How to Help Your Baby Develop Fine Motor Skills Through Play Your baby reaches determinedly towards a sensory prop, grabs it with their whole hand and immediately puts it in their mouth. It might not look particularly sophisticated, especially when the prop then gets dropped, retrieved and dropped again. However, an extraordinary amount of development […]
Bank Holiday with a Baby: Why Parents Need a Village Before having children, a bank holiday often meant a lie-in, a spontaneous day out or the delicious feeling that Sunday had somehow been granted an encore. Then you become a parent. A bank holiday with a baby can look remarkably similar to every other Monday. […]
Why Do Babies Love Being Swung? The Hidden Sense That’s Busy Building Their Brain It’s late August, and if you’re anything like most parents, you’ve probably spent a surprising amount of the summer lifting your little one into the air. Again. And again. Perhaps you’ve carried them on your shoulders around the zoo, gently swung […]
How to Bond With Your Baby: Why That Overwhelming Love Is Helping Their Brain Grow There are moments in parenthood that are impossible to explain until you’ve lived them. You find yourself staring at your sleeping baby for no reason at all. You show friends another photo even though they look almost identical to […]
How Do Babies Learn? What Your Baby Is Really Doing When They Seem to Be “Just Playing” Have you ever watched your baby spend five minutes dropping the same spoon onto the kitchen floor and wondered why they find it so fascinating? Or perhaps you’ve hidden behind your hands during peekaboo for what feels like […]
How Do Babies Learn to Communicate? The Tiny Conversations We’ve Loved Watching This Summer If you’ve joined us for one of our Adventure Babies Summer Specials this year, you’ve probably gone home with sensory rice in your shoes, bubbles clinging to your clothes and at least one photo of your baby making a determined dash […]
How to Help My Baby Learn to Talk: The Secret Isn’t More Talking One of the biggest worries new parents share with us isn’t about nappies or sleep. It’s communication. “Am I talking to my baby enough?” “Should I be reading already?” “They’re seven months old and only squeal… is that normal?” If you’ve ever […]
When Should I Start Reading to My Baby? We’ve Been Championing It Since 2013 When should I start reading to my baby? It’s one of the questions we hear more than almost any other at Adventure Babies. New parents often wonder whether there’s any point reading to a newborn who can’t follow a story, […]
Why Doesn’t My Baby Play With Toys? The Surprising Truth About How Babies Really Learn If you’ve ever wondered why doesn’t my baby play with toys, you’re in very good company. Every week at Adventure Babies, we meet parents who worry because their baby seems far more interested in chewing a book, watching a ribbon […]
