Choose high contract books to your baby
As a parent, we are bombarded with so much information about children. But you should not miss out on this activity because it has huge benefit to your babies! What is it?
it is read aloud to your baby!
Reading to your baby
Reading aloud to your baby is one of the greatest things that you can do for your baby. It has so many benefits that you do not want to miss it out on it.
Reading aloud stimulates:
i. language skills,
ii. cognitive thinking skills
iii. enhances memories
These are the skills that will help children to develop curiosity and creative exploration of the world around them.
If you think reading to baby is not necessary because they cannot respond verbally, you are wrong.
“Even though children may not be talking yet, that doesn’t mean they’re not learning,” says developmental psychologist Carolyn Cates, a research assistant professor in the department of pediatrics at NYU Langone Medical Center.
Psychologist Anne Fernald of Stanford University has shown that “a child’s mental processing speed is shaped through rich engagement with language.”
Choose high contrast book for baby
Even though children may not be talking yet, that doesn’t mean they’re not learning
What type of books that are suitable for your baby? Based on the research, infants prefer to look at high contrast images. Black and white combination is the best for your baby. (Frantz 1962; Salapatek, P.H., Kessen, W. 1966)
By showing black and white images to them, this will promote visual stimulation to the babies. Visual stimulation will help in neural development, which is important for the baby’s vision.
— Source: Lewis and Maurer, 2009Hence, it is perfect to choose black and white book for your baby
High contrast black and white book is the best for you baby
References:
1. Cates, Carolyn Brockmeyer, Adriana Weisleder, and Alan L. Mendelsohn. "Mitigating the effects of family poverty on early child development through parenting interventions in primary care." Academic pediatrics 16.3 (2016): S112-S120.
2. High, Pamela C., and Perri Klass. "Literacy promotion: an essential component of primary care pediatric practice." Pediatrics 134.2 (2014): 404-409.
3. Source: Fantz, R. “Maturation of Pattern Vision in Young Infants.” Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, Vol. 55 (1962), p. 907.
4. Lewis, T.L. and Maurer, D. (2009) “Effects of early pattern deprivation on visual development,” Optometry and Vision Science, 86(6), pp. 640–646.
We would like to give credit to Psychology Today , KMWade.com and KidsHealth.Org for compiling the research. You may visit the article here.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/brain-waves/201705/the-magic-reading-aloud-babies
https://kmwade.com/reading/black-and-white-baby-books/
https://kidshealth.org/en/parents/reading-babies.html