Category Archives: cognitive development

Clapping When Your Child Does Something New

If you clap for your child, they might not feel that inner feeling anymore but focus more on your sense of pride, your happiness, and enthusiasm instead of their own feeling of pride and happiness from within. As a result, they might start doing things specifically to make you clap enthusiastically, doing it for the applause. And where is their own inner sense of motivation then?

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Overrating milestones

I wasn’t the only one who couldn’t see everything that happened during the couple of months before my daughter could roll over: also in science, the thought has been that only measurable things count. These were the so-called milestones in the sensorimotor development, like rolling over. Assumed was that sensorimotor skills would develop first, and then cognition. This was first reported by Jean Piaget.

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