How to develop your child’s dexterity from an early age

As the saying goes, “smart hands are clever”, meaning that smart hands are also very clever, but I do not know that practicing dexterous hands can also promote the development of young children’s minds, young parents must not miss the opportunity to exercise their children’s clever hands. Normal infants and young children’s hand movements have their own specific rules of development, parents should pay attention to observe, for example, 5 months of infants reach for toys; 7 months not only can accurately grasp, but also two hands pass; 9 months of children can pinch small rice flowers with their fingers; 12 months of children began to hold a pen scribble; 18 months can use 3 to 4 blocks to build a “building “; 2 years old can build 7 to 8 stories high. It can be seen that the hand-eye movement of children after the age of one year has been basically coordinated, has been able to complete some basic manipulation skills. The ability to manipulate the hands marks the maturity of a child’s development. Although its development is a slow process, but if you pay attention to training, hand manipulation can be better developed. We often recommend the following training methods: (1) Buy your child some manipulative toys, such as blocks and boards, or make your own stick toys out of cardboard boxes and ice-cream sticks, and let your child practice them over and over again. (2) Holding a brush and drawing is the basic item to train children’s hand-eye coordination. Drawing (scribbling) not only develops the child’s fine hand movements, but also further stimulates his interest through the traces drawn. (3) Let your child eat with a spoon by himself. Almost every little baby loves a spoon and likes to stir his own rice with it and try to put it in his mouth. This is a wonderful program to improve hand-eye coordination. By picking up the spoon dozens to hundreds of times to scoop up the rice and send it to the mouth, the child soon has better and better hand-eye coordination and the movements are coordinated. Young parents should not forget this training element. (4) hammer knock, find a comfortable position and baby sitting face to face, while saying the song while doing the action, when the word “knock”, the baby knock the fist on the ground, and finally when the command is given, knock on all parts of the body: you can change the knock on all parts of the body, you can also increase the number of knocks. (5) Sock ball, when the mother is ready to wash clothes, you can roll the baby’s socks into a ball and let the baby throw them into the basket with dirty clothes, throw one and count one, you can also have a competition with the baby to increase the baby’s interest in the game. According to the baby’s mastery of the situation, gradually let the baby stand farther away from the basket. You can also throw other things that are not dangerous. Practice the action of “throwing” to develop children’s fine movements and promote the development of gross motor skills.