NEW ORLEANS —A little boy with a plastic dinosaur toddles over to his teacher at Clara's Little Lambs Preschool Academy, in the Algiers neighborhood on the west bank of the Mississippi. “Oooooh!

While trying to boost observational skills in a child, it is important to note that there is no "one-size-fits-all" formula. Research has shown that children are born with sharp observation skills and ...

Children learn by seeing and experimenting on their own. They also learn from what others say to them, particularly adults and authority figures such as their parents and teachers. When children ...