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Parenting -
Younger Kids
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Many parents are searching for ways to stimulate their infants and the best way to actually do this is through playtime. This will stimulate your infant's senses while offering them a valuable learning experience as well.
During the first few months of your baby's life, they will thrive on visual, tactile and auditory stimulation. Feeding into these things will help to improve your baby's curiosity, attention span, memory and nervous system development. All of this will help your baby to be able to reach developmental milestones faster and it will also help them to have better muscle coordination. Here are some things that you can do with your baby during playtime: Utilize repetition. This is something that babies love. In fact, they will even try to mimic your facial gestures. Whenever you combine this with singing or humming you are adding important auditory stimulation. Touch is one of the best ways to stimulate your infant. This is because it provides contact, reassurance and relaxation. You can stimulate this sense through playing with your baby's hands and feet, as well as by close contact. Interactive play with gentle movements will stimulate your infants' senses, one at a time. It is also a good idea to stimulate your baby's auditory senses at the same time through either singing or humming. Allow your baby to have some time outside of the confinement of their diaper in order to increase their tactile input. One of the best ways to do this is by giving your infant a massage. Not only will this allow your baby to be able to freely explore without their diaper on but it will also provide them with stimulation via touch, sight, sound and smell as well. However, you are only going to want to give your infant a massage whenever you yourself are feeling both calm and relaxed. This is important because you d not want to hurt your infant by being too rough, which is easy to do whenever you are feeling uptight or stressed. Throughout the massage make sure that you speak lovingly to your infant and that you kiss them whenever you feel the moment is right.
The aforementioned activities will get you started on your way to finding activities that both you and your infant enjoy doing together. These activities will help you to stimulate your infant so that they can continue to grow and develop in a healthy manner.
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