Absorbent Mind

You can help to support your child’s Absorbent Mind by

• limiting stimulation for very young babies
• keeping distractions and interruptions while your child is working, to a minimum
• providing an uncluttered, ordered living space where everything has its place
• giving your child as much independence as they can handle
• allowing your child to choose and direct their own activity
• letting them work on that activity until they are ready to pack it away
• eliminating or limiting television, which wires the brain up for a short attention span, a permanent effect.
• choosing toys and activities that offer sensory information to your child i.e. things made of natural materials, things that work mechanically rather than electronically, real tools that actually work
• keeping in mind that the young child thrives on actual, real experiences, and learns much more from these than from a virtual or imagined experience