Understanding Your Baby by Ayelet Marinovich

Author:Ayelet Marinovich [Marinovich, Ayelet]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: FAM025000, FAM050000, FAM020000, FAM032000, JNF019040
ISBN: 978-1-7321329-1-7
Publisher: Strength In Words LLC
Published: 2018-10-30T00:00:00+00:00

WHAT YOU CAN DO

You can encourage your baby to make these sounds by speaking to him, as you have been doing, but also singing using sounds like “ba” or “ma” (without worrying about using actual words), or simply by making simple sounds and “playing” with your voice in consonant-vowel combination to break down the elements, getting close to him and saying, “ba-ba-ba,” “da-da-da,” “ma-ma-ma,” etc. As time goes on, your baby will start to babble not only to stimulate himself, but also for a social purpose: he will learn that when he speaks, he will be reinforced by you, the caregiver!

If gesture, movement and language development all influence each other, it stands to reason that the more face-to-face, social and meaningful activity you participate in with your baby, the more he can benefit! Play Peek-a-boo! He’s watching your hands, your eyes, your face, and at some point soon, will find it amazing and hilarious that you’re still there even when your face is covered (part of “object permanence,” which we’ll talk about more another week)

Play with rhythm (tapping your hand on your knee or on his, to the beat of a song) and perform finger plays, which often rhyme and have their own rhythm (or meter)

Encourage waving hello and good-bye – mostly by modeling it yourself when you are greeting others, instead of grabbing his hand and doing it for him (he’ll imitate when he’s ready, and when it’s meaningful to him!)

Bang on kitchen items / utensils / drums / shakers of any sort! Make rhythms together and copy the sounds he makes, having a “rhythmic conversation” of sorts

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