Category: Child Development

  • Ages & Stages: Infants Through 4 Years Old

    Ages & Stages: Infants Through 4 Years Old

    For parents, their number one priority for their children is choosing quality care that is provided in a healthy, safe environment. They typically seek out childcare that will stimulate and encourage their child’s social, physical, and intellectual growth. As a teacher, you must realize what it is that makes children feel secure and know which […]

  • How To Use Books & Reading To Encourage Cognitive Development

    How To Use Books & Reading To Encourage Cognitive Development

    From the very moment they are born, children are immersed in a highly social world. This includes parents, siblings, classmates, and teachers as well as values and objects that are part of their culture. All of these offer a context for the cognitive development and growth of a child. Preschooler’s thinking skills will undergo many […]

  • How To Teach Conflict Resolution To Children Through Play

    How To Teach Conflict Resolution To Children Through Play

    If there are multiple children engaging in play together, you can be sure that conflicts are going to happen. Since play is considered the work of children, using it as a way to teach conflict resolution makes sense, right?

  • Activities To Promote Brain Development In Infants

    Activities To Promote Brain Development In Infants

    Experts have pinpointed specific areas of cognitive development that are supportive of the interactions of infants with their environment through sensorimotor processes and their innate curiosity to find out how the world works. Concepts Learned in Infancy Following are some of the concepts that infants begin to learn early on in their lives.

  • 9 Benefits Of Teaching Sign Language To Infants And Toddlers

    9 Benefits Of Teaching Sign Language To Infants And Toddlers

    In the past few years, baby signing has increased in popularity- right along with stroller fitness and music class. While these all seem to have very similar benefits in that they offer bonding time for the infants with their caregiver (or parent)- baby signing gives babies the benefit of earlier communication.