Oct
04
2008
One day you’re going to have your children who talks back to you using foul language. What are you going to do about it? I have talked backt to my parents before and I’m an adult. Parents somtimes cross the line too and you can’t help it but really let them know that you don’t want them to talk to you about that particular issue anymore. The only way to get it across them is by talking loudly or disrespectfully to get their attention.
Who would want to treat their parents like that but what can you do in some case. Some parents just don’t learn when enough is enough. Parents will always want to smother their children. They want to tell their children from a to z. My mom tells me what to eat, what to do, what to wear, what job to do and what time to sleep when I’m 28 years old. Do you think my mom needs to do this? I’m 28 years old. I’ve been through it all in life. I don’t need my mom to keep treating me like a baby. This really irritates me and so I would get angry and yell back over her excessive controlness.
Children are the same way as an adult like me. They can only take so much and there’re things that they don’t want to hear from their parents. The things that you tell them may be good for them but they’re sick and tire of hearing it and they don’t want to keep hearing it. Children have personality and tolerance too. Some children will not be able to tolerate everything that you’re trying to get across with them. If you can just try to delete some of your lectures so that they don’t get irritate all the time. I know it’s one of parent’s favorite thing and that is to lecture to their kids. Guess what though they hate lectures. I used to be a kid and so are you. Did you like your parent keep lecturing and nagging on the same thing over and over again like eat that brocoli or stop talking to Katy because you’re not old enough to have a girlfriend. Children don’t like nagging either. Nobody does.
If you don’t want your children to talk back to you, you just need to be considerate on what you say to them. It’s a chain reaction. It takes two to tangles. You have to tone it down with your children and be patience with them. You can also tell them that you don’t like foul language and that you’ll punish them by taking TV privilege away. It can be that simple. No allowance for a month if they keep using foul language. You can reward them for not using foul language like ice cream and starbucks drink for good behavior
Oct
02
2008
What are gifted learners? Gifted learners is just like the title says, someone who is gifted at learning. What does gifted means? Gifted is when a person has exceed their peers in knowing a subject, their mind is growing faster than their body. They are faster than their peers in any giving subject. Throughout society we have seen these individuals often such as Shirley Temple who was a kid prodigy in television and films. In 2008 Miley Cyrus took this title, even though she’s only 15 years old, she is more successful than her dad. She has millions of dollars in her account. Someone like Shirley Temple or Miley Cyrus will be different than normal children and need different accomodations. A gifted learner need to be accomodate at their level of exellency instead of their peer’s learning level. It’s recommended by the board of education that gifted students be provided with more advanced learning lessons.
I’m sure each of us have come across a gifted person before. We could possibly be one ourselves that’s why we can’t help but keep on writting to share with the world. This says that we have more advance knowlege than others. I have read some articles on Helium and thought that the writers are at the level of geniuses because I’ve never heard a compelling argument before, not even from my professors in college. One thing I have learned is that gifted people excel on their own and they can accomplished some profound inventions before they even finished college. Examples are Bill Gate, Steven Spielberg, John Lennon, Mozart Amadaeus and many more that you may know about. One common trait from these individuals is that they have master a life changing invention before they even finish college. One thing we can learn about gifted learners is that they like freedom and flexibility and they like to keep doing things on their own. Some gifted people are anti-social too. They spend years inside of their office trying to accomplish their task without even brushing their hair like Albert Einstein.
Going back to understanding more about gifted learners, it’s recommended by the educational board that the teacher provide the gifted students with more advancing materials than just the usual for all the other students. If they are teaching the gifted student the same material as the other student then they have not accomplished their goals. Parents of gifted students should tell the teachers about their children’s gift so that the teacher will know more. Students that are gifted have been known to hide their gifts so that they can blend in with the crowd.
When it comes to socializing gifted students have a better relationship with people at their intellectual level and not people at the same grade even though they will befriend people at their own grade level or the kid down the street. Sometimes the gifted student will appear socially awkward in some cases too and the teacher has to take that into account. Teachers are encourage to provide gifted student with more advance materials and not keep them at the level of everyone else. The teacher should provide them flexibility and freedom to advance their skills.
Oct
02
2008
A child with reading disability sure need your help. Your patience is also helpful for the slower learner. Remember not to criticize the slow learner or else they will withdraw from trying to learn at all. Some children learn how to read faster because their parents have included a lot of learning activities at home and therefore they have a better grip. Slower learners have not been exposed to a lot of reading and therefore need more exposure. Just like anything else in life, practice makes perfect. The slower learner will need many sessions of tutoring and coaching.
Children with reading disabilities may have problem concentrating, associating, recognizing letters, don’t know all the letters, lack of interest and putting words into sound. The first thing you can do is to make an assessment of why the child is having a harder time learning. Is there things that prevent the child from liking to read? Does the child have vision problem, having lack of interests, hyper, trouble concentrating, personal problems, bored, and many more. Once you have targeted the problem you can begin to tackle it. You can use the reward system to encourage more reading. For example you can offer a small little gift like a piece of candy, toy or sticker to help reward the student. Most students are plain bored and don’t see why they need to learn how to read. Mayble you can make your lesson more fun and interactive and invole your students.
You can first go over the letter of the alphabet and make sure that the student know all about it. How can they read if they haven’t memorized the alphabet. If they don’t know the whole sequence then you can take the time to teach it to them. Singing the alphabet and watching a cartoon about it really helps too. Next you would move on to putting vovels and constanent together. This is the harder part for some students. This requires more time to memorized and understand. This is where the problem is.
You can look at it from learning a foreign language point of view. When you have to learn a foreign language you’re no different than a child trying to learn how to read. You’ll be struggling too. You can go from step to step and see where the problems are. The first thing would be the alphabet. When I was trying to learn French, no matter how many times I’m studying it, I keep on messing up with the alphabet. If I have problem with the alphabet and how to pronounce it then how will I know how to put the words together right. Learning how to read requires that you go in order and master each level before you can go on to the next level. One of the problem of a disable child could be memorization. Disable children often have memorization problems. So you can work on their memorization more by associating objects with words and letters.
You have to work with them from the first step to the last step. You have to ensure that they have master one step before moving on to the next one. Some children have difficulty pronouncing things and you have to work with them on that. They have to be able to pronouce all of the letters because they can start to put the parts together. Next you can use objects and pictures and videos to enhance your teaching. You can go back and know that every student learn differently. Some learn by hearing, like me, some learn by touching and some by watching, you have to assess each student indiviually. Students not only learn in classroom but also at home. Most of the studying can be done more effectively at home because the student are by themself and have more time to process the material whereas in class the student has to compete with other student
Oct
01
2008
This is a common one. Children are difficult most of the time. If you’re lucky you will have a very quiet baby that never complains or cry just like me. I was a very nice baby until my teenage years. I was a pain and a brat too. I didn’t have a clue how to act and why I acted the way I did. I was bratty and doing the wrong things most of the time. Parents have to be patient with their children because kids don’t have a clue why they are bratty. That is why most juvenile crimes are sealed because they believed that people under 18 years old don’t know how to make a sound decision.
I remember that I was a weird teenager too. I was bratty and did everything my parents didn’t want me to do. I look back and realized that my parents were right. I should have behave. One thing I can advise is for parent to calm down and be patient with children as they grow up because children are just children trying to do some growing and don’t have a clue just yet. Their brain is still developing and they are still learning. They have not acheived overall knowlege yet and you should be patient with them.
Accepting your child and being patient with them will really help along the way. There is not much you can do when they are still young. This is part of parenting. Before you give birth you know that you will have some hard times with the little kids. All parents go through this phase and it’s normal and acceptable. Children will be more healthy if you allow them to live out their stages rather than suppressing them and making them grow faster than their stages.
Some teenagers go back to the stages that were suppressed when they were younger. According to freud, those were oral fixation and anal retentive. Just remember that most children are noisy , energetic and bratty. They will give you a headache because you’re different from them. You’re a full grown, civilized and quiet person who knows exactly what she’s doing and this is not the case with children. You should not take away their play time either. It’s not healthy for their development. If you’re really having too much difficulty with your children then you can try talking to them and using reward and punishment system. You should reward them with allowances for good behavior. You should punish them for bad behavior by taking away the tv or ipods. If your child is acting strangely could it be that there is something wrong or missing in their life. You should try to provide them the things that they are missing. Children that are from single mom or dad have a harder time than children with both parents. Children that are financially deprived are more difficult than children with wealthy children.