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Active Start Year 1

Month 1: What to do in your baby’s first days at home
Month 2: Learn about your baby’s early brain development
Month 3: Continue to explore daily movement
Month 4: Introduce rowboats and yoga mats
Month 5: Explore sensory play
Month 6: Practice serve and return
Month 7: How to encourage your baby to crawl
Month 8: Standing on their own two feet
Month 9: Socializing and being together
Month 10: Don’t let your baby become a stroller potato
Month 11: Developing gross motor skills
Month 12: Baby’s first birthday!

Active Start Year 2

Month 13: Making bubbles, getting into nature
Month 14: Stimulating your baby’s brain with music and games
Month 15: Creating an indoor obstacle course
Month 16: Walking barefoot
Month 17: Repetition reinforces brain pathways
Month 18: Getting outside in all seasons
Month 19: Testing the limits
Month 20: Things that float in the air
Month 21: Introducing riding and gliding on wheels
Month 22: Refining motor skills
Month 23: Striking a ball with a stick
Month 24: Your toddler’s second birthday!

Active Start Year 3

Month 27: Off to a running start
Month 30: Climbing stairs, climbing mountains
Month 33: Time to get rollin’!
Month 36: Three years already?!

Active Start Year 4

Month 39: Riding a balance bike
Month 42: Throwing and striking
Month 45: The ABCs of agility, balance, and coordination
Month 48: Mini soccer and monkey bars
Month 49: Join our regular weekly newsletter!

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