Crib Notes: 6 Lessons Toddlers Can Teach the Rest of Us

The simple mindset of a toddler is a lesson for all of us.
Crib Notes: 6 Lessons Toddlers Can Teach the Rest of Us
A toddler's face says it all. Biba Kayewich
Jeff Minick
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Surely the most eager students in the world are kids from 1 to 3 years of age.

Every waking moment, they’re absorbing the world around them. They’re learning to walk and talk, they’re learning to eat by themselves, they sing or try to sing, some even dress themselves. By the time toddlers become preschoolers, they’ve picked up more information than half-a-dozen Ph.D. candidates.

Jeff Minick
Jeff Minick
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Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.