As the old saying goes, walk by one and talk by two. At month 14, DD was already a confident walker and professional stairs-climber. As before, she began to figure ways to improve her speed or just wanted to try something different. We watched her explorations with great interests and threw in our two cents when needed. [......]

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Tags: baby training, month 14 | Baby Training, From Mommy, Second Year | mommy | September 11, 2009 12:56 pm | Comments (0)

Walking, the most challenging large motor skill, seemed to be an easy milestone for DD. Within one month, she could manage to walk by herself with no support or help. Walking enabled her more mobility and freedom. It also helps build confidence and independence. Her baby training this month concentrated on walking practice, but also included language training and cognitive cultivation. [......]

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Tags: baby training, month 13 | Baby Training, From Mommy, Second Year | mommy | August 11, 2009 9:30 am | Comments (0)

Life seemed speed up for DD. After she learned to crawl, within two months, she mastered a series of large motor skills from crawling, pulling herself up to a standing position, climbing upstairs and downstairs, cruising, to the most challenging one—walking. This month’s baby training offered her exercise and practice she needed for standing alone momentarily and, eventually, putting one foot in front of the other. [......]

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Tags: baby training, month 12 | Baby Training, First Year, From Mommy | mommy | July 7, 2009 3:48 pm | Comments (0)

At 11 month, DD’s training shifted from mastering her fine motor skills to exercising larger muscles. We taught her to climb upstairs and downstairs, encouraged her to cruise while holding onto furniture, and allowed her to crawl excitedly from one room to another. She began to taste the fun of being mobile and independent. [......]

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Tags: baby training, month 11 | Baby Training, First Year, From Mommy | mommy | June 11, 2009 11:17 am | Comments (0)

At 10 month, DD continually scrambled out of sight. Nothing made her happier than discovering hidden pots and pans inside drawlers, unloading clean knives and forks from the dishwasher, taking a peek inside the mysterious refrigerator, tearing Daddy’s favorite painting which used to be out of her reach, or dropping a spoon from the highchair over and over again. And if I was not stifling the urge to say “no!”, I would find myself stuck in her tossing or dropping game. Yes, at this age, it looked more like DD was training me rather than the opposite way. [......]

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Tags: baby training, month 10 | Baby Training, First Year, From Mommy | mommy | May 8, 2009 9:20 am | Comments (0)

Most 9-month-old babies are confident crawlers and continue making major gains in development. DD was no exception. She moved swiftly to the next step and began practicing pulling herself up and even cruising. Although interrupted by her one-week sickness, her baby training this month still helped exercise her muscle and brain to reach the next milestone. [......]

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Tags: baby training, month 9 | Baby Training, First Year, From Mommy | mommy | April 8, 2009 4:44 pm | Comments (0)

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. [......]

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Tags: baby training, month 8 | Baby Training, First Year, From Mommy | mommy | March 7, 2009 1:13 pm | Comments (0)

Each baby is a unique individual and meets his/her milestone at his/her own pace.

During month 7, DD started to expand her attention-getting repertoire to include more than crying. She blew “raspberries” and babbled, sat and stood with support, objected when her favorite things were taken away, worked to get a toy that was beyond her reach, passed a toy from one hand to the other, and sometimes picked up tiny objects with her thumb and fingers. Her baby training in this month emphasized on more crawling, sipping, simple principle and language trainings.[......]

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Tags: baby training, month 7 | Baby Training, First Year, From Mommy | mommy | February 10, 2009 1:04 pm | Comments (0)

At month 6, DD was using all her senses to explore and learn about this world. I encouraged her doing so by giving her opportunities to see, listen, smell, and touch in various and different ways. Her body also grew stronger in preparation for crawling. Her baby training this month emphasized on hand cooperation, new experience exploring and crawling. [......]

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Tags: baby training, month 6 | Baby Training, First Year, From Mommy | mommy | January 10, 2009 12:59 pm | Comments (0)

The development of a baby proceeds in a head to foot direction. At this age, as other typical five-month-old, DD was full of curiosity about her surroundings and was eager to figure it out. Her fingers were getting more and more dextrose. She also began to show a strong attachment to us by preferrin[......]

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Tags: baby training, month 5 | Baby Training, First Year, From Mommy | mommy | December 5, 2008 2:12 pm | Comments (0)