Learning online can be more fun than parents realise.
Experience is fun learning for toddlers. Being active, getting out, going places, "doing" and seeing things is what they need. Being in front of a screen is not what any toddler needs, nor will it benefit them in any way that is superior to experiential learning.
Seriously? The last place I would put my high energy toddler (or any toddler) is in front of a computer screen. Children learn through play - through discovery, through their 5 senses, through active engagement in the world. That's how they learn to be creative, to solve problems, to think outside the box. Putting them in a box and in front of a box takes all of that away.
In the summer, they need to have their toes in the grass, sand and water (pool, lake, ocean). They need to plant flowers, water vegetables, collect and paint rocks, fly a kite, ride a kiddie car or tricycle. In the fall, they need to pick apples and make leaf stencils. In the winter, they need to go sledding, build a snowman, collect twigs for firewood, make cookies or cranberry bread or pine cone/peanut butter bird feeders, go to library story hours, play dress up. In the spring, they need to plant flower/vegetable seeds, look for tadpoles, hike the nature areas, and pick dandelions. Year round, they need blocks and art supplies and puzzles. They need to play in the bathtub with colanders and measuring cups. They need to sit on the lap of a calm and relaxed parent to explore the wonderful world of books.
Are you perhaps selling some on line resources? If so, you're on the wrong website. We don't allow that here.
You're trying to sell something, aren't you. Just stop.
High energy toddlers need to be running around outside or having dance parties inside with their parents. They don't need screen time or online learning. Toddlers learning is that the grass tickles their feet, that they can touch the sky when they swing, that magic potions can be made from collection leaves and flowers in the yard, that balls and be kicked and thrown. And the most important learning is how to get along with other people to live in a world where they will make it a better place.
I didn't focus on learning for toddlers. My kids played.
Not sure I get your question.
Really? You think a toddler needs to be online?
There is no toddler anywhere that needs the internet.
Toddlers learn by interacting with caring adults.
Toddlers don't learn by plopping them in from of a screen.
You read to them and sing songs with them.
For high energy you take them to a play ground and you run around WITH them - you don't sit on a bench.
Run around the back yard, teach them how to kick a ball, roll a soft nerf ball back and forth with them.
Run in a sprinkler, jump in puddles, chase leaves.
There are so many things to do but being online is not one of them.
Why have a kid for if you're going to have a machine raise him/her?
learning online can be fun, but if you're actually looking for activities to do with a high energy toddler, is sitting in front of a screen actually useful?
there's a weird dichotomy these days it seems, where parents seem to feel that if kids are moving and jumping and biking and leaping and diving they're not 'learning' but if there's a label slapped on a bit of software that touts it as being 'educational' then it's Good.
i'm not sure what you're going for here with this bipolar 'question' but my response is that i don't attach 'fun learning' to keeping a busy toddler busy. they're learning all the time, whether it's playing bongos on the kitchen pans or chasing fireflies or building a fort out of sticks and old towels or sitting like a lump with their very own tablet playing 'learning online can be fun' games.
but my tendency is to have them catch tadpoles in a creek, climb trees and play hide and seek.
khairete
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My son still has a ton of energy. I used to bury letters, shapes, and numbers in the sand box. He would use his toy excavators to dig them out.
