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Join Date: 17 Oct 2010
Location:  Saudi ArabiaPosts: 38 |
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Childhood Development-7(When does a child start learning?) |
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Ever wondered when babies start learning? Get the lowdown on when the learning process starts and how you can help enhance it.
It would seem logical to think that babies first start learning when they’re born, but in fact the learning process actually starts much earlier than this. Believe it or not, but babies begin to learn when they’re still a small foetus in their mothers womb. Various studies have shown that this is the case. For example, in one study by doctors in the Netherlands, they were able to tell that unborn babies were learning how to remember and react to certain sounds, when they were aged between 37 and 40 weeks. Other research by experts in Canada and China found that an unborn baby is able to recognise its mothers voice by the third trimester of pregnancy. Not only was the recognition there, but it’s believed that this can help babies to learn and develop their first inklings of language ability at a very early stage. Studies such as these emphasise the importance for mums and dads-to-be to talk to their baby, even when they’re still in the womb. As well as helping the bonding process – a baby will have built-up a recognition of your voices, so they’re familiar when you talk to him when he’s born – but it could also help lay vital foundations for the later development of language and talking skills. In the same way that babies can recognise voices in the womb, it’s also been found that they respond to music too. This is why many parents play music, such as classical music or their favourite rock hits, to their babies during pregnancy. Once they are born, you may find they have already developed pre-requisite likes or dislikes to certain pieces of music after hearing them in the womb. |
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Last Edited: Mon, 25 Oct 2010, 11:11 pm
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