| When you start considering what your child is | | | | many things by playing. They need to play with |
| capable of learning - how his mind is like a sponge | | | | other children in order to learn to share and play |
| or an empty computer disk that is going to be | | | | fairly. If you don't have other children or children |
| filled with something, you begin to wonder if you | | | | next door for them to socialize with they don't |
| should get someone more qualified to teach him. | | | | have the chance to learn these social skills. As a |
| When you look around and see the never ending | | | | parent you can teach these skills, but children |
| contest between some moms over the idea that | | | | need a chance to use their social skills. |
| their child is better than yours, you stop and think | | | | If you don't have other children or neighbor |
| about the situation. Many moms may be tempted | | | | children around, the best way for your child to |
| to hire a tutor for their preschooler. This may | | | | learn social skills is to enroll them in a pre-K class. |
| seem like a good idea and even be embraced as | | | | When they were little they learned and played |
| a game by your little one at first; it's really not | | | | with you. They watched their environment and |
| the best thing to do. | | | | that's what got them started, but now they need |
| Most people don't have tutors teach their kids the | | | | to figure out how to interact with kids there own |
| ABCs or their numbers. Children learn these | | | | age. |
| lessons by playing, also by talking to mommy and | | | | Hiring a tutor for your preschooler instead of |
| daddy. They learn to walk by watching other | | | | putting him in a class full of kids his own age is |
| people walk and by trial and error. One child may | | | | only going to hold him back when he starts school. |
| know his ABCs by the age of two, and another | | | | He may know the entire kindergarten curriculum, |
| may be able to name his ABCs, colors and | | | | but he won't know how to ask the kids if he can |
| shapes, at two and a half. | | | | play with them. This can in turn make him not |
| The point is that children don't learn at the same | | | | want to play with the other kids either out of |
| rate. Given the same environment and the same | | | | choice to be alone like always, or out of being too |
| intelligence, one child may learn slower than the | | | | shy to approach the kids at the dress up corner. |
| other one for reasons of personality and individual | | | | This in turn could unravel everything he learned |
| interests. They may learn things you didn't expect | | | | because he may be too scared to function. |
| them to learn because you didn't expect them to | | | | The best thing for him is playing and leaning |
| be interested in that. | | | | through play. That is how children have been |
| Preschoolers need an environment where they | | | | learning for hundreds of years, and it works. |
| can not only learn but also play. In fact they learn | | | | |