Creative and Imagination in Infants and Toddlers
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Children are born with a natural drive to make sense of the world. Right from birth, the infant’s brain is making connections about how things work, cause and effect as well as developing ways to influence their world. It is the role of the important adults in their lives to help foster and facilitate this drive. Creativity and imagination as well as intellectual development are enhanced when, right from birth, parents make eye contact, smile, talk to, sing to, and rock their babies. Infants feel safe when their cues for attention and needs are met in a timely, loving way. When infants have their basic physical and emotional needs met, they will be emotionally secure enough to wonder and make sense of all the vast new experiences they encounter every day.
Child development great, Jean Piaget says that infants (from 0 to around 2 yrs.) are in the Sensorimotor stage of development. During this stage, infants learn through use of their senses and by freedom of movement. Understanding this should help guide parents and care givers to expose young children to materials and activities that tickle their senses and allow them to explore the environment. At around 3 yrs of age, children are in what Piaget called the Preoperational stage, which continues until around age 7. During this time most children have a good command of language. They are able to walk, climb and use their bodies in ways that allow them to explore the world even more. During this stage, the child can think about things that are out of sight and uses his/her imagination to make the information he takes in fit his limited knowledge of the world. He has vivid fantasies and often uses dramatic play to act out what she sees, hears and understands in her environment.The development of creativity and imagination fall right into these developmental stages. So how can this understanding effect the way we interact with infants and toddlers? How do we best create an appropriate environment that...
Child development great, Jean Piaget says that infants (from 0 to around 2 yrs.) are in the Sensorimotor stage of development. During this stage, infants learn through use of their senses and by freedom of movement. Understanding this should help guide parents and care givers to expose young children to materials and activities that tickle their senses and allow them to explore the environment. At around 3 yrs of age, children are in what Piaget called the Preoperational stage, which continues until around age 7. During this time most children have a good command of language. They are able to walk, climb and use their bodies in ways that allow them to explore the world even more. During this stage, the child can think about things that are out of sight and uses his/her imagination to make the information he takes in fit his limited knowledge of the world. He has vivid fantasies and often uses dramatic play to act out what she sees, hears and understands in her environment.The development of creativity and imagination fall right into these developmental stages. So how can this understanding effect the way we interact with infants and toddlers? How do we best create an appropriate environment that...