Sensory/ Intellectual
explore cause-and-effect through dropping games and other activities
Physical
try feeding herself using a pincer grasp
Language
listen selectively to commonly used words
Dropping Games
This month your baby will enjoy dropping things and watching them fall. Pick it up and he'll drop it again.
Amazing as it seems, dropping helps your baby to understand an object's characteristics. Your baby is also learning that his actions make things happen. This is the scientific principle known as cause-and-effect. And your baby is developing a memory of the object. Remembering that it still exists as it falls through the air and lands on the floor.
Reaching with One Hand
As your baby masters sitting up, you'll notice that he's beginning to grab things with one hand, instead of two. This step allows your little guy to make all kinds of new discoveries. Holding a toy with only one hand means that he can use the other to do something useful. Push a button, for example, or pull a lever. In the next few months, he'll get much better at using his hands as tools.
Fingers are tools, too. Around this age, she may also begin picking up small things by pressing his thumb against the base of his pointer finger. This is called the scissors grasp.
Hearing and Language
Your seven-month-old is a remarkably good listener. That's why he's already making big strides toward learning how language works. He listens carefully to the words he hears most often, like "mommy," "daddy" and his own name.
Amazingly, your baby knows the sound of some familiar words. Your seven-month-old is already learning to pick out where words begin and end. The next step is understanding what words mean. Word comprehension usually begins between eight and ten months.
