Letting your child struggle with a task can be challenging for a parent! But supporting their efforts encourages their growth. Taking on new challenges and feeling your encouragement builds your child’s confidence. Watch them be curious!
Your Curious Child
Source: Boston Basics
What you can do:
- Help your child learn to be a problem solver. Help your child work through problems, but don’t always solve problems for them. Encourage efforts, not just successes! Click here for some examples.
- Encourage curiosity in how the world works. Click here for some examples of how to support children’s curiosity and problem-solving through early math concepts.
- Think about what you can do if it feels frustrating for your child or for you. They may ask for help without words – shake or throw the object they are working with, slap or hit the object, hand the object to you, flap hands or throw themselves down, yell or stomp, or cry.
