Early Child Development

The Stage of Early Child Development

Executive Summary by Daniel D. Dwase

Early Child Development

During the first year of early child development your baby develops at an incredible rate, not just physically, but intellectually, emotionally, even socially. Your baby was born with a certain amount of reflexes, like sucking, grasping and crying. But within a few weeks of your infant's development she will become more and more efficient at these actions and gradually those reflex behaviors will be replaced by deliberate actions of sucking, grasping and crying. Your baby is learning that if she sucks, she will eat. 

It's interesting to note that at 4 months of age, your baby has yet to reach the stage of early child development known as 'object permanence'; so when an object is out of his sight he has forgotten about it (literally out of sight, out of mind). 

By around 8 months a baby will look for a toy he was playing with if it is taken out of his vision. This is why babies at this age love dropping toys and watching you pick them up! They have figured out that the toy has not disappeared when they drop it, and are thrilled to see it reappear! 

It is also at this stage of your baby's early stages of child development that she loves to play peek-a-boo. Parent's can test their baby's object permanence by sitting them in a high chair with a toy. If you drop the toy on the ground and she looks down for it, then she has grasped the concept of object permanence. If she doesn't look for it, then she is not quite at that stage of child development at the earliest stages yet.

There are lots of fun games to play with babies who are at this early child development stage. Let your 10 month old baby see you 'hide' her toy under a blanket. Babies at this stage also love to imitate the changes in your face. Stick your tongue out, and watch her imitate the action. 

Playing games like this with your baby is an excellent way to spend quality time as well as a way to help develop her grasp of object permanence.

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Toddler Behavior

Dealing With Toddler Behavior with Storytelling

Toddler Behavior

Toddlers are testing the waters. They are developing physically, intellectually and definitely emotionally.  

 Toddler behavior can be triggered by any one of these three structures:

- wanting to be independent

- being curious about everything around them

- anger developing into tantrums

Sometimes parents want to change toddler behavior and they don't know where to begin. Logic doesn't work very well with toddlers. There are many ways to change toddler behavior without resorting to the ineffective use of logic. I specialize in teaching parents how to use language patterns to create change in toddlers. But aside from language patterns, one method is to simply tell as story.

Story telling is as old as mankind. Everybody can relate to a story. A movie is just a motion picture version of a story (rather than being purely spoken words).

Toddlers respond beautifully to stories. If you craft your story effectively, it can have a wonderful hypnotic effect in terms of its ability to implant a message within your child's brain.

Here is a simple example: Let's pretend your child doesn't eat well at meal time but constantly wants to snack on junk food. You might naturally be tempted to explain the negative health consequences of not eating well. "This little boy would eat a lot of junk food during the day, but at meal time he would always refuse what his parents prepared for him. 

A few fine points that is important for telling stories:

1) Use plenty of detail so that your child is really engaged in listening. Make up parts of the story that you know will interest your child. 

2) Feel free to be really obvious about the point of the story. You don't need to make it subtle as you would if you were doing this to an adult.

3) Tell the story at a non-related time. So you wouldn't tell this eating story right at meal time. 

4) Do not explain it. Never (ever) explain the message in your story. Just trust the unconscious mind's ability to understand the message.

5) Use stories to help you create change over a period of time. Don't expect an instant change. If the change is big, then tell several related stories over a period of days. 

Storytelling works.

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Toddler Food

Toddler Food for the Picky Eater

Executive Summary by Peg Baron and Rae Glispin

Toddler Food

What comes to mind when you think of toddler food? If you think of prepackaged snacks or jars of chunky baby food in your grocery store's baby food isle, then think again. You want to have your child eat the same thing as the rest of the family most of the time, but there are other times when grown up food is neither appropriate nor the healthiest option.

There are times when you can get a little creative with your picky eater, especially at snack or lunch time. That's when toddler food is the best choice. Here are some general rules of thumb:

1. Toddlers like finger food.
Good finger foods are peas, carrots, bananas, sliced grapes, gelatin wigglers with fruit, green beans, natural all-meat hotdogs, hard cheeses, cream cheese wrapped in natural lunch meats and sliced, medium pasta shells stuffed with something, or small homemade granola wedges. Cut sandwiches into squares and triangles, and cut carrots into slivers.

2. Toddlers like to choose.
Give your toddler options, but not all the options. This works pretty good with the picky eater.

3. Toddlers like foods that come with cool names or good stories.

My kids were willing to try broccoli after my sister told them a story about broccoli trees. Try naming some of your toddler food, just for fun. Amanda's Amazing Apple Spread or John's Jumping Green Beans might be the perfect thing for today's menu.

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