Babies Growth & Development

Nurture plays a role in offering various opportunities for exploration and movement, and in modulating the pace and perhaps the style with which motor behaviours are expressed. The social context can either subdue and temper or evoke and encourage the way babies maneuver through their environment.

At birth, an infant's voluntary muscle responses are poorly coordinated. Most early motor responses appear to be reflexive, meaning that a specific stimulus will evoke a particular motor response without any voluntary control or direction. Many of these built-in responses help infants survive and lead them to developing more complicated sequences of voluntary behaviour. For example, the sucking reflex.

Babies have been shown to use their mouths to explore objects that they can identify visually. Babies' reflexes include sucking, grasping, rooting(turning the head in the direction of the cheek that is stroked), coughing and stepping. Voluntary reaching begins as the child tries to make contact with objects on the same side of the body as the outstretched hand. By 4 months babies will reach for objects placed on the same side, the opposite side, or in the middle of the body. By this age, babies have also become skilled in using both hands to hold an object, so that they are more able to keep the object close enough to investigate. Between 5-7 months, babies become increasingly accurate at reaching and grasping a moving object, alternating hands to intercept an object by anticipating the direction of its movement. By 12 months, babies have mastered the pincer grasp, using the index finger and thumb to pick tiny things. With this advance, they can also manipulate things by lifting latches, turning knobs, and placing small things inside bigger things and trying to get them out again. These activities give the baby new information about how object work and how they relate to one another.

Parents are often amazed at the fast growth and development of their baby. Babies' response to their environment is so amazing and many parents want to capture this special process of growth and development of their babies. Almost every parents nowadays take photographs and even take videos of their babies during their developmental stages. It is a joy and pride to see their babies growing healthily and happily. Most parents would want to spread and share their babies photographs with friends and families at Baby Photo Gallery. These are online community places where all parents can gather to exchange ideas, answer each other's questions and find answers to many puzzling questions which they might have when it comes to raising their children. For example, Soothing Your Crying Baby.

Our Natural Resource

WHAT ARE NATURAL RESOURCES??
Natural Resources can be living or non-living things. An example of the live is wildlife, where both plants and animals live in natural habitats or homes. Domesticated animals, i.e. animals reared by Man for food, are not natural resources.
The soil, minerals, air and water are all examples of non-living natural resources.Can you think of others???

Anything that comes from nature and is useful to Man is a natural resource. Its is not made or processed by Man.

Search Your Dreams

I have many dreams and that is part of the reason why I have this blog. I like to dream too. Not able to own what I want, but fantasizing them in my dreams is nice too. Dreams will not turn into reality if you do not do anything about.

I learned that we need to seek for our dreams. We need to search for it. Searching can be of various ways. If you are a business person, a new search engine known as Masterseek would be able to help you. Masterseek is a new global business search engine. Masterseek provides quick and free access to company profiles, contact information, and descriptions of products and services from more than 45 million companies in 75 countries. You can also search in your own country or worldwide and find business partners, sales opportunities and new avenues to expand your business and increase your company’s profitability. Enter your company profile and showcase your products and services to the global community! Make your business dreams come true!

My Poll

Hey everybody, check out this cool site Quibblo.com, a brand new website, where users can create and share their own polls, quizzes, surveys, and personality tests. I have signed up as a member with them. Signing up is fast and easy. Upon signing up, I immediately received the confirmation email. After which I login to my account and I can see four cool things which I can create -- create poll, survey, quiz and category!

After I had signed in, I create my profile and I can choose to take quiz or create quiz. It is so exciting and I cannot wait to try it out. I like to create quiz and I tried to create quiz first. I like the poll best and below is what I have created. I like to gather information and this is just what I want to find out what people view about schooling.

Do you like schooling

	I like school, looking forward everyday!
	Yes, school is fun!
	No, school is boring!
	Nothing better to do?
	If only no exams!

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After I had done with this poll, I tried taking quiz. There are Tag Cloud and a list of recent quiz and popular quiz for you to take. My poll was listed in there too. I browse through the list and I saw this, 'Was Shrek the Third as Good as the the First Two?' I click on "No" and to my amazement, there was a absolute 100% 'No' to this poll!

Next I tried the popular quiz. I click on 'What is the first thing you do after starting up your computer?'. I thought this is very interesting. My answer is open my web browser. I was excited about seeing the answers. I want to see how everybody did generally. The answer is interesting. Majority of people(41%) check their email and second being opening the browser(22%). The others is not of interest to me.

I think this is really a good site, a place to have fun and have your curiosities answered. I am definitely going to tell my sister and friends about it.