Experts offer the following six tips to encourage your baby’s development:
- Be encouraging. Let your baby explore new places, people, and things. Exposing your baby to new experiences and being excited with her as she learns new things will encourage growth.
- Be excited. Celebrate when your baby learns new skills and abilities. Be excited by the quirks and differences in your baby that make her a unique individual.
- Communicate. Talk to your baby regularly. Tell her what you are doing as you make a meal or fold the laundry. If she coos or babbles back, acknowledge her and let her know that she is being heard.
- Stay focused. Help your baby practice new skills until she has mastered them. Support her when she works to use what she knows in new environments.
- Provide the Right Environment. Provide an environment where your baby is safe, loved, and not subject to inappropriate disapproval.
- Demonstrate proper behaviour. Set limits and teach what is and is not correct. Help your baby understand the unwritten rules of behaviour by modeling them in your everyday life.
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