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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Play IS what your child NEEDS at this time. Get the priorities for your child straight. [/quote]

3yo needs more than just basic play.  There is a ton of learning that can be incorporated into playtime.  Do a dance party with little kid songs in several languages.  Discuss what sounds animals make and what they eat while pretending to be them or take care of them.  Pretend to be different people in the neighborhood or have different community jobs.  Incorporate letter recognition and letter sounds into store or kitchen play by asking the child to “read” you the labels.  Count groups 1-1 with just about any toy.  Work on numeral order with number blocks.  Growing and repeating patterns are easy to do with snap beads, pony beads, matchbox cars and plastic animals.  Discussion of characters, plots and foreshadowing can happen anytime you read  a language you speak.  Creativity and thinking outstanding the box happen you read a hold a book in a language you don’t understand.  By three, most kids can “read” you the story by making up a story from pictures.

Don’t be lazy.  Nobody is saying a 3yo should sit and do worksheets all day.  But there’s a world of difference between what a 3yo gets from a motivated, educated nanny versus a disinterested, unmotivated nanny or sitter.[/quote]

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