Preschool Guide

Researches in child development have shown that play activities enhance every aspect of a child’s mental and physical growth. The play impulse has two essential characteristics: 1.The tendency to be experimental 2. Tthe tendency to be active. As Preschool and Parental Education  states, play "sends a child first to testing out his powers, and then to attacking experimentally his entire environment." A child can acquire vital problem-solving skills through proper playtime activities. Important social skills can also be developed in children while they play with their favorite toys. At pre-school age, children prefer concentrating on a particular activity for a longer span of time. Thus preschool toys are aimed at kids between the ages of three and five. Child development toys are wonderful means of attracting children to the world of learning. Toys designed especially for preschool toddlers focus on memory skills, patterns and matching activities. Creative skills and artistic

When you think of preschool, what do you envision? Are you afraid that your child is still too small to be placed in a structured environment? Does it scare you how they might cope with the separation? Well, don’t be. Preschool can only help your child. Children gain a lot from going to preschool because they become exposed to numbers, letters, and shapes there. But, more importantly, they develop social and emotional skills and learn how to get along with other children, to share and to contribute. Findings show that children who attend high-quality preschool enter schools with better pre-reading skills, richer vocabularies, and stronger basic math skills than those who do not.  So why not insist on preschool education when it can only help; when preschool is good for your child? Know this: the 3-6-year olds are like little sponges at that age. They can take in so much; even more than you think. You as a parent should make use of this time to equip your little ones with the skills th