Interview LIDIA JUDICIARY educators and leaders of the House of motherhood and her article on the game.
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During the first year of life, the child uses, in particular, two senses: touch el'oralità (taste), are two directions already well developed at birth is because they have been used already in utero is that they are related to basic instincts of survival (and sucking cling to things). The material to play from 0 to 12 months must take account of this important information to suit the needs of the child. In the early months when the baby still does not touch and consciously takes the objects and the location will be the back, are suitable objects that can be hung over the changing table, crib or corner of the carpet where the child is placed. Rides, gym (better than wood and often changing our choice to what is hanging) also made mobiles from us, ribbons, bells and chimes, origami. The colors are important, but less than we think, attract the child instead of the color contrasts, the play of shadows and lights. During this period look and listen: then voices, words, sounds, music and entertain the affect. The mother's face is his first game: color contrast between the oval of the face and hair, bright eyes and mobile mouth that opens and closes, words that come out, smiles. Between the fourth and fifth month your baby will start to grab and hold objects consciously activating coordination eye / hand / mouth: he sees the object reach out your hand to take it, takes it and brings it to his mouth. This is also the period in which usually begins to turn from supine to prone on his stomach turn and then stay a bit 'too prone to land on the carpet in front of objects with different and interesting to look at, touch and learn through the mouth. The games on the market for this age with some exceptions they are all very colorful and plastic so that the child will manipulate one or a hundred, a feeling that will try to touch and hearing level will always be the same because the material they are made is always that. Instead should be varied feelings that can get by touching and sucking objects, suggesting items of form, color, different materials: wood, cloth, metal, rubber, light objects, heavy, smooth, rough, cold, warm. We'll find interesting things in our kitchen utensils, household goods stores, in old haberdashery, in the homes of grandmothers. We ourselves become curious and keen observers of what is around us, we use, but most use we see with pleasure and interest by our children. From the sixth month when the baby starts to sit longer and longer autonomously and have an interest and pleasure should be preparing for him the trash treasures "(proposal for a toy for children aged 6 to 9 / 10 months Elinor Goldschmied) . It 's a round wicker basket, of medium size, no handles that will contain various materials household, such as that described above, which will be offered at certain times of the day, close to the child sat down on the carpet. The baby will look, touch various objects, will focus on some and not others, will bring them to her mouth, put them out of the basket, independently, with an adult neighbor or that comes and goes and is responsible for approval of their explorations and encourage small. For the stage of crawling or moving about the earth are useful items that roll: balls of different sizes, rolls of cardboard covered with plastic card, media tapes, gifts, plastic bottles containing colored trinkets or procure sounds and noises.
