You can also play memory games and simple classification games. Children will continue to love being read to, but they can also read themselves and read to you. The counting and measuring of objects help with math and science. Listening to adult speech helps advance their language. Later on, exposing children to academic subjects advances their cognition.
Parents can help by assisting children with homework.
However, cognition can be exercised out of the classroom as well through reading books and playing games. Autonomy Autonomy is the ability and desire to accomplish tasks on one's own. It is important to one's social development. It naturally develops as early as toddlerhood. However, it can be fostered by giving children tasks to complete on their own at a time when they are ready for the task.