https://padlet.com/mkendall0404/earlychildhood Piaget shows us that tiny young human brains haven't cooked all the way. en-us 2017-01-25 21:21:55 UTC 2017-01-25 21:51:51 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Apple.png mkendall0404 https://padlet.com/mkendall0404/earlychildhood/wish/149471955 When children are very young they cannot think beyond themselves and their own perspectives. They can hardly fathom that someone else may have a different view than them. Some adults do this too, but you're really supposed to grow out of it by the time you are five...]]> 2017-01-25 21:26:59 UTC https://padlet.com/mkendall0404/earlychildhood/wish/149471955 mkendall0404 https://padlet.com/mkendall0404/earlychildhood/wish/149472849 Young children think with the concept of irreversibility, which is the inability to mentally undo or rewind an action that has been done. This might include the inability to realize that a ball of clay can be flattened, then returned to its original shape.]]> 2017-01-25 21:32:38 UTC https://padlet.com/mkendall0404/earlychildhood/wish/149472849 mkendall0404 https://padlet.com/mkendall0404/earlychildhood/wish/149474768 At about 2 years old children experience a "vocabulary explosion," where the amount of words they know increases exponentially.]]> 2017-01-25 21:43:56 UTC https://padlet.com/mkendall0404/earlychildhood/wish/149474768 mkendall0404 https://padlet.com/mkendall0404/earlychildhood/wish/149475784 Children learn morphemes (endings to words that change the word's meaning like "-s" and "ed" and "est") and sometimes misplace these morphemes by thinking they apply to everything in English. If this is the "greatest" and this is the "smelliest" and this is the "smallest" then why isn't this the "bestest"?]]> 2017-01-25 21:49:53 UTC https://padlet.com/mkendall0404/earlychildhood/wish/149475784