So much to say about kids… these days
One thing I have learned is to never under-estimate them, they love to challenge their minds and no matter how difficult you might think it is for them. In reality, it’s easier for them to learn the new skill, than you are able to learn new skills.
In the past 15 years, I have come up against an array of challenges regarding kids. From the time they are born, they are learning and they never stop. When they reach toddler stage, they start to get stuck in their ways. By this time, hopefully, you have taught them that trying new things is a great way to do things and that they should never be afraid of doing so. This will encourage their development throughout their childhood to be a good healthy view to learning new skills.
At the age of 6 years old, they tend to become a little shy and withdrawn, but at the same time, you need to think about what is happening around them in their lives. They have just started big school and that is a new challenge in itself and then they have to learn different ways of doing things and then all the rules of big school is so different to when they were at nursery.
Whilst all these things are happening in their lives, you don’t want to alienate them by giving them too much more to learn. Let them decide the pace at which they want to go.
Some children, even though they weren’t very socialble as toddlers find that they are not able to be quite as socialble as their class mates. They tend to find it hard to communicate what they want to do or express their feelings on a matter. This in turn can worry teachers and they feel they may need either a one to one session or that they may need speech therapy to get them passed the baby stage of talking.
Albert Einstein
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This does not mean that your child is not intelligent. In-fact in my experience, I have found these children to be very intelligent. They are just overwhelmed with all the social banter.
As children grow up, they find their strengths and weaknesses. Teachers find their strengths and weaknesses and that is where your child’s schooling development becomes really important. Teachers have a very difficult task on their hands and find that some children mis-behave due to lack of knowledge, lack of being able to express themselves. Both teachers and children become distressed. This is where a little child psychology comes into it, you need to be able to pin point what the problem is. Is the teacher frustrated because the child is acting out aggressively or is it a lack of communication?
As a parent, I can empathise with a lot of other parents here, you don’t want to believe that your child is naughty and rude, but sometimes, it is the truth. You as a parent have responsibilities too. You need to smooth out the ruffled feathers yourself and hopefully you and the teacher can work in conjunction with each other on getting your child onto the right path.
Sometimes it is even difficult for teachers to approach parents, as they already know how the parent is going to react to them. This isn’t a healthy way for your child. You and the teacher need to work as a team. When that happens, your child will realise that there is no use acting up because both the teacher and parent are going to say to the child. “No, it’s not quite like that, it’s this way.”
Helping your young child to learn good morals, you need to be a good example. This is where most children pick up their habits. Hopefully, once you have started to practice what you are teaching your child, then your child will become more responsive to the things that you are teaching him or her.
Children are very perceptive and should be treated as such. Try to be a good example and work well with others. This will help your child to work well with other kids. This is where their social skills will become better.
