© 2008 – 2023 Gwen Dewar, Ph.D., all rights reserved #author-byline-block_cf22dfd10b244fcc6955133e0fd94322 .author-byline-text{ font-size: 16px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); } Preschool number activities often involve counting, but counting alone – naming numbers in the right order – isn’t enough. Children also need to develop “number sense,” an intuitive feeling for the...
© 2006 – 2022 Gwen Dewar, Ph.D., all rights reserved #author-byline-block_e01c845517840df4c644739937efe930 .author-byline-text{ font-size: 16px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); } In Western countries today, many pediatricians recommend a child-oriented approach to toilet training. Children set the pace. Parents delay training until children demonstrate certain skills, abilities and interests. The goal of...
© 2008 – 2022 Gwen Dewar, Ph.D., all rights reserved #author-byline-block_b513b1d27a1e04b575920c23f6775217 .author-byline-text{ font-size: 16px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); } Doing research on potty training techniques? This article describes the major methods and (where such information is available) reviews the scientific evidence in favor of each one. As you’ll see below,...
Studies suggest the answer is yes…if the game has these particular features. © 2008 – 2022 Gwen Dewar, Ph.D., all rights reserved #author-byline-block_63179b880f58e .author-byline-text{ font-size: 16px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); } You might not expect much from a preschool board game. Players roll dice, or spin a spinner, and move...
© 2021 Gwen Dewar, Ph.D., all rights reserved When children show signs of toilet training readiness, they may learn toileting skills more easily or quickly. But not all signs are equally important — or even relevant — to your family’s needs. What is “toilet training readiness”? The concept was pioneered...
© 2008 – 2021 Gwen Dewar, Ph.D., all rights reserved A preschool science experiment is an opportunity to introduce children to the concepts of observation, prediction, and testing (Gelman and Brenneman 2004). Exciting? Yes. But it’s also tricky. On the one hand, research suggests that young children don’t think as...
© 2021 Gwen Dewar, all rights reserved In Western countries like the United States, many children begin toilet training sometime between 24 and 36 months. But from an historical and cross-cultural standpoint, this timing is very late, and it comes with a downside. So what’s the right potty training age?...
