Ask HN: What should I offer to my 2 years old to teach him logic?

#1

Post by jbaviat » Wed, Dec 19, 2018, 9:04 AM UTC

Christmas is coming soon. I'd love to have some gift to offer to my son to teach him logic, causality, and at some point programming. Most robots (like robot turtles) are not suited for 2 years old, more for > 3 years old it seems.

Would you have any suggestion?

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#2

Post by dragonbonheur » Wed, Dec 19, 2018, 9:24 AM UTC

Let him be a 2 year old BABY and give him some big colourful blocks that he won't choke on.

The kid is just a BABY and won't turn into an engineer for at least 10 more revolutions around this star.

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#3

Post by gupi » Wed, Dec 19, 2018, 9:25 AM UTC

Maybe it's too early now, I would go with offline games (think of hiding some "treasures" and let him find them).

As time goes by, you might have a look at GCompris suite https://gcompris.net/screenshots-en.html

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#4

Post by mikro2nd » Wed, Dec 19, 2018, 9:56 AM UTC

Your two-year old baby is not developmentally ready for logic. Read him stories. Play games with physical stuff, preferably outdoors where he can get dirty. Let him run, climb, jump -- large muscle development at this stage of life turns out to be terribly important for stuff like logic later on in life.

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#5

Post by elvic » Wed, Dec 19, 2018, 11:29 AM UTC

pattern recognition. they train birds whos intelligence usually gets compared to a young child, to look for patterns.