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By Jennie Lindon,
Nursery World,
14 December 2001
Between 18 months and two and a half years of age, most young children will show that they have made the move into ideas about familiar objects, people and events in daily life. This area of children's learning is the one that can be most difficult for adults to understand, until you really make the effort to see through a child's eyes. Ideas that seem obvious to us are brand new to children and initially make no sense at all.
Young children begin to understand abstract ideas when they can connect them with their own experiences, says Jennie Lindon Between...
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