5 Key Areas Every Good Baby Stimulation Program Must Cover

... And How To Get Your Baby Stimulation Plan To Also Give Great Results

Many parents know that baby stimulation activities have been scientifically shown to boost baby development now and in future. So... you can help your baby do vastly better in most areas of life just by encouraging specific actions and movements.

Babies learn skills mainly by going through different development experiences. But unfortunately, one experience alone cannot teach all the skills.

When we give our baby selected educational toys to play with we're in effect 'forcing' our child to perform certain actions which teaches them the necessary skills.

Also... for baby stimulation to be really effective, a range of skills must be developed. A gap in learning experience almost always lead to one or more learning problems.

So what does this mean? Only this... all baby stimulation activities must develop at least one of 5 key areas.

Key #1: Total movement… gross motor

Stimulation activities must boost developing total body movement…

like rolling, sitting, crawling, kneeling, standing, walking, climbing, jumping and running.

Ok, that great, but let's look at a few educational toys to help develop these skills.

Key #2: Fine movement… fine motor

Your stimulation activities should focus on development of hand and finger skills. You can try to encourage your baby to:

reach out and taking big objects,
using index finger to point to objects,
put objects in containers and take them out again,
roll and throw objects,
hold crayons,
scribble spontaneously,
build blocks on top of each other,
put lids on bowls,
preferring one hand as a dominant one, and,
draw horizontal and vertical lines.

A few educational toys which you may find helpful to encourage development of fine motor skills are:

Key #3: Insight and visual skills… visual perceptual

One vital area you must encourage is the ability to:

see, focus and follow specific objects,
distinguish faces,
look for objects like toys which have been dropped and focus on objects further away.
Also… encourage your child to place squares and circles in a form board.
It's also a good stimulation exercise to encourage recognizing detail and faces in pictures and photographs.

Let's look at a few toys that will help develop these skills...

Key #4: Hearing and language… auditory perceptual

Encourage using words, vowels like "a" and "o", nouns like "m" and "p", sounds like "ka" and "ma",
reacting on mother's voice, reacting on simple instructions,
using one word sentences, recognizing own name, understanding "no", simple questions and verbs like "drinking"… "eating", and,
starting to recognize common objects.

Here are a few toys for extra stimulation...

Key #5: Feel and smell… sensory

Encourage learning common smells and textures.
Any smell such as fruit, food, soap, perfume and textures such as sand, water, leaves and materials are wonderful encouragements.

Here are a few toys for your consideration...