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Brain Builders
Stimulating Activities for Your 9-month-old Baby
By Tammy Morey
As she starts to cruise the furniture and spend more time upright than crawling, many parents begin to consider whether or not shoes are necessary. It seems that almost everyone you talk to has a definite opinion about the subject. But according to Penelope Leach, in Your Baby and Child, the majority of experts believe that she will not need shoes until she is walking around outdoors regularly.
In fact, by allowing her to go barefoot, you will be enabling her to accomplish two significant factors needed in walking. First, she will be strengthening her arches and leg muscles, and second, she can balance much easier when her feet are bare because she can feel the various textures of what she is walking on.
Stacking and shape-sorter toys are great because they are three-dimensional and encourage her to pick up, stack, release and remove objects. But you do not have to rush out and purchase a sorting or stacking type of toy. You can simply give her a plastic bucket with colorful blocks or toys that have moving parts, like plastic cars with doors that open and hut and wheels that roll. For stacking you can use blocks, her cardboard books or even plastic food containers from your kitchen. Just remember to check the size of the objects, making sure that they are not small enough for her to swallow.
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Brain Builders: 9-month-old by williamparkar on 01/04/2010 02:35AM
Funny that I read this tonight, because today we were looking through his scrapbbok and these details are fresh in my mind ... he did not sit up without support until 9 months old. He rolled belly to back at 3 1/2 months but did not go back to front until 8.5 months. He crawled around a year or so (I can't recall), and walked at 15 months. He was extremely vocal, but only said a word or two a few times, around a year. And then stopped. He did not speak another "real" word until after his 3rd birthdy, once I had him in special needs preschool. ssd festplatten