Know the Noise*

Your toddler loves to listen—to music, to voices, to animals.

Enhance his listening skills with a variety of familiar sounds he can guess. All you need is a portable cassette recorder or a phone with a recorder in it.

Learning Skills:

• Cause and effect
• Classification skills
• Listening skills

Materials:

• Portable cassette recorder and tape
• Interesting sounds

What to do:

1. Use a tape recorder/ your phone to record a variety of interesting sounds, such as a dog barking, a familiar children's song, musical toy, Daddy’s voice, telephone ringing, keys jangling, and so on. Allow some time between each noise.
2. Play the tape for your toddler and see if he can guess each sound. If you have not left enough time between noises, stop the tape after each noise and allow your child to guess.
3. Play the tape again; this time, demonstrate the source of each noise as it plays.

Safety:
Be sure the noises are loud enough to be heard, but soft enough to avoid startling your toddler

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Development Milestones - Reach

The magic of cause & effect…
In the first weeks your baby’s movements were mostly reflex reactions, such as closing fingers when the palm of a tiny hand was touched. Gradually babies start to make more purposeful movements and gain a sense of their surroundings. By around six months, increasing strength and muscle control help baby sit up independently and start to make things happen – from reaching and grasping toys to discovering the magic of cause and effect ... “I did that!

How your baby plays now:

• She's better at entertaining herself, and more deliberate in her exploration.
• Baby may be walking at 13 months—but could still be very unsteady on his feet.
• She can pull herself up and sit securely.
• She can stand unassisted and cruise along the furniture.

Toys for this age:

                                              Baby's first Blocks              Rock-a-stack

Bubble Bath*

Bath time is fun for most babies, although some don't seem to like the water. But no matter what kind of reaction you get from your baby, you can make bath time more fun by adding a few baby bubbles while you wash.

Materials:
•	Soft washcloth
•	Plastic baby tub
•	Baby no-tear bubble bath
•	Towel What to do: 1. Lay a washcloth on the bottom of your baby's plastic tub to help keep your baby from sliding around. 2. Fill the tub with warm water and add a small amount of baby bubble bath solution. 3. Place your baby into the tub, holding her securely at all times to gain her trust. 4. Sit your baby up so she can safely enjoy the bubbles and splash the water if she wants. 5. Wash your baby's body parts while singing “This Is the Way We Wash”:This is the way we wash our face,Wash our face, wash our face.This is the way we wash our face, Baby (name) and mummy.Continue the song with “...clean our neck,” “...rub our chest,” “...scrub our back,” “...bathe our arms,” “...soap our legs,” “...tidy our toes,” and so on. Safety: Follow these two rules to make sure your baby enjoys the bath: Be certain that your baby feels secure at all times—don't let her slip or dunk under the water. Make sure the water is always warm—not too hot and not too cold. Always keep baby within arm's reach.

Bird Buffet

 Materials

• Heavy string, yarn, or a shoelace
• Pine cone
• Pencil or straw
• Round oat cereal or pretzels
• Peanut butter
• Birdseed
• Stale bread
• Cookie cutter
• Popsicle stick

Instructions

1. Tie heavy string, yarn, or a shoelace around the top of a pine cone, then knot it, leaving enough string to hang the pine cone. Have your grandchild use a popsicle stick to thoroughly cover the pine cone with peanut butter, then roll it in birdseed.
2. Have your grandchild cut a shape from slightly stale bread with a cookie cutter. Spread peanut butter on the bread shape, then sprinkle on birdseed. Poke a hole close to the edge of the shape with a pencil or straw. Let the bread dry until it’s hard, then loop string or yarn through the hole and tie it.
3. Have your grandchild string round oat cereal or pretzels onto heavy string, yarn, or a shoelace. When he’s done, tie the ends together.
4. Hang the feeder outside near a window where your grandchild can watch the birds eat

How to entertain a 2-month old?

Q: I've tried to help stimulate my 2-month-old developmentally through age-appropriate toys—contrasts, faces, mirrors, singing and reading to her, etc.—but she only seems interested in the ceiling fan! She doesn't calm with singing or reading; on the contrary, she often "bucks," arching her back and neck, fussing and even crying at times. I don't try for very long periods because I get discouraged and frustrated, but she just lies there. Sometimes I'm afraid she is stunted or that there may be another problem.

— Submitted by Gina

A:Bettye M. Caldwell, Ph.D.Gina, many parents don’t try hard enough; I think you’ve been trying too hard. Your baby is far too young to be interested in reading. I would expect her to like to be sung to, but only if it is done as something you just like to do when you hold her. And it is perfectly normal for her to be interested in the ceiling fan. Try turning it off and noticing what she does (whether she seems aware that it has stopped moving).

Try calming her by holding her against you with her head on your shoulder and bouncing her up and down a little. And play a little game with her when you change her nappy—tweak her tummy and say something like, “I’m going to get you,” while leaning down to kiss her. Put a mobile over her cot and let her watch it when she is alone. When you’re around, she’s going to want to do things with you.

And, Gina: relax a bit. Your daughter notices when you’re uptight and reflects your anxiety in her behaviour. You’re going to be a great mother, and she’s going to be a great child

Our toddler can’t grasp her colors

Q:We have a bright 23-month-old girl who can count to 11 and say her ABCs to the letter “E.” But she misses concepts on colours. To her, everything is “blue.” Should we be worried?
— Submitted by Anon.Dr. Bettye M. Caldwell, Ph.D.Professor of Pediatrics in Child Development and Education

 A:Absolutely not. For reasons that are not fully understood, learning to identify colours by name appears to be more difficult for very young children than learning to recite numbers and letters.

Think about it for a minute. If you teach her to “count” to 11 (or however far she can go) or the letters of the alphabet, she merely has to remember and repeat what she heard you say. But if you hold up a red ball and ask, “What colour is this?” she has to run her mind through a far more complex task. First, she has to make a judgment about the colour (blue? red? green?). Then she has to remember the name of that particular colour.

So don’t worry one bit. She will learn to recognize and correctly label different colours during the next year. It sounds as though she is a very bright little girl who will keep you on your toes. Be sure that the time you spend with her includes plenty of affectionate care without too much formal teaching of numbers and letters. Read to her every day and help her acquire a love of books and sounds. Comment on the colours in the books you read, in her dresses, in foods and in furniture about the house. In no time she’ll be correctly identifying them.