Early education for four-month-old babies

Early education refers to the early education of children. When does early education begin? In fact, early education can be started from the birth of the baby. However, some parents will give their children some early education. Some parents don’t understand early education for their children, so let’s first understand early education for four-month-old babies.

Prenatal education is before the baby is born, and early education can be carried out after the baby is born. Some people think that early education is useless for children and it is a waste of effort and time. In fact, when the baby reaches four months old, he or she already has the ability to recognize things and can grab some things, so early training is very useful. Let’s take a look at the content of early education for four-month-old babies.

1. Exercise

Turning over (supine to prone): Use toys to tease the baby and promote turning over. Some babies can turn over to their stomachs by themselves while playing in a supine position. After turning over, one hand is often pressed under the body. Parents can provide some help and train them to keep their hands properly.

Pulling to sit: When the baby is lying on his back, the parent holds the baby's two little hands and lets the baby cooperate with his own strength. The parent only needs to use a little force to help and pull the baby to the seat.

2. Cognition

The hearing and vision of a 4-month-old baby are more sensitive.

Audio-visual training:

Look at people's faces and listen to people's voices: In addition to looking at and talking face to face frequently, you can change the direction or distance to attract your baby's attention and listening.

Change toys: from big to small, so that the baby can focus on smaller objects, such as red buttons and small green beans, etc., use different toys to attract the baby's visual and auditory interest.

Get in touch with nature and enrich your visual and auditory stimulation: Go outdoors, look at the rising sun, the evening moon, the red flowers, green grass, flying birds, and running dogs to learn visual tracking.

Look at pictures and magazines: Say the names of the pictures while looking at them. The requirements for drawings are the same as before.

Listening to baby tapes: Choose beautiful music for your baby, but be careful not to make the tempo too fast or the volume too loud to prevent damage to the child's hearing.

Practice grasping to promote hand-eye coordination: When the baby is awake, use 1-2 noisy toys to induce him to grasp, and practice frequently.

Watch the rolling ball and follow the flashlight to improve vision: hold the baby and sit at the table, watching the ball roll from one end of the table to the other. When it is dark, gently shake the flashlight to move the light on the wall and ask your baby to find out where the light has gone.

3. Language

Strengthen your baby's pronunciation:

A 4-month-old baby's babbling sounds gradually increase. In addition to vowels, he also makes consonants such as b, p, d, n, g, k, and repeated syllables such as da, ba, na, and occasionally sounds such as ma and pa. When the baby makes a sound, you can repeat it. If he occasionally makes a "Mom" sound, kiss him and say "Mom, Mom, I am Mom!" to encourage him to repeat the pronunciation again.

IV. Life and Communication

Hold the bottle by yourself

When feeding or drinking water, let the baby hold the bottle by himself. This not only exercises the baby's hand activities, but also allows the baby to have tactile experience. It is also the initial cultivation of the baby's self-care ability.

Facial expression reaction: When playing with your baby, you should consciously make different facial expressions, such as smile, anger, indifference, etc., train your baby to distinguish these facial expressions, learn to have different reactions to different expressions, and learn to express his feelings correctly.

Look in the mirror and watch your face: often hold your baby in the mirror, point at the mother and say, "This is mother", point at the baby and say, "This is baby". The child will then reach out and touch the mirror, smile at it, and make sounds. Children who look in the mirror often will make faces and laugh heartily in front of the mirror.

Make the sound "wa wa wa", coordinate pronunciation and actions: the adult makes the sound "wa wa wa" on his own mouth with his hand, and then holds the child's hand and makes the sound "wa wa wa" on his little mouth. Fun for families and children.

Find friends and develop social skills: When doing outdoor activities, let your baby watch other children more. If he is happy, he can approach and shake hands with the children. If he is afraid, don't force it. You can also have more contact with adults around you and get used to interacting with people.

Swing with music to cultivate a sense of rhythm: With the accompaniment of beautiful music, parents put their hands under the baby's arms, suspend the baby in the air and swing the baby left and right to the rhythm, gradually reduce the force of the swing, and observe whether the baby can exert force on his own to swing the body left and right. Later, you can also do rotational movements to help your baby learn rotational balance.

Through the content of early education for four-month-old babies that we have introduced to you, we hope that if there is a four-month-old baby in the family, you can use the above methods to provide early education for the baby so that the baby can grow up more healthily. It lays a solid foundation for the baby's future learning, life, physical development, etc., and enables the baby to grow healthily.