Most of children is not able to sit independently at the age of half a year yet, however at this particular time it is possible to begin to train them in this action. The main thing is not to be overzealous not to do harm still to insufficiently strengthened backbone.
Instruction
1. Daily do exercises with the child, using special exercises: help it to sit down independently from a prone position on a back, being tightened for brushes of your hands. It is necessary to begin from 3-5 times: it is still heavy to kid to keep the weight on hands.
2. Buy a children's arena with a coarse grid. When the child spends time in an arena, show it as he can be brought up, adhering for a grid hands. It is not really convenient to hold smooth sticks of a lattice of a children's bed to it as hands on them slide off. The arena is very convenient in this regard, and your child will much quicker learn in it not only to sit down, but also to rise.
3. Put the kid for a while in a baby carriage, having raised its back. If you have a transforming carriage, and you did not take out from it a basket yet, now it is a high time to make it. If the child still went in a carriage cradle, it is already time to buy and walking.
4. Do not leave the kid in a sitting position longer, than for 5-7 minutes, at least, in the first week, – then time can be increased gradually. Indoors for schooling of the kid to sitting it is possible to use a children's stool which back has several provisions.
5. That the child learned to sit down, his muscles have to be rather strong. Stimulate him to the active movement: spread on a stomach more often, help to turn over on a back and back, gradually train in crawling. For this purpose it is possible to use toys: trying to get them, the child will intensively move. To help it to crawl to a toy it is possible, having held up a palm under his foot, and having slightly pushed the kid forward.
6. Contrary to popular belief, it is not necessary to put 5-6 monthly children on a bed or a sofa, having imposed with pillows: his muscles are not involved in such situation. To teach him to keep balance in a sitting position, it is better to put for a while the kid to itself on knees, having given an opportunity to hold your fingers and holding it in turn for hands. At the same time it is possible to use games nursery rhymes, – for example, "Went with nuts", "On hummocks, on hummocks".