Monday, February 28, 2011
Understanding How Children Learn
When my first child was born, it also hit my confusion. After successfully adjust to the pattern in breast-feeding a baby, defecate, bathe, and sleep, all of a sudden I feel something is missing in our daily life.
However, those feelings gradually fade. I find much enlightenment after I started reading parenting books. The first book that inspired me a lot is a book published Kaifa Learning Revolution. Its contents are not specific about parenting, but the principles expressed its authors include also the education of children in general.
From the book's end I know that the baby was actually able to absorb all the information that we give even though they do not give a direct response. The baby turned out to hear and absorb the words he heard from the people or the sounds around him, but they can not directly say it again until the muscles are ready to do their talking.
Therefore, I often invite my baby chat on the sidelines of changing diapers, feeding, or bathing. People who do not understand, probably would say yes weird. But I believe that it will be useful for my baby. Evidently, the two children I do not have problems with speaking and relatively quickly mastered those skills with a clear articulation (not lisp) at the age of two years.
Little things are indeed seem trivial. But when we can understand that fact will impact the way we look on each child's behavior, including also in view of their learning.
Early childhood learning in distinctive ways, different from an adult perspective. If we are able to maintain enthusiasm in learning the baby's desire to learn it will continue to grow until they are big. No more we should be boasting get kids to learn, but they themselves who will learn and ask us to guide them.
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