Coloring books usually contain a variety of funny pictures or figures favored by children who are ready to be colored. Exciting indeed for them, however, there are opinions that say the coloring is actually not good for the development of children's art, why? Here are some reasons:
Coloring book teaching kids to be passive about their creativity. Instead of drawing something themselves, they even coloring pictures provided.
Coloring book teaches children to compare their results with the results of the art art adult.
Coloring books for toddlers steer feel like a failure. It happens when they are coloring outside the lines. This error often occurs, so that they feel like a failure.
Related to the ability to write scripts. The more frequent writing, toddlers will more easily learn to write later. Such as drawing, writing will make children learn to make all the necessary forms to write the alphabet. Meanwhile, coloring in the lines that have been determined not allow that to happen.
So what should you do? Let your toddler strike. Provide paper and markers or crayons allow children drawing whatever he likes.