Stimulation For Children To Develop Their Senses: 0-6 Months

Stimulating children’s brains plays a major role in enabling them to develop their senses during the first stages of their lives, from birth up to six months.

During that period, children begin to identify emotions in their body and demand that their basic needs be met, such as nutrition and sleep. And they need someone to guide them.

This is often something that many parents find difficult, so here we will share some tips to start stimulating the children and get them to develop their senses.

Stimulation for children from birth up to 6 months

0 to 3 months

During this period, it is important to stimulate the following areas of your child’s brain:

The tactile area: stimulate your child’s touch; you can bathe it by using different objects with different surfaces, such as sponges, gloves, etc. It will learn to identify the different touches. You can also give the child a gentle massage after the bath, where you first focus on one side and then the other.

The vestibular area: it has to do with movement. To stimulate this part of the brain, you can rock the baby very gently from side to side and up and down. Give it toys with different weights and expose it to different sounds.
The motor area: help the child to move his limbs. Hold your child up so that he can see his surroundings, and let him ride his legs.
Sight: show the child picture books with bright colors and objects that they can follow with their eyes.

4 to 6 months

During this period, you can stimulate the following areas:

The tactile area: hug your child gently, and then a little harder. In this way, it will be able to differentiate between different emotions in its muscles.

Hearing: it is important that you read to your child and sing songs for it.

To teach children to develop their senses, up to 6 months of age

Stimulation of the senses can come from different areas of the human body and it needs to be varied to be effective.

There are many different stimulus areas for children to help them develop their senses. It is known as sensory stimulation, and it goes hand in hand with activities that we will describe below.

Hearing stimulation:

To activate your child’s sense of hearing, we recommend:

Use toys that make different sounds.
Imitate the sounds your children make.
Talk loudly when you are with your child.
Distort your voice.
Play music for your child.
Talk to your child.

Visual stimulus

The following activates the child’s vision:

Use bright colors in the children’s room.
Play in front of a mirror.

Play with lighted toys.
Hide toys from your child and let the child find them.
Watch TV.

Tactile stimulus

These activities can help you stimulate your child’s feeling:

Teach your child to play with clay, etc.
Show them different objects with different surfaces.
Point out objects of different sizes and shapes and encourage your child to play with them.

Stimulate the sense of smell

Here are some things you can do to stimulate your child’s sense of smell:

Smell perfumes or other odors.
Before the baby eats, place the food close to the baby’s nose so that it can smell different fruits and foods.
Use scented candles.
Teach them to identify odors in everyday life.

Stimulate the sense of taste

Here are the best ways to stimulate a child’s sense of taste:

Expose the child to different tastes: sour, salty, sweet, bitter.

While doing different things, tell your child what you are doing. It helps it to get acquainted with different sounds and recognize aspects of its surroundings.

Stimulating children is an important way to complement their development and help them grow up healthy and develop their senses.

You will need a lot of patience and enthusiasm, but it will be worth it. So play with the little ones and help them develop all their senses!