In four months the kid is actively interested in everything that surrounds him. Vision has already developed quite well, and the little one can look around the whole room. So it's time to spend a small family member a tour of the house, showing, naming and letting feel different objects.
The four-month-old man is already able to admire the view from the window, in the summer can walk in the street on the pens in adults. The Kid already distinguishes colors, so it's time to show the first books with pictures to the crumb. This activity drags children for a long time.
A crumb at 4 months is already very well developed hearing. Children with pleasure listen to classical music, children's songs.
The sign that the psychomotor development of the child is correct for 4 months is the reaction to the music: the kid begins to actively move his legs and arms, having heard his favorite melody.
Sometimes children "sing-along" - they make melodic sounds, sometimes they say syllables.
Mental development of the child at 4 months already allows him to recognize his loved one's invoices, children show motor activity after hearing a familiar tone.
When doctors answer the question of what a child should be able to do in 4 months, the boy is a girl or a girl, until there is no difference. Differences in the development of children of different sex will appear later.
The child at this time learns to express his feelings in other ways, except crying: from 3 to 4 months the development of emotions crumbs get a powerful push.
More and more often parents notice a smile on the face of their child;
Few children already know how to laugh, but the acquisition of this skill at the age of four months is considered to be ahead of peers in development.
The kid expresses his joy and pleasure, jerking his hands and legs;
Children go for walks (they pronounce sounds, syllables, they can intonationally show their indignation);
Children at 4 months recognize those relatives who are seen every day. A person who visits a baby once a week is already perceived as an outsider. Noticing the new face, the kid quiets down and for some time he studies it intently.
Babies need different time to get used to a stranger: someone immediately lets you take yourself on pens, someone will weep from the appearance of a stranger in the room. All these manifestations are normal and indicate the development of the emotional sphere of the little man.
Guests should be patient and not insist on communicating with the baby, and after a while, new faces will become familiar to him and will not cause fear.
Psychologists believe that the formation of human speech begins in the prenatal period. At 4 months, parents enjoy the first results of their efforts.
The kid has long been pleased with his vocalizations - singing sounds, issued during the waking period. At 4 months, the crumb for the first time tries to pronounce syllables. The children get something like "ma", "pa", "ba", "gu".
To develop speech more actively, often talk with the baby, showing different subjects, say what they are called, why they are needed.
Babies absorb information all the time. There are amazing stories when two-year-olds tell the whole story of the borscht cooking recipe or they know the basic principles of engine operation.
It's very good if you read books to a toddler, you tell poetry. Kids love to listen to songs performed by adults.
To develop a dialogue skill, you can play with the baby in the next game: looking at the crumb in the face, say a phrase. It is necessary to speak emotionally, clearly articulating sounds. The kid will answer you with his "phrase." Be sure to listen to the crumb until the end and continue the dialogue. This game is well-developed speech skills and very like children.
Another game - "Speak like a child." It is similar to the previous one. Suggest the baby a phrase. When he answers, repeat the sounds he will say. In response, the little man again "say something". You can play this game indefinitely.
The development of the child is individual: some in the fourth month of life have all the basic skills that are important for this age, others outstrip their peers, and others - just a little underdog. In the latter case, do not worry immediately, maybe the little one just needs to be paid a little more attention.
There are features of the development of the child that make it clear that the formation of basic skills in crumbs at 4 months is wrong and requires serious medical intervention:
- the baby still does not hold the head;
- you did not notice the manifestation of emotions in the crumb;
- there is no reaction to close people, the kid does not express his joy, does not come alive;
- baby is not interested in toys;
- sounds, music, voice leave the baby indifferent, the little man does not respond to his name;
- there is no walking;
- Smiles are rare, seemingly scattered, not caused by anything from outside;
- the baby does not show motor activity;
- wandering gaze; there is no focus on any one thing.
At least one of these symptoms is an occasion to appeal to a pediatrician. The doctor can immediately exclude severe diagnoses, send for an additional examination or prescribe a treatment. Fortunately, most of the problems at this age are successfully compensated if they are engaged in adjusting the development of their crumbs.
It should be remembered that the development of a premature baby 4 months of life does not happen in the same way as in babies born on time.
Neurologists sometimes, it was supposed to be born. Therefore, there are no strict standards for the development of premature babies.
It is believed that by the fourth month of life, "hurry" babies know how to hold ahead, smile and fix.