Useful Resources Online For Your Toddler – The Learning Process Can Be Fun!

Early child education refers primarily to the stage in life where a child learns through play. Used interchangeably with it are the terms “early learning”, “child education”, “child care”, and “early education”. This period begins from birth and ends at the age of eight according to the National Association of Education for Young Children (NAEYC).

The term has been used widely to describe the education of preschoolers, and even baby programs. Although (as mentioned earlier) this period includes all children ages 8 and below, it is a stage that concentrates more on the years from birth up to the end of preschool (usually at age four).

As a parent, you should be involved in the period of early child education by helping enhance your toddler’s learning. Fortunately, the internet can help you. There is almost nothing that cannot be found on the internet today, and this is true even for educational resources for toddlers. You can find countless educational games, printable activities for toddlers, fun science learning packages, a catalog of toys for toddlers, teaching tools such as blocks, flash cards, math tables for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, planet charts, and a lot more.

There are also many audio-visual games that teach English and the proper pronunciation of words. In addition to that, even French, German, and Spanish pronunciations are included. There are easy-to-use point and click games that test and enhance your toddler’s comprehension memory skills. For example, five apples will be displayed and your toddler’s goal is to correctly choose the number corresponding to the quantity of the items as shown. In this example, the toddler must click “5”. Another similar game focuses, this time, on colors. For example, the computer shows a picture of a banana and your toddler must click on “Yellow” to move on. More games similar to teach on time, the alphabet, animal sounds, etc. are available online.

Perhaps the most important years in a toddler’s life are those during the period of early child education. Thus, you must make sure to provide only the best learning experience during this period. Furthermore, a toddler can only be a toddler once in his lifetime. Why not make his preschool years fun?

A Classroom Cannot Substitute The Real World

Like most parents, you are probably thinking that a decent school with high standards of teaching is enough to ensure the proper education for your child. This is not true. A good school may and most likely will provide your child sufficient “academic” knowledge, but education is not limited to subjects like history, language, math and the sciences alone. There is more to education than the ability to summarize the life of Julius Caesar, explain the symbolisms used by Shakespeare, calculate limits at infinity, and recite the names of all the constellations of the night sky. In fact, a background on these things is important but in the end, you and I both know that your child will not survive the real world if these were all he knows. Even if schools teach values education subjects, knowing what is “ideal” is not enough when he finally comes across what is “real”.

Learning achieved in school is not enough once your child’s out there in the real world. What one reads in books, no matter how much your child has memorized them, will not help him if he has not been there firsthand. Real education is achieved through experience. Life requires that a person learns and understands certain things—things that cannot be learned inside a classroom. One must experience something in order to understand it. Likewise, the education for your child if he is to become prepared for adulthood, must involve being exposed to what really happens once you are an adult.

The best real examples from whom he can learn are of course, his parents and immediate family, and the community. A child must observe, learn and understand how adults function in order to survive, how one should balance time and handle money responsibly, and how one should act and speak if somebody lost a loved one. He must also experience failure, so that he would know how to stand up if he fails again. He must know and experience how to apologize, express gratitude, forgive, solve problems, and make decisions. He must know how one should behave in parties, how spouses should give and take, how to raise a child well, and how to respect the opinions of other people. These are some examples of the things that make up the real education for your child.

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