Sunday 19 May 2013

Baby 8 Month Development ( fisher-price.com )

Your eight-month-old may enjoy picking things up, passing toys from hand to hand, and starting to associate words with objects.


How your 8-month-old might play now

    • He may be able to crawl in both directions
    • She starts to connect two behaviors together
    • He’s beginning to understand "object permanence," that objects don't disappear when they're out of view
    • She remembers recent events
    • His fine motor skills have improved, allowing him to pick up tiny objects
    • She begins to articulate sounds, beginning with vowels
Musical toys
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    Laugh & Learn™ Click 'n Learn Remote
    Curiosity & Discovery Fine Motor
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    Laugh & Learn™ Learning Keys
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    Laugh & Learn™ Sing-With-Me CD Player
    Curiosity & Discovery Security & Happiness Sensory

Help your baby learn more:

    • Show me! Start by exploring all the features of a toy together—show your child how to press keys, flip pages, bat rollers. At this age, it's probably best to focus on action/reaction rather than moving into ABCs and 123s.
    • Words, words, words. Reinforce receptive language skills by saying the names of colors, shapes and animals that you see. "Do you hear the horn? … Let's make the puppy move.”
Toys that encourage crawling, standing or cruising
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    Growing Baby™ Press & Crawl™ Lion
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    Baby Playzone™
    Touch & Crawl™ Friend
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    Go Baby Go!™ 1-2-3 Crawl-Along Snail
    Balance & Coordination Curiosity & Discovery Sensory

Help your baby learn more:

    • Surprise. Sit with your child on the floor and point out different surprises, colors and shapes on the toy. Most easy-to-activate features will be near the bottom, within easy reach for baby.
    • Use words and descriptive terms as much as possible in "conversations" with your baby; children of this age enjoy listening and vocalizing.
    • Move and groove. Exercise baby's growing muscles by encouraging her to push or crawl after a toy. Can she pull herself up and stand holding onto it? Give her lots of encouragement and you'll find out!
Sorting and building toys
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    Brilliant Basics™ Baby’s First Blocks
    Fine Motor Sensory Thinking & Problem Solving
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    Growing Baby™ Animal Stack & Nest Blocks
    Balance & Coordination Curiosity & Discovery Sensory
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    Growing Baby™ Elephant Shape Sorter
    Fine Motor Sensory Thinking & Problem Solving

Help your baby learn more:

    • Before sorting shapes, help your baby learn "empty, full" and "in, out." Narrate as baby plays: "You're putting the red block in. It's round." Deliberately say the shape and the color, and whether it's going in or out. When all the blocks are out, say "empty." When they're all in, say "full."
    • When baby’s ready for shape sorting, put away all the shapes except the round ones. Let your child experiment with getting the circle in the correct opening. If it’s a struggle, point out the round opening and say, "Try this." Baby might get it, but if not, have the patience for trial and error.
    • Master of the round. Once round shapes are mastered, put those blocks away and say, "Now let's try the square ones." And when baby can sort that shape, try both together—this may be the same day, or the next day, or in a week or so—whenever baby's ready.
Toys with buttons, levers and dials
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    Laugh & Learn™ Rumble & Learn Driver™
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    Laugh & Learn™ Click 'n Learn Remote
    Curiosity & Discovery Fine Motor
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    Laugh & Learn™
    Learning Phone™

Help your baby learn more:

    • You did it! Demonstrate activities on the toy, then encourage your child to do the same: "I turned the dial … now it's your turn!" "Do you think we'll hear a squeak when you press the button?" Simple mechanics will hold your child's attention – and improve fine motor skills at the same time.
    • Ready for red. Help your child learn to recognize colors by pointing out each one and slowly saying its name. Reinforce the learning by pointing out things in baby's world that are the same color: "See? Your shirt is red too."

Baby 7 Month Development ( fisher-price.com )


How your 7-month-old might play now

    • He rocks on his hands and knees and may creep on his tummy
    • She responds to her name, recognizes voices and different tunes
    • With full color vision, he enjoys looking at complex objects—and might even move for a better view
    • Her eyes help her explore, and she uses them as a gauge when reaching out for objects
    • He starts cupping his hand around toys and can push them into his hand with his thumb
Shape sorters
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    Friendly Firsts™
    Turtle Shape Sorter
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    Brilliant Basics™ Baby’s First Blocks
    Fine Motor Sensory Thinking & Problem Solving
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    Growing Baby™ Elephant Shape Sorter
    Fine Motor Sensory Thinking & Problem Solving

Help your baby learn more:

    • In and out. This is a great time to focus on concepts like "in and out" and "on and off." Encourage your baby to put a hand or a shape inside the shape sorter toy … what will happen? If he's greeted with a funny sound or musical surprise, you can bet baby will like playing the "in and out" game over and over!
    • One at a time. When you progress to introducing shapes, start with just one: identify it and let baby get the hang of sorting that shape before you move on to a new one. Name the shape as your child picks it up and tries to figure out where it fits.
Entertainment centers that encourage crawling and standing
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    Laugh & Learn™ Fun With Friends™ Musical Table
    Academics Gross Motor Sensory

Help your baby learn more:

    • One, two, three… Sit on the floor with baby and playfully point out a toy's features, colors and surprises. Say color names out loud as you touch each one: "This is a blue bead, this one's green and this one's purple. One, two, three beads."
    • Talk about things As baby makes them happen—you’ll help him understand the idea of action/reaction: "You made the music play! Listen … do you hear it? Let's spin the ball again."
    • Let’s get physical. Encourage your baby to get physically involved with the toy to strengthen muscles and confidence. That could mean pushing it, rolling it back and forth, crawling through it or using it to pull up to a stand.
Action/reaction toys
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    Brilliant Basics™ Dunk ’n Cheer™ Basketball
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    Stand-Up Ballcano™
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    Growing Baby™ Caterpillar Pop-Up

Help your baby learn more:

    • Talk about things as baby makes them happen—you’ll help him understand the idea of action/reaction: "You made the music play! Listen … do you hear it? Let's spin the ball again."
    • Color me fun. Use a toy's features to introduce your baby to various colors, saying each color name clearly as you point to it. This is the time when babies are building their receptive language skills, so the more words they hear, the more they’ll become familiar with.
    • You did it! Use descriptive language as your baby activates a toy: "Hear the sound the dino makes? … Look what happens when you bop the bug!"
Bat-at floor toys
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    Go Baby Go!™ Bat & Wobble Penguin
    Balance & Coordination Curiosity & Discovery Sensory
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    Bat & Crawl Rollerbar™
    Curiosity & Discovery Gross Motor Sensory

Help your baby learn more:

    • Your turn, my turn. Start with an interactive game between you and baby, maybe just rolling the toy back and forth. Set up pillow bumpers for boundaries so the toy can't roll too far. And put words with actions as you play: "back and forth," "your turn, my turn."
    • Ready, set, crawl. Boost baby toward crawling by picking a target and encouraging her to roll the toy to it, then retrieve it. As the toy rolls, she's likely to move toward it to start the fun all over again!
    • Where is it? Help baby learn to locate things by listening: show him the toy, then put it behind your back and activate the sounds. Do this several times to see if he'll crawl to you to find the source of the sound.