Early Childhood Development

Although quality content from media use can be beneficial to learning, too much media use can give rise to problems. This article seeks to provide parents with recommendations to help them keep their children's media exposure to a healthy level.

Today's educators emphazised the 4Cs in Early Education - Collaboration, Communication, Creativity & Critical Thinking, and play is fundamentally important for learning these 21st-century skills that are critical for adult success. 

Scaffolding is a framework to describe adult’s supportive role in a child’s learning. Scaffolding enables a child to undertake activities that he/she would not usually be able to without the help of others. It allows the child to move his/her current level of understanding to a more advanced one.

Children are born with an innate curiosity about the world around them. Summary of 5 ways to keep your children's love of learning alive:

1. Help children discover their passion
2. Provide hands-on learning
3. Be a Role Model in Learning
4. Start a discussion, instead of being the expert
5. Be supportive during the learning process