On other occasions we have already talked about care and how to encourage it in children and adolescents, you can consult it at this article. Today, however, we are going to talk about early care that helps develop children's psychomotor skills, cognitive abilities, independence and other aspects of your life.
These activities that we propose They are very useful for children, 0 and 6 years old, since it is the stage in which the child forms his personality.
Early Care for Babies 0-12 Months
To help psychomotor skills, the baby is stimulated to turn around, what we call make the croquette. To teach it, place it on a blanket, slowly lift one side to the other, and so he or she will turn from one place to another. Show your joy by watching it roll.
For your social care, place the baby in a comfortable place, in front of a mirror, and let him look at himself and recognize himself. Get next to him and give him hand signals. You'll see how soon the baby begins to imitate you.
Believe it or not, giving him a gentle tap on the tip of his nose stimulates his blink reflex, and therefore his attention. This simple exercise helps create neural links.
Early Stimulation Exercises for Babies 1 to 3 Years
It's time to give it colored sheets to the child so that they can express themselves freely, wrinkle them, paint them, break them, step on them, whatever you want to do with them, let him. It is also the time to begin to recognize the textures, the ones on the sofa, their dolls, the clothes. This activity favors perception.
Let the child observe you combing your hair, or brushing your teeth. Following this observation, he will repeat the action.
When the child is almost 3 years old, it can help you tidy up the clouth placing socks on one mountain, t-shirts on another, toys in boxes. With this exercise the child concentrates, pays more attention to details and notices the similarity and the difference of things.
teach him Songs that, for example, help you learn the parts of the body, numbers, colors. With this fun exercise you will be stimulating the language of your son or daughter.
Activities for children from 3 to 4 years old
Time to dance. put songs that you can dance together and that indicate actions, raise your hand, touch your knees, take a jump, for example and you can also invent your own choreographies.
Although they have started to assemble puzzles before at this age they love it. It is no longer a matter of fitting the pieces into the gaps but Have them put 8 or 9 pieces together and tell you a story about the image.
Little by little he himself, or she, will ask you to choose his clothes. Leave it and teach him how to dress and undress, to fasten buttons, unbutton them, shoe locks. These activities allow you to develop concentration and attention to detail.
Awakening Attention in Children 4-6 Years Old
Parents from a young age must instill values in their children that allow them to make certain decisions, such as choosing their friends.
Invite your child to take off his shoes and walk on tiptoe, then ask her to do it on her heels. You can also draw a long straight stripe in the dream, or use narrow tiles, and ask him to walk on it without slipping out. If you notice, many of these games do not have to be indicated, because the brain and the child will naturally develop them.
make a jumble with seeds, cereals and legumes of various types and sizes and ask him to spread them with his fingers.
Help him to differentiate between your right and left side, through exercises with your hands. For example, if you say right, he will have to move his right arm, and when he is left, his left. Up, it's time to jump and down to crouch. Surely you get tired of this game before he does, it could take hours repeating it.
At these ages it is essential that your child interacts with other children, let him play and have fun with them, and invent their own way of communicating without the adults being part of it.