How can I help my baby crawling

Learning to crawl is a key milestone in your baby's life.

Your baby will have already learnt to sit without support and roll; crawling is the next step. If you look at most formal developmental milestone and learning scales, you may find that crawling is left off of them. This is due to the wide range of times and methods babies may use to learn to crawl.

At about six to eight months most babies will learn to balance on their hands and knees. Babies work out how to move forwards and backwards from this position by pushing off with the knees. However some children never crawl because they get comfortable with some other method of locomotion. Instead they bottom shuffle, slither on their tummies or go straight to walking. It does not matter how your baby gets around, it is getting mobile that is important.

Crawling is your baby's first way of getting around by himself, it strengthens the muscles in preparation for walking, ensuring arm, leg, and back muscles are strong enough to keep him from falling on the floor.

However if you notice that your baby is not crawling, you really don’t need to worry about it so much, because remember every child is different, some of them will crawl before the 9th month, some after, some will skip that step and will start walking, however when that happens at some point they will crawl.

There’s nothing you can really do to make your baby crawl, but there’re some exercises you can do encourage and help the baby to crawl.

Putting your baby on the floor, face down, once the baby is able to keep his head up or sit, is an exercise you can do, also you can put yourself in front of the baby with some toys that he or she likes and encourage the baby to move forward.

It’s only a matter of time and patience, but is not the big deal, since learning to crawl or problems with crawling is not listed on the doctor’s chart as a problem in the development.

Building Math sense in your kids

What is math sense and why would you want to build it? Math sense refers to the general understanding of mathematics. Kids who have good number sense see patterns and relationships in numbers easily. Kids who struggle with numbers probably have poor Math sense as well. Is your child stumped over understanding that 2+3 is the same as 3+2? Spending some time just working on building Math sense might just help you!

Math is everywhere: Talk about numbers and their real world contexts. While you might not use your geometry or algebra that your teachers swore you needed, you do use math every day. Recipes, schedules, even decorating your house by hanging pictures in a pattern ALL are mathematical thinking. The more you talk about ideas with your child, the better their number sense will be. The more they see numbers as a natural thing, the more comfortable they will feel working with numbers.

Play: Yes, play with your kids, you can find math games than can help kids understand better some basic equations and not feel afraid of going to the next level or do more difficult problems. t doesn't have to be a formal lesson. . .just allowing your child to play is a good start.

Learning some science

Our society has changed dramatically over the last fifty years, driven by advances in science and technology. Children are getting older younger and adults are staying younger longer. Children’s time is so tightly scheduled with structured activities that there is often no time left to just play! There are so many intrusions on a child’s play life. And yet, play is the way children learn about themselves and the world. It is through play that children learn to get along with others and to sort out conflicts. It is through play that children practice their language skills and develop their small (fine) and large (gross) motor skills. In addition, play encourages independence, self-esteem, creativity, and it gets their energy out! It gives children a much needed “down time” and functions as a stress reliever. One of the concepts that your toddler can learn playing is science, and with this human body cast and paint kit it’s an original way for them to start learning anatomy and have fun either with their friends or with the parents and you can be sure that what they learn through the play is never forgotten.

Keeping the baby active.

The first months of babies are crucial for their correct development, at this age (from 0 to 24 months) is when it’s important to detect any problem that the baby could have, either with the muscles, vision, hearing, etc. and by doing certain activities you can note any problem and take him to the paediatrician for proper treatment on time, a way to know if your baby is developing the sight properly is by having colorful toys around him or her, babies are attracted from toys with the primary colors and with those toys you can do the following exercise:
1. put the baby on his back or sitting if he is big enough and already can sit.
2. put the toy in front of his sight and slowly move the toy from right to left and vice versa, the baby should follow the movement of the toy, if he doesn’t then it’s a sign that maybe you should talk to the paediatrician.
Also having toys with sounds will help you, when you press a horn or a button the baby should stop whatever he is doing and move the head or eyes to the direction of the sound, you can find soft toys that are suitable for babies of any age, that has bright colors and sound, and you can put your baby on the floor or on the bed, or in the crib and do these exercises every day to check his development.

Things your toddler can learn playing

Are you worried about the time that your toddler spend playing? Well, don’t worry that is the way the learn better, here are a few facts that I will share with you, so you can be sure and feel relax the next time that you see your child playing.
Playing with toy trains: playing with toy trains teach him or her basic life lesson, like how to follow road signs like stop and go s well as learning to recognize important buildings like churches, schools, fire stations, among others.
Building blocks and building toys: Playing with building blocks sets help develop a child's mind for logic, structure, math, architecture, and helps a child become process oriented. Playing with building blocks also helps to develop his mind for the slow, tedious, process oriented work, it can also lead to a future in robotics.
Play kitchens: Every preschooler, boys and girls alike, should have access to a play kitchen For safety in play, it would not hurt to have a play kitchen. Some of the things your preschooler can learn in the kitchen are cooperative play (with friends and family), nutrition lessons, and early cooking skills like measuring and mixing ingredients.

For fun and learn

Derek is my 7 years old son, and he is so curious about so many things, but of course, he is in that age that his favorite questions are “why?” and “what is this for?” but is part of the learning process and I’m so happy with him and be able to be with him and live that process with him, he has part of the Alphabet dominated and his teacher told me that he likes to try to spell words and write; he has a small table that it was in first place for him to practice the alphabet since it has several games that teach the alphabet and is themed with the ABC and has figures of animals and the letter, so he could start recognizing some letters; but now it turned out that is the table to do everything, homework, watch TV, etc., but what I’m really amazed is that kids grow so fast, I remember like if it was yesterday when he was born, like my new year’s gift, and now he is adding up, spelling, writing, and thanks to the advices of other moms to try to make every game a learning experience; since he is my first son, I had no idea of what could be good or bad, and 8 years ago it was impossible for me to think that educational toys could be fun, but sometimes I feel afraid that he’s growing really fast.

Bedwetting in toddlers

Bedwetting is an involuntary urination while asleep, urinating on the bed could be uncomfortable and humiliating, specially for older kids, besides that, because of that fear of urinating on the bed some kids avoid sleeping over at friend’s houses or camps, blocking the normal social life development of the child.
Boys has more probabilities of suffering for this problems than girls, and without the proper treatment this can last until puberty.
There could be many reasons why a child urinate on the bed, among them we have:

• Slower development of the nerves that controls the bladder and a bladder with less capacity.
• Also it could be symptom of a serious problem like diabetes or a urinary infection.
• Problems to wake up due to a deep sleep.
• Psychological causes: birth of a new baby, divorce or separation of the parents, a death in the family, physical or sexual abuse.

When the cause is psychological, this is a secondary problem, it means, it happen after the kid was able to stay dry during the night. when this problem is primary, on the contrary, the kid have never been dry for a whole night. Most likely this cause could be due to medical reasons or slower growing or reduced capacity of the bladder.
When is necessary to go to the doctor?
Is the kid drinking an excessive amount of liquids, urinates more than normal during the day or night and also shows other symptoms like fatigue, appetite increase and weight and itching on the genital area? In case that this is affirmative, take the child to the doctor.

The kid has fever, abdominal pain, or burning sensation when urinating? In case that this is affirmative, take him to the doctor.