Hands-on experience is part of childrens' development as Dr Carol Cooper discusses in her book Your Clever Baby, this month's body & soul secret.

Young children learn a great deal more from direct, hands-on experience than from formal teaching, and the younger the child the more obviously this applies. In the 1920s, long before television became commonplace, Jean Piaget, the Swiss doyen of child development, realized that learning had to be interactive, and later studies have shown that children absorb far more from playing than from passively watching a video or DVD programme, for instance.

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