Promoting Independence

Promoting Independence to a Baby: A Reflection

The course of Bunda Sayang Class for this month is about promoting independence. I agree that independence should be encouraged to children. Promoting independence to children from a young age will shape the children to be a self-reliant individual. The ProcessThe challenge of promoting independence is up for one month.

Promoting Independent Dressing to a Baby: Putting a Jacket On

Initially, today Mama plans to introduce Alula on how to put her legs through leggings. However, the plan needs to be postponed as we don't have enough time for it. Today Alula went to Singapore Jurong Bird Park. We left early in the morning as it's a bit cloudy. We

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Promoting Independent Dressing to a Baby: Putting Arms through Sleeves

Thanks to the Body Part song, Alula now recognizes her head and hands (at least). That's great because now Mama can introduce Alula to be more 'helpful' on dressing times as part of promoting independent dressing to her. For the past two days, Mama has been introducing Alula how to

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Promoting Independent Dressing to a Baby: Pull T-shirt Off the Head

Mama is now repeating the body parts song over and over to Alula - before the bath, during the diaper change, even while prepping Lulu to sleep. She loves it when I sing while demonstrating the body parts being mentioned. Sometimes I demonstrate it on me, and sometimes I touch

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Promoting Independent Dressing to a Baby: Pulling Off the Socks

It's the second day of promoting independent dressing to Alula. The agenda is only to introduce her of what she can do by herself. The practices will go along in our daily activities together. Yesterday's introduction went quite well. When I sing the body parts song today, Alula is so

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Promoting Independent Dressing to a Baby: Introduction to Body Parts

Alula has been learning to feed herself quite well. Next week she's turning 9 months. According to The Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning, children in this age range (8-18 months) often can help undress and dress, put foot in shoe and arm in sleeve. I

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Promoting Self-Feeding to a Baby: The Small Puffs

I'm so amazed on how baby could develop her skills over the months. Particularly while observing Alula and her self-feeding activities. During almost three months, her skill develops tremendously. I still remember the first day she took solid, she struggled handling the food in her hand. Not to mention aiming

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Promoting Self-Feeding to a Baby: The Pincer Grasp

From what I learn during Alula's meal time so far is: baby has a natural ability to eat. Just like how they breastfeed, sit, crawl and so on. We just have to introduce the skill to them and giving few examples at the beginning. My baby is developing her pincer

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Promoting Self-Feeding to a Baby: Giving Example

Alula starts to feed herself since the very first day when she took solids. From that very first day too, we try our best to have our meal time together with her as a family. Be it at home, at the restaurants, at the food court, even at friends' house.

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Promoting Self-Feeding to a Baby: Introducing of New Food

Meal preparation for BLW baby is relatively easy. Baby's meal menu is often according to the family meal, only without salt and sugar. So there is no need to serve special food for baby Lulu. I give her as many food as possible to explore, as long as it's healthy.

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Promoting Self-Feeding to a Baby: Learning to Chew

Alula has been eating solids since two months ago. I encourage her to self-fed herself as I wanted her to be independent and have a good self-confidence. It turns out that our feeding method corresponds to the release of The Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning