Aloysius' learning opportunity at 11mth+.

Lately, Aloysius is not interested in any of his toys during his meals. So my mum has resorted to putting pieces of food for him to pick up to feed himself. While he is concentrating on improving his motor skills by picking food up, he will open his mouth to be fed. Hahaha… In order for him to pick one piece as long as possible, my mum started to give him smaller and smaller pieces. Good challenge, eh? He loves his Organix oat biscuits, hence we gave him pieces of biscuits to pick. When it got to the very small piece, guess what he did? Do a guess first…. Hahaha…. He actually used his pointer finger to press on the biscuit to let it stick on his finger and put the biscuit into his mouth. Very cute, isn’t it? Today, he has mastered the art of picking up tofu with his fingers to feed himself. It’s not easy, cos tofu will be mashed up when too much strength is used. It was so fun giving him these type of challenges. Another opportunity for his motor skills development.

I also have been doing his ESP home practice using his favourite Vitality Plus (VP)! I will prepare two caps for bottles. I will vary the sizes daily. Then I will put his all time favourite VP under one of the cap for him to “guess” where is his VP. And he got it right all the time! It’s amazing, isn’t it? He took no effort to remove the cap some more. Hahaha… Then he will pick up the VP to feed himself. Nowadays, he’s very fast in picking up and feeding himself the VP. Last week, he could pick it up, but missed his mouth sometimes. Perhaps will cut his VP into half next to make it more challenging. This morning, I gave him two at one go. He picked one with each hand, then put both hands towards his mouth. He could not decide which one to eat first. He turned his head left and right with his two little hands near his mouth. Hahaha… It was so funny. In the end, he put both sides into his mouth. He knows how to chew now, and he loves chewing his VP! According to Shichida's book, chewing should be encouraged, cos it will enhance the language development. Do start to encourage chewing as young as possible if you want your baby to be able to speak faster... :)