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Your darling finally made it to the preschool stage. You’ve chosen your curriculum (see Chapters 10 through 19 for an overview of the options), painted the corner that you plan to use as a schooling area, and selected an assortment of pencils and crayons for the school adventure. Before you launch the educational adventure, step back a minute and look at your 4-year-old child again. Preschoolers barely sit through an afternoon snack without wiggling. You can’t expect to plant that little body that wants to move so much. Pack up the curriculum, periodically dust your corner, and enjoy your child right now.

Preschoolers explore their world, and they spend an amazing amount of energy doing so. They watch bugs, dig in the dirt, and play dress-up. They create imaginative scenarios with stuffed animals and then act out their adventures. Because every child is different, individual preschoolers won’t hit all the major milestones at the same time. One 3-year-old child counts to three, for example, while another may count to ten. Counting to number three is actually the three-year developmental milestone according to speech therapists. If your child counts past three, all the better! But don’t stress if your preschooler seems to take her time about mastering a few things. Preschoolers relish their newfound individuality, and they tend to do things in their own time.