Visual points of interest encourage children's physical skills, as long as you don't overload them, says Jennie Lindon
Babies, toddlers and very young children need an environment that is visually interesting without becoming visually overloaded. Commercial play materials for young children sometimes emphasise the 'need to stimulate' under-threes for their visual sense, as well as other aspects of their early development. But very young children do not need to be pushed along and chivvied into stimulation. If they have an interesting environment, with people and play materials that they can easily access, then under-threes will manage their own 'stimulation' perfectly well.
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