Create an inviting environment for your baby to explore. For example, hang mobiles and pictures for your baby to look at, touch and explore. Change materials and toys in your baby's environment on a regular basis.
Providing new things for the baby to look at and engage with stimulates the initiative to explore. Curiosity and initiative to carry out creative exploration is fuelled when children encounter new things that behave in unexpected ways.
Researchers found that when infants see something surprising, such as a ball passing through a solid wall, they focus more on that ball and learn more about it by testing relevant hypotheses about the ball's surprising behaviour. For instance, infants may bang the ball to test if it was solid. Hence, caregivers who provide children with occasions to explore novel objects or be exposed to familiar environments with some changes, help to develop children’s initiative to explore and their problem-solving abilities.
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