Babies invariably present their own sets of challenges even to experienced mothers and fathers. The best you can do is prepare yourself and enjoy the experience. Parent’s guide to managing the new baby.
How to play: Draw four to five circles in middle of a room in different colours. Start the music and ask the children to run around the circles. When the music stops, each child has to step in any one of the circles of his choice. An adult who is blindfolded calls out the colour… [ Continue Reading ]
Speech has its beginnings in the cooing and gurgling of the baby from the third month onwards. He vocalises more and more and makes all sorts of noises which mean nothing and yet his speech is developings all the time. By six months he is constantly babbling and one can discern some semblance to sounds… [ Continue Reading ]
Ameya’s parents were shocked. The doctor attributed the plump 12-year-old’s lack of concentration and attentiveness to malnutrition. How could a chubby-looking child from an upper class family be undernourished, they wondered? Obviously Ameya’s parents have mistaken their obese child to be healthy. And obese child usually grows up to become an obese adult. What are… [ Continue Reading ]
How to play: Ask the children to sit in a circle and let one of them start the game by saying aloud a name of a place which begins with the alphabet A. The person sitting on the right has to continue the chain by saying a name of another place beginning with the last… [ Continue Reading ]
It sometimes seems amazing how infants pick up the threads of human language. Do you wonder how infants form their own patterns of speech? According to a report in the Hindu newspaper, babies have an innate ability to track the patterns with which sounds or syllables appear together in adult speech. The report, which is… [ Continue Reading ]
By eight to nine months, the baby has more control over his legs and back and begins to creep or crawl. Some babies move around very fast on their buttocks, pushing themselves with their legs, so to speak. Others crawl on all fours and can go all over the house. This, of course, plays havoc… [ Continue Reading ]
Often, the grandmother picks up a one-week-old baby, holds him over a pot and makes hissing noises, quite convinced that the baby can be trained to pass urine in the pot! She is convinced that when she brought up her little babies, she never had wet napkins. There is no need to hustle these things… [ Continue Reading ]
Physical development Your child’s growth rate reduces in the second year of life. Don’t get worried if her appetite also declines. She must have started walking by the first year, though this is not a hard and fast rule. Highly active, fearless infants tend to walk earlier; less active, more timid infants and those preoccupied… [ Continue Reading ]
All you need is: 1. Spoons How to play: The number of spoons should be one less then the number of children playing. Spread all the spoons on the floor. When the music begins ask the children to crawl on the floor and when the music stops, they have to grab a spoon each and… [ Continue Reading ]
Theme: Mela Mention a village ‘mela’ or fair and see the glint in children’s eyes! After all, there is so much excitement about visiting different stalls, taking a ride on camels and horses and, of course, eating mouthwatering food. So why not create a mela ambience for the next children’s party, provided you have access… [ Continue Reading ]
While speaking of somebody with a visual impairment we would be referring to a person who is either partially...
Five ‘o’ clock. Time for the baby to go out. But as Arti Jaiman placed the baby in the...
Every home needs a first aid kit! It’s a bit like insurance: you hope you’re not going to need...
Last year, while holidaying in Europe, I conceived my first baby. I was not overjoyed, perhaps because both my...
Do you wonder why the shampoo that you have been using for the past five years suddenly makes your...
The most likely reason for milk drying up is the inhibition of the ejection reflex (the mechanism by which...
You often hear the phrase ‘balanced diet’ and its advantages, particularly for pregnant mothers and growing children. What does...
Many of us would waive an article of immunisation as irrelevant to us — the educated, fairly affluent members...
Children seem to grow at a fast pace and there comes a time when she seems ready for her...
My friend’s four-year-old daughter, Tania, loves the daycare centre she goes to. She enjoys the home environment, the laidback...
