After keeping in touch with other child care providers across the nation, they have provided us tips on great activities for motor skills development in early learners! The talk about sensory bin activities is making waves all over the child care world to help promote you infant or toddlers motors skills and verbal development.
Some professionals use sensory bins for bring story books to life or expose children to various other cultures. Senory bins really help children tap into there imaginations and use that to there advantage. The bin can be filled with all sorts of objects and craft tools to build or create the child’s vision. Allowing them the ability to feel in control of there thoughts and ideas while still allowing the professional to identify misconceptions about they’re own curriculum.
Back in the day, you notice that the cool objects you played with as a kid really did help with our motor skills and how they made you feel while still being creative. Today, you don’t see the same toy’s you used to play with as a kid. Doesn’t mean, they affected your child development negivitively, just means they may have been built with easily acceptable materials to germs and other harmful substances. Sensory bins has those same principles.
Our society has changed dramatically in the past century. There are definitely things we are advancing in posivitely although we as the American culture has reverted back a couples steps in different departments of developmental growth, esepecially concerning our future generation. Studies have shown that younger children are not physically playing like they should. American children of this gernation are suffering from depression and usually high levels of anxiety, the cause of this has not yet been studied although it is currently in development. Author of the book “Free to Learn” and recent article writer of Aeon Magazine, Peter Grey. Peter wrote in this article a short paragraph that has been on my heavy on my mind lately, “the decline in opportunity to play has also been accompanied by a the decline in empathy and a rise in narcissism” this study has now opened up a new decovery mental illness called “Nature Deficit Disorder”.
A high rate of child care provides are affecting children with this new mental illness. Nature Deficit Disorder may stem from SPD (Senory processing disorder) which is another complex problem from the early 1920’s. Environmental factors may be the cause of the sudden rise of these two developmental illnesses affecting children.
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