Pre-schooler’s | |||
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Overview | |||
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• At this age children's minds are like sponges. By the time they go to school they will have formed their own personality and ideas about life and learning. | |||
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Most children of this age: | |||
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• learn through their senses, like to smell, touch, taste, see and feel things | |||
• need to move | |||
• like to make things | |||
• revert back to toddler like behaviour (thumb sucking, crying, hitting, baby talk) when they are shy or upset, especially in new situations. | |||
• Many children of this age like to go to child care, play group, kindergym or kindergarten/preschool. | |||
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Pre-schooler’s | |||
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Eating | |||
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• Eating is about how, what, when and why we eat. Meal times can be a sharing time for families, helping each other to foods and learning about nutrition and table manners. | |||
• You should decide the best way for your family to have meals and then establish this as a routine. For example, do you sit down together, have the television on and what manners are acceptable? | |||
• Different families eat different things and children learn to like most of the foods their family eats. | |||
• Preschoolers may go through a 'fussy' time. Most children like sweet things and some children are allergic to certain foods. | |||
• Some vegetables are often disliked so try alternatives rather than forcing them to eat what they don't like. Tell them taste buds change as they grow. Suggest they might like to try the disliked food again in a year - they may then find they like it. | |||
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