This conversation is highly valid, and certainly the "adult midget" paradigm will give a significant boost of verbal ability to two and three year olds. But you guys, kids are amazing kinesthetic learners. I demonstrated the words "and", "or" and "not" to my granddaughters when they were 18 months. They understood the concepts in less than two minutes. I've taught preschoolers the concept of mathematical infinite limits by using a toy frog on the floor. And, what about the "distributive property" in algebra? Get a roll of pennies, lay them on the floor, move them to match your verbal descriptions, and you'll have math wizards before 4 candles are on their birthday cake.
Once, I made flash cards with 14 basic words, and my kids snatched them out of my hands. They started building sentences of the floor.
Do either of you have trouble doing major auto repair without the help of a shop manual? That's because you never saw how it was done at age two and a half. I mean, fuck, lighten up. The brilliance of humanity is in the unprogrammed brains of the youngest among us. Your challenge is to learn the "essence" of youthfulness from them. It's powerful as hell.
I have a psychology degree, I’m well aware that the development of children’s brains is fascinating. But for me that doesn’t translate to an interest in interacting with actual children.
My interactions with them have ranged from neutral to hideously awkward, sometimes dissolving into tears from the child for no apparent reason and the fact that I don’t find them cute makes behaviours that others find endearing tedious to me. As I said, some of us are just not “kiddie people”.
I do like the idea that I can blame my lack of mechanical ability on the fact that I was improperly educated aged 2 and a half though. I’m bringing that one out at the next family argument.
Yeah, well, okay. I know my own views here are biased by my mistrust of my own comfort zone. I like to get pleasantly uncomfortable by thinking outside the box. Since pre-schoolers don't even have a box, I'll just get down on the floor and translate advance concepts into their stream-of-consciousness world of toys and games. It starts as "parallel play", but soon they're eating out of my hand.
BTW, interesting material for the family argument. It should result in blame avoidance that will bring back old memories.
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This conversation is highly valid, and certainly the "adult midget" paradigm will give a significant boost of verbal ability to two and three year olds. But you guys, kids are amazing kinesthetic learners. I demonstrated the words "and", "or" and "not" to my granddaughters when they were 18 months. They understood the concepts in less than two minutes. I've taught preschoolers the concept of mathematical infinite limits by using a toy frog on the floor. And, what about the "distributive property" in algebra? Get a roll of pennies, lay them on the floor, move them to match your verbal descriptions, and you'll have math wizards before 4 candles are on their birthday cake.
Once, I made flash cards with 14 basic words, and my kids snatched them out of my hands. They started building sentences of the floor.
Do either of you have trouble doing major auto repair without the help of a shop manual? That's because you never saw how it was done at age two and a half. I mean, fuck, lighten up. The brilliance of humanity is in the unprogrammed brains of the youngest among us. Your challenge is to learn the "essence" of youthfulness from them. It's powerful as hell.
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I have a psychology degree, I’m well aware that the development of children’s brains is fascinating. But for me that doesn’t translate to an interest in interacting with actual children.
My interactions with them have ranged from neutral to hideously awkward, sometimes dissolving into tears from the child for no apparent reason and the fact that I don’t find them cute makes behaviours that others find endearing tedious to me. As I said, some of us are just not “kiddie people”.
I do like the idea that I can blame my lack of mechanical ability on the fact that I was improperly educated aged 2 and a half though. I’m bringing that one out at the next family argument.
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Yeah, well, okay. I know my own views here are biased by my mistrust of my own comfort zone. I like to get pleasantly uncomfortable by thinking outside the box. Since pre-schoolers don't even have a box, I'll just get down on the floor and translate advance concepts into their stream-of-consciousness world of toys and games. It starts as "parallel play", but soon they're eating out of my hand.
BTW, interesting material for the family argument. It should result in blame avoidance that will bring back old memories.