Starting The Learning Process
If you have a toddler, chances are you have sung them a nursery rhyme or two. When that child is a baby, you want them to start learning certain things to help with their growth. One of the best ways to do that is making up rhymes that will help them. There is nothing wrong with starting that early. A child’s development depends on it.
What Are The Benefits
One of the benefits of teaching a toddler nursery rhymes is developing their talking skills. The more words you use to engage them, the more their vocabulary expands. They can learn how to pronounce words correctly, and learning through songs help with that. Another reason is to open up their understanding to a world of learning. There are numbers, alphabets, and science that can come from certain rhymes that will start off the learning process long before your toddler reaches preschool. Having your child recognize words for reading is important and the alphabet nursery rhymes are a great way to jumpstart that. If you want to make math a priority, counting rhymes will help. There is a rhyme called ” One Two Buckle My Shoe” that not only will teach your child numbers but also how to do certain tasks. One is the other reason for nursery rhymes your child can learn multiple things just from one song. Twinkle Twinkle Little Star is all about how exploring space. One of the lyrics talks about wondering what a star is and that opens the door to understanding how our universe was formed. You can teach your child about star formations, gravity, clouds, the rain, the moon, the sun and why we have night and day. These things tend to be very important because they are a part of science. Who knows you may have a future astronomer on your hands and the fact it all started with a simple song just shows the power of childhood nursery rhymes.
How do you make a nursery rhyme yourself if you do not want to only use the ones in existence? Well, it can be simple. Just think of what you like your young child to start learning and go from there. There are plenty of things to make rhymes about. You can make one about brushing your teeth, cleaning your room, which shoe goes on what foot, doing certain age appropriate chores, and putting away clothes. Of course, those suggestions are would be a start in the right direction. How you make it rhyme or not is up to you. As long as the interaction is fun and engaging, your child will gladly pick it up and run with it. Before you know it your toddler would have learned so much by the time they are school age and will be ahead of their class. Teaching your child nursery rhymes can bring about much growth. Your child is never too young to learn.