How do parents create a stimulating environment for their babies? It is really quite easy if you know what steps to take. Let us look at the different things that can be done to create an environment that babies thrive in.
Use Infant Stimulation Cards
Hang up black and white contrasting infant stimulation cards. These are very helpful in developing your baby's visual pathway. It is much easier for your baby to sharpen their focus on objects when they have the heavy blocks of black and white. When you place these within your baby's view you will notice that your baby will spend time staring at the patterns. You can either print these out online, create your own, or purchase them from Amazon.
Play Lots of Music
Music is very soothing and stimulating to the young baby. Instrumental music and classical music has been found to have dramatic effects on babies. Classical children's songs teach babies about language, rhyming and rhythm. Make some good selections and play music while your baby is sleeping or playing. The subconscious mind is taking in everything even though the baby is sleeping. Music is an enjoyable way to expose your baby to language.
Parents that have any hopes of their child speaking a foreign language may consider introducing music in a foreign language. During the first year of life the brain is open to receive any language. After the first year of life, the brain begins to focus in on the language that is in the baby's environment. Even if you do not plan to teach your baby a foreign language immediately, playing music in a particular language allows the brain to recognize the sounds. This benefits a child even if they are not exposed to the language until they are much older. When babies are introduced to language during their first year of life, they are able to speak the language as if it were their native tongue, with no accent.
Read to Your Child Daily
Reading to our children is one of the most important things we can do to give our child a strong start in their future. Babies that are read to grow up to be children than love to read. It is not very common for children to fall in love with reading if they were not read to during their first five years. Babies learn language as well as how to read through being read to. This one activity should be at the top of every parent's list.
Talk to Your Baby About Everything
Babies are learning at such an amazing rate during the first five years of life. By talking to your baby you can teach them all kinds of things. Babies are able to learn colors, shapes, numbers, letters, animals and more just through conversation. The more we speak to our babies, the brighter our babies will be. Make sure to have lots of conversation with your baby about what is going on around them.
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