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How Does Learning Through Experience Help Your Child’s Growth?

1/27/2020

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Learning through experience positively impacts the development of a child’s skill acquisition and learning patterns.

Have you ever heard about “learning by doing?” The value and benefits of hands-on learning through experience have no longer to be made. For young children, the stimulation of natural curiosity encouraged by a nurturing environment is the base of enriching experiences to acquire new skills.
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In the earliest stages, although it may be tougher to notice especially for young infants, a child learns through observation and imitation. ​

For this reason, the best way to stimulate your child is through the introduction to new experiences. 
If you need to help your child acquire new skills, read on.
Learning through experience is about testing, trial, and errors

For an infant and toddler, almost every experience is new. That is why this time, ages 1-5, are essential for a child; the pathways in the brain, built for noticing and repeating, are just starting to expand and develop.

Hence, any child needs exposure to an engaging environment, and access to new experiences, to grow, play, and learn. 

Guiding from a distance is certainly one component of teaching any infant and toddler new skills. 

However, the best way to make these learnings stick is to let the child practice these new skills for themselves. 

An education, especially for young toddlers and children, should be interactive and immersive and offer the chance to children to experiment, ask questions, solve a problem, and work with peers. 

In effect, your child is able to try, make mistakes, learn from mistakes, and repeat the process until the new skill is acquired. Encouraging the intent and the result is ultimately motivating for your young learner.

Therefore, it is essential for a child to have great enablers - parents and teachers - leaving them enough freedom to be creative while enabling discovery in a safe environment.
How can I contribute and help my child learn?

In essence, learning takes place every single day, with no days off. Infants and toddlers are constantly seeking new ways to stay engaged and learn about the world around them. Remember that mom and dad are at the center of their entire world. Although things will change during teenage, in the first years of a child’s life you are their wonder.

Engage with your child in a naturally warm and responsive way to feed interactions. Remember that self-initiated, playful interactions can trigger exploration in a very natural way. Hence, use play to enable learning. Through play, you can create an interesting environment for your child and entice them to learn. 

Apart from the parents and immediate fun family members, early childhood educators and teachers are next in line for playing a positive role in the lives of children and toddlers. 

Curriculums such as STEAM are a huge part of ensuring that all children, from infants to kindergarten and beyond, are safely exposed to a variety of subjects and experiences.

In reality, there are a lot of different tools and techniques that parents and early childhood educators can use to guide a child’s exploration. 

Undoubtedly, the best way to do this is by exposing the child to new experiences and allowing them to engage safely with their environment. This can end up taking the form of:

  • Observing and noticing individuals and specific situations
  • Staying curious and asking questions
  • Use and talk about the five core senses and relate these to new experiences
  • Exploring motor functions and manipulating new age-appropriate objects

Altogether, giving a toddler as many opportunities as possible is crucial to the learning process. 

Learning through experience will allow your child to develop important skills such as:

  • Language and communication with adults and peers
  • Understanding themselves and developing relationships with others
  • Learning about different environments and how to act in unique situations
  • Growing in an understanding of early literacy, numbers, and other subjects
  • An overall desire to learn more, explore more and discover

Therefore, as your child continues to grow and gains exposure to new situations, contexts, objects, problems to solve and people, it is a must to ensure that competent people serving as great learning enablers are in place along the way. 

In other words, surround yourself with individuals with the right mindset, knowledge base, and motivation to make sure your infant or toddler stays safe and continues their exploration of the world.

Take advantage of your child’s natural curiosity

Curiosity is natural and through the eyes of your child, everything is a wonder. Hence, embrace it and keep the exploration and discovery fun. Create an intriguing environment that your child can explore safely. Remain patient and never forget that all your child tries to do is make sense of what surrounds them. Be the helping hand.

Get in touch with us today to learn more about how we implement experience-based learning in our classrooms, and how your child can get involved.
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8/2/2022 12:32:34 am

I like that you pointed out how new experiences in a safe environment can be the best way to let a child learn. I want to find a toddler learning facility that does that so that my first child will benefit from it. It can be a stepping stone for him to prepare him for formal schooling in two years' time.

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10/31/2022 06:56:47 am

It's great that you discussed that we should engage with our child in a naturally warm and interactive way. My friend wants to learn more about motherhood. I think she should read toddler development blogs to gain tips.

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11/7/2022 05:33:20 pm

I appreciate what you said about helping your kids communicate better with adults. My kid is about to turn 5. I'll have to look at schools with good reviews.

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2/15/2023 09:58:20 am

I want to make sure that my son is properly educated. It makes sense that early education would be beneficial for him. It's good to know that learning in person can be really helpful for this.

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4/12/2023 02:08:34 am

I like that you talked about how the child will continue to grow when they are exposed to new experiences, contests, and problem-solving situations. I hope that the early learning centre that I will find in Ballarat would give that kind of experience to my son so that he will be benefitting from it as he gets older. And I want him to be more independent as well, since I think it will be a huge advantage for him once he becomes an adult.

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8/28/2023 05:05:52 pm

My brother mentioned that he's not sure if his daughter is too young to attend daycare. It's interesting to read that learning through experience helps a child develop language and curiosity. Your post will show my brother that children need to be exposed to new situations and environments.

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