Have you seen an infant 3 months and up, ever been taught to do something amazing for his/her age?

a lot of just them learning on their own

And as someone said they are just amazing period

The best teaching for infants is interaction with them

There is NOTHING wrong with this as long as you don’t push them beyond their interest and development.

Parents have been doing it for years

at 3 months try

talking to your baby about your or their activities

example:

Let’s get dressed

You have a little blue shirt

Let’s pull it over your head

One hand in two hands in

and a little baby belly

(I’d tickle the kids belly but I’m a nut LOL)

Look at these little red shorts

one foot in

two feet in

pull them up on your bottom

There all done!!

Just this little dressing activity

You have taught:

The security of a routine

Dressing Skills

Language and Social skills

colors red and blue

body parts

To address Matt’s concern of course the baby isn’t going to recognize colors or body parts at 3 months or start a conversation with you yet.

You’ve simply set the stage to herlp them learn them when they are ready.

Everything infants do is amazing. It’s amazing because they’ve never done ANYTHING before, other than the instincts they are born with. Everything they do is a learned behavior, from that 1st smile, turning over, sitting up, saying that first word, etc.

But if you are talking about a truly exceptional thing, like the commercial with the baby callling out the presidents’ names when seeing the pictures (by the way, another learned behavior, just takes time), yeah. My son at 8 months was throwing a ball straight to me and could point to the correct farm animal when I called them out (he could not say them because he could not talk yet, let’s get real – he was not developmentally ready for that). But he did learn some sign language, which was really quite amazing to me.

well ive havent seen a 3mos. up year old been taught but i’ve seen a 2 year old kid on tv play the yoyo and when he reached i think about 7 or 8 he was teaching people way oldeer than him

To me, education is not teaching someone how to do something. Education is getting children to learn how to do for themselves.

So I’m never impressed when someone “teaches” someone to do something beyond what they should naturally learn how to do given the right environment.

Matt

try this…….look at your baby,make sure he is looking at you….stick your tongue out then put it back in…wait a couple seconds…do it again do that 5 or 6 times,by tommorrow,after you do it…he will.it works to really…i did it with all my kids when they were just a month old