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Your Three-Year-Old: Is He Right on Track?

Notice how when you teach your child something, he quickly catches on? It's because at the toddler stage, children are like sponges—they absorb information at a very rapid rate! And while each child develops at a different pace, it would help to have a checklist on hand, so you can monitor his growth and development particularly when it comes to brain and vision development. Here are some questions for you to answer:

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Think Better, See Better!

8 ways to ensure maximum brain and vision development
in your toddler

Stimulate learning at home. Provide him with toys and books that will enable him to learn something new every day.
Encourage a love for reading. Surround him with books and set aside a time for reading stories to him.
Make use of visual aids like flash cards with pictures and letters.
Show him how you draw illustrations, so that he will know how lines and other shapes create the image of an object or person.
Show him how you write a list of things to do and review these with him.
Let him look at charts, tables, and maps.
Point to things while saying their names out loud.
Make sure he eats well and gets enough sleep.

Did you know?

Brain growth and development starts as early as the last trimester of pregnancy up to 2 to 3 years of age.
80% of what your child learns is acquired through seeing things.
Preschool age children are like sponges; they are able to absorb information very quickly.
The brain of a three-year-old is twice as active as that of an adult's. It's also much larger in size! This is why a child needs all the nutrients he can get from his diet, and of course, from his milk.