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BUT before you buy any of those, you may want to ask: Do they work ? Do educational baby toys really make a baby smarter ?
I am glad to tell you that yes .....THEY WORK !!
Research has shown that baby educational toys give the baby's brain a head start. By having a good brain to start with, hopefully your baby will grow to be a smart person.
By the way, do you want to know why educational infant toys are so powerful ?
Let's first see how the baby's brain develops during infancy.
It is known that the brain grows more during infancy than at any other time, doubling its volume and reaching approximaely 60% of its adult size by one year.
As the brain grows, nerve cells called neurons, which resemble electrical wires, rapidly proliferate. The infant is born with much of the wiring unconnected. During the first year, these neurons learn to work better and connect up to each other to make circuits that enable baby to think and do more things. Every baby's new experience and interaction with the caregiving environment will add some more connection on the baby's brain.
The bottom line is:
- The more stimulation your baby has,
- the more nerve connection your baby makes.
- The more nerve connection your baby makes, the better the brain develops.
- The better the brain is ... the smarter the baby is.
In order to optimize the nerve connection your baby makes, baby needs to be stimulated via its five senses: hearing, seeing, tasting, smelling, and touching.. This is when baby educational toys come into play.
These toys are designed exactly for that. They are designed to provide a multi-sensory stimulation. You will soon find that:
.....Baby Educational Toys + Attentive Care Giver (you !!) = Smart Baby .....
Let's see in details how baby educational toys can stimulate your baby.
1. Sight.
Research has shown that baby's eyes are immature at birth. Since they have trouble focusing, babies, especially the newborn, can only focus on contrasting color with black and white as the favorite. Later on they enjoy bright primary colors. The developers of baby educational toys know exactly that babies need contrasting color and bright primary color for them to look at. It's not surprising that all infant educational toys have bright colors. (Click here to read tips on how to do infant visual stimulation in fun ways)
2. Tactile.
Touch is an important sense for your children well into the preschool years. Fiddling is endemic in children. If it is there, they will touch it. Therefore, introducing different kinds of textures to a baby will stimulate its touching sense. You will find that baby educational toys have different textures for a baby to touch and explore.
3. Sound.
Although baby's hearing is immature, infant can actually respond to sounds. In fact, music can help soothe the baby during uncomfortable times. In addition, some research have found that exposure to classical music can help the brain to develop, a phenomenon called the Mozart Effect. In response to this finding, some baby educational toys manufacturers quickly incorporated classical music to their toys.
In short, educational baby toys should have these following features:
- have bright primary colors to see
- have different texture to touch
- have different sound to hear.
As a parent, I find that not all toys available in the market are designed this way.
So, why waste your money buying ordinary baby toys ?
Use your hard-earned dollar to buy only the best for your baby -- the infant educational toys.
By the way, do you to know what kind of toys your baby should have ?
Then read these articles:
Guide to the Best Developmental Infant Toys for Babies 0-6 months
Guide to Baby Developmental Toys for Infant 6-12 months
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