Track Your Child’s Mental Milestones With This App
Babies can be mysterious, confusing little buggers. When they seem to have mastered the art of sleeping all night, they stay awake every second hour. They move quickly and violently through milestones until they suddenly regress.
There are so many apps out there that aim to make it easier or better informed about parenting, but there is one app that several parents in our Offspring Facebook group swear by: Wonder Weeks .
The Wonder Weeks app is taken from the book of the same name and draws on decades of research to help understand the milestones (or “leaps”) in a child’s mental development, what that means in terms of anxiety or sleep patterns – and how you can help stimulate his development to go through it.
The app can send jump notifications; you can even add jumps to your calendar so you know when they are about to start. He explains what happens in your child’s brain when he first starts smiling, why his appetite drops, or why he suddenly becomes clingy.
“My daughter is doing the fifth jump, and this is a very high quality practical dose of information for each jump,” says Miki.
Another member of the group, Brendan, agrees: “It helped not only when our tired minds needed an explanation of why our sweet baby turned into a monster, but whenever I was curious about his development.”