Careaboutkids

PARENTS: The potential for intelligent behavior does not simply unfold. Its development needs experience, encouragement, affection, and tender, loving care along with stimulation from the environment. An important element in a child's mental and emotional growth is the learning of altruism, the ability to consider the wellbeing of others, which some experts believe is realated to the development of conscience, knowing the difference between right and wrong. A preschooler may not know the difference between make-believe and lying. She/he may not see the difference between fact (what is true) and fantansy (the way she/he would like it to be). As a result, she/he may color facts when telling a story to make it come out the way she/he wants it to MY WORD:Child care centers contribute many of the necessary cognitive skills that a child needs for positive mental development.