Educating A 0-2 Year Old

1. Play with sand, bubbles, grass and plasticine.
- To stimulate motor and sensory skills.

2. Don't Encourage Them to Stare at Things in a Box
- TV, tablet, phone, games.
- No more than 10 minutes at a time and you need to be with him. Watch with him and point out the characters or interact with the 'box'.
- Too much 'box time' is bad for their eyes nerves stimulation. No rolling motion of the eyes.

3. Stimulate Their Imitation Skills.
- For brain development.
- More imitation games, more vocabularies, sharper and quicker mind.
- Close open.
- Say a word, repeat.
- Draw one shape, ask him to copy.
- Face mimicking, sad, happy, laugh, angry.
- Simple task like stacking pillows or box.
- Sing a song, ask him to copy or finish the lyrics of the song.
- Dance.
- Crawling is very good for infants. The longer the infants crawl the better. They are more genius and creative.

4. Focus on Toys, not Superheroes/Monsters/Princess
- Toys are ABC blocks, 123 blocks, lego, shape blocks, animals, vehicles, colours etc.
- To enrich their vocabularies.
- Prevent superheroes, princess or fictions. They'll live in fantasy world and cannot relate to reality.

5. Teach them WORDs, not sentence.
- Elephant, not 'that is elephant' or, 'wow, you see that big elephant'
- Once they're good with the words, teach them adjectives like "tall giraffe, big elephant, beautiful butterfly, yellow bird."
- Avoid using this, that, and, with.
- Order them by saying, SIT, EAT, QUIET. not 'come and sit'. or 'please be quiet'.

6. Power of High Five
- If the child is scared of strangers, ask the stranger to high five the child.
- The kid becomes scared after many bad experiences like going to doctors, forced fed medicine or getting vaccine shots.
- Instead of hug and kissing, ask your family members to high five your kid.

7. Explain instead of Getting Mad

8. Overly Attached to One Person
- A sign of low self-esteem.
- Your child needs to be friendly with everyone.

9. Follow His Interest
- Dont ask him to cook when he is in the mood for trucks.
- Maximum brain development happen when he is doing the thing he loves.

10. Options of Answer
- "Why are you crying?"
- Dont let it go unanswered.
- Instead, give him a choice to choose.
- "Did you fall? Stomach ache? You miss daddy? Are you bored?"
- Even a nod is good enough. Sooner or later he will learn how to answer.