The Importance
of Nurture
A one-year-old reaches out for a marigold held in her
mother s hand, and a learning expcricnce is underway.
The child feels the smooth stem of the flower and sniffs
its pungent scent. Transfixed by the petals bold orange
color, the little onc hears her mother s familiar voice:
"Flower. See the pretty flower?" As the young mind gath-
ers these sensory messages, new connections are
formed, associations made and memories stored away.
Before many months have passed, the dividends of this
brief experience and others like it will be evident. The
child, seeing anothcr marigold, will turn to her mother
and say, "Flower! Pretty flower."
Indeed, to babies and young children, all the world s a
classroom and each day is filled with tiny but impor-
tant lessons. And most of these lessons are taught by the
child s first and most influential guides--her parents.
While it is true that a child s ability to master life s lessons
is determined to a great extent by the mental capaci-
ties she is born with (pages 34-~9), her environment and
the people who interact with her also exert powerful
influences on her learning ability.
As thc following pages cxplain, there is much you
can do as a parent to help your child develop her natural
abilities to the fullest -- however broad or limited they
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