Here is a list of 5 activities that aim to encourage your child’s cognitive, motor, and social/emotional development while respecting them as a unique individual.Set up your child’s space to be accessible. If your child is not yet mobile, place a few toys, such as our favorite egg shakers or stacking cups, just out of reach in their area either in a low basket or directly on the floor. This will encourage your child to move to get the toy they prefer. Watching your sweet little babe struggle to reach a toy can be hard-maybe even more for you than your child-I mean, all you want to do is just lend a helping hand! Offering choices gives your baby the opportunity to work on decision making skills and develop a sense of self as they choose which toy they want to play with and accomplish their goal of reaching it by themselves.Place a low <a href="https://www.tribu-box.com/en/our-boxes/maus">mirror</a> in your child’s space. At 6 months babies may begin pushing up on their tummy with straight arms. Using a low mirror in your child’s space will encourage them with their gross motor skills as well as work on their social/emotional milestone of exploring their own self in a mirror. Not to mention, we get to watch all those adorable faces and sounds they make! Watching your baby interact with themselves in a mirror will become your favorite pastime, believe me!Play back and forth games during face-to-face time such as copying what your baby does. If your little one smiles, then you smile. In this way your baby is learning to be social. You can also spend time making sounds by moving your mouth in different shapes for your baby to imitate. All those hours you spent as a kid making Star Wars alien sounds will finally pay off.Read, read, read! Did I mention reading to your child? Reading to a 6 month old doesn’t necessarily mean reading the words in the book cover to cover. That book will be pulled from your hands anyway, page lost. Try talking about the pictures, the feelings of the book, the characters and animals, the colors, counting the objects, really anything you can do to make a connection between the book and real life. By reading to your child often you are giving them more vocabulary and exposure to descriptive language. Remember, your child has an absorbent mind at this age and everything you say is building their language development.Spend time face to face with your child for language development. Around 6 months is such a fun time as your baby starts to make more sounds and babble, you know the whole ‘goo-goo gaa-gaa’ phase? Well, these sounds are an attempt to communicate with you, so try to respond with correct speech. We all have that moment when we hear ourselves saying ‘wawoo’ instead of ‘water’, that’s what we’re talking about here. Shoot for correct pronunciation. When your baby is babbling, your responses will stimulate them and they will continue to try to talk. It’s amazing the conversations you can have with a 6-month old! Sometimes you get even more of an answer than you do with your partner!As a first time parent, or even a second time parent, it can be easy to get caught up in comparing your little ones to their peers, or an older sibling, or all the babies of instagram! By trying to respect your child as the individual they are and letting them develop on their own timeline, you will find parenting to be more relaxing and pleasant as you work together with your child to achieve their own personal goals. Yes, we just said ‘parenting’ and ‘relaxing’ in the same sentence. By reading this article, you are already showing how committed you are as a parent, so pat yourself on the back before getting back to your little one.SourcesJennifer M. Zubler, MD. 2022, American Academy of Pediatrics website, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, accessed 13 July 2022.&nbsp; &lt;https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/149/3/e2021052138/184748/Evidence-Informed-Milestones-for-Developmental?autologincheck=redirected&gt;.Unicef Parenting 2022, United Nations Children’s Fund website, United Nations, accessed 13 July 2022. &lt;https://www.unicef.org/parenting/child-development/your-babys-developmental-milestones-6-months#:~:text=At%206%20months%2C%20your%20baby,yourself)%20for%20a%20mobile%20child?&gt;. &nbsp;

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