Sunday, 27 September 2009

Black or White

We read The Baby Whisperer and it says that babies can only see black and white in the first few days/weeks...They also see straight lines as wavy and are often facinated by it.
So we did an experiment. We printed out black and white lines and clipped it to the sides of his crib. On some afternoons, i'd find T staring at the black and white lines for hours, playing by himself in his crib. I don't know if he's really "seeing" anything but that was enough to spur us on to get other black and white flash cards.
See! T is enjoying his new toy...
"It's a rooster dad, NEXT!"

"A nice big house, with 2 windows, a door and a chimney!!"

For the record, YES WE ARE KIASU parents. It's my badge of honour.

6 comments:

Little Miss Snooze said...

They can see red too, I think!

Jen said...

Have u started dylan on rock music lullaby yet? :)

lovexiaolongbao said...

LMS> yes! red too...I'm not sure if it works actually. But it's fun watching him stare at the pictures.

Jen> Yes... since day one.

angie said...

Soniajust pointed at Dylan's pict and asked who is that?
Shanon answered: Dylan! Your new cousin.
Sonia answered:"Hey! thats stella's new baby!"

Shannon" YES!!!"

Dylan..jiejie sonia recognises u already!

Corsage@A Dollop Of Me said...

Cool! I was going to try the lines thingy but haven't yet. Since it worked for Dylan I shall try for Bubbles! hehe. Will let you know how it goes for her.

lovexiaolongbao said...

angie> hehe! clever sonia...

Corsage> actually we kinda did it by accident at the start. Mountain man wore a striped bnw t-shirt and we found T staring at it. so we printed the lines and he stared at it too. Dunno if it's just a coincidence tho... lemme know if it works on Bubbles!!