Archive for January, 2010
By Savel Benaya
Toddlers Learning
Toddlers spend most of their time at home, so they begin their learning process at home. Their home, near and dear ones, and the world around them become their classroom. Toddlers learn a lot of new things every day by dealing with people they come across both at home and outside, as well as exploring and experimenting with the world and things around them. Hence, parents have a very important role to play in the process of their toddler learning. First of all, the toddlers need your love and support to build up a sense of security and self-esteem, which is necessary to stimulate and build up toddler learning ability.
A toddler can easily arouse their curiosity and parents can use this tendency to teach their toddlers a lot of new things by drawing their attention to unusual things. This is learning by observation, and honing this skill of observation is essential for the kid’s future. Also, ask questions about things to which the child can think of an answer. You can maximize your toddler learning by giving him challenging as well as fascinating learning materials to play with and sufficient opportunities to exercise her exploding interest in language.
In addition, the more stimuli your toddler can give his or her brain through listening, looking, smelling, tasting and touching, the more intelligent he will become. Maximizing your toddler learning isn’t as big a job as it sounds. You can follow some great tips below on how to do that:
1 - You are able to help maximize your toddler learning shortly after their first birthday by enlarging the environment in which they is permitted to play safely and freely. You can even begin teaching toddlers how to handle possible hazards such as how to go down an adult bed safely by sliding off, feet first, so that they can be allowed more freedom.
2 - You are going to soon find out that your toddler’s giving you lots of useful clues to what his growing brain needs. It is not necessary for you to impose toddler learning on them or try to teach them facts by rote. You don’t have to force your toddlers to sit still to learn or even program ahead of time what they should be learning. Your job, essentially, is to make sure that he has the opportunity and encouragement to teach himself.
3 - You can fence off a sizable portion of your yard when it’s warm and dry outside,, make sure that it contains no hazards, and allow your toddler to explore freely. You can also take your toddlers to the nearest park and let them roam. It is a must that you watch your toddlers closely until they have outgrown the habit of putting anything interesting and new into his mouth.
4 - You need to teach your toddler the meaning of “no” to help make more freedom possible. On the other hand, it is also imperative that you don’t say “no” too often or too harshly, or your toddler may get the idea that you love him or her better when he isn’t trying to learn and explore.
5 - You don’t need to resort to slapping his hands or spanking your toddler to teach him or her to respect the rights and property of others. Slapping hands to discourage active exploration normally teaches a child to slap back and hit other smaller children. You shouldn’t give spanking that carries a feeling of humiliation. It’s not necessary in helping youngsters learn to behave properly. You should use spanking rarely. And if you do, you give him a hug after wards. This method forces your toddler to pay attention to you and lets him or her know that you mean what you are saying, but it avoids the idea of punishment on toddler learning.
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By Savel Benaya
Teaching toddlers are not easy, as a parent, you have to always supervise their behavior. You can learn about parenting from watching your toddler learn and grow. You see, toddlers are learning quickly with lots of “empty space” in their brains to learn all that they can learn. But for this to happen we have to use every opportunity available to teach them. Toddlers have an amazing ability to learn by watching all things. Not all children are alike, but have you ever noticed how “fun” it is to get them to do the things necessary to care for themselves- make their beds, brush their teeth, wash their face?
For teaching toddlers, you can find more effective and enjoyable ways. In fact, they are far more fun than the drill sergeant method for you and your toddler. One other method relies very little on verbal commands and more on example. Children naturally want to be with their parent in whatever their parent is doing. Haven’t you noticed them pulling a chair up to the sink while you are trying to wash the dishes, or climbing on the bumper while dad changes the oil?
One thing we have learned on teaching toddlers recently involves obedience. Our first impression is to immediately tell them to stop and to remove them from the situation when our toddlers are doing something they should not be. There are times where this is very suitable, such as in the case of imminent danger. Most of the time, however, we have found that if we give them the opportunity to decide to obey, they are much more cooperative.
You might have to remind your toddler or help them again once in a while, but you are going to spend far less time feeling like you have to scream at them to get them to do what you say. The trick to teaching toddlers is to take your toddler with you and invite them to do it as well.
- clear up their bed
- wash your face
- brush your teeth
- set the table
Do these activities when you want your toddler to do so.
On teaching toddlers, you have to give them the opportunity to obey changed the situation from a dispute, to a chance to accomplish a task. When your toddler succeeds in doing what is asked, don’t forget to say “good,” and clap. Now, your toddler will smile and clap his or her hands when your toddler does something he / she is asked. That makes us both happy.
Your toddler will pick up on things too with a lot of example and a little verbal coaching. It is recognizable in many things that toddlers do and say, which is why we have to watch what we do or say. What you do and say will be seen and heard again. Hopefully it won’t be embarrassing. If they learn good things from you, they will live them out as well.
Remember that every situation is not a mirror image of this experience, and we are both still learning and growing on teaching toddlers. However, the more we give our toddler the opportunity to obey, the more he or she wants to be obedient. Sometimes our toddler has to be taught what the right thing is, or shown other alternatives to the action we do not wish him / her to do, so it takes time and effort. The effort pays off when our toddler wants to do what we have previously shown him / her without having to remind him / her.
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