such as a new mobile phone or video recorder, how many of us spend time just playing around, trying to figure out for ourselves how it works?
When children have the whole world to explore, we childcare workers should be encouraging them to ask questions and try out things for themselves. In this country it seems that no sooner have children learned to walk and talk, than we are telling them they need to sit down and listen.
I think many children aged six and seven in the UK read and write just because they are being asked to. They associate it with schoolwork, and don't read because they choose to be interested in it. This is hardly surprising in a generation of children who have been made to sit down and read since the age of three.
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