Help Your Child to Read, Write, and More...

I am not talking about the kind of learning associated with school. For during their first five years before children go to school they have been engrossed in extensive learning, starting with only a potential to learn. This is a time when children especially depend on the human, social and cultural environment into which they are born. That is, they depend on the place, the people, the objects and the activities of which their environment consists, for opportunities to learn in a great variety of play-like activities. The ways in which parents support these, both by the quality of their affection and companionship and by what they provide for their children, are of fundamental importance to how successful children will be in the very different learning situations with which school confronts them.

Gradually it is coming to be recognized that the pre-school years are among the most formative in every child's life - that on these early years his future development into adulthood mainly depends. Many young children develop as "environmental learners" because they take up many learning tasks that confront them. At home,the parent of a pre-school child have no training in how to teach. This has advantages and disadvantages. It has advantages when they are preparedto follow the interests of a child and lead him into a greater share of their own; it has disadvantages when they teach what the child ought to know and how he ought to know it by recollecting their own school experiences.

As a parent, I believe that if children are supported properly in their early years, they can learn prodigiously and not just in reading and writing, but in much more.

I read an interesting article "Tiny Teachers" wrote by one of my friendster, good to share and you never realize this...