Understanding How Children Learn

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How Do Children Learn?

How Do Children Learn?
Children learn through play and observation.
Encouraging a child will give their self esteem a boost. Parents can provide opportunities for children to play to build their development skills. Using play opportunities and letting a child observe others around them will help develop motor skills, such as, physical, social, language and cognitive skills.

Learning early will give children the potential to become more confident. Endeavouring to explore the world without fear.

Children learn through experimenting and trial and error. By touching, poking, tasting and watching. Watching others repeatedly, listening to audio repeatedly, all this is embedded into their little brains and is called upon when needed.
So when you here your child repeat something you have said, this is what has been learnt.

So how do children learn? through you and others, as well as play.





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Toys and Games 3 Year Old Children Can Use

There are so many games and toys out there for our 3 year old children to use, too many perhaps. But most are very good for teaching.

Toys and Games To Aid Physical Development
  • Tunnels
  • Ball games-basketball, soccer, cricket-hand, eye co-ordination
  • Prams-pushing to build muscles
  • Hop Scotch-muscle building, co-ordination
  • Swings and slides-co-ordination


  • For Cognitive Development
  • Playdough-thinking what to make, creative thinking, textures
  • Puzzles-for the mind, problem solving
  • Stacking Cups-hand, eye co-ordination, solving problem
  • Games For Your 3 Year Old To Learn

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    Encouraging 3 Year Olds To Learn

    Role playing is an activity that all 3 year old children love to do. Acting out scenes that they have witnessed perhaps in their own household or at a friends. Mother looking after a baby and feeding or tending to it's needs.
    You really don't think that these little human beings take any notice of what you are doing but they are watching and learning every minute of the day.
    3 Year Old Child Playing with Doll on Window Sill of Apartment



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    Developing Children

    Children are born with different personalities, different abilities and different determinations. So development will be different with each individual child.

    Children and Play

    Children love to copy their parents or other adults. This picture shows two young children imitating adults who are going shopping.
    So innocent, if it's anything like my husband, you wouldn't see him for dust.

    Playing at Mums and Dads



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    Learning Toys For Children

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      Lego! My boys love their lego, all sorts of imagination going on with that. Hi, fellow Aussie :)

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