Top 3 Tips to Help your Toddler Enjoy Learning 1

The initial years of the child are building blocks for their development into a mature being. It is important to follow certain tips that would help ensure that your child enjoys the process of learning:

 

1.Encourage Questions

Encourage an inquiring mind in your child from an early age. An important part of your child’s learning development is asking questions. You might think your child tends to question a lot, but most toddlers are likely to be inquisitive by nature. You must try and answer their questions instead of brushing them aside to ensure that you encourage your little one’s inquisitive nature.

Some toddlers are naturally silent and won’t put up questions. In that case, you should talk to your child often and ask questions throughout the day to stimulate his thinking and learning skills. You might take your child to the park or the grocery store and ask him to point to certain plants or vegetables.

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A bounded mind is unable to reach its best potential. You must let your toddler explore and experiment to encourage in him a love for learning. While your concerns are genuine, the experimental space is necessary too, and hence there should be reasonable limits that you keep a check on. Often when kids engage in activities that may cause certain things to break or the home becomes messy, parents can be resistant instinctively. However, to stop your child from every new activity they engage in may prevent them from experimenting at all, thereby slowing or even hampering their learning process and development.

When you are sure you do not want the child to engage in a certain activity, instead of a ‘no,’ you should offer him an alternative, more productive. If your child has a habit of throwing his cereal around, you should tell him that this behavior is inappropriate, but you would allow a day out feeding the birds if he behaves with his cereal. That way, your child would learn to differentiate between constructive and destructive behavior, and his conditioning to experimenting will not be hampered.

3.Expose your toddler to a variety of environments and experiences

Keeping your toddler bound to the limits of your home will not encourage his development. You must expose your toddler to various environments, including museums, parks, zoological gardens, playgrounds, or other places your child may take an interest in. On taking your child to places, you must talk to them about your own experiences, observations, or questions about theirs. Taking your child to new places will encourage an inquisitive mind and the overall response system of the child towards different stimuli. While being protective is natural, it is recommended you let your child be exposed to new activities and experiences like riding a bicycle, splashing in a paddling pool, baking cookies, or simply playing with pets. These activities will make your child pick new skills in a fun manner in less time.