Children can be smart with the five senses

 The first one year of age of your child is the period of absorbing, memorizing, and learning about the surrounding environments. Children absorb and imitate acts they learned only via their five senses. Parents must know and understand these senses in order to appropriately support their developments.

The 5 senses are important for the child’s first one year of age

Stimulation and support of developments are very important for the first year of age because children at this age cannot fully respond to actions. However, they can recognize and understand the actions. If good supports are provided for little children, such support will be important foundation for children’s development when they are 1-3 years old because this period is the best time for the brain’s cells growth and development. Supports of development via the 5 senses include eyesight, hearing ability, hand usage, scenting ability, and the tongue’s sense of taste.

Parents can support child’s development along the raise up of their children.

1. Have eye contact with your children  will help them to have some reaction because they can see the parent’s faces. Alternatively, playing hide and seek can well catch the children’s attention, helping them to learn about sighting and knowing that the mother is still around and she is not seen because she is hiding somewhere around there.
2. Talking with children. Although they cannot respond verbally, it does not mean that children do not wish to hear your voices. There are research indicating that children’s learning tends to be associated more with human’s voice than music, especially when children are 4-5 months old as they begin to remember the mother and recognize the voices of mother or familiar persons. So, parent should regularly talk to their children.
3. Allowing children to catch things will help their muscle developments. Parents should give them chances and supports to catch and grab things by themselves. Besides, children should be hugged regularly because they can feel the parent’s love through gentle touches, which helps good emotional development.
4. Learning from scents. Although children cannot initially distinguish the smells of things, their scenting sense starts to work. The more they learn of scenting sense, the better they can gradually distinguish types of scents whether they have good or bad smells, like or dislike. For example, they can remember smell of mother and her milk.
5. Tasting with no harm. Another nature of children in their first year of age is that they pick thing s up and put into their mouth. This is the way they learn via mouth-sensing. Parents should therefore take good care of safety and cleanness of things that children may put into their mouth.

However, there should be not too much worry so that children have no chance to learn things by themselves. What should be done include allowing children to grab food and feed themselves. This approach will help children to have development appropriate to their age as well as make them happy and satisfied with their ability to do things by themselves. So, this way supports children to build up their self esteem since they are very little.