From recognising your voice to grabbing your finger with their tiny hand, every moment is helping your baby develop.
From the second babies enter the world, they are learning. From recognising your voice to grabbing your finger with their tiny hand, every moment is helping them develop. And it’s an incredible journey of discovery that continues from those first newborn days all the way through childhood and beyond.
To boost their learning at home: Put together a dressing-up box or bag and give your toddler a ‘theme’. “Today, maybe you’d like to tell me a story about a little girl with magic powers” – it’s great for a rainy day! The experts at Busy Bees firmly believe every child is a natural born explorer. Their Bee Curious curriculum encourages children to use their curiosity as a building block for learning. Bee Curious provides opportunities for children to explore through their senses and discover the world around them.
Photo credit : Shutterstock 3. They learn language through nursery rhymes Most adults naturally talk to babies and toddlers using simple language, often talking more slowly than they would to a fellow adult – and usually with a smile and delivered in an upbeat way. Scientists know it as ‘parentese’, which has evolved over thousands of years because it helps our children learn to understand and speak.
Brush up on your nursery rhymes and rhyming songs . It’s also never too early to start reading to your little one, even in the first few weeks, the soothing rhyme of Each Peach Pear Plum – a nursery rhyming classic – will soon become a bedtime favourite. As they get older, rhyming picture books continue the work of developing a love of language in little ones, hear.
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