It makes children more likely to grow up being unreasonable and violent towards others. It can also make children frightened, and this can destroy the child's natural desire to please and to learn from his or her parents and teachers. The foundations of learning well in school can be built by the parents in the earliest years of a child's life. In the earliest years of life, parents can help build the foundations for successful learning in school. From birth, a child who feels loved, secure, and approved of, is more likely to have the desire and the confidence to learn rapidly.
Parents can also help a child to learn by playing.
All children need simple play materials so that there is always something to do or to explore at each new stage of the child's development. This need not cost a lot of money. Water, sand, cardboard boxes, containers, wooden building blocks, safe household items, objects of different colours, a ball, and many traditional playthings are just as good shop-bought toys. Whenever it is possible and safe, children should be allowed to make their own decisions. They learn best from their own successes and their own mistakes.