How and what to play with a baby from one month to three?

Play is a process of learning, teaching, and consolidating what a child has learned. While playing, children learn about the world around them. Play includes everything that contributes to the development of a child's physical abilities, senses, thinking, and intelligence. So, a game should certainly be fun and exciting (otherwise, the child will stop playing). But, despite the fact that for a child, everything you do (even when you swaddle or change his clothes) is a game, in fact, you are doing something very important - you are teaching him, even when you play with him. Toys are as valuable a teaching aid for him as real school textbooks. Therefore, it is very important to play games with your child that are most suitable for his level of development.

Like older children, babies like to play different games - depending on their mood. When playing with him, take into account the speed of his reaction - it is much slower than yours. For example, you said something to him, waited for a response for only a few seconds and started a new action or said something else. Without waiting for an answer, you deprived the child of the opportunity to give one. Therefore, never rush, otherwise his "answer" will never work. If you held out a toy for the child to take, but did not wait for this and put it in the child's hand - you prevented the child from expressing himself. Do not rush! Give him time to take the toy himself. If you, passing by the child's crib, smiled at him or waved your hand, do not rush to turn away. After all, if you turn away, then he will smile (or not) at your back and will not be able to take part in this game.

When choosing a game (or toy), you should take into account your child's inclinations. Looking ahead a bit, I can give the following example: for one five-six-month-old child, throwing him up in the air is the height of happiness and pleasure, and when you, tired, lower him into the crib, he stretches his hands to you with a dissatisfied grimace: "More!", and another toddler of the same age with eyes full of fear will cling to your clothes with his little hands and out of fear may even say his first word. But not "mama", and not "dada", but "no!"

If your child does not like loud sounds, do not give him loud squeaky rubber toys (or cover the hole with a band-aid) and loudly ringing rattles.

By two or three months, most children play with great pleasure when they are undressed. The fact is that during this period the child is mastering new movements: turning from back to stomach, etc., and clothes restrict him.

However, you should remember that the child should not be in danger of falling during such games. Therefore, the ideal place to play at this age is a blanket spread on the floor (if there are no drafts) and the middle of the sofa or bed. But if the child is lying on the floor, let him toss and turn as much as he wants. You can even leave him alone for a few minutes. But with the sofa it is more difficult. If you need to leave, and do not want to put the child in the crib, roll a bolster out of another blanket and place it so that the child, even if he has learned to roll over, cannot "climb over" it.

As for toys, at this age the best toy for your child is you. Your body is the perfect gymnastics apparatus that helps the child do things that he would never do on his own. Your voice and face delight the child, he watches you with fascination; everything you do, all the things you use delight him. Your love, your attention, your help - this is the best game for him.

But gradually the child wants to learn as much as possible about the things around him. He already needs certain objects to play with. Toys for this age are made so that they are safe, bright, different in shape and weight. After the child has thoroughly examined the toy, he is ready to play with a new one. Therefore, it is necessary to diversify his games, alternating toys with household items (after all, the child is more interested not in the process of the game, but in the very opportunity to take a new object in his hand, examine it, put it in his mouth), especially if he has shown interest in some object. And it does not matter what the thing you gave him is intended for. After all, he will not be able to use it for its intended purpose anyway. The main thing for him is color, shape, ease of grip. The main thing is that this object is not dangerous for the child. After all, if what you gave him is very fragile, it can break, and the child can get hurt by a sharp fragment. The object should not be very small, since the child will definitely examine it "by taste", which means he can swallow it or choke on it.

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