Parents should talk and play with their babies. Babies recognize familiar faces and strangers may scare them. Help your baby feel secure by reassuring them. Babies start teething at this stage. Parents can soothe pain by providing a cool teething toy or applying pain reliever designed for that purpose.
Babies still don t know right from wrong and their brains aren t ready to learn the difference yet.
Parents need to remember their baby s limitations. Increased Activity Babies learn to sit, crawl, stand, walk, and talk. Parents need to closely supervise their actions. Babies begin to develop a sense of humor. Playtime with parents is important.