Playing is not just for fun, it’s also one of the best ways to learn! There are great activities that favor the cognitive development of children according to their age.
Cognitive development is the way a child learns through what happens around them. The interaction with adults and the stimulation they receive from their environment help develop their language, reasoning and creativity.
One of the most effective ways to stimulate children’s cognitive learning is through play. In addition to having fun, children learn to solve problems, find effective solutions and stimulate their imagination.
What are the best activities for cognitive development, depending on the age of the child? Let’s look at them together in the following paragraphs.
What is cognitive development?
Cognitive development is the study of children’s mental development from the point of view of learning processes: information processing, concept understanding, perceptual ability and language learning.
Why does play stimulate cognitive development?
“The child’s brain is designed to learn by playing. When we play with a child, he goes into learning mode: and all his senses are focused on the activity at hand. Through play, the child is able to think and act with intelligence and maturity beyond his age because play expands his mind like no other activity is able to do.”
Children love to play, especially when they do it with their parents. Playing is not only fun, but it helps them grow and develop their intelligence: they learn motor coordination, even fine motor skills, creativity, reasoning and logic.
We are a marbella nanny agency which understands that the best activities to stimulate children’s cognitive development are the ones which require the child to take the lead in the action, taking advantage of all their intellectual capacities to play consciously.
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