Babies are born 1-2 months old with a grip reflex. When you touch your baby’s little hand with a toy that he can hold, he will hold his hand tighter, and if you put the toy in his hand, the baby will firmly grasp it and will not let go. This conditioned reflex will last 1-2 months with the normal development of the nervous system and will disappear. During this time, parents can make some grasping ability training for their babies. Birth ~ 2 months Little babies are born with the ability to grasp reflexes, you touch the baby’s little palm with your fingers, he will curl up the little fingers to hold your fingers. But until your baby is 8 weeks old, these actions are only instinctive and involuntary. During this time, your baby’s little hand will remain a clenched fist most of the time, but he will soon begin to consciously practice opening and closing it, and studying his little hand. He may even try to grasp something soft, like a stuffed toy. 3 Months At this stage, your baby still can’t grasp exactly what he wants, but he can pat the toy over and over again. Your baby’s hand-eye coordination is also improving, and he will stare at the object he wants to hold and try to reach it. You can put play mats on the floor so that your baby can lie on the soft mat and hit the fun toys hanging in front of him. Training Classroom: Open baby’s hand When baby is full and happy, you can gently break baby’s thumb, then open the fingers together, close them, and open them again, talking and singing while doing so. When holding your baby’s fingers, it is best to open them one by one and then close them one by one, remember to gently stroke your baby’s fingers at the same time. Stimulate the grasping reflex In order to stimulate your baby’s grasping reflex, you can put a toy or a brightly colored object where your baby can reach and encourage him to grasp it, but don’t put it too far away so that he doesn’t feel frustrated and discouraged because he can’t grasp it. You should also prepare more things for your baby that are easy to grasp. Massage to strengthen the grip mom can do finger massage exercises for the baby every day. Massage parts can be the back, abdomen and sides of the fingers, but the focus is on the fingertips, because the fingertips are covered with sensory nerves, is the most sensitive part of the senses, massage fingertips to stimulate the development of the cerebral cortex. Massage each finger back to two 8 beats, 1 to 2 times a day. 1 to 3 months old babies especially like to look at their own hands, play with their own hands, sucking their own hands, which is the inevitable stage of the baby’s psychological development, so the mother can not interfere, and should also provide conditions to assist the baby to play with their hands, for example, hands tethered to a red cloth, wearing a clattering bracelet, etc.. But pay attention to the cleanliness of the baby’s hands. 4 to 8 months At 4 months old, your baby can grasp large objects, such as blocks. He can’t grab small things like peas yet, and that will have to wait until his fingers develop more dexterity to do so. When your baby is close to getting his first teeth (usually between 3 and 12 months), he will start to grab things everywhere and put them in his mouth. If your baby is eating complementary foods, he will try hard, although he can’t hold the spoon very steadily yet. Your baby can paddle and pull things in his own direction and will also start to switch things from one hand to the other. From this point on, it is best to put all valuables out of reach and to ensure a safe home environment: to prevent your baby from choking on small objects. 9-12 months Now your baby can pick things up easily. By this time, your baby is showing a preference for left or right handedness, but you won’t know for sure if he’s left-handed until he’s two or three years old. Babies are still perfecting the action of pinching objects, i.e., using their thumbs and index fingers to pinch up small objects. As your baby’s coordination improves, he will soon be able to eat fairly adeptly with a spoon and other utensils, although he may prefer to hold the spoon in one hand and actually use the fingers of the other hand to grab things to eat. Situations you need to worry about If your baby still doesn’t seem interested in any of the toys you put in front of him by 8 weeks of age, and by 9 months, isn’t trying to touch or grasp the toys, talk to your doctor. Babies born prematurely may learn these skills later than children of the same age, and your doctor will provide you with a reasonable time frame. Training Classroom 1. Train your baby to divide the five fingers for grasping. When babies first start to develop a conscious grasp, they usually only use their entire palm to grasp, so parents can teach their children to learn to grasp with their thumb and the other four fingers in opposition to each other in order to train the five fingers to divide the grasp. For example: the 4-month-old baby can get the toy that makes a sound in front of the child for him to grasp; at 5 months, let the baby practice grasping the toy beside him or in front of him, and then later train the child to play with the toy or object with both hands and practice changing the toy into his hand. Through this grasping practice, to promote eye and hand coordination action (that is, the child can follow the line of sight to grasp what they see) the development. 2, training children in accordance with the different shapes, sizes or positions of objects, changing the posture of the hand to grasp the skills. For example, when holding a ball, let the baby cross the five fingers to grasp; take something like a string or rope to train the child’s ability to grasp with the thumb, index finger and middle finger tips. Assessing the classroom: 4 months old At 4 months, babies have an unconscious grasp of things. It may be possible to simultaneously extend both arms toward an object and grasp it with both hands. When babies see colorful and interesting toys, they may kick and stomp their legs and feet and drool to grasp them with their hands. 6 months old baby From 6 months, baby can consciously control the reach, at this time baby can use both hands to grasp objects, or the object between the fingers and palm, but the flexible control ability is not strong. However, this time the baby can distinguish the size of the object, and can open the hand according to the size of the object. 8-month-old baby Your baby’s grip is becoming more precise. At 8 months, your baby can hand you objects, but has not yet learned how to let go and how to give them to you. Being able to do this in its entirety must come after 1 year of age, when your baby may enjoy deliberately letting things fall from a high place or from a cart. 10 Months By the 10th month, babies begin to learn manipulative skills and can squeeze, tap, slide, poke, rub, tap and hit on objects. Babies explore everything with their hands and can accurately put most solids into their mouths, such as feet, fingers, plastic toys, or lids. Babies over 1 year old By the time your baby is 1 year old, he will no longer like to put things in his mouth. This is also when the baby has learned – some social skills and can use his hands to say goodbye to others. By the age of 2, his artistic talents will be revealed and he will be fascinated by crayons, figuring out how to use them to write and draw. By the age of 3, your baby’s coordination will be able to try to write, and he may even be able to write his own name …… Training Classroom: How to Help Your Baby Learn Other Skills To stimulate your baby’s grasp reflex, you can place a toy or a brightly colored object within reach and encourage him to grasp it, but don’t Don’t put it too far away so that he doesn’t get frustrated and discouraged by not being able to grasp it. You should also prepare more things for your baby that are easy to grasp, such as rattles, plastic rings, cardboard books, and so on. When your baby starts to practice pinching things, encourage him to grab soft foods that he can eat with his hands, such as peas and cooked carrots. Until he learns to use a spoon, grasping food with his hands is completely “civilized”. To prevent your baby from choking, it is best not to let your baby get nuts, raw carrots, and other foods that cannot be dissolved in water. 1, learning origami 2-year-old baby has been able to fold the paper on 2 to 3 folds, but not yet folded into a regular shape. 2.5 years old, the baby can fold the paper into a basic neat corner of the square. 3 years old, under the guidance, can be folded square, rectangle and triangle, and even a puppy head, etc.. 2, learning to scribble 1-year-old baby can use the entire palm of the hand to hold the pen on the paper to poke out the point or draw the pencil, 2 to 3 months later can use the pen on the paper randomly scribble, about 1.5 years old can draw the road, but before the age of 2, there are few “controlled” scribble. The main goal of learning to use a pencil at this stage is to develop an interest in drawing with a pencil and to master the correct pencil grip. After 2 years of age, when your baby is proficient with a spoon, you can learn to use chopsticks. You can start by practicing with toy chopsticks, for example, while playing a game of “play house”. Once your baby is able to pick up larger objects, you can let him eat with chopsticks just like mom and dad, without fear of spilling the food on the table, as long as he can get it to his mouth. Good grasping ability is a basic quality and a prerequisite for learning any particular skill. The level of operating ability often determines how quickly, accurately and firmly the baby learns the skills and the level that can be reached in the future, so the mother must pay attention.