Silvia's education blog

"My children need help in the household." Time and again I hear this sentence, which is usually announced by proud mothers. What bothers me personally about this sentence is the word "shall". Why is she so proud to force others to something that they do not want to seem? Lend a hand in the household is of course desirable and necessary, but if it would happen largely voluntary, it would be much better, right?

Small children love to help with anything, what do you do during the day in her presence. My 1.5-year-old godson, for example, runs quite often with a rag through the apartment and makes everything clean and my 4-year-old nephew loves to clean the windows. Drying, re-sort in cabinets sweeping, cutting, stirring the pot, watering flowers ... Small children will love all of these duties, they are meticulously and comply with dedication to the cause.

And right now, it is important to encourage it. What they need is a sense of achievement. This means that you press to praise the children and sometimes even both eyes when the results seen for themselves are far from optimal. In any case, you should now point to correct the deficiencies or unsettled issue, then optimize. While it may work but sometimes betray tricks that the whole process even better.

If we now shows patience, benefited you later. Initially, for example, cooking with Tim has lasted almost twice as long now (now Tim is 12 years), he cooks with a passion rather than out of duty alone, often have lunch or we cook together. Since then, he has discovered his love for the scraps and cutting with high-quality knives, he also makes sure that they are always perfectly polished.

Even among many other things he is now a real help. Overall, we have concluded that we prefer to do most work with fun rather than to split them as duties.

Posted on 10th October 2009 under general education, personality development, Misc. Tags: maid service, education, pedagogy, role model. Comments: None

NeuenVorlesebuch) When searching for one for Tim (then 1.5 years old, I am on the following rowohlt Paperback pushed out of the publishing house: "Bobo Dormouse: Picture Stories for very little." It was recommended to me from the mothers and toddlers group which already had older children. Then they were gone all super excited, I moved straight into the city and bought it. I myself would have never chosen this book without this tip on the way home and was still fairly skeptical. It was a normal paperback, was only weakly colored pictures, at first glance really is no blockbuster. But no one can be deceived ....

This book is really absolutely the best read-aloud book that has fallen into my hands. Tim was enthusiastic from the beginning. We have him read the stories of the Seven Bobo certainly over a hundred times. Night after night. And as excited as Tim had other children, which I read over the years from this book or that I have given this book. And the nice thing, I like guys and girls alike.

Kids love exactly what makes this book seem at first glance it unspektaklär. The more than 200 pictures are kept very simple. In general, there are 4 pictures on a double page, each of which will be described with one or two clear, simple sentences. And the stories are all taken from the infant life the 2-4 year olds. Overall, the book has 7 stories: Bobo's home, while shopping, the zoo, on the playground, Bobo is sick in the garden with pool and Bobo's birthday. All things that the children themselves have already experienced. The length of each story is also ideal for very young children. Particularly well illustrated Tim liked the way the index. This is what we always had to strike first, so he then could choose a story. As Bobo falls asleep on the way, the end of each story, the stories are particularly suitable as bedtime stories.

Mittlerweilen there are several follow-volumes, which touched but not in my opinion, the quality of the first volume. All books are available mitlerweile Bobo as a hardcover edition. I myself give away only the hardcover edition of the first Bobo Dormouse book because the book is thicker through the pages and hard cover much more stable. In addition, the images of the bound edition are colorful.

Quite a lot of fun while reading!

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Posted on 10th October 2009 under education universal, promoting, Misc. Tags: picture books, reading aloud to learn,. Comments: None

Children make from the outset, things like that make us as well. They learn by imitation. Even as a little child Tim always wanted to be close to the action, if I cooked. His favorite place was the countertop. But other small children, which I watch out, love this place. There she would sit and look into the pots and mixing a little snack or easy.

It has been my experience that children food that they eat themselves have prepared, much more. Volunteering can have very small children. You knead it, for example, enjoy a pizza dough or dough, or roll out similar to the plate. Or they distribute something on the plate or in a casserole dish. You can of course also needed to wash fruit or vegetables or picking fresh herbs.

When children have learned that pots and stove are hot and do not try to touch, they can stir sauces, soups or vegetables and add the prepared ingredients and spices. One should, however, they can in no case alone. Of course, one must be careful even when frying as meat especially that children are protected from Fettspritzern - runtersetzen in doubt, dear! Keep children also like the electric mixer. Here, care must be taken, however, good that the mixer is actually handled with both hands. The temptation to nibble during the Mixens is very large and the danger is quickly forgotten in young children.

In a next step, they can then chop finely and the required ingredients. Even here, of course, one must first induce most.

In the beginning, of course, you need patience when cooking together. Children are usually not in a hurry and need to learn the respective handles. The joint activity itself but provides the opportunity to come to rest. Do we have to hurry, anyway? While working jointly quängelt sure no one and the children are supervised and satisfied in general.

It can now Tim (12) all alone cook many dishes and is a real help. They especially like it intersects with our very good, sharp knives and tastes from the courts. Troller, we are now a well-coordinated team of chefs and from time to übenimmt Tim also cooking alone. And rightly so, he is proud of its results.

Written on 24 January 2009 under education universal, promoting, Misc. Tags: cooking. Comments: None

"I've geseht ball." - "No, that is, I have the ball geseh en!"

For people who correct speech is important, remains stubbornly in the habit of constantly improving their children if they speak false words or make grammatical errors. These constant interruptions, however, disrupt the natural flow of speech of the child and steer steadily from the nucleus. We should never forget that language has the task of making himself intelligible to others and tell them something. And to the "wrong" sentences of our little ones usually are sufficient. Ourselves, but it would become annoying if we ask in England after the way the restaurant or order something to talk about our nice and would interrupt constantly compared us to improve. And, even though he understood exactly what we mean. But as the child learns to speak properly because then if it is never mentioned by us in error? Is it not better if we improve our children directly when they say something wrong? No! Children learn the correct forms of the grammar and the correct pronunciation of all alone. They are based on their role models - that is us! There is a simple and very effective way to promote children's language, without having the conversation is disrupted. They repeated in his response to the sentence of the child in his verbessertenVersion. In the example, provides input, for example like this:

"I've got the ball geseht." "Oh, did you see the ball, that's great. Where is he? "

Written on 29 December 2008 under general education, promotion, personal development. Tags Correct:, language development, role models. Comments: None