How Better Understanding can help in Child Development?



The mediating role of the adult in the learning process

The role of the adult is to facilitate the child's understanding of his surroundings - to act as a link. There is growing evidence that positive and responsive interactions with adults impact child development. For example, it has been shown that children improve their behavior in the classroom and also perform better in school when teachers deal with behavior problems in a deliberate manner, care about the child's interests and direct their attention accordingly.

Toys, siblings, other children in daycare or school are necessary and contribute to the learning process. But they are not enough. Child development is nurtured through interaction with the adult caregiver—at home or in foster care, where many children spend a significant portion of their time. In addition, consistency—the presence of a primary caregiver in every setting—secures the child and builds self-esteem increases success rate.

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How do children learn?

By exploring: touching, hitting, putting things in your mouth

By experimenting: testing, trial-error

Through repetition: keep throwing things on the ground!

Through imitation: Mimicking those around them, whether they are adults or other children

They learn from and from everything in their immediate environment. And what about a child? Many things, many people and many situations - infinitely many stimuli.

Well, learning is never as great as when an adult is present. The adult is responsible for conveying, transmitting, and translating each stimulus to the child.

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Here we explore 5 ways Better Understanding can empower children's learning:

1. Heed the signs and follow their interests. Beyond offering affection and affection, which are fundamental in and of themselves, the adult can recognize and respond to the child's forms of communication, such as:

Naming the object or action of their interest: “What are you pointing to? Oh! The fairy tale book of the sun and moon!”

Response when child smiles or babbles during an action: "You like it when I tickle your feet, don't you?"

Talk to him about what happened: “Yes! I'll put your socks on so your feet don't get cold."

2. Introduces new concepts and name everything that is in the environment. For example, during the bath, talk about how hot or cold the water is, how dry and wet it is, the parts of the body, mention and point to them. Or at lunchtime, take the opportunity to talk about food textures, sizes, shapes and colors.

3. Expand the child's knowledge. If the child says "wow-wow" while watching or reading stories together, add, "Yes, it's a big dog and it has four legs!" and point to the child.

4. Play! Play is the most important learning tool for the child and is a lot of fun. Play allows the adult to participate and enhance role-play - remember, children mimic everything adults do! – or introduce challenges and problems for the child to solve: open a jar and take out the contents, put together a puzzle, find an item we hid, and so on.

Recommendation: The adult can vary the game, creating increasingly complex but doable challenges. If a game is very simple and the child can solve it immediately, they will get bored and lose interest. If it's too complex, he gets frustrated and doesn't want to continue.

5. Positively acknowledge and reinforce attempts and achievements: Congratulate the child with applause, kisses, verbalize their achievements and attempts, thus promoting their self-esteem and encouraging them to continue learning.

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Benefits of Understanding

All these practices help the child in many ways:

1. Development of your language. They unmask and familiarize him with many new words - which he understands, internalizes and gradually introduces into his own vocabulary.

2. Enhancing their cognitive and motor skills. The child becomes familiar with complex concepts such as cause and effect or object permanence (the object does not disappear just because you can no longer see it).

3. Developing and stimulating aspects of executive functioning, such as attention, perseverance, self-regulation, among others, through facing and overcoming challenges.

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