Messy High Chair? You May Be Raising a Genius
I knew it! Raising a kid not to care about the cheerios on the floor, or the fudge icing in his hair, or the milk pooling in designs on the tray, is a good thing. According to a study , the messier your child gets while playing with food in the high chair, the more he or she is learning. That's because children start learning words for solid objects from their unchanging size and shape. But things that ooze and are mushy? That's more of a challenge. But simply put them in a familiar setting, and that starts to change, newswise.com reports. ". . . if you put toddlers in a setting they know well, such as shoving stuff in their mouths," newswise.com quotes Larissa Samuelson, associate professor in psychology at the UI who has worked for years on how children learn to associate words with objects, they will start to associate the nonsolid objects with the words to name them. In those instances, word learning increases, because children at that age are “used to see...