### person | child:

Preschooler
* Develop friendships and skills for playing with other children.
* Let preschoolers' reading skills develop at their own pace.
* Most preschoolers eat four to five snacks or meals each day
  - enjoy learning to write their own names
  - love to help with food preparation
  - receive care in a home environment
* Stay calm when children act out in highly emotional ways.
* also discover writing as a tool for everyday life
  - learn to identify primary colors and arrange colors according to shade
  - notice that people have different physical and mental abilities
* are at the greatest risk of injury from falls
  - perfect age to start learning about fire safety
  - emotionally unpredictable and have difficulty dividing their attention
  - less likely to throw tantrums
  - more likely to learn to love books if they are read to
  - notorious climbers
  - susceptible to burns on metal equipment in hot weather
  - unable to clearly distinguish between reality and fantasy
* assume that good behavior gets rewarded and bad behavior gets punished.
* begin to learn healthy sexual attitudes and beliefs as well as respect for others.
* believe they cause the abuse, as their cognitive development centers around themselves.
* can brush their own teeth and prepare for rest
  - crawl over, under or through, see-saw or rock
  - discover how aquatic animals use camouflage
  - make all kinds of sculptures and structures
  - manifest depression in the same ways as older children
  - rhyme and play with words and sounds
* choose friends based on who they see regularly.
* develop their attitudes and values about money within the family setting.
* enjoy being with parents, working with parents.
* explore a broader range of movement as they learn to run, jump, climb, and throw
  - nature using their senses and learn about real and pretend animals
* feel a sense of loss and sorrow.
* gain experience in reading comprehension and memory skills.
* gather clues about what's right and wrong by watching our responses to their behavior.
* have an uncanny ability to pick up words all words that they hear
  - difficulty understanding concepts such as time and value
  - erratic eating patterns, often preferring just one or two foods
  - widely fluctuating food intakes
* learn about writing when they see how people use writing every day.
* learn best about worshiping in church by observing parents
  - in natural situations when Bible truths are taught as they apply to life
  - from each other and change throughout the preschool years
  - that their actions affect other people
* learn to love language
  - resolve conflicts with new social problem-solving skills
  - values best by stories
* like to do their own writing
  - things and make things
  - look at books on their own
  - make things with blocks and plastic building pieces
  - take walks in all kinds of weather
* love books with repetition, rhyme, and rhythm
  - learning letters, phonics, numbers, and colors
* love to dust
  - mimic adult chores and help
  - play kitchen with replicas of real food to prepare
  - role play, mimicking what they know and admire
  - try their hand at making up their own jokes and riddles
* mimic what they see their parents doing.
* move quickly and they love to climb and explore
  - their focus from self to others
* paint online while picking out the words they can read in their favorite rhymes.
* receive important foundations for learning, including the joy of reading.
* regard the adults in their life as all-powerful.
* seek out parents for help with difficult tasks or situations.
* seem more task oriented when their mothers provide positive support.
* show slight regression in speech and cognitive abilities.
* solve artistic problems when they grip a crayon or marker in their fingers.
* spend a lot of time learning how to get along with others.
* still think that death happens only to others.
* tend to have finicky food habits and to eat only one food at each meal.
* think differently than older children and adults.
* thrive on predictability.
* trust their parents.
* use up energy quickly.
* usually love massage, and they can stay still for a longer period of time.