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

"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