Children do and learn some amazing things in their first years. They are learning and discovering new things, every second, of every day!
Things that we might not think anything of... things we use in everyday life...
Today E made me proud, she was refusing to eat her dinner when we went out for lunch... until a fork was within her reach! She picked that thing up like she knew exactly what it was and started using it like she'd been using one for years!! Now she must have learnt it from us, but we didn't teach her!!
Children will make you proud every damn day, even by doing the smallest of things! Make a big thing of it when they learn something new, they only learn it once!! It amazes me how quickly and easily children pick things up... It'd take me 2 hours to put something together, and that's when I have the instructions in front of me!
Life skills are learnt every day, whether you notice it or not, they are keenly watching your every move and then they practice, practice, practice until they perfect it... They then spend the next 2 weeks showing off and doing it all the time!
A Quote From Lev S. Vygotsky:
'What a child can do today with assistance, she will be able to do by herself tomorrow'
All my love
Kš
