How Do Young Children Learn Logic Through Poems & Stories?
Observation From the moment they are born, young children learn about their world through watching and listening. Modern psychologists and anthropologists generally agree that young children learn best through observation and mimicking, and these actions lead to the child’s linguistics, rationale and logic. Children experience the fastest learning rate of their lifetime between birth and the age of 3. In addition, children learn tremendous amounts about logic through watching and listening, but they learn even more through doing things and enjoying life experiences. Since very young children are often incapable of enacting life experiences on their own and possess little to no logic rationale, they can instead enjoy vicarious experiences through poems and stories while learning valuable lessons. As a child listens to, becomes engaged in and vicariously experiences the consequences that befall “The Boy Who Cried Wolf,” for example, she can learn simple life lessons like the consequences
