Early Childhood
Early childhood is the most critical time for positive intervention. Children’s development during this stage is strongly affected by their environment, and that effect continues to exert a strong influence on the rest of their lives. It is of the utmost importance that education and life skills programs such as Aflatot also begin at this early stage. Children gather the building blocks of social and financial literacy even before they get to primary school. Much of what they know about planning, budgeting, saving, spending and using resources is based on their daily routine. Even before monetary concepts are learned, simple concepts such as making full use of available resources, i.e. ‘finishing one’s food’ or ‘buying only necessities’, are some of the daily realities that young children are exposed to that already relate to financial education. Preschool children are also developing time preferences when they understand that there are times when it is better to wait for something rather than to have it now. Children as young as three years of age are exposed to the social values of giving and sharing, not just with gifts or tangible materials, but also with interaction with others. Other important life skills that are embedded in Aflatot include taking turns, making decisions, and setting goals.
Early childhood, this stage is where it all began, we are on the process of learning which is preparatory education, this is where we start how to communicate, how to write, how to read, and how they impersonate a person by just observing them, and also part of the development of the child is important because the child reflects the gesture, language and interest depending on what he/she observes in his/her environment.
