You like to stick your tongue out. Why do you do it so often? 👅👶🏻 When about 4 months in Phoebus, Ma Mi started to notice that he likes to remove his tongue.

You like to stick your tongue. Why are you doing it so often? 👅👶🏻

About four months into Phoebus, Ma Mie began to notice that he liked to put his tongue out to play more often.

Sometimes it sticks its tongue.

Sometimes move your tongue back and forth.

Sometimes putting your hand in your mouth and like exploring something inside

Sometimes it sounds like you're trying something on your mouth. 😆

And Ma Mie wondered...

"Do kids this age know they have a tongue?"

The answer is actually not that straightforward.

"A 4-month-old already knows the tongue."

Because we can't tell that a child of this age has an adult conceptual understanding of, "This is my tongue."

But what's more obvious is...

He's exploring the oral cavity and learning to control his own tongue. 👅🧠

And about three to four months of tongue movement began to move from working mainly to suckling to more diverse and controlled movements.

Because at birth, the baby's tongue has a very important function in sucking and swallowing.

Suckling is not caused by the tongue alone, but rather by the coordinated work of the tongue, lips, jaws, palate, swallowing and breathing.

But as they grow older, the nervous and muscular systems begin to control movement more thoroughly.

The tongue is not just responsible for eating milk.

But it starts to move up, down and move more variously with 👅✨

This is one of the reasons why at about four months of age we can see children.

👅. Stick your tongue.

👅 Move your tongue back and forth.

👄 Make a mouth kiss

💦 more saliva.

🤲 Put your hands in your mouth.

🗣️ Make a Ua sound and a strange sound.

😊 Look at our face and follow or play with the movements of the mouth.

This doesn't mean "you're practicing speaking" directly.

But part of how children learn

"What happens if I move my mouth like this?"

"If I move my tongue like this, what does it feel like?"

"If I make a sound like this, will Forest and Ma Mi look?" 🥹

This is very interesting, because playing with the mouth is not just about muscles.

But it's also connected to sensory learning.

Children of this age learn the world through looking, listening, touching and putting things in their mouths.

Putting your hand in your mouth does not always mean hungry.

At four months of age, putting your hand in your mouth is one of the motor developments found with age, and having a child explore safe things with your mouth is one of the ways a child learns the qualities of his or her surroundings.

So if Phoebus puts his hand in his mouth and follows with a quibble, Ma Mi doesn't need to rush his hand out every time.

Just what he put in his mouth is safe, not hot, not pointed, and not a risky little thing in his neck, let him explore. 👶🏻🤲🏻👄

Because a child's learning is not caused by adults teaching everything.

A lot of it stems from the child repeatedly trying his or her body.

And quibbling is one of them.

Another thing that Ma Mie feels very cute is...

Oral cavity is not just for eating.

But it's also becoming part of communication. 🥹🗣️

Over the course of about four months, many children start making sounds like "U," "Ah," and start making replies when adults speak.

When Ma Mie speaks to Phoebus, he makes a sound back or moves his mouth, moves his tongue and is like waiting for Ma Mie to reply.

That's the start of something more important than "speaking as a word."

It's a communication turn.

Ma Mie said

Phoebus replied.

Ma Mi replied.

Phoebus sounded again.

The child is learning that

"My voice affects the person in front of me."

And the warm response of adults also helps create a back-and-forth communication experience critical to long-term language and social development. 🥰

And "tongue to speak" has to be separated a little bit.

The tongue plays an important role in sound formation and actual future speech.

But putting a four-month-old on his tongue does not mean that he is practicing direct speech, and we should not use it as a measure of whether language development is good or bad.

What suits this age is to look at that overview.

Do you start making sounds?

Start ringing back when we talk?

Turn the campaign of the person who spoke to?

Interested in faces and interactions?

And how is it moving with overall age?

Because the child's development does not walk one channel at a time like a table

It's connected to the 🧠👄🤲🏻🗣️ system.

Better head and torso control, allowing oral control to develop further.

The finer control of the tongue, lips and jaws is also important for eating skills in the next period.

By the time a child is ready for food with age, the tongue must help get food, move food inside the mouth, and carry food behind to swallow.

So what Phoebus is doing in four months doesn't mean he's ready to eat.

Beginning with age is generally recommended at about 6 months, requiring a shared developmental readiness, such as good head and neck control, sitting with proper support, bringing things into the mouth, and swallowing food instead of snuffing it out, etc.

So...

If your four-month-old is quibbling,

Do not hurry to teach

Don't hold the tongue.

Do not try to train the tongue in the mouth

And don't worry that he's "stuck in the habit of sticking his tongue."

We just gave him a safe space to explore his body. 👅🤍

The mamey may be played simply by smiling, talking, making sounds, or imitating the sound of their child back.

You made "Ah"

Ma Mi then "Ah" back.

Tongue stick

Ma Mie smiled.

You make another sound.

Ma Mie answered again.

There is no need to do it as a special training activity.

Because the most important thing at this age is not to make your children "get better soon."

But it's to give you a try, explore, and there are people who respond to him there. 🥹💕

And if one day Phoebus sticks his tongue out and Mami looks at him and thinks,

"What's the little guy doing?"

Maybe the answer is very simple.

He may not be doing anything complicated.

He's just discovering...

"This is our body.

This is our mouth.

This is our tongue.

And if you move like this... it feels like this. "👅✨

From the little play over there.

Gradually, the next is oral control.

Making sounds

Communication

Eating

And learning the world a little bit at a time.

Now, Phoebus may still not be able to say the word "Ma Mie."

But every time he moves his mouth, makes a sound, or sticks his tongue and turns to look at Ma Mi

It's like he's already saying that

"Ma Mie, look... Phoebus is learning." 🥹👶🏻🤍

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