All about Child's Understanding
By the time a child is three years old, his sensory perceptions are well organized. Some children can give good descriptions of what they perceive, feel, and understand. Experience with concrete situations is an essential aspect of the early development of understanding in the child. Such experiences are often used in describing related events.
example, when the "crazy bone" of a three-year-old was stimufor the first time, the child described the tingling sensation as . fingers are singing." Apparently the child perceived a relationbetween the nerve sensation, a new experience, and auditory perception, which had familiarity and therefore was meaningful. Another described the perception as feeling like ginger aie. When his ent to sleep, one five'-year-old said, "My foot is fizzing." .
One of the most difficult concepts for a child to grasp is that of Since time is a relatively abstract concept, this is to be expected. For the five-year-old a favorite TV program may have meaning in of "late afternoon" or "after dinner." The average child is seen to eight years of age before he or she can tell time on a clock to the quarter hour, and the concept of "month" or "year" comes even leer.
