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Making Your Child’s First Lesson in Alphabets Easy: Choosing What to Teach

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What is the first thing your child learns in a school? Aren’t they the Alphabets? Since learning alphabets is the first major step in a child’s academic process, it is essential that your child learns these alphabets properly. And it is important to teach using easy to understand examples.   One of the traditional ways of teaching alphabets is associating each alphabet with a real life thing and let the child know what the alphabet stands for. Hence, we introduce the alphabets as ‘A’ for ‘Apple’, ‘B’ for ‘Ball’ and so on. In this short article, we will discuss this traditional method of teaching the alphabets. The prime aim of the article is to give you an idea about good examples and bad examples of associating a real life object with an alphabet. Let me explain this point with a scenario. Ravi and Roma are husband and wife. They have a three year old son. When this enthusiastic couple tried teaching their son his first alphabets, they landed up in a tricky situation. Ravi had