Given a warm and supportive introduction to the world, by around three years most children are active and experienced thinkers. So, how do children strengthen their dispositions and aptitudes to think and develop and extend their thinking further through their powers of communication, investigation, reason and imagination?
In order to think and learn, young children must believe that they are able to do so. If this belief is not secured during the early years, it's more difficult for it to blossom later. As we have seen with babies (Children's Thinking, Part 1, Nursery World, 1 October 2012), feelings can have a profound effect on how children respond to their successes and failures.
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