Striking things with both hands

When your baby reaches three to four months-of- age, it’s important to hang toys that can be batted or struck above where the baby lies.

Your baby will focus his/her eyes on the toys and look at them gleefully. After several random strikes, baby will begin to understand that it is possible to control the process, and the random strikes become more and more intentional.

Once hand-eye coordination has improved and is established, babies are not happy just to bat at a toy. They want to touch the objects so they begin to assess the distance between themselves and the object that they want to touch. They move their eyes from their hands to the object, and back again, many times and only then, once they have assessed the distance, they put their hands out and touch the object. Gradually, this process becomes more accurate and they can stretch out their hands directly to the object and touch it without hesitation.

At about five to six months, babies can bring their hands directly to an object within reach, and have even learned to grasp at just the right moment and … catch and hold on to the desired object.

From the age of about four months your baby starts bringing the object he is holding in his hands to his mouth. During the first year, baby’s mouth plays an important role in his development. Babies examine, explore and discover the world around them with their mouths. Later, from about six months, their hands also join in and they begin to examine the objects that they are holding – to touch, tap, rub, stroke, squeeze and so on. By now, hand-eye coordination is already established, and babies can move on and begin to improve their fine motor movements and skills,-- the coordination between both hands, and their hand-eye coordination involving more difficult tasks. Hand-eye coordination continues improving over many years.

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