Baby

Your five-month-old is full of energy. He wakes himself up in the morning and is ready to dive into his day. He doesn’t just look at things. He wants to explore everything. He puts things in his mouth. He rocks on his stomach. He kicks his legs. He reaches for toys. He “talks” to you. These are ways he learns and grows. Your baby is excited because … [Read more...] about Your Five-Month-Old

Here are some important things you can do that will help your baby every day: Be your baby’s teacher. Babies learn when they have many good experiences with someone who loves them. Give your baby a rattle. Say, “Shake, shake,” as you move it and make sounds together. Name things for your baby. For … [Read more...] about Guiding Principles To Help Your Baby Every Day

Each brain, like each child, is unique. Here are some things you should know about your baby: The brain grows fastest in the first three years of life. It’s hard to describe how a child’s brain develops. It depends on traits that come from the parents. It also depends on the child’s experiences. You can influence the part that … [Read more...] about Your Baby Learns from Experience

A baby’s social skills start to develop long before she can talk. So do her emotions. Babies quickly come to know emotions and to show them. A four-month-old baby can tell a happy face when she sees it. And she can tell an angry face when she sees it. She is also aware of a face with no expression. If there is a lot of yelling and screaming in the house, the noise and … [Read more...] about Babies Respond to Angry and Happy Faces

At four months of age, your baby is already putting together ideas about speech and sounds. She does this even though she cannot speak. Even without speech, your baby already knows how to “talk” with you. She“speaks” by being fussy or with happy giggles. She will learn more ways to let you know her needs, even before she learns to speak. She has learned to coo and … [Read more...] about Talking with Your Baby