Children learn from their surrounding

The second way that children learn is by experiencing things in their surroundings. Our child’s surrounding contains us and other family members, playmates, people in and from neighborhood, classmates, teachers, biggest of all Television, movies, books, music etc. Learning by experience is different from copying, if our child touches hot food, he learns that hot food hurts fingers. He learns it by his experience not by modeling us.

Children behave to fit into their environment. If the environment rewards playing with dolls, children learn to play with dolls. If the environment rewards belonging to a gang, children join gangs. It is because of the environment that we see families who are doctors, artists, players, teachers, painters, for more than one generation. It is because of the environment that a doctor’s son becomes a doctor and brigadier’s son chooses to join the army, too.

Families that spend together stay together. Neighborhoods that foster harmony have children who play together nicely.