We all
want the very finest for our children and that involves giving them the
best possible will their education. There is a great deal you, as a
parent, can do to achieve this. Your priority should be to produce an
environment that is safe, warm and stimulating.
CHILDREN LEARN THROUGH ALL THEIR Smells
As
we get older, we tend to rely on our sense of sight, and maybe hearing,
to learn. Many of us read, we observe and we take heed. Children touch,
taste, smell, look then listen.
It's quite pointless to expect
small children to learn by listening to you -- they're not being naughty
when these people gaze at you with those massive eyes as you explain
that it's wrong to spray your expensive perfume all over the bath (you
spray the bath when you clean the item, they're copying your actions --
they merely haven't refined all the details nevertheless).
The
best way to teach your sons or daughters about their world is the most
difficult for you. It involves letting these try to do things for them
selves (always under your supervision, of course).
When you're
rushing to get to function, the temptation is to dress your toddlers,
make the beds, tidy the room, pack the bags etc, while they remain
passive individuals or observers. It takes much more time if you allow
your toddlers to decide what they want to wear, to be able to dress
themselves, to begin making their beds and to pack their own bags. But
if you deny them the chance to learn these things now, after they want
to, you really have absolutely no-one to blame when they father't know
how to look immediately after themselves later (and when they add't want
to do these things for themselves).
CHILDREN LEARN BY DOING
Children learn by doing - it contains repeating.
Children
are also experts at this scientific method -- they observe their
natural environment; they formulate hypotheses and they analyze these by
carrying out experiments.
The toddler throwing objects from a
high chair isn't doing it out of malevolency, to make you prematurely
grey! The idea's part of learning what happens if you drop different
sized items from a height; what happens if you placed a bit of force
behind the physical objects and throw them; what happens when you tip
that plate of squishy cereal upside down; what happens to the actual
milk if you pour it in to the vegetables ...
When your children
become astrophysicists, they will'll thank you for letting these conduct
their early experiments in such a positive environment!
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