To be good at thinking, children must believe that thinking is fun and want to be good at it. Parents can make thinking fun throughout the academic year as well as during the summer and on vacations. Good thinkers practice thinking just like they practice basketball or soccer.
Quite small things that parents do are associated with good outcomes for children — talking and listening to a child, responding to them warmly, teaching them their letters and numbers, taking them on trips and visits. Reading to children every day seems to be really important.
Obviously, all of those things are important. I think, however, that in the circles of educated families I have known, there is more than enough emphasis on this aspect of development- and due to political, philosophical beliefs, there is a suppression of the material aspects. This is why I felt inspired to write this post.
Reading, writing, talking, reasoning, all of these things are IMMENSELY important. It is not "either or" though. Thank you for commenting!
indeed you are right