Children playing with blocks helps language skills
Playing with blocks helps children build language abilities
If you liked playing with blocks when you were a child, you are in luck, chances are your linguistic ability was improved.
A University of Washington, Seattle study has shown that language skill in children who played with blocks, were 15% higher than those who did not. This is actually a fairly large difference. In you equate this with the difference between a C or an A in school. The children studies were between 1 1/2 and 2 1/2.
How unstructured play with blocks helps language learning
If children play with blocks in an unstructured way all kind of skills are strengthened, from organizational to memory to spatial relationships, and some of these skill are connected with languages. At this critical age the child’s brains is growing and this type of stimulation is very beneficial as well as very innocent. You do not have to send your child to a baby Einstein camp, or the latest and greatest commercial thing that claims to make your child a genius, you can just give him some blocks and let him enjoy. I think this combined with classical music and a good diet, and lots of love will hopefully give you a happy child, which is the most important. Better than a baby Einstein is a happy well rounded child. But if he or she is enjoys languages all the better, you will have someone to talk to when they grow up.
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April 2, 2008at 3:08 pm
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