Meals can be the right time to help your baby realize how actions are bringing about. This game is especially useful when your baby doesn't seem excited, tired and refuses to eat food during her mealtime.
Suitable age: 9 months - 2 years old
Developmental skills: This 9-month-old baby game will help babies to be aware of causes and results of things and phenomena; at the same time stimulates the baby's enjoyment of eating.
Need to prepare: A stuffed animal or doll and baby spoon.
There will be days when children "refuse" their meals, mothers let them play games with them so they can learn, play and stimulate their eating habits
How to play:
In case the baby starts to feel uncomfortable, stubbornly refuses food when you feed, mother should enlist the help of cute "friends" that she likes like dolls or stuffed animals, ...
Place the doll on the table and explain to your baby that: Today, there will be a special friend serving baby meals. Mom hold the spoon in the doll's hand and let this special guest feed.
In addition, the mother can also place the doll next to the baby, take care of both and announce that she will feed the baby and the guests one by one. Or when your baby is a little older, can learn to hold a spoon, let him feed "you" the doll with his own spoon.
Take care of your baby's sleep: Have you made a mistake? Sleep plays a very important role for children, especially babies. Children getting enough sleep will develop both intellectually and mentally. But is the mother making some of the following mistakes when taking care of her baby's sleep?
Surely, Mom will be very surprised at the service results that the guest brings to your baby's meal! However, mothers remember to pay attention to clean toys before and after playing, can choose items that are easy to clean, easy to wash.
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