I have a confession to make. I allow Rain to play with her tablet or watch Disney Junior and Sesame Street when she wants.
Back track....I am not confident with my teaching skills. And that's okay. I have accepted that and I am in line with that fact. It's no biggie. But of course, being a mom to a 2+ year old, I have to start focusing on making sure that Rain isn't just all-play. I should already start making more effort in teaching her more school stuff since she's going to school next year.
But in my mind, I thought that teaching a toddler would mean having sort of the same set-up as a normal school. I'm thinking I would need a blackboard, colored chalk, and some flash cards. Just the thought of it makes me sleepy. And I know that Rain's quick toddler attention span will not mix well with a traditional classroom set up.
So going back to my confession, I allow Rain to play with her iPad and watch children's shows almost all the time and this is only because I see that Rain is learning a lot from it. With age-appropriate educational apps, Rain was able to learn her ABCs, her animals, animal sounds, shapes, and now trying to master her colors. And because I exposed her to a lot of Sesame Street videos and Disney Junior, she has heard tons of versions of the alphabet song, and has picked up a lot of expressions and the right situation to use them in. (All under my constant supervision of course).
So what's my point? All these things I would not have been able to quickly and effectively teach Rain if I only did the boring old flash cards and sing the my own cover of the alphabet song over and over hehe. And it's thanks to Ogalala System in Play that they made me realize that there are fun ways of teaching my little Rainbow while at the same time having fun with her favorite toys! She won't suspect it one tiny bit bwahahaha!