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Child learning development is marked by several stages, most coinciding with a specific age range. Understanding the stages of learning can better help you guide and teach your child throughout life, whether you are a teacher, a parent, or both.

0-2 years old

During the initial stages of life, infants and young toddlers experience their world through much of their five senses. Babies will generally touch and taste any object they can get to their mouths! They also look, listen, and smell things as they are developing. Once they begin to crawl and walk, look out, because this learning goes into overdrive.

2-7 years old

This begins the age of problem solving. Children will learn as they experience their world and then begin to try to apply what they have learned. As they begin talking, “why?” will be their favorite question about everything! However, remember to keep the answers simple—they do not need to know that grass is necessary to prevent soil erosion but just that it is a place for them to play.

This is another huge key to their learning: everything is about how something affects them personally and they have no reasoning when it comes to past events. If you miss a teaching or discipline opportunity, let it go—they have already forgotten and so should you.

7-11 years old

Here begins the period when children really begin to manipulate facts mentally. They have moved from the basic teachings of their senses and move toward thinking that is more logical, though everything is still pretty much concrete. This age is very black-and-white-oriented and will take everything you say pretty much literally.

11 and beyond

It is now time for your child learning development skills to go even deeper. At this point in the game children begin to think more abstractly and can process complex ideas and theory. Children are developing their cognitive skills at this point.

This is simply an outline of the different child learning development stages. Understanding these stages and what age your child should be experiencing them will help you better guide them.

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