Note to the PARENTS out there, and this time, we have SCIENTIFIC PROOF!!! From the Newspapers, translated…
What, if any, are the correlations between family environment and the development of children? The Taiwan Teachers’ University followed the 450 infants in three years consecutively, and they’d discovered, that when the parents don’t harshly discipline or expected their young to perform, and not held the beliefs of “children should be better off than their parents”, can provide a better home environment for their young, and carry a better way of interacting with their offspring. And, when the quality of environment for the family is better, the infants’ language development, as well as performances of the basic skills are way better.
The technology department worked alongside the research team of National Teachers’ University’s Educational Research Graduate Department, started this March, they’re conducting an eight-year plan for the “Collecting the Data for Infant and Early Childhood Development”, focusing on the children from birth to six years of age. Before the formal plans were made, the team started this mock trial run for the Hsinbei City’s infants from birth to four-and-a-half year-old trial period, yesterday was the publications of the results.
The professor in charge of this project, Chang said, that everybody says, that life is set by age three, that even if you were intelligent as a child, you may turn out mediocre as you grow older, but Taiwan kept lacking the infancy development records database, that from birth to eight years, is the key period of the developments of someone’s life.
The team found through interviews, that when children were socialized in homes with higher quality of living, their verbal abilities would be higher, compared to the children who have a lower standard of interactions in the homes.
That the quality of the homes can also affect the developments of the infant, the materials that are used to teach, and the varieties of the stimuli in the environment are especially important to children under age two, and, after age two, the children would develop better, if they have various materials they can manipulate and if they’d received enough stimuli.
The Assistant Professor Chou from the Human Development major pointed out, that the family learning environment includes how the parents respond to the children (interactions with children), the materials of learning (books, etc.), the variety in the living environment, the stimuli in learning (offering the learning opportunities), etc., etc., etc., and, fi the parents are not so strict, then, they may be more than willing, to provide the multifaceted learning environment that their young need to flourish.
Chou said, for instance, taking the children to venture in the neighborhoods, and, if the parents are strict, when the child misbehaves, they’d used disciplinary measures, a lot of the things, if the parents had, prevented their children from testing the waters themselves, the children will lack the stimuli from learning, and become developmentally restricted.
So, the studies here showed, that you need to provide a very enriching environment for your young to live in, give them things that they can manipulate, because the first few years of life (based off of Piaget???), the children should BE, exploring their external environments, using their sensory abilities, so, don’t deprive them of the opportunity to grow, parents!
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