the best way to support both physical skills and the development of a baby's sense of competence. Babies who spend time on clean, safe, flat surfaces, free of infant seats or carriers, seem to learn faster about their bodies in space. They get to learn what positions they can get themselves into and out of. Infants who are playing on the floor are strengthening all of their little muscles they will later need to roll over, sit up and crawl and eventually walk.
Your child learns from everything in his world: the things he sees, touches, hears, smells, and tastes. He doesn't need a set of fancy toys or other learning aids, at least not yet. Play is supposed to be fun for your child and yourself. Start by listening to your intuition and becoming familiar with your baby's developmental stages, you will adapt your play to his changing needs, and create the appropriate play environment for his age and development. Your role in the game will change from month to month. At first you will motivate and stimulate your newborn baby then you will become more supportive while your baby is developing his personality and independence. With time the face-to-face interaction will not be satisfying anymore, your baby will be more curious and will want to discover using all of his senses. Your baby will become more and more active in his game with you. A game involving sounds and different noises, played by the two of you, will allow your baby to experience cooperation and interrelationships and to learn his body's boundaries.
Keep in mind during these first few months, what your baby needs especially from you, is your love, your attention, and your time. Your baby needs to be hold, sing to, play with, talk to, read to, cuddle and praise. Enjoy this special time with your little one. It is a great age! Have fun.
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