{Baby Learning} The First Year

My baby is one year old and I think it is time to put this Baby Learning series to rest. I had high hopes of posting weekly and sharing lots of creative activities you could do with your baby. However, that didn’t happen.

While I did share a few activities and wrote about a few topics regarding babies and learning, I feel like I didn’t succeed in what I hoped to accomplish.

When I start thinking like that I have to take a step back and try to get a new perspective. Why did I start writing this series? Did I want you to think I was an awesome mom? Was I just wanting a record of my daughter’s development during her first year? Did I think I would gain new followers?

Honestly, it doesn’t even matter. What matters is what kind of a year my daughter had.

I think it was a pretty awesome year if I do say so myself. 🙂

My little Janna entered this world last April at 6 pounds 10 ounces and slept away most days. One year later she is a 22 pound, smiling, walking, jabbering, clapping, bundle of energy who brightens our day with her sweet smile.

Is Janna a super baby who can read, talk in complete sentences, and solve algebraic equations? Nope and I am perfectly fine with that.

The first year goes so fast and I believe the single most important thing parents can do to help their babies learn is to interact with them. It doesn’t matter if my baby knows more than someone else’s baby. What matters is how I am meeting my baby’s needs and sharing everyday life with her.

By keeping your baby close, providing appropriate play things, and interacting with her through talking, singing, snuggling, etc. you will be teaching your baby the most important thing she needs to know—that you love her.

If you do that, I promise your baby’s first year, and every year, will be great.

Previous Baby Learning Posts

• What to do with your newborn.
• Visual Development
• Mirrors
• Music & Singing
• Involving Baby in Everyday Tasks
• Improvised Baby Gym
• Is my baby on track?
• Sock Ball (a homemade toy)
• Sense of Touch
• Sense of Sight
• Sense of Taste
• Sense of Hearing
• Peek-A-Boo
• Gross Motor Development

If you are interested in reading more of what I have had to say on the topic of babies, then check out my Baby Basics series on my other blog.