Ann Barbour Professor of early childhood education | It’s never too young for a child to start learning about problem solving. Your child is already solving problems everyday as she tries to figure out how to do things by herself. Sometimes adults don’t recognize children’s efforts in, say, trying to put on shoes by themselves, or stacking blocks to make a tower that won’t fall down as problem solving. But these trial-and-error processes and the persistence kids show as they try to do these kinds of things for themselves are exactly what we want to encourage to help them develop problem-solving skills |