Use it to encourage behavior you like. Freedom within Limits . Your baby needs freedom to explore, but she also needs limits. You need good judgment to provide both. If a baby is kept in a playpen or high chair for much of the day, that is too little freedom, and too limiting.
Baby needs floor freedom to explore.
That is too much freedom, and too dangerous. Helping Curiosity Grow Researchers who have studied young children report that curiosity is important for success in the early school years. A child who is interested in the world around him and given the freedom to explore will observe and learn from it. Formal teaching of babies is probably a bad idea. Young children learn best when they direct their own learning, not when you try to force something on them.