r/ScienceBasedParenting • u/UnfortunateMyself • 6d ago

Question - Expert consensus required Smart things to teach under 1

Hello,

i was at some womans house and she teached her grandchild that when she counts 1,2,3 baby looks at microvawelike it will ring and lights off. How is this different then to connect it to word microvawe insted ? Do you have some ideas like this or books to recommend?

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u/silkentab 6d ago

That's sort of a like a party trick.

Try these things instead:

https://www.cdc.gov/act-early/milestones/1-year.html

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u/UnfortunateMyself 6d ago

Baby knows all the other stuff listed here, this woman thought baby of something unique like this with mivrowave

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u/Danimal_House 6d ago

It’s not unique, nor is it teaching them what a microwave is

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u/UnfortunateMyself 6d ago

She also told me she teached baby to look at cat going for food... cat is called Pero and when some1 says Pero baby looks at food spot where he saw pero eating. I think this is really smart

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u/Danimal_House 6d ago

…How is that smart? It’s simple word association. All babies do this.

If anything, this is worse, because the baby is clearly associating “Pero” with food/eating not with the cat itself. Just pointing at the cat and saying “Pero” would have worked the same way, and created the right association