Getting sick of scraping pureed sweet potato out of the crevices of your toddler’s high chair? Here’s a little bit of motivation: Kids who get messy in their high chairs learn certain types of words better.
Little ones grasp the words for ooey-gooey stuff better when they smear it, mush it and throw it around from their high chairs, new research finds. The study reveals that context is key for toddlers learning new things.
“If you expose them to these things when they’re in a high chair, they do better,” study researcher Larissa Samuelson, a psychologist at the University of Iowa, said in a statement. “They’re familiar with the setting and that helps them remember and use what they already know about nonsolids.” Read more…
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