How to Develop Your Baby's Intelligence
We have often heard that babies can learn many things inside the womb. But once they are born, there are different techniques you can use to develop your baby’s intelligence.
The techniques to develop and enhance our children’s intelligence are varied but simple. All of them are extremely positive for the baby.
If they are applied from an early age, you will help your child become not only intelligent, but happy and united with his parents.
Would you like to know how to develop your baby’s intelligence? Here are some techniques, both during gestation and after delivery.
There is always a moment in childhood when the door opens and lets in the future.
-Graham Greene-
The Tomatis method to stimulate intelligence
With more than 50 years of research, Dr. Alfred A. Tomatis founded the discipline of audio psychophonology. This research brings together fields of study related to perception, communication and listening.
Music stimulates babies from an early age. Dr. Tomatis believes that the ear has many more functions than have been discovered. In addition to listening and helping maintain balance, the auditory sense increases the brain’s electrical potential.
He concluded that the ear can help to enhance learning and overall development, and that it can be stimulated by certain sounds. It improves communication and learning, mainly in infants and young children, as well as improving motor skills and balance.
What is the Tomatis method?
The Tomatis method consists of a musical therapy based on listening to compositions by Mozart, Gregorian chants and the mother’s voice, even in the uterus.
Through this method, we want to avoid a relaxation of the muscles of the middle ear that some babies can develop unconsciously, blocking certain sound stimuli.
The little ones are fitted with headphones that reproduce the sounds, filtered at certain high frequencies, which Dr. Tomatis considers to be the natural ones in the development of hearing.
You can also develop the ear of your baby while he is in the womb, listening to the aforementioned songs.
Studies confirm that Mozart’s music has a direct influence on the development of babies, both creatively and intellectually. Psychologists, educators, speech therapists and doctors recommend this treatment.
Now you know some excellent techniques to stimulate your baby’s intelligence in the womb. Listening to Mozart can develop your baby’s hearing from a very early age.
Now we present the simplest tips to develop and enhance your baby’s intelligence.
How to develop your baby’s intelligence
1. Create a bond with your baby
According to Tracy Cutchlow, author of the book “Brain Rules for Babies,” the brain is looking for safety, and if it does not perceive a safe environment, it is much harder to learn. It is very important to provide security for your child.
One of the safest ways to provide security for your baby is to maintain a strong relationship with your partner. Also, talking to your baby frequently and establishing skin-to-skin contact is an excellent way to build a bond with your baby.
2. Tell him how your day was
One of the ways you can develop your baby’s intelligence is to talk to him a lot while he is in the womb. Studies confirm it can help your baby talk more by the age of 3.
Everything varies from the number of words and their complexity. When you tell your baby about your day, you give him many words that work perfectly.
3. Communicate with him “face to face”
If this means making funny faces at your baby, do it! This is an excellent way to develop his intelligence. According to studies, babies begin to recognize facial expressions at 3 or 4 months of age. At 5 months they can recognize emotions in faces, and between 7 and 9 months they can understand the gestures of a dog or monkey.
Verbal communication will allow your baby to work better in a team in the future, with fewer arguments and stronger relationships.
4. Point out objects
Studies confirm that babies learn much faster if you point out objects to them. First your baby will look at you when you signal something to him, but as he grows up he will begin to look at the objects. After 9 months, he will be the one who shows you the objects. Always try to point things out to him.
With these tips, it will be much easier to obtain the results you want. The important thing is that you enjoy spending time with your baby as much as possible.
You will see that you can strengthen the bond between mother and child and that you will deepen the emotional bond too. Go for it!
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