WiseTip: CD-PLY-M1626-P01B

Cognitive Development

Promoting Imitation & Symbolic Play

Model sounds that animals or vehicles make, and observe the ways your toddler uses these sounds during pretend play.

WHY IT MATTERS

Studies have found that babies more readily learn and re-enact an event when it is produced by a person than by an inanimate device.

Meltzoff A. N. (2007). The 'like me' framework for recognizing and becoming an intentional agent. Acta Psychologica, 124(1), 26–43.

Hence, children learn more effectively when adults model actions or sounds for young children to follow rather than expect children to learn from electronic devices.