Do you teach your baby? How?

[alloyd519]

So i've really been wanting to start teaching the girls things, such as new words for objects and so on. I get an extra push when we have family get togethers, my sister in law's daughter is 3 months older than my girls but just seems so much more advanced. I know that 3 months is a lot but it still bothers me!! My girls are doing great physically, both walking, ok no running! But I worry about them like mentally. They can say mama, dada, and baba, but that's it. And I read that babies their age should know the name of a favorite toy or point to objects they want, but they don't . . I know they're probably fine but teaching them things can't hurt!!

So my question to you is, do you teach your baby things? If so, how do you do it, and is there anything that works well that your LO's really like? I just have no idea how to even start teaching them things!! Thanks!!

 

[Serene123]

I started pointing at things and saying "what's that?" So far she can point, not expecting her to come out with "what's that?" for a while though!

All you can do is stimulate them and give them the oppotunity to pick things up. Your girls are not slow by any means x

 

[Bec L]

Not as such. But I do Baby Sign Language with Poppy so I do spend a lot of time showing her objects and trying to teach her the word and the sign for it. I also sit her on my knee facing me every day and we go through where Poppy's eyes/nose/ears/mouth are, and where Mummy's are.

Another thing I do without even really thinking about it is to count whenever we go up and down the stairs, or am doing the poppers on her clothes etc so she gets used to numbers.

No idea if any of this will help Poppy learn more quickly but it's worth a try!

 

[~KACI~]

First of all don't worry about you niece, your little girls were prem.
What about some picture books and just point out things.
Vtech laptops are brill!! I swear by them...kieran has learnt his whole alphabet from his.
Colours, do some paintings and stick them all on the walls?? Number posters for there room.

TBH i wouldn't start worrying just yet...just talking to them helps

 

[princess_bump]

i'm a bit like toria, i just constantly chat to her, show her things, and use all sorts of toys and make games. like today we was reading and i was pointing to all the animals in the book, and she was playing with it (its one of though plastic play book's with buttons etc) today i was quite impressed i gave her a toy, and it says 'let's phone the rabbit' and she said 'rab', i would just say by interacting with them your teaching them. don't put yourself down honey, your doing great

 

[mommyof3co]

I wouldn't really call it teaching, but I do repeat words to Hayden alot, he doesn't talk much but he signs alot. We do body parts, just names of food, talk about the food, like the color of it, texture. We really just talk alot to him, he will pick it up on his own time

 

[1st_baby]

I have been doing that since birth each and every time I do something I tell him ..
im going to change your diaper !
Or pewweww you stinky bum and he points at his bum lol
You want your milk? and show him the bottle (ne now points and says it)
he also calls the dog (chip) pip

each bub is different some will talk more some wont right away

 

[BurtonBaby]

Firstly, like Kaci said, your girls were preemie. Its normal for preemies to take a bit longer to do things, so them walking well is great! Also, babies all mature at different rates, and do different things. With Erica, we try to read to her a lot, and talk to her all the time. While trying to teach her something, we are very repetitive. Especially with words, we just repeat them to her all the time and she starts to pick them up. She says now, mama, dada, nana, gama, baba, byebye, da-e (doggie). She can wave byebye too, and give kisses when we ask for one. However refuses to take more than two steps on her own.
I know it can be hard, but try not to compare your girls to other kids. I keep getting pushy with Erica to walk, because my nephew who is 4 months older than her has been walking, but Erica is just better with other things.

 

[alloyd519]

Thank you girls for all the suggestions!! I know that each baby's different and does stuff on their own time but I just worry sometimes, which i'm sure a lot of you can understand! Since they were little i've always told them what were doing, like changing diaper, eating, etc. And i've been pointing out objects with their names and things like that so I guess there's really nothing else I can do but wait!!

I guess it's just one of those things they do with time!! But thanks for everything, makes me feel a lot better!!

 

[beckybumpbaby]

3 months in our ages is nothing but in a babys age is a huge amount of learning time, there is 4 months between my neighbours lil girl and my daughter and it seems like she is well ahead of her then when 4 months has gone my daughter is doing exactly what my neighbours little girl was doing 4 months ago, its quite cool actually as i can get prepared for what my little rascal will be getting into in 4 months time lol!! dont worry too much about things they will suddenly start talking and saying a new word every day and then you wish you hadnt taught them as it makes them seem sooo grown up! xx