3 Tips To Stimulate Your Baby’s Memory
To stimulate your baby’s memory, all you have to do is be a loving mother and participate in your child’s growth. Do you want to know how to do it? Take a good look at the following tips.
Your baby’s intelligence
Children have a “malleable” intelligence that is able to change shape. During their development, the child goes through various types of intelligence until they reach adult form.
The time from birth to the second year of life is characterized by great intellectual development. During this time the child learns to walk, talk and think about non-existent objects.
“One who is intelligent learns from the experience of others.”
-Voltaire-
The Piaget theory
Jean Piaget’s theory is that children go through certain stages depending on their intellect and their ability to perceive mature relationships. These stages of child development take place in a fixed order in all children and in all countries.
When babies or children interact with others at an early age, they cannot yet show empathy as they do as adults, nor do they have “self-centered thinking”. During childhood there is a natural cognitive development, they “learn to think”, that is, they learn to interact with the world in which they live.
Piaget describes the stage from the newborn baby to two years as the “stage of sensorimotor intelligence”. The child’s development is characterized by the child’s understanding of the world, coordinating sensory experiences with physical activity. At this stage there is progress through the innate reflexes.
What can we do to promote the development of intelligence in the sensorimotor intelligence stage?
- Circular reactions. When a baby repeats the same random behavior it is called a circle reaction. As parents, we need to incorporate changes into the circle reactions. In this way the baby will see changes occur and learn to explore.
- Let him explore different objects and toys so that he can learn about things that do not belong to his body.
- Hide objects. Show him a toy and hide it, then show the child how to find the hidden object. Repeat the game, but now let it find the object.
Do you know the Tomatis Method?
The method is based on re-education of the ear to improve people’s learning and general development.
It is a music therapy based on hearing:
- Certain high frequencies
- Compositions by Mozart
- Gregorian chants
- The mother’s voice as heard in the womb.
By developing the perception of the ear, learning and communication are stimulated, and motor skills and balance problems are improved.
The advantages of this method
- An improvement in mood
- Greater resistance to fatigue
- Memory capacity improvements
- More focus
- Good creativity
- Feeling of calm
3 tips to stimulate your baby’s memory
1. The connection with your baby
The brain is programmed to seek security, and if it doesn’t feel safe, it cannot learn. This is why it is so important that your baby feels safe. To do this, you can do the following:
- Make skin contact with your baby from birth.
- Spend as much time with the baby as possible without doing anything else.
- Massage your baby whenever you can.
- Talk to your baby all the time.
- Always carry your child in your arms.
2. The evocation memory
After ten months, a baby can find an object that was hidden seconds before. Evocation memory consists in being able to remember things that are completely absent. At this stage of our baby, the ability to symbolize is already consolidated, which is characteristic of humans and enables our intellectual and cultural development.
After a year, when the child can find things they have not seen in a long time and begins to speak, it is possible that the child will find objects that are not visible. The memory has already expanded.
3. Sing songs
We have to keep singing a lot of songs to our children. As we repeat the melody, the children internalize it and help them relax and calm down. Melodies stimulate the child’s memory.
When they’re a little older, you can use this technique to make up stanzas with content that you want the little ones to memorize.
You can start with simple topics so that the child can remember their parents’ address or phone number to use in an emergency.
