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Principle 4 Invest time and energy to build a total person (concentrate on the "whole child"). Don't focus on cognitive development alone or look at it as separate from total development.
Cody is 26 months old and the caregivers in his toddler program marvel at him. As the only child of two professional parents, he talks like an adult, using big words and complex sentences. He knows the words to many songs he has heard on the radio and enjoys telling everybody about the latest video he has seen. He seems to be trying to teach himself to read, and he is already a whiz at number concepts. He seldom pays attention to the other children and spends most of his time showing off his many skills to adults or else by himself. He doesn't seem to know how to enter into the play of others or even play close to them in a parallel way. He has so entranced the caregivers that they seem blind to his need to learn social skills so he can connect with his peers. Nobody is worried about Cody.