In this stage, babies can see far about 3m.
Their hands can hold objects consciously.
Babies who heard many stories from their
mother in the womb can sound oh, ah, cha cha… in 3 months old. When being about
1 year old, they would reveal intelligence and nimble more than the same-old
babies who did not heard stories from their mothers.
Sight
Lead babies close to the famous painting, and
talk about that picture. When going for a walk with your children, it is
necessary to apply any ways to make them remember impression about outside
world as much as possible. Direct your children to look at the surrounding
scenery and say the words of that scene. Or hold them and walk in house, name
the objects seen, and repeat several times to them.
Lead babies to close the alphabet, point in
each word, read the name of letters, repeat several times. Only in this way, a 6-month-old
American baby remembers all English letters.
Check if babies look towards the light when
turning it on to test their eyesight. To do this to soon discover their visual
defects, solve and train vision as soon as possible.
Flash a little light in their eyes to know
if they look at that light. Moving light position far and near in order to see
if they adjusts their eyes to follow it.
The
second stage: 4-6 months old
Hearing
Take babies to the park to hear light sound
of nature. Remember to say much about words of objects, phenomena, and nature.
Let them have a bath with mothers; both mothers and babies relax and talk much.
(This point seems difficult in some places due to no customary of bath. There
is even no customary of sharing bath. And a few mothers share bath with their
children because of avoiding having sore throat).
There are two points to note when talking
to babies:
1. Use a calm, expressive and fun voice. Do not use low and bass voice.
2. Use gestures of limbs to ask babies such as "Are you
hungry?" "Do you want to go pee?" "Do you pee out
diapers?" and so on. When asking, expressive and natural voice will appeal
babies. They will remember one thing, the question must be answered. The first
answers of babies are sounds emanated from their throat like "coo, coo” ”
cha, cha” ...
Call and talk to their right ear. 3 month-old
babies have more sensitive right ears. So, when they are about 4 months old,
you can still call them from the right ear.
When talking to your babies, you have to look at with concentration
in their eyes. For example, mothers always start
the story by saying "Yuri, I’m here. I love you much. Yuri is very good”.
These sentences will evolve babies’ memories.
When hearing babies, you must look into their
eyes, and wait for their answer. Aping immediately what they said. Put toys in
front of them as "bait" to talk. "Baby, this is doll! You see? I’m
holding a doll.”
If they do not like it, you should not
abandon. It is important to repeat several times.
When
talking to your babies, you have to look at with concentration in their eyes.
Touch
Please activate the grabbing, holding
ability of babies’ hands. Let your babies hold many different items such as
wool, cotton, wood, satin cloth, sponge, tissue.
Let the toy within reach and grab of children.
Normally, when babies are 5 – 6 months old,
they know how to reach things. But if babies are trained to hold, touch, and
reach in early age, about 3 months old, they can use hands very well to
manipulate holding, touching, and reaching proficiently. Babies who have a
strong sense of learning will mature quickly.
Let babies touch warm water, then cold
water, and rotate. Also teach them spread their hands, and hold them in water.
Movement: lie your babies down on mothers/
fathers’ bellies; let them hold their head up as long as possible.
