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Stimulate the visual development of the child in your first year of life, promotes the development of the brain and eyes. Parents can do several activities to encourage their child to reach and grasp objects, along with helping them become more focused and interested in patterns and colors. A newborn can focus on objects about 20 inches away. Objects which become closer or further away from this will become blurred for the child.
When focused, however, in view of the childcan be very strong, displaying objects in three dimensions. Teaching activities of the child's visual development helps children to follow or track moving objects with his eyes. This is an essential skill to read words on a line or down a page. In the following activities can develop Visual Tracking your child and promote the emotional development of your baby.
Baby Visual Development Activities:
Make sure your child is happy and relaxed and looking at you. Spend some 'time looking at each other, pulling all sorts of different facial expressions, smile, raise your eyebrows up and down, stick their tongue out and wave around. Do this regularly, for example one or two times a day to improve visual development of the child. Your child may start to imitate you - look at them to try and start hitting her tongue out at you;
Spend some 'time each day encouraging visual tracking. Keep a colorful toy or rattle about 25 inches away from yourchild's face, slowly moves up, down and side to side. Your child will become better monitoring of the subject than you do;
If it's a beautiful day outside and a safe environment, to show the objects of the child as a blow in the wind, for example, the leaves on the trees, on the washing line, blowing leaves on the ground. Talk to your child about what is happening. You can also do this through the window, if it is not so nice outside;
Keep a soft cloth, feathers or colored scarf around 25inches from the face of your child. Gently wave to her baby, then off. Repeat this process until the child loses interest or if they get tired;
Talk and sing with your child at various diaper changes. This will encourage eye contact and help the child relax. fun to make faces when you're done, or shake a rattle of about 25 inches away from their face. Spend a lot of time singing and talking;
Keep your child in front of a mirror. Place the reflection of the child andask who is that? Name and touch the face of your child while they are looking in the mirror;
Keep a brilliant piece of clothing, Teddy or an object at eye level of the child (especially if your baby is a good seat). Say, 'Where's Teddy?' and release the bear in a washing basket. Do it slowly enough for the child to watch it fall into the basket. Gradually increase the speed. You can learn to predict where it's going and start to want to fall into the same basket.
Remember to look fortired signs and only spend about five to ten minutes a day doing activities focused so as not to overstimulate your baby.
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