Playing since the Early Stimulation for Children's Intelligence

Was it stimulating play early on? According to Dr. Soedjatmiko, SpA (K), MSI, consultant pediatrician growth and development, early stimulation is the stimulation of play since the newborn. Stimulation or stimulation should be performed since the age of 6 month fetus in the womb. Why? 

Stimulation is believed to affect the growth of synapses (sinaptogenesis process), which requires a lot of sialic acid to form gangliosida, which is essential to speed the process of learning and memory.
Stimulation should be done with joy, affection, and every day to stimulate all the sensory system. Furthermore, it should also stimulate the movement of coarse and fine legs, hands and fingers, invite communication, and stimulate a good feeling from the minds of infants and toddlers. 

Stimulation is done with the atmosphere of play and compassion, from birth, continuous, and varied, will stimulate the establishment of branches of brain cells, doubling the number of relationships between cells of the brain to form a more complex brain circuitry, sophisticated, and powerful. Thus, the higher the intelligence of children and varied (multiple intelligence).
Then, how to stimulate the fetus is still in the womb? The mother or father can do this by speaking near the belly of the mother, singing songs, reading the prayers, religious songs, stroking the abdomen of the mother. Can also play songs with earphones stuck in the mother or the mother's abdomen also listen to the song. 

 There is some literature that says that listening to classical music good for brain development of children. If you really want to play classical music on children, it is also important for the mother loved the songs. Therefore, the mother's mood can also affect the baby. Stimulation should be done every day, every time the mother can interact with the fetus, eg, while bathing, cooking, washing clothes, gardening, and so on.
As for babies and toddlers, stimulation can be done in various ways according to developmental age, for example:
Age 0-3 months, give comfort, safe, and fun, hugging, holding, looking into the eyes baby, bring a smile, ringing sound or music, brightly colored moving objects, object sounds, overthrow the baby to the right / left, prone-supine, and stimulated to grab and hold toys.
3-6 months of age, can play "peekaboo", see the baby's face in the mirror, is stimulated to his stomach, back and forth on your back, sit down.
Age 6-9 months, calling his name, shaking hands, clapping, read fairy tales, excitatory sitting, standing holding practice.
Age 9-12 months, repeated calls mama-papa, brother, put toys into containers, drinking from a glass, roll the ball, practice standing, holding onto the street.

Age 12-18 months, training with doodles colored pencils, stacking cubes, blocks, pieces of simple images (puzzle), insert and remove small objects from the container, playing with dolls, spoons, plates, glasses, pots, broom, lap, and others.
Train to run without a handle, the way backward, climb stairs, kick a ball, loose pants, understand and perform simple commands (where the ball, hold it, enter it, grab it), name or showing objects.

Age 18-24 months, ask, say, point to body parts (eyes, nose, ears, mouth, etc.), ask the image or name the animals and objects around the house, talk about daily activities ( eating, drinking, bathing), exercise a line drawing, wash hands, wear-pants, throw balls, jump, and others.
Age 2-3 years, coupled with knowing and mention the color, use an adjective (big-small, hot-cold, high-low, many-few, and others), specify the name of a friend, count objects, wear clothes, toothbrush, playing cards, dolls, cook, cooking, drawing lines, circles, people, practice standing on one leg, urination / in the toilet.
After 3 years, in addition to developing abilities earlier age, stimulation is also geared for school readiness, among others, hold a pencil properly, write, recognize letters and numbers, simple arithmetic, understand simple commands (urinating / in the toilet) , and independence (left at school), share with friends, and so forth. Stimulation can be done at home (by caregivers and families), but can also be in play groups, kindergartens, or the like.