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People don't really get that kids and babies are learning all the time. They learn shapes and colours and numbers just by interacting with the world. You have six blocks in a row. The bear is black. The toy dinosaur is green. You hit your head when trying to stand up under the chair and now understand more about spacial recognition and environmental awareness. These are things kids learn naturally and don't need to be taught in a structured way. Sitting down with them to teach them their shapes and colours won't be any more effective than just learning through play, and often kids can't necessarily repeat the results in a novel context anyway. Even if they might be able to arrange their blocks by colour at home, four and five year olds can still have trouble differentiate a blue cupcake from a pink one.
@Tiffany I’m aware, but if your child can do all the educational things and lacks life skills….you’re setting them up for failure idc
I guess that depends on age but I can agree to a certain extent. My 2 year old knows alphabet, shapes, numbers, colors, etc through no real effort on my part besides books and reading. But lacks, most of what you mentioned besides knowing their name bc he’s just not there yet developmentally.
Why can’t they “be” both? Learning happens simultaneously and for kids learning happens during play. Not sure what the argument is here.
This post makes it seem like thats all they are doing. Thats not the case in most circumstances. And then you want to bring the US into this? What about most Asian countries like China where the children dont get to be children at all? Setting a bit of time aside to teach your child doesnt hurt them and builds your bond with them. You're insinuating that because they have these skills, they have no life skills. Ridiculous assumption.
Both can exist and does exist at the same time
I think often they can interlink and both are important. Being able to help cook is great. But knowledge of numbers is needed. Ie knowing 30g is more then 10g and they need to add more. Colours also tie into this as can mean a healthier meal if there’s lots of colours. If making a pasta salad they can aim for 5 colours. Then they learn cooking and colours. Playing can differ child to child and look so different. Some might like learning their shapes/social recognition and like the pattern of this. Some might want to run around by themselves, others play dolls with other kids. Knowing their alphabet can help the learn to read and communicate which will bring interests and social skills ie talking to someone about a book. Think they’re both important and very age dependent!
Just because they are learning doesn't mean it is taking away from their childhood. The older we get, the less our brains are able to quickly retain knowledge. Nobody is trying to impress you.