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Learning is more about quality than quantity
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- It is not too much teaching—it is too soon.
Learning is more about quality than quantity.
The quality of your child’s exposure to knowledge and skills – whether vocabulary or social behaviour or cognitive reasoning – will be reflected in the success of his or her learning. Parents should not try to rush a child to adopt learning outside his or her age range. While parents might read about developmental milestones for children, it’s important to keep in 27 mind that these milestones are meant to apply to an age range; a child who reaches that milestone at any time within that range is developing well. Creating learning experiences that fit within the normal developmental parameters of a child’s age range will ensure that he or she enjoys learning. In early years, kids progress in learning from known to unknown concepts, from general to specific, whole to part, concrete to abstract, and from simple to complex concepts. During pre-school, children learn best through first-hand, interactive, and thought-provoking experiences. For example, at ages 3 to 4, it is productive to do a field trip in a supermarket where a child can have a range of sensory experiences and can see the fruits and vegetables he or she has learned about at home. But concepts like the solar system or global warming are too abstract for children to understand at that age, as they can’t apply these concepts in their day-to-day lives. In other words, children this age are only able to learn things they can experience through their senses (i.e. touch, feel, smell, taste). It is not too much teaching—it is too soon. When adults expect young children to master skills for which the necessary maturity has not yet been formed, we are impairing healthy brain development by excessively stressing the child. If pushed and rushed, a child’s desire to learn will be hampered, his or her learning spirit crippled. When children show signs of tiring, giving up, or becoming bored, it may be also a sign that we need to adjust learning to their level. Age-appropriate learning can also help to identify any delays in mental or emotional development. Knowledge and information remain useless, unless an experience or the skills to process the information are developed in early years. 28 Because early childhood development plays such a large role in later social, emotional, and cognitive well-being, it’s absolutely vital that that this sensitive developmental stage is nurtured and sharpened by age- appropriate learning and experiences. 29 |
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