5 sensory stimulations help babies grow smart

Every parent is happy to see their baby grow smarter, but this requires parents to provide various stimulations in daily life to help the baby grow smarter. The following is a detailed analysis from the perspective of the five senses.

Vision

Preschoolers are in the enlightenment period of sensory development, which includes vision, hearing, touch, taste and smell. If babies are given sensory stimulation through appropriate interactions at this stage, it will help promote the development of sensory perception. Allowing babies to gain rich sensory experiences is an important key to their future growth and development.

To help the baby's visual development, parents can prepare various small dolls or toys, constantly move the dolls within the baby's field of vision, and use sounds to guide the baby's vision, training the baby to use both eyes to see moving objects.

In the first few months after the baby is born, parents can show the baby black and white pictures. Later, parents can prepare colorful building blocks, toys or color cards of different colors to let the child feel colorful visual stimulation.

When the baby is older, you can take him out to nature to help him get to know new people or see a variety of scenery. When guiding the baby to look at different people and things, parents can explain them to him at the same time, so that he can learn through vision.

Hearing

The baby's hearing is almost fully developed during the fetal period, so he can start using his hearing as soon as he is born.

The best way to stimulate your baby's hearing is for parents to talk to him, read stories and sing to him every day. Letting your baby often hear the most familiar voices can also help soothe his emotions and build a parent-child relationship.

In addition, parents can also choose to play some different music that the baby likes to listen to, but avoid too noisy and high-decibel sounds. Auditory stimulation is helpful for the baby's future language development.

Touch

The development of the sense of touch is fully developed at birth, and the baby gradually learns about the world around him through the experience of touch acquired later in life. The easiest way to stimulate the baby's sense of touch is to establish close skin contact with the baby, such as: holding, patting, caressing and massaging.

Studies have found that close skin contact between parents and babies can help calm babies and help their physical and mental development. In addition, frequent touch and massage stimulation can greatly help babies develop.

Parents can also prepare a variety of items, such as clay, seeds, cloth of different materials, or even mom’s hair or dad’s stubble, so that the baby can touch and experience the shape, hardness, size, weight and touch of the objects, allowing the baby to get different tactile stimulation while playing.

Taste

As the baby grows older, he or she will have more opportunities to try a variety of foods, but should still avoid foods that are too spicy or irritating.

Fruit and vegetable strips are the best foods for training your baby's taste buds. They can also be used as teeth fixers, allowing your baby to grind their teeth, promote tooth development, and recognize the taste of food.

Parents can prepare some fruits with special smells and tell the baby what the flavor is each time the baby tries one, such as sweet bananas and sour lemons. This will establish a relationship between flavors and objects and promote the baby's vocabulary development.

Smell

Fruits are also the best items to stimulate the baby's sense of smell. For example, put bananas, lemons, apples and other fruits with more aromatic smells close to the baby's nose and let the child distinguish the different smells of different fruits.

Occasionally, you can let your baby smell some unpleasant or irritating smells, such as the smell of medicine or detergent, but the mother needs to use facial expressions and words to tell the baby that this is a bad smell and let him understand that it is something that cannot be touched casually.