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Solving problems
Your child has already learned something about solving problems. For
example, if he cries when he wants something, he has learned that
crying can get him what he wants. But by crying, he is asking someone
else to solve a problem. He also needs to learn that he can solve many
problems himself.
To help your baby learn how to solve problems
Where’s
Luis?
There
he is.
Put a cloth over his face. He
may pull it off right away.
But if he does not, pull it off
yourself and then put the
cloth on his face again.
Play hide-and-seek with your child’s
toys. Shake a noisy toy and then hide
it under a cloth. See if he can pull the
cloth off to find it. Next, try turning
a bowl or a pan upside down and
putting it over the toy. See if he can
figure out how to turn the bowl over.
What’s under
the bowl?
Give your child a box filled with different sized objects and let him play
with them. Then cut a hole in the lid of the box, but make the hole
smaller than some of the objects. Put the lid on the box and encourage
your child to take all the objects out. See if he can figure out how to take
off the lid to get the biggest objects out.
The hole should be large
enough for his hand to
reach inside the box, but
small enough so that
some toys are too big
to pull out of the box.
The toy is
too big to
get out,
isn’t it?
What can
we do?
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