Before I go to bath with Haruka, I would tell Haruka let's bath with the duck. Then, I continue with excited expressions - kick, kick, kick, pung (sound of water splash), pung, pung, ofuro (which means bath in Japanese). As Haruka gets more and more familiar with this phrase, she will make her baby talk with excitement. Its amazing that at 2 months old, Haruka can understand me! Thats lots of time investment with the right fun phrases. At the bath tub, I will first tell Haruka, let's put the duck inside the water. She probably does not understand me. But, I say it faithfully every day to get rubber ducky warm in the warm water as Haruka will be biting it when I bath her. Later, I even hold her hands and push the rubber ducky into the warm water hoping that she will do it herself in the future. While bathing Haruka, I sometimes hit the water with my palms causing a small splash and said pung. And I encourage Haruka to kick the duck with her legs and say "Kick, kick, kick!" That's how Haruka learn new words. If I teach her from the book, she will never remember. Also, this way I know she is learning as she is kicking her legs in the bath tub with so much fun!
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
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Tip 34: Rubber ducky and splash!
2 month onwards, the baby learns the most by playing and singing. Its good to be speaking to the baby but it can get boring maybe to the baby but still the baby is all ears. The baby understands it better when its fun. And usually the baby is looking forward each day for his/her bath time. So its an important learning window that is not to be missed. I spoken at tip 10 that babies naturally love to bath and at tip 20 to have playful movements such as sailing the baby on the water. I found rubber duckies add to the fun with new vocabularies for the baby. Also it could be around the right time between 2-3 months old to advance to adult bath tub from baby tub.
Before I go to bath with Haruka, I would tell Haruka let's bath with the duck. Then, I continue with excited expressions - kick, kick, kick, pung (sound of water splash), pung, pung, ofuro (which means bath in Japanese). As Haruka gets more and more familiar with this phrase, she will make her baby talk with excitement. Its amazing that at 2 months old, Haruka can understand me! Thats lots of time investment with the right fun phrases. At the bath tub, I will first tell Haruka, let's put the duck inside the water. She probably does not understand me. But, I say it faithfully every day to get rubber ducky warm in the warm water as Haruka will be biting it when I bath her. Later, I even hold her hands and push the rubber ducky into the warm water hoping that she will do it herself in the future. While bathing Haruka, I sometimes hit the water with my palms causing a small splash and said pung. And I encourage Haruka to kick the duck with her legs and say "Kick, kick, kick!" That's how Haruka learn new words. If I teach her from the book, she will never remember. Also, this way I know she is learning as she is kicking her legs in the bath tub with so much fun!
Before I go to bath with Haruka, I would tell Haruka let's bath with the duck. Then, I continue with excited expressions - kick, kick, kick, pung (sound of water splash), pung, pung, ofuro (which means bath in Japanese). As Haruka gets more and more familiar with this phrase, she will make her baby talk with excitement. Its amazing that at 2 months old, Haruka can understand me! Thats lots of time investment with the right fun phrases. At the bath tub, I will first tell Haruka, let's put the duck inside the water. She probably does not understand me. But, I say it faithfully every day to get rubber ducky warm in the warm water as Haruka will be biting it when I bath her. Later, I even hold her hands and push the rubber ducky into the warm water hoping that she will do it herself in the future. While bathing Haruka, I sometimes hit the water with my palms causing a small splash and said pung. And I encourage Haruka to kick the duck with her legs and say "Kick, kick, kick!" That's how Haruka learn new words. If I teach her from the book, she will never remember. Also, this way I know she is learning as she is kicking her legs in the bath tub with so much fun!
