All About Play
How your child plays now:
- Crawls forward or backward, sometimes while holding an object.
- She is beginning to string two behaviors together.
- She is developing small-motor skills such as the pincer grasp.
- She begins to articulate sounds, starting with vowels and moving on to all the other sounds made in every language.
- She starts to investigate the world.
- She knows that toys don't disappear when they're hidden; they still exist somewhere.
Why your child will enjoy these toys now:
- Entertainment centers that encourage standing and cruising
- Sorting & building toys
- Musical toys
- Toys with dials, levers & buttons
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Day Care Dilemma
From Concerned Mom in Whittier
Hello moms out there, I need your help. I recently put my 14-month-old son in day care. He had been with a babysitter since he was 3 months, and now I put him in a new daycare and he is having withdrawals. He is sad, he likes going there but as soon as I leave, he starts to cry and his teacher said he won't eat, doesn't really play. So I was thinking of sending him back to his former babysitter. Any suggestions?
