This video uses a pyramid to explain how children acquire communication skills. The video explains not only the skills that children acquire at each level but also what they need to acquire these skills. Read More →
The video shows a caregiver playing and talking with her daughter using local foods. She encourages the father to join in the play. He readily accepts, stating that the more he plays with his child, the more she will succeed. Read More →
This video describes the importance of play for child’s development and future. Different types of play are described including active play, exploratory play and representational (imaginative and pretend) play. Read More →
This video clip from The Beginning of Life documentary highlights the incredible amount and speed of connections made in the brain in the first years of life. It cites that 700 to 1000 neuronal connections are made every second. However, more recent estimates indicate the number is much higher: “more than 1 million new neural connections per second.”Read More →
In this video a grandmother and young child are playing dress up with clothes they have at home. Notice how the child is initiating (selects the clothing item, decides what to do with it) and the grandmother follows her lead. The grandma collaborates in the play and uses language to explore what the child is thinking/doing and extend the play.Read More →
In this video a facilitator interacts with a child under 3 years. She gives the child a three sticks and asks what he would like to do with them. She then copies the child. This goes on and on with the child initiating and the facilitator copying. She is following his lead. Later she demonstrates some actions with her own sticks, then asks the child: ‘And what will you do with your sticks?’Read More →
This video explains and illustrates three ways in which play is important for children’s development. Play supports relationships with caregivers; builds children’s life skills; and fosters children’s resilience in response to hardship.Read More →
Did you know that Peekaboo helps babies understand that people and things exist, even if they can’t see them? Read More →
¿Sabías que el Móvil Bebé sirve para desarrollar las destrezas de las manos y la vista? Para armar el Móvil Bebé es necesario unir trozos de cintas o telas de colores a una goma de cabello y atarlas en un extremo para que no se suelten. De este modo las cintas quedarán unidas y podrán agitarse y tener movimiento al colgar hacia abajo. El adulto puede sujetar el móvil y moverlo lentamente acercándolo al bebé para que pueda seguir los colores y el movimiento con los ojos y alcance a tocarlo. Read More →
¿Sabías que el Korekoguá ayuda a que el bebé comprenda que las personas y cosas existen, aunque no las vea? Para jugar al Korekoguá solo tenés que taparte la cara con las manos o con un pañuelo frente a tu bebé. Escondete y luego aparecé con una sonrisa. Al desaparecer decí “Koreko…” y al aparecer, “Guá”. También podés hacer lo mismo cubriendo brevemente la carita del bebé. Otra forma es ocultando su juguete favorito para que lo encuentre.Read More →
¿Sabías que el Kili Kili ayuda al bebé a calmarse, sentirse seguro y a desarrollar sus sentidos? Jugá al Kili Kili con el bebé haciéndole caricias suaves y lentas en el rostro, manos y pies, mirándolo a los ojos, hablándole o diciendo Kili Kili mientras le sonreís y disfrutan juntos. Podés acariciarlo con las manos o con una esponjita. La hora del baño puede ser un buen momento.Read More →
Este vídeo explica cómo favorecer el desarrollo de los niños (de 6 a 12 meses). Los consejos se ajustan a las recomendaciones sobre juego y comunicación del paquete Cuidado para el Desarollo Infantil (CDI).Read More →
Este vídeo explica cómo favorecer el desarrollo de los niños (de 6 a 9 meses). Los consejos se ajustan a las recomendaciones sobre juego y comunicación del paquete Cuidado para el Desarollo Infantil (CDI).Read More →
Este vídeo explica cómo favorecer el desarrollo de los niños (de 2 años en adelante). Los consejos se ajustan a las recomendaciones sobre juego y comunicación del paquete Cuidado para el Desarollo Infantil.Read More →
Este vídeo explica cómo favorecer el desarrollo de los niños (de 0 a 6 meses). Los consejos se ajustan a las recomendaciones sobre juego y comunicación del paquete Cuidado para el Desarollo Infantil.Read More →
This video explains how play supports children’s overall development and in particular how it supports brain development. Play is like fireworks in the brain as it activates so many different areas of the brain all at once. Read More →
In this video a grandfather and a boy around 12 months roll the ball to each other, while the grandfather “narrates the game”. Grandfather aligns the narration with the boy’s movements, and repeats his words several times. Read More →
Inmediatamente después del nacimiento y en los primeros años de la vida, el cerebro realiza conexiones entre las células cerebrales a muy alta velocidad, y absorbe todo tipo de experiencias: interacciones físicas, las sensaciones del bebé, cómo el bebé procesa lo que está ocurriendo, lo que oye, lo que ve, el contacto físico. Read More →
In this video a facilitator plays with a child under age 3. She lays out pieces of different colored cloths between herself and the child, and invites the child to pick one. The facilitator then proceeds to pick the same color. After a while the child picks out the same cloth color herself. Facilitator talks naturally with the child instead of teaching colors in didactic manner.Read More →
In this video a facilitator plays with a child under age 3. She lays out pieces of different colored cloths between herself and the child, and invites the child to pick one. The facilitator then proceeds to pick the same color. After a while the child picks out the same cloth color herself. Facilitator talks naturally with the child instead of teaching colors in didactic manner.Read More →
