Have a smart child techniques

BrilliantBaby.com Recommendations (2 months old)

• Make sure she is alert with wide eyes open.
• Make your voice as animated and enthusiastic as possible.
• Make funny faces so she can imitate you.
• Make her smile and grin as often as possible.
• Call her name as often as possible.
• Keep talking to her and describe what you are doing
• Avoid background noises so she can focus at one sound at a time
• Use short phrases and sentences and keep repeating them
• Sing or recite a rhyming poem as often as possible
• Avoid shrill loud voices or noises.
• Read to her as often as possible.
• Recognize her early signs of being bored, tired, hunger, and sleepiness and stop your learning interactions when these signs start to show physical play is her enjoyment; pat her feet, tickle her belly, count toes and fingers, massage her head.
• Play coordinated with animated verbal interactions stimulates her orbitofrontal cortex which is extremely important in the formation of attachment.
• Play combined with an enthusiastic voice of the parent is the root of a trusting relationship
• Creating a daily series of shared attentions, physical play, and animated interactions between you and her builds a strong foundation for emotional, cognitive, language, and quantitative development in the future
• Avoid using the television or video at all cost to stop your baby from crying or for any activities at all

• Enjoys very much attention from parents
• Smiles more if you smiles to her
• Begins to amuse herself when left alone by looking & tracking objects
• Looks at you while you feed and talk to her
• Makes gazes and little sounds that are directed at adults

• Distinguishes between people, voices, & tastes
• Discriminate between female and male voice
• Can distinguish between sequences of disyllables and sequences of trisyllables.
• Detect changes of phonemes better when they occur as part of short sentences than in a lists of words.
• Likes listening to music & song
• Uses the left hemisphere of the brain more for speech discrimination.
• Uses the right hemisphere of the brain more for musical sounds.
• Controls vision more accurately and looks at an object moved in a pattern
• Becomes excited in anticipation such as the sight of the bottle
• Begins to coordinate her senses by turning & looking toward sounds

• Moves her eyes to search for the source of a sound or noise
• Uses a couple of distinct but meaningless sounds
• Becomes quiet when she is lifted
• Looks at gestures and body language of parents talking to her
• Makes cooing, repetitive vowel sounds when happy
• May develop special vocalization indicating hunger
• Repeats sounds or coos when parent smiles & talks to her
• May demand attention by vocal fussing
• More responsive to mothers facial expression than anybody else
• More inclined to smile at familiar adults than stranger

• Begins hand control
• Opens hand with fingers getting flexible
• Grasp reflex is gone
• Close fingers around an object placed in her palm & bring to face
• Tries but can't reach accurately for a toy

• Holds a small toy for a few seconds
• Lifts head off the mattress when on belly position
• Some control over arms & legs
• Neck may support the weight of her head when she is carried
• Can turn her head towards a rattle or light
• May visually follow a moving object
• Has vigorous kicking during bath, a good indication of muscle development