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1. Balancing Screen-Time: Enhancing Child Development Through Deferred Imitation
  
  by Derek Petgrave• April 13, 2024
  
  In today's digital age, screens have become an integral part of parents’ lives which presents both opportunities and challenges with respect to raising young children. At the same time, baring negative environmental externalities or genetic disabilities, human evolution has made every child ...
  Cognition Skills Comprehension Skills Deferred imitation Didactiic Language Skills Mathematic Skills Memory Skills Motor Skills Visual-Spatial Reasoning Skills
1. Math activities for preschoolers: mastering counting skills
  
  by Derek Petgrave• January 31, 2024
  
  As parents of pre-schoolers our journey in nurturing our child’s abilities prior to starting kindergarten is both rewarding and challenging. When our little ones reach 3 to 4 years old many of us want to delve deeper into researching alternative counting methods to offer insights into how we can enrich ...
  Activities Counting Math Pre-schoolers
1. Didactiic's math proficiency toolkit - achieving automaticity
  
  by Derek Petgrave• February 17, 2023
  
  A clear win that parent’s obtain from inducing early literacy in their kids using Didactiic is more free time during the elementary years as a result of toddler independence. “Ahhhh!” look at my 5-year-old little girl reading the “ Box Car Children ” in the bathroom or “Ahhhh!” look at ...
  Automaticity Early childhood Math Numeracy
1. Why you should use a phonetic approach to teach your 3 yr. old to read
  
  by Derek Petgrave• January 30, 2021
  
  THE IMPORTANCE OF LEARNING TO READ AT AN EARLY AGE Let me ask you a question. How old were you when you first learned how to read? Likely the answer is that you simply don’t know. The truth is that the ability to read is not a singular event in ...
  Literacy Phonetics Reading Sight words
1. Can you raise your child to be a genius?
  
  by Derek Petgrave• May 29, 2018
  
  In the 1960s a young man named László started plotting one of the most daring human experiments in recorded history. After "... studying the biographies of 400 great intellectuals, from Socrates to Einstein" László concluded that "... a genius is not born but is educated and trained." He later told the Washington Post that "...when a child is born healthy, it is a potential genius."
  Cognition Skills Mathematic Skills Visual-Spatial Reasoning Skills

Didactiic Blog

Research-Informed Insights into Early Childhood Brain Development

Balancing Screen-Time: Enhancing Child Development Through Deferred Imitation

Math activities for preschoolers: mastering counting skills

Didactiic's math proficiency toolkit - achieving automaticity

Why you should use a phonetic approach to teach your 3 yr. old to read

Can you raise your child to be a genius?

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