Lay the foundation for higher manual skills

The goal of the sixth stage of development is to lay the foundation for higher manual skills. In the previous stages the child trained in lifting various objects with both hands, and then in releasing them from the hands. Now he will use both hands simultaneously, and one hand will help the other. In this case, despite the fact that with one hand he will use more often, both hands will be developed almost in the same degree.

Now one of the hands will become more obvious to play the main role. This is exactly the hand that the baby tries to take a spoon, a toy, a cup. When analyzing and collecting

objects, it will perform the most complex functions with the dominant hand.

At this stage, the kid begins to improve previously acquired skills. How can you help your child at this stage?

First of all, to make movement with interception a maximum of benefit, teach the child to move absolutely independently.

FREQUENCY 30 daily passages throughout the length of the

are not ladders.

INTENSITY You do not support the child, but only

. You can help him to swing, if this becomes necessary.

DURATION The length of the exercise depends on the time required for one passage of the ladder. When a child learns to walk the stairs one way by himself, you can teach him to turn at the end of the staircase and again go the same way.

Exercise 1. Missed crossbars

As you move along the ladder, the child grabs every second crossbar. This will facilitate the movement and will bring even more benefits to his physical development.

Exercise 2. Driving backwards

Having learned to skip the crossbeams, the child can move with his back. All he needs is to learn how to swing back to grab the crossbar from behind. This exercise improves convergence of vision, because the child will have to tilt his head back to see the next crossbar.

Exercise 3. Sideways movement

This exercise will teach the child to move sideways. Wobbling from side to side is not easy, because this exercise can cause certain difficulties. In addition, you will have to change the position of the hands, since the palms of both hands will not be directed forward at the same time. The dominant hand must hold onto the crossbar in such a way that its palm is pointed in the direction opposite to that in which the child is moving. In the direction of movement, the palm of the other hand will be pointed.

Teach the child to move sideways, advising him to grab for different crossbeams, and his hands should share one or two crossbars. The dominant hand must always be grasped first, then another hand comes into play, cutting the distance between them from two bars to one. Then the dominant hand again increases the distance between them to two bars and so on.

Exercise 4. Turn

This is the most interesting kind of exercise. The child, moving forward, simultaneously makes a rotational movement. Before you show this exercise to the child, practice it yourself.

It is difficult to perform it, as the position of the hands changes. Start by grasping the two bars with your hands, and so that the palms of your hands are located one opposite the other. The initial position is the same as it was when moving sideways. If you have the right hand in front, then you have to rotate clockwise, if the left one is against the clock.

If you start from a position where you have a left hand in front, then release the right hand of the

and turn it clockwise. To grab with the right hand for the next crossbar, you have to change the grip, as a result of which the palm of this right hand will turn in the opposite direction.

Learning this trick will take some time, but you can be sure - the child will like it!