On the readiness to learn, translated…
When did you start using a pen, not for the sake of doodling, but for the sake of writing? And how about your children? Writing, had become, a nightmare, to a ton of children after they’d started schooling.
a young child, learning to write his own name, nto my photo…
A lot of the early childhood experts remind us, to NOT let the children in kindergarten write those small characters, that we should, let them, just draw freely, because the muscles in children aren’t yet developed fully, but, most parents had, ignored these advices. Thinking back to before elementary, what, did you learn already? I remembered it completely, I’d practiced, for a, very, long time, and it’d taken me, a long time to practice too, to “draw” my own name out, and the numbers too; the rest, it’d all come, after elementary school, when my school teacher started teaching us the phonetic spelling methods. But the children now, at the age of preschool or kindergarten, had picked these skills up already, comparing it, it seemed, that our generation had, lagged behind, but, the slow start of a year or two, it’d not, made us fallen behind on our writing and reading skills.
Then, why are our children, still being, forced to, use their small hands, to fill up those boxes with their not-yet-skilled-enough little hands? The precious period of time, should be spent, playing with their toys, hide-and-seek, stacking up those wooden blocks, listening to the stories, playing outside on the playgrounds, catching the bugs, looking up at the clouds and daydreaming………doing anything, that children their age do.
not what you should be doing at your age, kids!!!
As I’d lectured, I’d always used some slides, it had my third-grade handwriting on it. Back then, before I’d disclosed, that I’d, written those characters, the audience had, burst out, in laughter already, because the handwriting that I had, would totally gotten erased by the parents today, for a redo. But, I’m truly grateful to my teachers and my parents, for not demanding me to do so back then, so I can, finish my homework fast, and, head to play in the indoors games that we had back then (and yes, during those days, the boxes that the soaps, toothpastes came out of, became great things we’d used for playing house, we’d made, an assortment of furniture with it), or, headed out with the kids in the neighborhood, to jump rope or hopscotch.
And, as the time got pushed forward, there’s less and less chance that we’d needed to, write out the words, and, although recognizing the characters, writing them are, important, but, throwing those, precious childhood years away, on training kids to write perfectly, shoving them inside those, neatly, tucked in boxes, had been proven, to not fit in with the requirements of the future now, to the point of being called, time wasting, and wasting away the intelligence of young children. And, training the kids to start writing early, it’d taken time away from their playing, and sleeping, it’s the same as, abusing the young.
instead, do this!!!
doesn’t this look and feel, way better???
So, we should, LET our kids play, socialize them, get them ready to learn, but, NOT pushing them too hard in learning to write at a certain age, as every kid is different, some kids don’t start writing their a, b, c’s until they’re in their elementary years, and just because some kids are slow to start, that still doesn’t mean that they’re, DUMB, every KID had her/his own developmental schedules, and, there’s just, NO point, in you, STUPID parents, PUSHING them to do something they’re not yet mentally, physically ready for!
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