Re: When are children NOT learning?

From: Christie Schreier
Email: schreie2@uwm.edu
Date: February 15, 2006

Comments

I think this goes hand in hand in with "children learn thru play". How else can you teach them kindness, respect, problem solving, if they are not with others in the atmoshere to learn about them. If a child is never in a setting to play with another child how can they learn to share a toy? If a parent does everything for a child how can they learn problem solving? When i see kids play, i see them learning social skills, using thier imaginations, i see them process information about how a toy works, and what to do with it, how to take it apart, put it back together. I allow my daycare kids as much free play as we can get into a day. We also do the circle time, and stories and crafts, but they learn so much more just interacting with each other.