What Should My Baby Be Doing?
9 to 12 Months |
How Your Child Will Grow:
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Things You Can Do:
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Physical: Pulls self to sitting and/or standing for short periods of time; creeps or crawls, perhaps backwards at first |
- Provide safe areas for your baby
- Praise their efforts
- Supervise closely in case they fall |
Hand Skills: Picks things up with thumb & forefinger and looks closely at them; places objects in/out of container; can stack two blocks |
- Provide safe objects such as cups, blocks, lids, containers, pots/pans
- Allow practice picking up and drop things |
Language: Copies sounds as clicking and clacking, and words such as “mama” and “dada” |
- Provide sounds and simple words that they can imitate
- Look at simple picture books; point to objects
- Avoid baby talk; Use simple words and short sentences |
Cognition: Understands some simple words such “mommy, daddy, dog, bye” Knows own name |
- Ask your baby to hand you objects and praise them for doing so |
| Social: Plays with family members; gives affection and love; strong eye contact |
- Continue parent-child interactive games (roll a ball, play peek-a-boo)
- Provide with a lot of love / attention |
