Infant Activities
Infant activities boost brain power and encourage social skills. Imitation is a simple way to interact with your baby and encourage brain development. For adults, imitation can be the sincerest form of flattery. For babies, it is a learning tool.
First of all, according to Andrew Meltzoff, from the University of Washington Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences. “Babies are exquisitely careful people-watchers, and they’re primed to learn from others.”
Consequently, babies observe others and copy their body movements. This is how babies learn to hold a phone to their ear or a spoon to their mouth.
In the beginning, your face is your baby’s whole world. Babies can only focus on things that are between 8-16 inches from their face. Therefore, snuggle in close and try these fun copycat games.
Here are simple infant activities to encourage your baby to be a copycat:
- Make Funny Faces
- Smile Wide
- Wink Eyes
- Stick Out Tongue
- Raise Eyebrows
Therefore, these infant activities will improve vision, hearing, brain development and social skills. As a result, your baby will also learn how to give and receive attention!
Brain Boost With Infant Activities
A more recent study disagrees with Meltzoff. Professor Virginia Slaughter, a developmental psychologist at the University of Queensland says newborn babies do not imitate us, we imitate them. Her study suggests babies are not born imitators and need to learn the skill.
Professor Slaughter’s study reopens the long standing debate whether or not babies are born with the ability to copy adults. An interesting argument but most of all, infant activities encourage interaction and stimulate brain development.
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