If you have a child between the ages of 0 to 5, you have probably experienced that most of the time the child learns through punishment and reward. This is around the age and time that most children develop the skills to know what is right and what is wrong, how to communicate to get what they want, how to help other, and how to make themselves, their families, and their friends happy by figuring out conflicts around them. When a child does something right, you let them know they did good by giving them a reward such as a piece of candy or words of praise. When a child does something bad, time out or other punishment is soon to follow.
Interactive Activities
There are so many different ways of showing a child the right way to act and behave. Although some ways seem to be more efficient than others,within the past couple of decades a lot of younger children have been learning these necessary life skills through different TV shows, games, or even the songs that they sing. In school children watch educational films that most of the time have a moral at then end which will get the child to incorporate such things into their daily lives and think how they would react to the same occurrences.
Improving Motor Skills
Most people remember watching Sesame Street or Elmo when they were younger. There shows helped develop the foundation of communication skills they need in life. Without these educational shows, where would children listen and learn from sine at this age they are too young to attend school? These shows get them ready for school and ready for an interactive environment. It helps improve their motor skills and logic and problem-solving skills.
Nursery Rhymes and Educational Shows
If you listen to the rhyme “Johny Johny Yes Papa“, a little boy named Johny is confronted by his dad for eating sugar. Johny tells his papa that he didn’t eat sugar because he knows that he is not supposed to be eating sugar. Papa asks Johny to open his mouth and finds out that he did, in fact, eat sugar. The moral of the rhyme is not to lie and that there is always a chance of getting caught. This is supposed to teach children at a young age that lies do have consequences and there are always ways of finding things out.
This popular children’s rhyme was written in 2014 in India and is currently found on Youtube, where the majority of young children find most of their nursery rhyme and educational programs. It has about 1.5 billion views currently since it originated in 2014 and it is even the third most googled children’s rhyme out there today. The rhyme is catchy and fun and not easy to forget.There is even a separate soundtrack that you can purchase just to play your child’s favorite tunes!