Bright Stars Toys

My mother and I have had this debate today. My daughter was bought a deck ... he parrots hung, lights flashing, and all sorts of things. It is not big enough to do it again, but loves his play mat, same scenario ... bright colors and flashing a big star on top. he loves. My mother commented that there are too many things these days that is made of pre-occupy baby and she wondered if there was a link with all the bright, flashy stuff and children who exposed for 24 / 7 W / small 1: 1 W / parents.
Whoa, I just read, I hope that makes sense.
I mean, I'm excited when I find something like Maggie (his mat, for example) but I think my mother has a point. Maybe there are too many "strong" stuff. Do you think too much exposure can lead to hyperactivity in a child later on the road?

I read my old books for human development of the university (although they are not as obsolete) and studies in the early 80s showed that children who spent more time alone on-one with mom did worse on tests of intelligence and stages of development that are only spent about 10-50% on an individual basis to play with Mom. They reason is because the child learns to do things for themselves and develop problem solving skills and ability to play much better than the child who can count on Mom to do everything for them. This time does not include feeding / changing / bathroom routines or night, but the time during the day, they play with Mom.

I made myself when my son was learning to ride. He could move back to the belly first though, when he settled on his stomach, it would be stories and I'll return. The restless changed to a more "Hey, I turned over, I just go back in time kind of cry" and one day (after about three weeks of that) I left for a bit. It got frustrated right, but guess what, he rolled back over. He just tried to make me roll over a few times after that and now he has just reversed when he wants.

My son has a deck activity, bright colors, flashing lights, music and other sounds and he loves it. But it lets me know when he is finished playing it. There are other times, just sit quietly and watch it in what is happening around him. He does not play with toys because they are there, it does when it wants. I do not recommend the position of the shower when they are there, you really should do when the baby is free. You never know how long they will be happy there, sometimes it's 10 minutes, sometimes it's 30. Nothing worse than turning off the shower and hearing your baby scream because they do not want to be in their toy.

By all means spend much time with your baby, but when you find activities enjoys independent, then let him as well. You can not bring your child to become hyperactive in my case, it is an inbred line, may be genetic and sometimes children who do not understand the discipline may be misdiagnosed as hyper. But plenty of flash, such as flashing lights let you know if your child has epilepsy, but you do not see too many toys for infants with strobe lights. The lights on the baby toys are relatively slow, colorful and easy to watch.

Babies show signs when they are over-stimulated. They cry, turn away from the stimuli and avoid eye contact.
My first daughter was a preemie and it was something of ICU nurses made us very aware.

So I would just watch for signs of over stimulation and allow time for a little external stimulation for her to learn to cope with changes in its environment.

Good question. In fact, I wondered if this kind of thing - I think we have the same bouncer -.