I keep getting a lot of questions from parents, especially that of infants and toddlers about introducing basic concepts like vocabulary, colours, body parts etc to their children. There alwasy seems to be a confusion on what to teach first and how to progress further.

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Parents tend to end up teaching alphabet, numbers etc when there are lot more that an infant can learn before that.

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Some of the parents seem to have introduced concepts way before the child was actually ready to learn those concepts. This creates issues like - child learning things incorrectly or getting confused.

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Here is a list of things I would introduce to a baby in the following hierarchy:

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1. Vocabulary - Words, Words, Lot of words! 

2. Body Parts

3. Household items / Things in the house

4. Vegetables

5. Fruits

6. Animals

7. Birds

8. Flowers

9. Vehicles

10. Colours

11. Puzzles - Peg, Inset, Jigsaw

12. Stacking

13. Sorting

14. Seriation

15. Patterns / Visual Discrimination

16. Numbers

17. Alphabet

18. Pattern Sequences

19. Prepositions / Spatial reasoning

20. Counting

21. Phonics / Reading

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