While you’re here, check out my books. eBook samples are available on request. Click here. The central characters are among the most amazing children I’ve met. Children doing what they do best: engaging with each other to solve problems.
Cognitive learning is using our brains to understand through thinking, remembering and solving problems. Cognition is the process of thinking. Cognitive (or mental) awareness is an understanding of what’s going on around you.
Put aside, for a moment, the physical skills involved in driving a vehicle. Concentrate on the cognitive abilities you need each time you get behind the wheel.
It’s a no-brainer that we influence the children in our lives. Our behaviours as adults have a profound impact. Children observe without knowing they are doing it. You realise they have observed when they demonstrate one of your behaviours.
You’ve watched children at play, right? They build worlds, invent dialogue, and establish rules.
In short, they do this:
formulate, form, put together, devise, design, invent, compose, concoct, contrive, work out, hatch; fashion, mould, model, shape, frame; forge, engineer, fabricate, manufacture, hammer out, thrash out.