TenderHearted Teacher. How Early Childhood Education Impacts the Development of Children

Thank you for joining me on another episode of What I Wish My Mother Taught Me. In this episode, I chat with Sally, a toddler mom, and special education preschool teacher. Sally has over 10 years of experience working with young children.

Sally is the Education blogger behind The Bolg TenderHearted Teacher.  Her blog and social media platforms provide topics on early academics,  Social-emotional learning; she uses her platform to support other parents and caregivers by giving them strategies on how to encourage overall development. I am obsessed with providing kids with critical thinking skills at an early age; Sally does a wonderful job of breaking down critical thinking skills and introducing the skill to kids as part of their early education. 

Highlights:

At a Higher level, critical thinking skills allow us to take in new information, use it, and allows us to form new ideas. Set goals, communicate, and collaborate with others.

1. Encouraging open-ended play and making play and exploration a priority
2. Through play, they learn cognitive skills
3. Make sure that the home environment welcomes questions from your children.
4. Have an open environment and have safe brain-storming ideas.
5. Give opportunities and space to try and fail.
6. Support social-emotional learning. Model the behavior that you want to see in your child. 
7. You want the child to know how to find emotions and normalize the feelings. Feelings can change from moment to moment.

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