Provide interesting and age-appropriate toys and objects for exploration without overstimulating your baby. Remove distracting items and loud noises which may prevent them from staying on task.
While young children cannot attend to objects or people for very long periods, they build this skill through early experiences. Infants demonstrate an initial interest in their world by simply observing. They focus on faces, high-contrast patterns, sounds, and, eventually, specific objects.
When their motor skills start to develop, they will begin to display goal-directed, persistent behaviour in which they actively explore the features of objects, for example, by turning, banging, shaking or pushing buttons in purposeful ways to achieve effects. At approximately six months, most infants display this purposeful manipulation of objects.
At a very young age, children cannot sustain attention for very long. Caregivers can help them develop persistence in learning by observing the child as they explore, and reducing distractions in the environment that prevent them from focusing on the task at hand.
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