learning about colors

I read somewhere in a few weeks back about the right time in teaching babies about colors. In that article, the writer said, we should teach them about colors as young as age 10 months old. It much easier to teach them at early age simply because they are much capable of learning about everything. Haris is 14 months old now and I hope it is not too late to teach him about it. Typical me, procrastinating about some important matters.


Today I had an ample time to sit Haris in his highchair and taught him about colors. At first, I showed him three blocks with the different colors. I taught him a couple of time while saying yellow block, red block and blue block. After a while, I asked him to give me the blocks based on the colors code, and guess what? He gave me the right colors everytime I asked him and dare I said he did that perfectly.


From this day onwards, I will say to him every colors involve in our daily life to make him familiar with them. I was thinking about teaching him colors when I dress him ..yeah, why not?


Hey you people, do you realize that baby wants to learn everything. They want to touch, taste and hear everything. They learn by playing day by day. They keep learning while they are awake. So, it is important to teach them the right way since they are a baby. When they are in the middle of playing, we need to refrain ourselves from getting our hands on their activities. In example, if they fall down, do not straightaway helping them out. Lets them learn the consequences from their actions. For me, I always keep my eyes on him from afar and give him a chance to get creative by using their little mind to think. Thinking in the terms of baby's world.


Ok, enough of this talk and rambling,


Here are the pics of him . Making his first art by using colors..









Tips perhaps- I realize something though in this parenting world. We have two choices in watching our baby's growing up. It is either we just watch them without having any ideas about their development pace or we, gain a knowledge about their world by subscribing, browsing or reading to track their milestone. So , from there, we can track their development pace whether they are beyond or behind the milestone for the age of the babies in their same age and group.


p.s- Oh do not worry peeps, the colors are suitable and safe for the babies and the kids. Those are water based colors and we can get rid of the colors easily by using water.


And, I could tell it was just about the right time to stop when he started walking around in the house and left his colorful footprints everywhere on the floor..Time to tidy up for mama ;-)