Early Math reminds us, you have the skills to incorporate early learning in whatever language you speak at home. Most young children are naturally interested in math as it exists in the world around them already. Parents can harness that excitement for math into their everyday routines.
“I don’t like this rice, anymore. It has green things on it,” my preschooler said. She had eaten that exact rice almost every week and often asked for seconds. But as my daughter became more independent each day, she began to relish in her new decision-making skills. More foods were crossed off the menu by my newfound picky-eater.
But as I’ve found with my own family, grown-ups can get clever during this independent phase of a child’s development. We find ways to get those nutritious foods into our picky-eater’s meals until they are ready to give broccoli another chance down the road. Pancakes become pumpkin pancakes, pizza is topped with vegetables, and cake turns into carrot cupcakes, leaving our little ones filled up and sometimes blissfully unaware that they’ve just had a full serving of healthy vegetables.
