“Curiosity is an impulse that just taps you on the shoulder very lightly, and invites you to turn your head a quarter of an inch and look a little closer at something that has intrigued you,” states author Elizabeth Gilbert*, along with asserting that "curiosity is our friend.”
Children at very early stages in life, before walking or talking, become natural friends with curiosity. They discover new sounds in different octaves, pitches, and intensities. A good example of this is when children learn crying can receive different types of attention–both in positive and negative ways. Your child’s growing curiosity expands via exploration. An example of this is crawling to inspect and touch different surfaces: experiencing smooth, rough, crinkly, bumpy objects or foods.
All the curious encounters help children make decisions about the world they are growing into—good, bad, sensitive, delicate, coarse, fragile, painful, pleasing.
Next, as they become involved with looking at pictures, seeing words with books and listening to stories, colors and sounds become more important components of their world. Pictures are intensely studied and when words are vocalized with pictures, children slowly develop vocabulary for speaking, listening, and learning.
Hello Voice Books for Language give children beginning experiences to build vocabulary. How? By listening to rhyming words, developing skills for number order, following directions, articulating sounds, learning about the five senses, and by experiencing stories about laughable unreasonable situations—all building a foundation that helps develop curiosity in their learning environment.
Actions to support your child’s curiosity:
Encourage your child's natural need to know by narrating what they are experiencing or making simple statements. Example: “This feels warm and fuzzy.”
Ask your child questions. Example: “How do you make the train move?” “What do you need to put with your cereal?”
Name colors with questions. Example: “I see two strings, one is red and one is yellow. Which string do you like?”
Name objects. Example: “This is a ball. We can throw the ball.”
Make a statement with a question. Example: “The rocket can go up in the sky. How high do you think the rocket can go?”
Make a statement and ask a question about the environment. Example: “The day is becoming darker. What do you think the sun is doing?”
*Elizabeth Gilbert, applepodcasts.com/onbeing, March 27, 2018
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