Take and play: the development of motor hand

A child can become a small carpet cleaner, choosing from the nap the smallest specks of dust.

Caution: A huge interest in small items, combined with the ability to reach them, makes small objects that the child can choke with, the main concern at this stage of development. Be extremely careful and always look at what treasures you leave next to the baby for his curious little fingers. Any object smaller than 4 cm in diameter can get into the child's airways.

Developing the grip of the thumb and forefinger ■

One of the most interesting examples of how two skills develop simultaneously and complement each other is that the child's fascination with small objects appears simultaneously with the ability to examine these objects with hands and fingers - the development of capture by the large and indexfingers.

See how your child reaches for the mountain of rice rings. First he rakes these small rings to himself, like a paw, and tries to grab them, as if in a mitten, clamping between four fingers and a palm( the thumb remains unused).He looks up in frustration, as the pieces fall out of his small, plump hands. When a child pokes only with his index finger - this is the first sign that soon the child will master the capture of the thumb and forefinger. The child touches the objects with his forefinger extended, pressing the other fingers to the palm of his hand. Soon the thumb will take an example from the index, and the child will clamp the objects between the pads of the thumb and index finger. When the progress of capture reaches the tips of the thumb and index finger, your baby's movements will no longer be so clumsy, and the child will take objects more accurately.

The child learns to let go

An important part of mastering a grip is the development of the ability to release a captured object. Children behave enchanted when they take an object, such as a piece of paper, into their hand, and then open their palm, allowing the object to fall to the floor. The ability to release toys from the hands leads to the appearance of one of the most favorite games at this stage of a child called "I drop - you raise".Soon the child establishes an association between his action( the fact that he drops an object) and your reaction( the fact that you raise it).Thus, he learns to find the connection between cause and effect.

Transferring items

The ability to let go of a subject helps the child learn how to transfer objects from hand to hand. Put a rubber ring in the child's hands and see what will happen. First he will pull the ring with both hands, arranging some kind of tug of war. If one hand releases the ring first, the second will take possession of the ring, and the child will move his eyes from the empty hand to the one that holds the ring. He shifts the toy from hand to hand for the first time accidentally, and then purposefully. The ability to shift items extends the time that the child spends on the game. Now he can sit and

entertain himself for ten or two to fifteen minutes, shifting the toy back and forth.

Developing a stronger grip of objects

At the age of about six months, a child reaches for the toy and grabs it more and more with one hand, more and more purposefully and more and more firmly. Now the child is able to invariably and quickly take the toy that is served to him. Put a toy in front of the child and see how confidently and accurately he will take it. Now try to take the toy from him. See how the child counteracts your pulling movement. He holds the toy with a death grip. When you can still get the priceless toy out of the child's hand, put it on the floor in front of him and see that he immediately rushes to her and again grabbed.

If you really want to make sure that the child reaches out to things not thoughtlessly, write down on the videotape as he takes the cube. At the previous stage, he hit on the toy and clamped it with the whole brush, which was adjusted to the shape of the object only after it was taken. Look, that now the child begins to change the shape of his brush in accordance with the shape of the toy even before it touches it. He develops a visual "sensation" of the object, which helps him determine its shape before he touches it. Now he

makes changes on the move, when his hands are already moving towards the goal.

Dear parents, if you are wondering why we are going into such details when describing a child's development, it's only because we want you to know about your baby's great abilities. In addition, do not forget that you grow together. As your child improves his motor skills, you sharpen your observation skills - a valuable exercise if you want to learn to understand your child.

Fun for baby girls

Playing dice. Put the child in a high chair and put two cubes in front of him. After he takes a dice in each hand, put a third cube in front of him. Look, what a puzzled expression in his face, when he puzzles over how to take the third cube.

Now put the cubes on a napkin out of the reach of the child. Leaning forward and realizing that he can not reach the cubes with his hand, he can pull at the napkin, and - voila!- cubes also go to him. For a child, this may be the first experience in using one item in order to get another.

Now play the game "Grab the Moving Cube."Place the cubes in front of the child on a napkin. Slowly move the napkin across the table. See how the child

sits with open palms and spread out fingers, ready to grab everything he can.