Thursday, April 28, 2011

Early Childhood Development with Activity Gyms

By Jim Baebe


Everyone knows that fitness makes a happy body, helping people stay in shape and be happy. This also is true for your newborn child. They'll need proper exercise to grow and become strong healthy people.

Keeping up with your kids and the rate at which they grow is a huge task and more difficult when parents are working full time or more! While new parents are lucky to have a slew of options when it comes to tools to assist them in this responsibility, it can often be difficult to choose which is best for their children.

Baby gyms or as they are also called, activity gyms are one of the best tools available for getting your child the stimulation they need. Not only will these gyms stimulate the child physically by allowing them to push, pull, grab, hang or maybe even swing if they're a bit of a prodigy, the gyms also will exercise the mind!

Most activity gyms come in a flood of colors that will help your child distinctly recognize color, shapes and sizes. There are only so many possibilities when it comes to giving your baby type of device to play on without the risk of injury and these baby activity gyms are the number one choice.

Right from birth your baby will benefit from this stimulation, and after a month or so they should respond well to both colors and sounds. However, increased energy levels and rapid growth mean that you will likely face an ever changing challenge to regulate a schedule of activities that will ensure your child's continued well-being and provide them the best start in life. An additional benefit of allowing your baby to burn off excess energy is that it can also help to establish a regular sleeping schedule.

While shopping for your baby's gym be sure to check out amazing options from Baby Einstein, Fisher Price, Cariboo, Infantino, Skip Hop or Little Tikes. Explore all the offerings from musical gyms to those with flashing lights. There are large and small and medium too, there's simple and complex to those that are practically self contained.

Find the right gym for your child's unique preference. In order for your child to love playing with the gym they'll need to love something about it! So maybe it's a cow or maybe it's an airplane but every child loves something so don't stop looking until you find the right one.




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