I have a personalized ABC book for my daughter that I read to her every night. She looks forward to reading it, and even points to her name and says the first letter 'E'. She blurted out "Y... Yak!" one day, and says "yak" when we are at the letter Y. Just two days ago she started saying "X, Y, Z". I think that is pretty impressive for a 19 month old preemie.
My theory is that I must give her as much information as possible. Most if not all of it is being absorbed, and she will one day recall it.
Questions:
- How do you effectively teach your toddler the alphabet, numbers, colors, shapes etc?
- If you do not teach them early, do they eventually catch up?
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Wow! Where to begin. Firstly, I use everything to teach anything. As long as my son is receptive I use, if he doesn't seem interested at the time, I leave it and use something else that he's more motivated from. He has been exposed to sign language, since around 6mths and he started talking at 7mths, no relationship assumed. I would encourage u to keep it up though. They love it! As a baby, he appeared to enjoy stories that I made up spontaneously as opposed to when being read to. i don't know ...i guess I tend to be more animated if I am being spontaeous. Music and singing, major, major, major. Many a thing has been learnt with this tool, even disciplinary issues. As to whether they will catch up, if u start to teach late, I think u can teach a child anything if you use things that interest them. Works for me ALL the time.
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Children learn through play, which is why I am very picky about the toys Ellisa has. But they also learn though informal lessons, so every moment should be a teaching moment. If we as parents take on that attitude, how can our children not learn?
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