From "The Scientist in The Crib" by Gopnik, Meltzoff, Kuhl. "It turns out that even very young babies make some assumptions about causal connections between events." Looks like our 9 month old Princess senses the importance of the credit card to keep her in her beautiful pink tutu! How do children really learn? " When we study children, we are studying ourselves: when we see how they develop, we are seeing how we became what we are. Babies think, reason, learn, and know as well as act and feel. Babies' minds are at least as rich, as abstract, as complex, as powerful as ours." How doe this impact what we as teachers and parents do when interacting with young children?

Nine month old twins, boy and girl but look it's the boy who already has control of the TV remote!
What influences are genetic or environment? Are their gender differences in early childhood development? What roles do nature and nurture provide in a child's life? In a risk free environments how can adults foster learning? In what kind of environment is learning stifled? Think about it?