![]() It has everything to do with you, your time and level of engagement.Ĭarlota Nelson is the director of Brain Matters, a groundbreaking feature documentary about early brain development in children. Before filming began, Carlota spent eight months researching early childhood development with the world’s leading neuroscientists and members of the early childhood development community.Your employee may be eligible for DI if they: ![]() Giving your child the best tools for future success has nothing to do with money or extravagant learning resources. Include these five critical behaviours in your day and you’ll dramatically improve your baby’s chances to thrive in the future. The way you act around your baby shapes the person they will become. By watching your body language, how you treat others or how you react to a challenge, babies will adopt these attitudes and actions themselves. Until they talk, they become experts at reading faces and non-verbal attitudes and learn to mimic them. They pick up on everything they see you do. Research shows that makes children feel less important.īabies are genius impersonators. Avoid being on your device in front of your child too often. What seems like just fun is actually very important work. Take play seriously because play is serious learning. When they imagine new worlds, young children are learning to problem solve and create new possibilities. Engaging in imaginative free play, like pretending a toy train can travel through space, sparks creativity and language as they learn to verbally express their ideas. When they play with others, they’re learning to compromise and take turns. Make-believe play allows them to experience what it’s like to be someone else and understand others’ feelings. When they play, they’re building important life skills. Young children are learning all the time. Making faces that show different emotions is a great way to teach emotional intelligence. Count and sort laundry to teach maths and play with food ingredients and textures to promote scientific thinking. Narrate what you are doing to stimulate language. Whether it’s bath time, sorting laundry, cooking or running errands, these activities are great learning moments. Use everyday experiences as learning opportunitiesįor babies, each life experience is all about learning. Remember, leaders are readers, so why not start early?ģ. Reading to babies not only exposes them to new words but also creates a love for books and reading. Simple questions like “what are they wearing?” and “how many are there?” will engage your child’s language skills. Make sure to point to the pictures in the book and ask questions about the story and the characters. Every time you read out loud to your baby, you are building language skills. Even at 3 months of age, they can distinguish each sound used in every language in the entire world. Read to your baby to exercise languageīabies might not be talking or reading yet but they’re born ready to learn. The number of words a baby is exposed to will determine the amount of words in a child’s vocabulary at age 2 and a child’s reading levels later. Take baby babble seriously and encourage it.Ģ. Parents should respond to baby’s sounds, cues and actions and engage with them throughout the day. Early childhood development scientists say we should stimulate baby talk and treat it as real conversation. The sounds and gestures that babies make might not always seem like much, but it’s their only form of communication. Stimulate baby talk and treat it as real conversation The good news is there are many ways parents can stimulate their babies’ brains and use day-to-day events as exceptional learning opportunities.Ĭarlota Nelson, director of the documentary Brain Matters, shares five easy, effective and science-backed tips that will help set your baby up for future success.ġ. Parenting is considered one of the most difficult jobs in the world, but there’s no formal education available on how to parent successfully.
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