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Different Ways of Learning

Babies

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  • Help Him Explore

    Babies learn through sight and touch. Help him explore by keeping the world within his grasp.

  • Physical Challenge

    Set physical challenges for your baby to solve. It will also stimulate her cognitive development.

  • Sensory Learning

    How do infants learn? By stimulation of the five senses.

  • Variety

    Provide variety in your child’s life to promote brain growth.

  • Soft Music for Sleep

    Ease your baby's transition to bedtime.

  • Visual Thinking

    Enrich your baby's observation skills with rotating visual experiences.

  • Play!

    Find out why you should respect and treasure your child’s play, even if you don’t understand it.

  • Oh-oh!

    Is the “oh-oh” game driving you crazy? Your baby genius is actually discovering Newton's 3rd Law of Motion.

  • It's a Match!

    This learning tip can be done anywhere to keep your baby busy—and busy learning.

  • Playtime Problem Solving

    Learn how to help your child build problem solving skills through playtime fun.

  • These Things Are Alike

    Is every animal your baby sees a doggie? She will quickly learn to discern differences and similarities.

  • Making Sense

    Support your child as she begins to make sense of the world.

  • First, Next ...

    Help your baby develop a sense of sequence and establish routines.

  • Loving Lullabies

    This ubiquitous method of soothing babies (and most children!) tends to have repetitive words and melodies, making them easy to transmit from generation to generation.

  • What to Do About Baby's Crying?

    Babies cry. What to do? Over the years, pediatricians have advocated various responses, including letting them just cry it out. Will picking your baby up when he cries spoil him?

  • The Dance

    Several decades ago, Jill and Peter de Villiers wrote a book on language acquisition that described interactions between mothers and their infants as a dance.

  • Stranger Anxiety?

    Your baby has been happy to be passed from grandma to your sister to the new sitter without much fuss. But, now, all of a sudden, she clings to you like there’s no tomorrow. What’s up?

  • Peek-a-Boo! What Babies Learn Through Simple Games

    Peek-a-boo engages and entertains babies while teaching them much about the world. Your baby learns to predict a regular pattern—that you’ll come back!

  • Tap into the Tempo

    Tap out rhythms on your child's body as you listen to music together.

  • Explore Edibles

    Let your baby play with her food!

  • A Colorful Learning Experience

    Play develops creativity and language skills--and it's fun!

  • Make Your Voice Heard

    Play with your voice to show your baby the difference between loud & soft and high-pitched & low-pitched sounds.

  • It's Rhyme Time

    Reading or reciting nursery rhymes introduces babies to the rhythm of language. Long before your baby can utter a word, much less rhyme words, he can listen to rhymes and start to internalize the patterns in language. And babies love predictable language, which explains why you’ll tire of a rhyme long before he does!

  • Take turns talking

    Encourage your child's speech development.

  • Zero to 60 in 18 months

    Help your child's vocabulary grow.

  • Why Read to Your Baby Everyday?

    Is your baby chewing, not reading, his books? Find out why you should still read to him everyday.

  • Words in the Tub

    Talking to your baby helps her learn to speak.

  • Echo!

    Playing echo games will get your child ready to say real words.

  • Read It Again

    Babies love to hear the same story over and over again, and they learn from repetition.

  • Communicate Through Words, Sounds, Songs and Gestures

    Help your baby understand the many uses of language and speech.

  • Baby Sounds

    Make conversation of coos and giggles.

  • Your Competent Newborn

    Not too long ago, young babies were described as having few competencies at birth. We now know that they are capable of so much! Newborns can distinguish sounds such as those in repeated syllables (like the da in da-da-da) or in words without repeated syllables (like the word sister).

  • Nursery Rhymes

    Common nursery rhymes provide opportunities for your baby to pick up new vocabulary.

  • Reading Time Adds Up

    Start reading to your child from day one and you'll accumulate hundreds of hours of literacy experience by kindergarten!

  • Teachable Moments

    Teachable moments are unexpected opportunities for learning. Learn to spot them while on the go.

  • Math? Now?

    Learn which words and behaviors can help lay a foundation for learning math later in life.

  • Teach Math One Step at a Time

    Learn how to incorporate math into everyday activities.

  • Make Every Moment Count

    Bring numbers into your baby’s world by counting the steps as you carry her up them.

Visual Thinking

Stimulate your baby’s observation skills by providing mobiles and pictures with patterns and color. The purpose is not to teach the child color names but to enrich her with interesting experiences. Change the items from time to time.

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Baby Learning Tip

Reading Adds Up! Read to your baby 30 minutes a day, and by the time your child is five years old, he or she will have roughly 900 hours of reading time! Reduce that experience to just 30 minutes a week, and your child misses out on 770 hours of nursery rhymes, fairy tales and stories.

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