Baby Toys To Aid Your Baby’s Growth And Development
Baby toys are not just attractive playthings for your little baby, but if chosen wisely, they also aid in the baby’s growth and development. These toys in fact act as tools that help your baby to learn, grow, and make their way in this world. They stimulate the senses in your little baby. They are also a distraction; that allows the mother to have some spare time for herself. Toys come in various forms, shapes, sizes, and colors. Here are some types of baby toys.
Toys That Stimulate Hand Eye Coordination
Hand Eye Coordination is the ability to see and reach out for objects. The baby takes its first steps in hand eye coordination, by the fourth month of its birth. At this stage, the baby tries to grab objects and pick them up. This is a very important skill and the sooner your baby learns it, the better. Nowadays, there are toys available in the market that help the baby develop this skill. Some of these toys are baby blocks and stacking toys.
Textured Baby Toys
Textured baby toys stimulate your baby’s sense of touch. They teach your baby about shapes, colors, and various textures. There are a number of toys such as bumps, curves and toys with crinkly material and other fabrics, which can be bought for your baby to play with.
Baby Toys With Music
There are many baby toys with music available in the market. These toys stimulate your baby’s sense of hearing, and stir its imagination. They also introduce your baby to a whole range of feelings and emotions. They are lovely toys, such as musical instruments specially made for children of young age and musical CDs that enrapture your child and allow it to build on its creative instincts.
Therefore, it is always good to start early with baby toys for your little one, choose wisely to stimulate the baby’s senses and help it grow and develop healthily. For more information visit pregnancy period.
Monday, 9 June 2008
Tuesday, 3 June 2008
Pasta Soup for Kids
Ingredients
- 1 quart vegetable broth
- ½ cup carrots, in tiny cubes (the size of small peas)
- ½ cup diced zucchini
- ½ cup diced yellow crooked-neck squash
- ½ cup baby corn, ¼-inch pieces (or ¼ cup frozen corn [see Notes])
- ½ cup small peas (frozen [see Notes])
- ½ cup minced firm tofu
- 1 to 1½ cups cooked small pasta [see Notes]
- Bring broth to boil in a medium-sized saucepan.
- Add carrots, and lower the heat to a simmer.
- Cook for 5 minutes, or until carrots are just tender.
- Add zucchini, squash, and corn.
- Simmer for 5 minutes, then stir in peas, tofu, and cooked pasta.
- Simmer just a couple of minutes longer.
- Serve hot (or very warm) in small bowl with small spoons.
Tips, Notes, and Variations
- Small pasta: alphabets, little circles, little stars, or orzo, or a combination to delight kids!
- Cook pasta and store in water, covered, in the refrigerator until use. Drain well to add to the hot broth.
- Frozen Vegetables can be added to the broth frozen.
From Wikibooks, the open-content textbooks collection
Baby care and development
Table illustrating child development stages
| Age | Motor | Speech | Vision and hearing | Social development |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4-6 weeks | Smiles at mother | |||
| 6-8 weeks | Vocalises | |||
| 3 months | Prone:head held up for prolonged periods. No grasp reflex | Talks a great deal | Follows dangling toy from side to side. Turns head round to sound | Squeals with pleasure appropriately. Discriminates smile |
| 5 months | Holds head steady. Goes for objects and gets them. Objects taken to mouth | Enjoys vocal play | Smiles at mirror image | |
| 6 months | Transfers objects from one hand to the other. Pulls self up to sit and sits erect with supports. Rolls over prone to supine. Palmer grasp of cube | Double syllable sounds such as 'mumum' and 'dada' | Localises sound 45cm lateral to either ear | May show 'stranger shyness' |
| 9-10 months | Wiggles and crawls. Sits unsupported. Picks up objects with pincer grasp | Babbles tunefully | Looks for toys dropped | Apprehensive about strangers |
| 1 year | Stands holding furniture. Stands alone for a second or two, then collapses with a bump | Babbles 2 or 3 words repeatedly | Drops toys, and watches where they go | Cooperates with dressing, waves goodbye, understands simple commands |
| 18 months | Can walk alone. Picks up toy without falling over. Gets up/down stairs holding onto rail. Begins to jump with both feet. Can build a tower of 3 or 4 cubes and throw a ball | 'Jargon'. Many intelligible words | Demands constant mothering. Drinks from a cup with both hands. Feeds self with a spoon | |
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