Provide opportunities for your baby to explore the outside environment. Talk to your baby about what is happening.
Being outdoors offers many new things for children 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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