Sixth month: we sit.how big

The period from five to six months is a transitional stage in the development of the child. Up to this point the child is glued to one place. He can not move or sit down and play by himself. In the next stage, from six to nine months, he becomes able to do both. At the sixth month the child begins to learn to sit and move in a circle, and it is on these achievements that we will dwell on the next few pages.

Sequence in which the child learns to sit.

The ability to sit is the main acquisition of the sixth month. The sequence in which the child learns to sit in the period of four to six months is one of the most fascinating stages in the development of the child. In the first three to four months( Figure A), the child has very weak muscles of the lower back. If you plant it, it falls to the nose. At about the age of three or four months, the child demonstrates some strength of the muscles of the lower back, restraining the inclination forward, but again falls. Between four and five months( Figure B) the baby is still heeling or falling to the side, but begins using his outstretched hands as propsides from the side and from the front. Between five and six months the child can let go of his hands. His back muscles

are now strong enough to keep him in a sitting position straight, but usually the child still uses his hands as backups. Now, in order to learn to sit, the matter has become only behind the balance.

Observe how your clever little kid begins to sit, learns to keep his balance. When the child starts to take his hands off, first one, then the other, he keeps his straight back tilted forward at an angle of forty-five degrees. When the sense of balance has developed and the muscles of the back have grown stronger, it sits vertically, at an angle of ninety degrees to the floor( Figure B).The kid, who has barely learned to sit, swayed on his round ass, throwing his hands out like balancers.

Once the child has learned to maintain balance in a sitting position, he no longer needs a head or hands as a sub-

defect and to maintain balance and instead can use them for communication and play. When the baby begins to turn his head, watching your eyes, and raise your hands for gesticulation or playing, usually between six and seven months, you can say that he really sits himself.

How to help a child starting to sit

Because the child does not yet have enough strength to straighten up after it tilts to one side, falling backwards and sideways is the price you have to pay to learn how to sit well. Your child will learn to sit well if you leave him alone. But if you help the child to enjoy the first experiments with the sitting position, he will understand what an interesting review he has in this situation, and it will be with great pleasure to develop this skill. Here's how to help him:

• Soften the inevitable falls back and to the side, covering the baby with pillows. Nothing will scare the child so much and will not drive him away from the desire to sit, like falling on a hard surface.

• To fix a tottering child, just beginning to sit, put the child in a piece of foam rubber, carved in the shape of a horseshoe.(We used the Nurse Mate pillow, which we bought for convenience of breastfeeding soon after the birth of the baby - a good example of how to extend the operation of the thing!)

• If the child begins to sit lethally, dig a hole in the sandbox.(Cover the sand with a blanket if you do not want the sand to appear in your eyes, mouth and diaper.)

• When you are playing on the floor together, plant the child between his elongated legs so that he can use them as a handrail.

• Distract the child with toys to help him learn to keep his balance. If the child is encouraged to use his hands in order to take the toy, the seated child "forgets" that he used his hands as backups, and will learn to rely on to keep the balance solely on the muscles of the trunk.

• If the child continues to lean on his hands to not fall forward, put the cubes in front of him to encourage him to take his hands off the floor when he takes the cubes in his hands.

• In order to facilitate the movements of the hands, hold your favorite toy in front of the child, at the eye level, at the eye level. Then push the toy first to one, then to the other side, so that the child in the sitting position would reach for the toy with his hands.

During these exercises, to develop balance, pay attention to how the child uses the

to balance his hands. First, the child reaches for the toy with one hand, throwing the other to hold the balance. As the sense of balance develops, see how the child reaches for the toy with both hands and turns back without falling.

Relief for parents

When a child can sit one better, parents can sit alone longer. If the child confidently sits himself and plays - it's a huge relief for parents. Having mastered the ability to sit, a six-month-old child begins to spend less time on his knees and hands and more in the highchair and on the floor.

The child repels from the floor and moves around the circle

The sixth month is the turning point for the child in the literal sense. With each month the child

The child who sits himself can now play alone.

tore off more and more of its body from the floor. Now he can tear his tummy from the floor, almost to the navel. Look at what the child can do in the position by squeezing. He can take away his hands and feet from the floor and swing on his tummy - he does a "pumping".Or he can leave his hands and feet on the floor and turn around half a turn in an attempt to get his favorite toy. The final moment - a swaying child can turn on its heavy tummy solely due to the strength of its wriggling legs and waving arms, as if playing a plane.

Then the turns begin. Using his hands to row, the child tries to turn 360 degrees on his tummy, which is still glued to the floor. When the child is in full swing in the corners, put on the one hand a toy, to which he very slightly can not reach. See how the child will turn in a circle to approach the toy. If he wants to get it as soon as possible, he can quickly roll over on his back to roll up to the toy.

This is what you can take part in developing your child's skills.

Rest for the chest. When a child is happy to play lying on his tummy, frequent push-ups can wear out a young athlete. In addition, the Manezh: do not put me on the fence

In the arenas, children do not have much to learn. At the stage when the child is sitting and playing, some children can temporarily be satisfied with their own little "game", where there are many interesting things at close range. But in the following months, when a novice researcher looks through the grid and sees behind it a huge interesting room, he will most likely protest against imprisonment. The arenas have a right to exist. A portable arena and a child can, by necessity, co-exist in your workplace. To put a child in a riding hall for a time when you need to take a telephone receiver or get dinner out of a hot oven - often the only one, dictated by security considerations, is the way out for a busy mom. But do not delay the conversation;put the

arena nearby so you can easily communicate with the child when you finish your work, and as often as possible, contact the prisoner.

If you need a child to sit in an arena, make it safe. Children who begin to sit and crawl, often fight in the arena on the floor. Throw away the solid toys. Soft, cozy toys will be good companions on the arena, and it is not so dangerous to fall on them. When the child moves from the stage "I sit and play" to the stage "I move and investigate", pack the arena and put it on its rightful place( maybe even after the crib) at the next garage sale and arrange the entire house to make it safefor the baby.

, he can be annoyed that you have to use your hands as a support, not for playing. Place a triangular foam roller with a height of 8 cm under the baby's chest. This support will free the child's hands so that he can play more comfortably in front of him, and also so that he does not get tired for longer. He can also roll over on the carpet and do not get hurt at the same time.

First attempts to crawl. Put the seductive toy just outside the reach of the child lying on the floor. See how the child rests on the floor with the fingers of the

legs and hands and will wriggle and crawl in a plastic way, without taking the abdomen away from the floor, to its goal. Some children at this stage, making their first attempts to crawl, can move by 30-60 cm.

Note. Now Matthew is less nervous when he lies on his tummy and some toy rolls out of his reach. He knows that he can push off and move forward, and therefore does not raise a cry for the help of - , he knows that he does not need help. He just can go forward on the floor on his stomach until he reaches the path for taking a toy. Thus, he is able to estimate both the distance and his ability to cover this distance. So he does not need to cry.