Another book suggestion: Jane Healy, "Your Child's Growing Mind." My favorite image from there is the description of two children building block towers. One has a mother show her how to do it correctly, ands she does it right the first time and then repeats it. Child looks to adult for approval and is praised for doing it right. The other is left alone with no guidance and makes a gazillion failed attempts to build a tower, the blocks falling all over the place. Finally he gets it to stand, albeit a little crooked. Then he knocks it down and makes something totally different. The author asks: Which child has learned more? (about gravity, physics, balance, frustration, perseverance, self, etc.) I also had early readers and really appreciated her section on how the brain reads.
Great Illustration. My Art Education professor emphasized that with young kids it is about the "process"--not the "product". It is the parents who put the importance on the product.
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