How and what does the child play in 9-12 months?

• What toys are needed for a child?

Again, I focus your attention on the fact that the game for the child is a learning process. Giving the child new toys or playing a new game, you help him to know himself, the surrounding world and some laws of nature. Therefore, every next month you must give the baby new toys, invent new games, in accordance with the skills and opportunities that appear in the child.

For a ten-to-twelve-month-old child, rattles, bells and other similar toys are no longer sufficient. He has already fully studied them, and he needs new sensations and impressions.

Especially good for children of this age cubes. Perhaps you already bought him one set. Nothing, buy one more, different in size or color scale.

After all, you can play cubes as you like: fold and spread out of the box, roll around the table like a train with trailers, drop it into a jar or cup and get it out again. Later (a year) of them you can build a tower. And the older the child, the higher the tower. From the blocks you can build a bridge and drive a car under it. And if you bought cubes - a building set, then with your help the child just turns into an architect.

If the child has a set of picture cubes, then, depending on the image on them, you can either lay out thematic sets (for example, "dishes", "berries", "fruits", "animals") with the child, or add them pictures (if on each cube only a fragment of the whole picture).

Also very good at developing motor skills and collecting pyramids. Pyramids can be of different types: traditional - with a round stand and a vertical stick, which is worn rings of different sizes; or non-traditional, for example, a set of objects of different sizes (cups) having a protruding ring on the bottom, on which the next glass is placed.

It is very interesting to observe how the crumb first tries to collect the pyramid, not observing the sequence of rings in size. Then, eventually, he begins to understand that the largest ring should be at the bottom, and the smallest - at the top. So the child constantly develops his eye, trying to properly assemble the pyramid. And your task is to explain in words what the child does with his hands, and direct his actions.

An obligatory toy is the ball. Balls can be large and small. They can be rolled on the floor or on the table, kicking, lying on their stomach or back and skating. And with the help of your father or mother you can even stand on it! Small balls, like cubes, can be put in a glass, a cup and then again from there.

Since the child is already beginning to walk, buy him toys that you can carry on a string (cars, animals on wheels, etc.) or push in front of him, holding the handle.

An obligatory toy should be colorful children's books with thick pages and bright drawings, especially if they are equipped with retractable images. You can object: "The book is not a toy!". But for a child, any object is a toy, as it contributes to its development.

Unconditionally, children deprived of toys, lag behind in development (both physical and intellectual) from those of their peers who have these toys.

On the first birthday, in a year, give the child the first designer. Its details should be large enough to be easy to fold. The constructor should not be too complicated, otherwise the child will quickly lose interest in it.

When choosing a designer, try to collect its details yourself. If they are defective and do not connect well, it is better not to take it, because the child, after making several unsuccessful attempts, will abandon him.

• What does the child understand?    

At nine months old the kid knows his name, and if he calls, he turns to the one who calls him. He already understands the meaning of certain words ("give", "on," "go to me," etc.). At the same time, he not only understands the meaning of words, but also begins to perceive the intonations with which these words are spoken. He can show how the car ("zh-zh") does, the tractor ("dr-rr"), the dog ("av-av"), the cat ("meow") and, pronouncing sounds, point to objects or animals that produce them. To develop these skills, the child should show new subjects and speak their name. He can not repeat it, but he can remember it. And if you show him the scissors, after a while, ask them to show them, he will point them unmistakably.

This is the age of utmost soundness. The kid easily operates with separate sounds and syllables. At the same time, the spoken language has a pronounced emotional color, although the meaning for it sounds much later.

By the year the child is actively mastering speech, making two-syllable words. He is increasingly interested in a joint game or activity (which is the same for a child) with adults. He increasingly calls on adults to help him.

At this age, children are very attracted to animals, especially fluffy (because they are soft and resemble his toys), not realizing that an attempt to play with them can result in a bite or scratches. Children, continuing to know the world around them, want to touch it with their hands.

The child can already concentrate for a long time on one lesson, for example, playing with toys. He already knows how to share with you or another baby a toy, an apple. And you should encourage this impulse, rewarding him with praise.

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