How to develop the skills of the infant

Cognitive skills development

Parents can help their children acquire cognitive skills through the following: ^[1]

• Engaging in cognitive activities such as filling and unpacking items from somewhere, or stacking different items. As this can help enhance motor behavior, spatial perception, and the link between cause and effect, and children can also learn to direct their actions so that they are intended for a specific goal.
• Repetitive play helps infants learn language skills, and motor reactions, such as accustoming the child to clapping, or any other specific movement when hearing a specific song, which enables the child to associate this song or word with his behavior.
• Play hide and seek, or any other hide-and-seek game with young children; As this will help them to learn problem-solving skills , for example, parents may ask their children to put specific items in the trash, or anywhere far from them, this will help them learn new concepts, acquire directions-tracking skills, and use problem-solving skills to find people. Or various purposes.
• Moving objects from one place to another helps children understand the impact of their behavior on the environment around them. They will also learn to relate cause and effect by moving and manipulating different objects.

Motor skills development

There are many actions parents can take to teach their children different motor skills, such as:

• Helping the child to learn the skill of sitting, through: ^[2]
  • He placed him on the lap of one of the family, while sitting cross-legged; The back and legs of this person will provide the necessary support for the child.
  • Place it on a pillow or pillar, and leave it alone; This will help him learn to depend on himself without supervision.
• Encouraging him to roll, by the following: ^[3]
  • Provide him with enough space on the ground, and an opportunity to practice this skill.
  • Holding an object that will attract the child's attention, and tempt him to try to move towards it.
  • Praise and encourage the child when he tries to roll, and move.
• Help him learn to walk , by following the following instructions: ^[4]
  • Avoid using a walker with wheels at an early age, or confining the child for long periods of time in a stroller, so that he can train to walk alone daily, and make sure that it is not used in the nursery he goes to.
  • Ensure that all places in the house are made safer for the child, in order to keep up with his new motor skills, and parents can do this by sitting and looking at the house from the child's point of view.
  • Teaching the child how to go up and down the stairs; So that he is under the supervision of parents, then put safety gates with locks at the top and bottom of the stairs to make sure that the stairs will be safe.
  • Allow children to walk beside their stroller, so that they can practice walking.

Development of language skills

Parents can help their children learn language skills by: ^[5]

• Linking pictures in books to the words they express, so parents can ask the child to point to a specific picture, then link this picture to a word, and that will also help the child learn the language in a fun way.
• Talk to the child about his interests and ideas. As children respond to people they communicate with theoretically and physically, and who interact with them in an effective and active way, parents can also demonstrate rhythms and language patterns when teaching their children new words.
• Interact with the child when he tries to talk, and encourage him to continue trying, even if the words are not comprehensible, parents can imitate the sounds their son is trying to make, and then allow him to say them again.
• Use word games to teach different concepts; Children love to communicate with their parents through these games, or through various songs, which will help them acquire new terms and concepts in a fun way.

References

1. ↑ ADAH CHUNG (13-6-2017), "Cognitive Infant & Toddler Activities" , www.livestrong.com , Retrieved December 25 , 2017. Edited.
2. ↑ JENNY FRIEDMAN, “5Ways to Enhance Your Baby's Motor Skills , ” www.lifestyle.howstuffworks.com , Retrieved 25-12-2017. Edited.
3. ↑ JENNY FRIEDMAN, “5Ways to Enhance Your Baby's Motor Skills , ” www.lifestyle.howstuffworks.com , Retrieved 25-12-2017. Edited.
4. ↑ Renee A. Alli, MD (23-9-2017), "Your Baby's First Steps" , www.webmd.com , Retrieved 25-12-2017. Edited.
5. ↑ "Baby Language Development Milestones" , www.pbs.org , Retrieved 25-12-2017. Edited.