Is Your Baby Frustrated? Five Ways To Learn To Listen To Your Baby

By: Cinda Serafin

As new moms we can pick out our child’s cry from a room filled with babies. As our babies get older it may not be as easy to understand what they need and when they need it. Learning to understand how your baby communicates will help you meet his or her needs before a frustrating situation arises. Babies may give off communication cues as early as birth. These five tips will help you identify your babies attempt to communicate with you and also give you guidelines to help stimulate your baby’s language development.

From birth to four months newborn babies begin to learn the sounds of language. They are capable to learn any language but they will begin to tune into the sounds of Mom, Dad and family members. Educational baby toys and books, such as Baby Einstein’s Language Nursery Board Book, feature words in different languages which can stimulate baby’s language development when he hears the different language sounds. They can also discern voice tones. Babies at this age can tell the difference between happy, sad and angry voices. They also will react according to these voice tones. “Baby talking” to your newborn at this time is a great way to show your baby you are happy. Infants learn better when they hear you speak slowly and enunciate your words.

Babies at a very young age begin to discern the different sounds of language. They can tell the difference between their native tongue and other foreign languages. From five to seven months your baby will begin to gravitate to the language your family speaks. They will begin to imitate your native language through sounds and coos. Relating to your baby will become much easier if you can identify with these sounds. Listen carefully to them and watch your baby’s body language. You may begin to see a pattern between coos and body language. This is also the time your new baby will begin to understand the meaning of words so do your best to enunciate and point to objects that are familiar to your baby.

Eight to nine months your baby is beginning to explore. They are crawling and experiencing new things. This is a great time to teach your baby language principles. They begin to understand the meaning of the words, yes and no. Be sure when you are using these words, use clear-cut body language that goes along with the words. You may want to shake your finger back and forth when you use the word “no.” Nod your head up and down when telling your baby “yes.” He will soon understand the correlation between words and body language. This can be extremely valuable during these months when baby is getting himself into trouble and can’t freely express himself with words. Your baby may begin to use body language that you can discern.

At ten to twelve months your baby will begin talking. Educational toys and books that display and say words related to pictures are great for babies this age. Babies are naturally attracted to bright colors and strong textures. Giving them books with sounds can really help to stimulate their language development. This is also the time to stop the baby talk. If your baby points to an object she wants or is interested in, be sure to say the word of the object before giving it to her. It is also a good practice to make her tell you what she want before giving it to her instead of letting them point or grunt out their desires.

During your baby’s wonderful first year, he is much more able to show you than tell you his needs, wants, likes and dislikes. Follow these language guidelines to get you and your baby communicating with each other and you are sure to have a bond that is beyond words.

Here are a few great choices for educational baby toys to introduce to your baby at any age.

·Baby Einstein Interactive Books, CD’s and DVD’s. They all feature familiar sights and sounds to baby set to classical music or language words.

·Farm Friends Stacking Toy by Galt Toys. This educational toy features a soft pole and squeaky duck base, crinkle cat top, sqeaky pig ring , sheep rattle ring and cow jingle ring.

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Cinda Serafin is a contributing writer for the Parenting Resource section at Brown Eyed Baby Boutique , a leader in the educational baby toys and baby gifts industry.

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