by ChildPsych | Jul 28, 2022 | Early Childhood Development
Plenty of evidence shows how playing with toys is an essential aspect of children’s development. Children of all ages enjoy playing with toys and the different roles toys play in their make-believe games and fantasy worlds. But toys are much more than simple...
by ChildPsych | Jul 10, 2022 | Barriers to Learning, Education, Uncategorized
During the phase of learning to read, children sometimes mistake certain letters for similar ones, especially ones that can easily be reversed. For example, the child may read “bear” as “dear” or look at the word “dog” and read it as “god”. These types of errors are...
by ChildPsych | May 5, 2022 | Parent guidance
Our brains perform several tasks that are necessary to think and act. During early childhood, it is important develop some of these tasks. Some of the most important ones help us learn new information, keep new information in our minds, and use it to solve problems of...
by ChildPsych | Jan 13, 2022 | Early Childhood Development
To do an activity, children depend on both incoming information and information stored in working memory. If they have poor working memory skills, it can become difficult to do both these tasks. As a result, it can become challenging to follow multi-step directions....
by ChildPsych | Nov 25, 2021 | Early Childhood Development
It is very well known that, during the early stages of development, kids’ hands play a major role in their interactions with their parents, peers and teachers. Specifically, the importance of their fingers in the early development of numerical abilities has been...