How can you help your children to develop important learning skills?

You can encourage development of the important learning skills by making the most of everyday experiences. You should be encouraging you child to look at the world in a new light, noticing more and more and thinking again about familiar experiences. By asking questions about why things are happening, you will be introducing your child to the idea of discussing ideas, contributing thoughts and listening carefully to explanations. You aim is to get to a position where your child is pointing things out to you, rather than the other way round. He will then have become very aware of everything that is going on around him and will be keen to show you what he has noticed. If you have managed to excite him to the stage where he wants to know why things are the way they are or why and how things happen. You will have put him well on the way towards effective learning.