Early Childhood Tips & Tricks Articles - Page 8

As we discussed in our previous blog post, teaching kids critical thinking skills brings some considerable advantages. Kids may grow up into smart adults that view problems as tasks to solve. For many of us teaching logics, or critical thinking, sounds rather challenging. Indeed, where do we start with? In this blog post we are going to offer you some principles to put to the core of teaching in order to achieve the expected results. 

Kids start learning things right from the moment they are born. In the first 6 years of their life they absorb a huge amount of information, first - through senses, then - through communicating with others. Hearing about something is one way of learning.

As we know, so many people – so many opinions. Each person your child talks to would tend to share their own thoughts and ideas. 

Play is children’s most natural state of development. It can be either creative or regulated by rules, as, for example, chess. Creative play is free from any rules or conditions, and it is this type of play that causes a lot of interest. Researchers throughout the globe study the subject matter in order to understand how it influences children’s development. 

Creative play, unconditioned by any rules, involves kids’ whole body and senses. They manipulate and touch various materials and objects. 

We all love stories, and children particularly. You might have noticed that kids, which love talking, listening to stories without interrupting because they are fun, engaging, and exciting.  Besides the fun factor, storytelling has a number of other benefits for kids, no matter whether you read a story or tell it by memory. 

First of all, storytelling creates a special bond between parents and children. This is a way to spend time together, discuss a chosen book, and do something creative afterwards. 

In our previous blog post we discussed the effects of music on children. It influences emotions, makes learning easier and contributes to the all-round development of a child. A lullaby, for example, can soothe a fussy baby, and classical music can improve kids’ spatial reasoning. 

Here are just a few reasons to introduce kids to music. Don’t know where to start from? Take a look at the following ideas!

Children’s love to music is natural. As soon as they hear a catchy tune they start moving to it following the rhythm. Some may also clap their hands or hum something. Music does influence our children. Let us look at some of the ways it affects kids.

Music can alter your child’s mood. Just remember some personal stories when you started singing a lullaby to put a child to sleep or to calm her down.

A lot of research has been carried out in the field of left-handedness. Statistics shows that 90% of all people are right-handed, while the remaining 10% are lefties. It has been proved that hand preference is closely linked to brain functioning, which means that we don’t choose our dominant hand consciously. Among the factors that may influence our choice of hand they list genes, sex, fetal development, modeling parents, brain damage, and adjustment in case we cannot use the other hand due to injury.

Our previous blog posts were dedicated to teaching kids how to trace and write letters. Meanwhile, we got a message on our Facebook page, where we were asked about the difference between writing letters for a right-handed kid and a lefty. And this is exactly how this article was born. 

In our previous blog post we wrote about the activities that help develop fine motor skills. The skills are important because depending on how well they are developed your kid would be able to cope with writing.

Fine motor skills, in comparison with gross motor skills, involve the small muscles of the body. They enable such functions as writing, grasping small objects, and fastening clothing. These skills are important in most school activities as well as in life in general. Weaknesses in fine motor skills can affect a child’s ability to eat, write legibly, use a computer, turn pages in a book, and perform personal care tasks such as dressing and grooming.