The benefits to the child are :

Fine Motor Skills:
Develop muscle control to make small precise movements such as picking up a raisin or pushing a button. Tot-a-Doodle-Do! helps improve these skills through the Crafty Kids and Super Snack segments. These segments ask children to cut, color, staple, hole punch and pick up small items and arrange them in specific patterns.

Gross Motor Skills:
The use of the large muscles of the body in developing motor skills such as jumping, running and climbing. These skills are stimulated during the Hop N Bop and Imagination segments where the children learn to use their bodies in different ways, move to the music and learn dance steps or movements involving marching, kneeling, jumping and clapping.

Communication:
The process in which a person conveys meaning to another, whether verbally or nonverbally. This involves speech articulation, language comprehension and expressive language. Language is an extension of the thought process and is directly related to academic success. Tot-a-Doodle-Do! stimulates communication throughout every segment of the show. The children are speaking, listening, asking questions, following directions and learning new vocabulary labels.

Cognitive Skills:
The mental abilities that help us process external stimuli. These skills include pre-academic skills such as counting, learning about shapes and colors as well as problem solving skills. Attention and memory are specifically targeted in the Imagination Segment of the show.

Socialization:
The process by which society integrates the individual and the individual learns to behave in socially acceptable ways. These skills include using good manners, taking turns, using imaginative and cooperative play. Molly Manners and On Our Block teaches children to use good manners and be polite as well as how to get along with others.