Learning - 2 to 3 years

What happens in the third year is that your child starts to think about her experiences and to learn from them. As your child develops the ability to think over new learning experiences her mind starts to work for the first time like a mini-computer.

Learning - 2 to 3 years

The way in which your child learns changes quite a lot in the third year, particularly in the second half. As a toddler, your child was learning about separate things, single events, one experience at a time. She may have satisfied her curiosity and explored that experience as far as she could,...
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Learning and playing - 2 to 3 years

Play now starts to put the world around her into perspective. Before, a game like a farmyard with animals was simply a matter of sorting the animals into different types and putting them in the right place. Now she sees it with different eyes. It introduces her to an aspect of life that she knows...
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How to help your child learn

The most important way in which you can help your child develop is to listen to what she's saying. Because her world is now expanding at a colossal rate, not only in terms of her physical capability, but also her new intellectual development, it is very important that you communicate openly and...
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Learning: concepts and ideas

During his third year your child will learn to think in a more abstract way. Memory games such as pairing pictures can help him develop this skill.
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Learning: nursery school

When a child starts nursery it can be hard to learn to play together. Help your child to learn with games that involve sharing toys with others. As your child reaches three years old start thinking about whether she would benefit from going to nursery school. The advantages are that she will...
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