Many parents are confused as to how to give their children motor training and how to do it in a specific way. In fact, the development of the baby’s movement is not a very difficult and complicated thing, as long as parents in the daily care of children’s lives to be a mindful person, you can do a good job of training and promote the child’s motor skills.
Here are a few simple games or approaches to introduce.
1, baby head up game: adapt to the age of 1 month – 4 months. Do this after each nap or bath. Turn the baby over and make him/her lie prone on the bed with both arms bent elbows and palms down, the distance between the arms is slightly wider than shoulder width, in a “lying down” position, so that he/she can support the body. The mother can call the baby’s name in front of her, or clap her hands or use a loud toy to lure the child to try to lift his head and support him. This exercise will train the baby to control his head as early as possible. Each game lasts 1-2 minutes.
2, crawling game: suitable for age 6 months onwards. From 6-7 months, you can consciously train your baby to learn to crawl, every day after waking up or playing, let your baby lie on his back, mom teasing him with toys in front, encourage your baby to crawl over to get, dad in the back with the palms of his hands to push the baby’s feet, help him start to learn to crawl, you can also use a long towel ring wrapped around the baby’s abdomen, gently lifted upward by dad, help your baby learn to crawl on his hands and knees. After the baby learns to crawl, the mother can even come up with a lot of interesting games to help the baby skilled crawling movements and skills.
3, play with a leather ball: suitable for all ages. Pick up the ball, after the baby learns to stand, can help him to stand in the crib side of the railing, let him one hand on the railing, put a ball at the baby’s feet, guide him to bend down with the other hand to pick up the ball around. This action can not only be practice infant bending and upright body, but also can promote the baby’s hand-eye coordination.
After the baby can walk, ball toys will be more able to promote the development of children’s development of a variety of movements, such as walking, running, rolling, throwing, bending, squatting, etc.. So that children’s whole body muscles and bones of the upper and lower limbs to exercise, the movement gradually sensitive and accurate. Such as picking up the ball: put the ball in front of the child, from near and far to lengthen the distance for children to pick up. Adults will roll the ball out, so that children chase while picking up. Throw the ball: throw out and pick up the ground to play, can gradually lengthen the distance, practice running, pick up, bending and other hand and foot and whole body movements.
Roll the ball: babies and adults roll the ball with each other to practice the accuracy of hand-eye coordination; such as rolling the ball through the doorway made of blocks or small stools; also can be played between small partners to pass the ball to each other. To develop friendly interpersonal relationships. Kick the ball: put the ball in front of the child’s feet and encourage the baby to kick it; you can also train him to kick the action while walking to make the lower limbs move more flexibly and steadily.
4, daily life care: from 6 months, you can train your baby to hold the bottle to drink milk and water, take small cookies to eat by themselves, and when you start to add supplementary food, make some finger food such as fruit strips, vegetable strips, small meat skins, so that your baby can hold and eat by himself, and then older, around 1 year old, guide your baby to eat by himself with a spoon, and after 3 years old, train to eat with chopsticks to hold food. These behavioral training can not only promote the development of the baby’s fine finger movements, but also develop the baby’s self-eating ability, enhance self-service ability, and lay the foundation for his independent living ability.
In addition, for some older children, when you take your child out for a walk every day, you can let him jump up and down from the steps, and you can compete with your mother to see who jumps far and high and walks in a straight line, thus training your child’s lower limb bones and muscles and balance.
Always remember, in various games and training, mom and dad must not be stingy with your words of praise, but with rich expressions, heartfelt applause, excited hand clapping, thumbs up action, to create a “reinforced” parent-child atmosphere, so that the baby fully experience the joy of success. The joy of success is a great emotional power, which will continue to activate the baby’s interest and motivation, and greatly promote him to form a confident personality psychological characteristics, more healthy and strong growth.
In the process of children’s growth, children’s imagination and creativity should be the most unrestrained, the most colorful, the most no fixed framework, their understanding of things, the construction of objects, the development of the plot have their unique insights, the little head is full of many adult thinking incomparable imagination and originality, their thinking is unrestrained, free to fly.
However, in real life, often because we adults inadvertently monotonous, stereotypical education, such as the child’s every word and action, every move want to give a correct answer or a unified standard, the result of the child should be bound by the active thinking and strong desire to create, and let children gradually lose this valuable ability to cultivate opportunities.
So, how can we cultivate our children’s rich imagination and creativity? Well, it is not difficult to say.
Here are a few examples.
1. Listen to and look at nature: Get out of the house, take your child to green areas, parks, and the countryside, and let your child make full use of his senses to see, hear, smell, and touch the wonders of nature, while allowing his body and mind to fully relax in the blue sky and white clouds, green hills, and the fragrance of birds and flowers.
In the relaxing environment of nature, parents can lose no time in asking their children some small questions to guide them to observe, think and imagine, observing the rejuvenation of grass and the sprouting of trees in spring, and observing the yellowing of grass and the falling leaves of trees in autumn, etc. It is a good time to develop children’s divergent and creative thinking while playing and talking.
2.Sand game: Take your child to a park or amusement park or the beach where there is water and sand to play. Prepare water basins, small barrels, funnels, small shovels, small bottles, small boats, small ducks, toy houses, toy bridges, toy fish, etc.. Dad and mom should try to inspire, guide and assist the child in how to play, but do not ask the child to play according to your pattern.
You can use sand to pile up a small mountain, dig holes, open ditches, build bridges, build houses, plant trees and flowers, raise small animals, etc. For each creation of the child can let the child make his own explanation and instructions, so as to open the baby’s mind, develop his imagination and enhance his desire to create.
3, listen to music with your child: music is beautiful, music is also an abstract art. In the process of enjoying music, not only can appreciate the wonderful rhythm, but also with the ups and downs of music, but also can inspire the child’s perception and imagination. Such as the majesty of the march, the liveliness of the dance, the lullaby, the narrative of the cheerful and so on.
Mothers can often listen to music with their children to inspire them to think while listening, and they can also combine telling fairy tales and listening to narrative songs to inspire their children to feel certain connotations in music. In the process of listening to music for children, make sure to give them full freedom of movement and language, and encourage them to dance and perform while listening to music.
4.Let your child paint and draw: Let your child pick up a pen to paint and draw plays a very important role in developing your child’s imagination and creativity. Children drawing is the activity that best shows children’s imagination and creative ability. Give your baby a crayon and a blank piece of paper and let him play freely on it, although in the early years baby’s creations often do not make any sense, while after the age of 3, children begin to appear to draw consciously and with the highest interest and enthusiasm.
Although the drawing is not good but confident, draw this, and draw that, and like to color the illustrations in the book, to the book of close-up head on the body, these actions, fully demonstrated the child’s pursuit of beauty and desire to create. At this point, the mother can inspire her child to associate based on his limited experience, and it will make the picture richer and richer.
In the process of children’s painting, parents should not rush to make their children pursue adult things, such as allowing children to copy ready-made images, to the child copy like the standard, the results of doing so rather hinder the development of children’s creativity and imagination.
5, play house: let the child act as some small parents in the game, and dad, mom play house games. Performance in the family life of some daily activities, such as grocery shopping, cooking, medical care, etc., when the father and mother can envision some plot, let the baby to solve, so that the child not only learn a lot of life knowledge, but also inspired the child to use their brains, imagine the problems that may be encountered and the solution.