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Stimulating a One-Year-Old - Best Tips to Help Your Baby Master More Firsts - What to Expect

Help your almost-toddler tackle new challenges, hone new skills and master even more new firsts by providing opportunities of all kinds. Learn more about your baby's development at WhatToExpect.com: https://www.whattoexpect.com/toddler/... Download the What to Expect app: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pregn... https://play.google.com/store/apps/de... Heidi Murkoff, creator of What to Expect, is here to guide you through every stage of your baby's life. Watch all of our first year videos:    • Your Baby's First Year   FOLLOW US: Facebook:   / whattoexpectwhenyoureexpecting   Twitter:   / whattoexpect   Pinterest:   / whattoexpect   Instagram:   / whattoexpect   Transcript: First words, first steps — maybe even first fridge-worthy scribble. The developmentally-packed first year finishes up with your baby closing in on or passing some pretty mind blowing milestones, with more super exciting achievements right around the corner. Your almost-toddler, as always, will learn best by doing, but she can only do what she has the opportunity to try. Help your almost-toddler tackle new challenges, hone new skills and master even more new firsts by providing opportunities of all kinds, even when they come with a little measured and carefully-supervised risk. A chance to stop and smell a flower, to peek behind a tree, to scale a pile of couch cushions or climb into the laundry basket, to discover books on the shelf by pulling them out, toys in a bin by dumping them. With so much time spent trying to master mobility, your baby's developmental GPS may have them zooming in on the big motor picture. Still, make sure he breaks for activities that allow him to flex all his muscles, from those in his little fingers and hands to those in his brain, including two he's just discovering for the first time: creativity and imagination. Pull out toys that get your little one moving, but also ones that get her thinking and tinkering. Stimulate fine motor skills with those shape sorters and puzzles that sharpen manual dexterity, spatial awareness and problem solving. Toys that require manipulation, twisting, turning, pushing, pressing, stalking. Let baby make her own kind of music, even if it's not exactly music to your ears. A tambourine or maraca she can shake, a keyboard or xylophone she can bang on, or, at least as satisfying, a metal pot and spoon. Cars, trucks and trains she can push or pull, with passengers she can put in and take out. Balls of all sizes. She's on a roll now. Think dolls, a play house, a play kitchen, pretend food and dishes, a toy phone, a workbench, a doctor's kit to nurture his imagination — serving up a bowl of soup, giving his stuffed giraffe a checkup — while practicing social skills. Play along and you'll help plant even more social seeds: how to take turns and share, how to help others, all about empathy. Of course they'll take time to sprout but your little sprout has to start somewhere. You already know your baby loves smearing yogurt across the highchair table, or body painting with tomato sauce, but did know she's ready to create in other mediums too? Tape a large sheet of paper on the floor and let her go at it with chunky crayons or washable markers. Or try sponge painting - much easier to handle than a paintbrush. It's way too early to school your little one in numbers, but not too soon to start counting out crackers, or teaching concepts of big and little, more and less. Hit the books at story time. There's no better way for baby to discover places and things he'd never see in his own backyard. But also let him pull out books to read to himself. Watch him flip through pages, point out pictures and narrate in a babble all his own. Remember, though your baby skills have grown by leaps and bounds as she totters on the brink of toddlerhood, her attention span definitely hasn't kept up. She'll flip from activity to activity, toy to toy so fast, you'll wonder if she's actually learning from any of them. Don't worry. She is. Just at her own pace, the way it should be. Here's to your amazing achiever.