1. Keeping your child healthy as a start for the brain.
- The development of a healthy brain can as well start from pregnancy.
2. Play with your child.
- Playing is a wonderful way to help a baby’s brain develop.
3. Comfort you child.
- Babies can feel stress. They will need to be cuddled and held.
4. Read to them. - Reading is known to be one of the best ways to promote a child’s brain development.
5. Turn up the baby talk.
- Respond to your child’s coos with delighted vocalizations.
6. Build up their love for their own body.
- Studies have shown that babies who are not often touched have brains that are smaller than normal for their age.
7. Give your baby a body massage.
- Massages can help lower your child’s stress levels and enhance their feelings. Loving touches even promote growth in young babies.
8. Enlist help from your toddler at clean-up times.
- This is a wonderful way to practice categorization.
9. Provide clear responses.
- A young, developing brain learns to make sense of the world if you respond to your child’s behavior in predictable, reassuring, and appropriate ways.
10. Use positive discipline.
- Create clear consequences without frightening or causing shame to your child.