Rock and a Hard Place

iVillage Member
Registered: 11-12-2003
Rock and a Hard Place
1524
Thu, 11-20-2003 - 10:45am

There's something on this board that has been bothering me, and I hope I can articulate it.

Pages

iVillage Member
Registered: 07-02-2003
Wed, 11-26-2003 - 11:34am
No, because I know my child. If there was a problem, I would want to work with her teachers. I know that in her case, she will recognize her letters before she starts K. She has very recently begun to develop an interest and she is picking it up very fast. She started being interested in numbers. She can out count her 5 y/o brother and recognizes numbers into the 100s. The point is that children are ready to learn various skills at various rates. If my child was entering Grade 1 and didn't recognize the letters of the alphabet, I might be a tad more concerned.
iVillage Member
Registered: 07-02-2003
Wed, 11-26-2003 - 11:36am
Not compared to anybody, but in accordance with the very very wide range of normal development at that age.
iVillage Member
Registered: 07-02-2003
Wed, 11-26-2003 - 11:36am
By whether or not he is interested, learning, and progressing.
iVillage Member
Registered: 08-19-2003
Wed, 11-26-2003 - 11:39am
>>I object to it because it is useless, potentially harmful and totally meaningless - particularly in K.<<

When do you think such comparisons DO become meaningful? Elementary school? Junior high?

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Wed, 11-26-2003 - 11:39am
Wiping coffee off my computer screen here, LOL, Kristi! I got my DH to stop asking the opposite way - I AM an "ovarian bloodhound," LOL, just never thought of the term before! and he's so annoyed that I know where his stuff must be even if I haven't SEEN it that he's stopped asking!
Avatar for laurenmom2boys
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-25-2003
Wed, 11-26-2003 - 11:43am
OH MAN I HEAR YA!!! I, like you, am the lone female in a testosterone soaked house. They can't find ANYTHING!!! DH lovingly tells me that's why they have me. I have the "finding things" gene and equipment. He says my uterus is like a divining rod.
Avatar for laurenmom2boys
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-25-2003
Wed, 11-26-2003 - 11:44am
It's not your ovaries. It's your other female parts (see my post below)!!! LOL!
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Wed, 11-26-2003 - 12:05pm
I am going to use that next time. I will tell Devin to stand back because I am going to use my Uterian Divining Rod and it might get dangerous!

"I can be changed by what happens to me but I refuse to be reduced by it"

"I do not want to be a princess! I want to be myself"

Mallory (age 3)

      &nbs

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Wed, 11-26-2003 - 12:28pm
<>

I personally view that as one of the great educational falacies. The truth would be

*children will not learn if they are not ready.*

Whether or not the children go on to learn when they are ready, depends upon whether or not they are ever presented the marterial for which they are ready. And it also depends upon the nature of the material presented before the children were obviously ready, and the manner in which it was presented. Demonstration of a skill does not indicate readiness to learn. It indicates that at some time in the past the child was ready to learn. Skills are typically observably demonstrated after quite a bit of learning related to the skill as already taken place. As with the spoken word. The child is ready to learn about spoken language and to start working on the skills required to understand speech and produce speech, practically from birth. A child who is not exposed to spoken langugae until he is ready to demonstrate the skill, is not going to demonstrate the skill at that time. The little boy of which you speak was probably not ready to learn in Feb. He was most likely ready to learn in Sept. Which he did, and by Feb he was able to demonstrate skill. He may well have been behind because he was not presented with an opportunity to learn before he got to school. For all you know, he was ready to learn exactly the same things a year before getting to school. All you know is that he WAS ready when he got there. Not that he wasn't ready before that, and certainly not that he wasn't ready till Feb.

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Wed, 11-26-2003 - 12:39pm
That's all touchy-feely.

<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> 

Pages