How I helped my 3 year old remember her address

My daughter is very intelligent (of course). It was fairly simple to teach her all the pertinent info she's supposed to know. But, along the way, she kept getting confused about her home address. It's really not developmentally appropriate for a 3 year old to understand the pieces that make up their address. Yet, they all need to know how to get home for safety purposes. Here's how we got her to learn it quickly.

We know how hearing things repetitively helps children remember. Once, I read a study that stated that children who were read to by their fathers displayed a richer vocabulary and higher reading abilities than those who weren't. So I got her father to record her pertinent information, including her address, onto a sound module. My daughter pressed the bear's belly over and over, of course, to hear the bear speak. Voila! Within no time, she could recite her address on command.

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