Personalized Baby Items

Personalized baby items are a wonderful gift for any occasion. It shows that you're thinking of that "one "individual when you make your purchase. Even a small gift such as a baby bib or a personalized hooded towel is a gift that will be useful for a long time. wwwbabyblanketbabe.com has a whole line of personalized baby bibs, hooded towels, infant clothing, gift baskets, baby blankets, and baby keepsakes. Their quality and service are exceptional!

New Babies of Spring

Spring brings us a rebirth each year. We have baby everything---plants, animals, and even humans! On our ranch we have baby lambs and baby calves right now. They make one feel that life is worth living by watching the wonderment in their eyes, the way they jump and play, and just their thrill to be alive! Our babies and toddlers are much the same way and they certainly give us a new perspective on life. We need to appreciate the new birth and energy of our youngsters. Deck them out in some new spring duds online at http://www.babyblanketbabe.com/

Tips on Enhancing Your Baby's Visual Experience

More than 75% of all the baby learns will come as a result of his visual experiences. Infants are attracted to bright colors. Seeing color is a part of his early learning. Visual perception develops in a sequence that is still not completely understood. Apparently babies see only dark and light at first, then vague shapes in black and white and shades of gray. Not until the baby has learned to recognize people and objects with sight alone will he begin to develop his capacity to see color. Some pediatricians feel that most toddlers are unable to distinguish individual colors until after they are 2 1/2 years old. Even though the small child may not see color and is really attracted to strong contrasts or movement, the experiences he has with bright colors are still important.

If the child is between the ages of two months and 2 1/2 years, experiences with color are an important part of his visual development. Along with providing the baby with a variety of touching experiences, a parent should add slow movement and brightly colored objects to his day-to-day teaching regime. Just as numerous experiences with hearing stories and looking at pictures even before he can talk assist in preparing the child for reading, so do experiences with color begin the development of his visual discrimination. Brightly colored mobiles moving slowly overhead, brilliant red rattles, and colorful appliques seen against newtral backgrounds are the kinds of visual experiences the baby ought to be having daily.

Experiences with color will be a need of the child into adulthood, but the sort of color environment described above will no longer be needed when the child starts to distinguish one color from another. From that point on color experiences will become more specific. For an array of brightly colored items from toys, to baby blankets, hooded towels, baby bibs and infant clothing go to http://www.babyblanketbabe.com/

Babies are Attracted to Bright Colors

See my article titled "Ways to Help Baby Develop His Sense of Sight". It is a known fact that babies are attracted to bright colors. The items shown here are available at http://www.babyblanketbabe.com/ and they even come " preemie" size.

Baby and Toddler Furniture---A Basic Need

Small children need to have the right sized furniture in order to be comfortable when trying to use their creativity. A child sized stool, chair, and table make a long-lasting investment. Most adult furniture doesn't fit a child and their posture and balance aren't usually in line while working in an adult chair and table. My children had a small table and chairs and were able to use it for years. It was covered with paint splashes and stains but was still in excellent condition to pass on to the small children of friends who used it every day. Find high quality wooden step stools and rocking chairs at http://www.babyblanketbabe.com/

Read this article "What Every Child Needs" It contains excellent information on choosing the right furniture for your little one.

Steps to Enhance Your Baby's Senses----Touch

From the time of birth, a child is instinctively pushing into his mouth everything he gets hold of. His tongue and lips have a desire to feel things. His sucking instinct is inherent and you will see him sucking his finger or hand. Many mothers will put a pacifier into his mouth right away to keep him from sucking his thumb. Upon the arrival of my first baby, I swore that she would never have a "dirty old pacifier" sticking our of her mouth. (She,of course, ended up sucking her thumb and being quite a fussy baby.) But when the second baby came, I gave him the pacifier almost immediately. He was a much happier and contented baby than his older sister because I had provided something for him to touch, feel and suck on. When teething time came and his little gums began to swell, he liked to bite on something hard because it felt better. A teething ring or even a clean finger works very well at this stage.

Next, the baby begins to handle objects with his own hands---holding onto a finger, his bottle, or the end of a blanket. Apparently the child finds some sort of pleasure in touching or kinesthetic experiences. The baby is unable to perceive details of any sort. He is in the earliest stages of "learning to see." By sight he cannot distinguish among members of his family. He cannot follow movement with his eyes. He is frightened by unexpected sounds or movement. He finds security in circumstances simulating the time when he was still being carried by his mother. This developmental level will largely consume the first year of his life and will continue in some aspects on into his kindergarten years.

Throughout the first year of the child's life or until he takes the initiative, place a variety of textural materials into his hands. Be certain that none are harmful or small enough to swallow. Let him hold onto such things as clean fingers, plastic rattles, blankets, diapers, and rubber bones. Place the child in changing environments throughout the day so that he has a variety of visual ezperiences. Talk to him and play with him throughout his feeding and while you are changing his diapers and clothing. All of these things are as important to the baby's early perceptual development as stories are to his reading readiness.

Before a child no longer needs the kinds of experiences described above, a variety of other needs will have developed. Kinesthetic experiences to some degree or another will be important to the child at all stages of his development but are particularly crucial through the primary years. I've seen kindergarten and first grade teachers even use sand or shaving cream on a table so that the children can use their fingers to feel their numbers and letters. (The shaving cream is a good cleaner for the table when they're done.)

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