Let your child be the “director.” Let him design his thoughts and ideas and develop logical thinking and this way gradually they will develop these skills by allowing themselves to imagine and construct ideas and thoughts.

What is A Logic?

Thinking Sensible and rationale involves thinking in steps and using what you know to draw conclusions. It is very important nowadays as it helps in making one sharp and quick, which is a need of the hour. 

What is Literacy?

The ability to read, write and interpret and understand things.

So now when we say these two together and tell literacy and Logic in toddlers we mean to say that teaching the toddlers and making them learn things by explaining them with logic and reason. This way they will remember things easily and will not forget them quickly.

In today’s time where being unique and being out of the league is the talk of the town, it is very important for the parents, the educational institutes to help kids become masters in thinking logically.

 This helps them develop their own ideas. It also strengthens their thinking skills as they make logical connections in the situation or any incident they experience.

By the age of 3 the child starts developing these skills because at this age they can clearly speak and express them and hence they can imagine and think and communicate their thoughts. For example, we can tell them a situation, it is raining heavily outside and the cat is stuck in the rain, The cat has to go back to her house because it’s a storm and rain outside. You can help the kid develop his ideas by asking questions: What is the cat feeling? What is the cat trying to do? Why? What might happen next? and wait for the child’s reply, they will imagine and observe the situation and will come up with several ideas. As a parent, we should help them a little and wait for them to speak up.

This will help them in language development as well as developing their thinking ability and a little push and help will be very helpful in enhancing critical thinking too. 

We must encourage and help our kids in developing literacy and logical skills, don’t spoon-feed them with everything!

Ways to get our kids involved in some productive thinking which will at the same time keep them busy and engaged and develop their literacy and logical skills too – 

 • Give them some bits and pieces of  information 

Allow them to think and come up with replies. For eg tell them there are so many flowers in the garden!! Ask them the colour of flowers, ask them how many flowers they can see and count, which is their favourite flower, etc.

 • Think out of the box 

This is the best way to engage toddlers, give them their regular toys along with some extra stuff like a shoebox or a plastic box and let me use it the way they wish to in the form of parking for their cars or like a house for their dolls or simply to put in all their books in it.

 • Get Dressed and Tell a story

Give your kids a chance to enact a story, poem or any incident which they liked. Let them search and find different stuff/props and use them in enacting the incidents, story etc.

• Sorting

Spread your little ones’ toys and ask them to sort them by finding the ones with identical shape/Color/category

• Do more from lesser Resources

Offer them limited stuff at their disposal and let them use it and do something productive and best what they can. Let kids use their minds and ideas to fulfil this.

• Oh The Outside World, so Beautiful

Let them explore the world outside. Let them experience beautiful nature and surroundings. Tell them fun facts about nature and ask them things related to nature ( which will interest them ) like how a butterfly is formed, how do birds gather their food ( warm) how we should not disturb the flowers and how they get hurt.

Do some experiments with them!

• Just A minute

Make some chits and write some topics/ particular words in it, whichever chit your child picks up, they have to say something on that topic for a minute. It will help a lot in honing their thinking skills.

• Let them help themselves

During play, when they face some difficulty or come across some problematic situation, don’t help them, children discover real-life skills that are needed to identify a problem, resolve a conflict and take action.

By allowing your child to do the activities listed above—and by asking the right questions—you can help your child enhance her logical thinking skills, which will, in turn, help her make sense of her world.

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