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Early Learning Games
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It is important not to make up your own baby language, as it will just confuse, your toddler, using simple words is far more effective.
Talk, Sing and Talk some more to your toddler at every possible opportunity.
Through out your day tell him what you are doing, and ask him what he is doing. Pause briefly, to allow him the opportunity to express his point of view, even if its not with words.
Your toddler will understand more words than he will actually say, so you can practice with simple early learning games, such as naming.
Where is John’s foot? Where is John’s nose?
It is important to reward your toddler when he shows understanding, this can be done by acknowledging of his understanding with excitement and enthusiasm.
So in this example, where is John’s foot? When John touches his foot you would say,
Yes there’s John’s foot, in an excited and enthusiastic tone.
It also important to repeat the ‘naming game’ word (John’s foot) in your acknowledgement, so that your toddler will associate the word in the question, with your excited response to his action.
Word games like this, encourages and stimulates your baby’s brain.
There are now many Early Learning Games that encourages language skills and can hold your toddlers attention, as they are interactive bright and colourful.
Toddlers love to listen to simple stories and I have included some great books in my Books for Toddler Shop Read to him, nursery rhymes and stories. You will become familiar with these activities, as you will be asked to repeat them many times. All this repetition helps his language development.
Eventually, your toddler will start singing or repeating some of the words. To encourage his imitation, try to pause briefly when reading or singing, to give him the opportunity to join in and sing a note or two, there is a good selection of Sing a Long Books in the Toddlers Music section of my stores. As you can see All My Educational Games For Kids Shops have been grouped in ages and subjects, to make searching for the right games and toys, childsplay.
Remember to use simple language, repeating and expanding on what your child says.
Expand his sentences voicing what he is trying to tell you. If he says ‘Gone’, answer ‘Yes, Daddy has gone, to work’ with emphasis on Daddy and Gone.
Over the next months and years he will gradually expand his language, filling in the little gaps.
First ‘Gone expands to, ‘Daddy gone’ and then perhaps ‘Daddy gone work’ before finally producing the whole sentence.
There are some excellent interactive learning games and activities. Toddler software such as Baby WOW is a great tool to help build on vocabulary and hand eye-coordination, this will not replace traditional learning activities, but does create a new opportunity for you and your child to learn and interact together.
Why not check out some of our great ideas for Educational Games for Preschoolers, as well as learning toys for Toddlers and some great fun activities to help your Baby Develop.
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