Most eight-month-old babies are busy babies. So was DD. She was busy practicing creeping and crawling, busy learning the names and benefit of her every day food, busy exploring the specific functions of her surrounding world, busy mastering the dexterity of her chubby little fingers and hands, and busy excising her muscle for the next breakthrough. Her baby training in this month helped her busy in achieving all these goals.
1. More crawling: The same as last month, I encouraged DD to crawl, crawl, and crawl.
2. What are you eating? This month, I introduced DD a variety of solid foods, covering grains, vegetables, fruits and meat. Every time before I let her taste the cooked food, I told her what she was eating, what nutrition it contains, and what benefit it would bring to her.
With fruits, first I showed her the fruit, told her the name of the fruit, let her smell and touch it, and then let her taste the fruit after it was mashed, peeled or grinded.
3. What is this for? I began to show DD the specific functions of things around her. For example, when I made phone calls, I used the speaker phone function so that she could hear the conversation between me and M.
I told her “This is telephone. It is a communication tool that enables people to communicate when they are in different places. With telephone, mommy can talk to daddy even he is not here. Listen, daddy is talking to you. Say ‘hi’ to daddy.” And M would say “hi” to us. DD got quite excited by hearing the voice of M via the phone. She babbled happily to the phone and tried to grab it and pushed buttons.
Another example, whenever she tried to grab my glasses, I would tell her “this is mommy’s glasses. They enable mommy to see well. Without glasses, mommy cannot see clearly and cannot take care of you. You should learn this lesson from mommy and always takes good care of your eyes. Mommy will help you.”
4. Precision hand-eye maneuver: At her age, DD could easily use her fingers to rake up a piece of food and hold it with her fist closed. She was also beginning to master her pincer grasp with greater precision, for an instance, by picking up my fallen hair with her thumb and index finger. Since my shed hair scattered the house everywhere, she found plenty of opportunities in training herself this delicate maneuver.
5. Standing by herself: I began to pull DD up to a standing position when she was three month old. She loved to stand on my lap or daddy’s tummy. Now I began to let her stand by herself by holding the edge of her playpen. And I loosely circled my hand around her torso in case she fell, collapsed or wanted to be helped down. She liked this exciting change and was happy to look around. It is a good muscle building excise preparing for her next breakthrough.
Relevant posts:
Baby training, month 7
Baby training, month 6
Baby training, month 5
Baby training, month 4
Baby training, month 3
Baby training, month 1-2
Baby Training, First Year, From Mommy | mommy | 
March 7, 2009 1:13 pm | 
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