Revolution in my mind
I had real revolution in my mind when I’ve read book Kindergarten Is Too Late! written by Masara Ibuku. I advice to start with this book when you want to learn something about development toddler.
We used to think that we know about children everything, when it’s really far from truth. No matter what you know about children you began to make first steps in understanding only after you became a parent. The first thing we have to understand is that we shouldn’t rely on gifts of Nature. In order to make our child successful we should help our children to become talented and confident in the future. There are no retarded children; everything depends on the method of teaching.
The role of mother is very important because she’s the person who takes care of the child every day. Only mother knows almost everything about interests and desires of her child and can notice a new stage in the development. No matter what other people say, only mother knows what suits better to her child. Maybe it’s because after she becomes a mother her intuition become more sensitive. I think that there is no need to be afraid of becoming your child too dependent on you. It’s natural when a child wants to be with mother. Of course there are different circumstances and sometimes mother have to leave child with some one because she need to work. So, it’s our life. But when it’s possible, there is no better babysitter than mother, even if she is very tired of being always together with a child.
And don’t be afraid to start development too early. By the time your child become a toddler, you have to support lots of its interests. But with toddler you must be prepared to work harder because with every day it develops faster and faster. You can’t give too much knowledge to toddler. It’s impossible to do because you can’t even imagine how much he or she can remember. The brain of the child can hold unlimited amount of information. He wants to try and to know everything. We are not speaking about making a genius but only about giving boundless opportunities, health and infinite wisdom.
Some people don’t understand classic music because they never heard it childhood. Some don’t know foreign languages because their parents were afraid that it would be too difficult for them to learn. After reading Misara Ibuku and having experience with my own little daughter Sophie I tell you. There is nothing impossible for a child. Learning Japanise and Spanish isn’t harder then learning some poems in the native language. Children don’t know what is difficult and what is easy. If they are interested in something they will learn it very quickly. Just give then opportunity to do this and that all.
My daughter is 1.7 years old and she counts to 10 and knows how Arabic numerals are written, knows colors and shapes and 5 letters from alphabet. She dance and sing and knows poems in Ukrainian and Russian and English. I don’t boast. I just want to tell that it’s the smallest part of the things she can learn and it’s not because she is different. She is like all other children who don’t know so much. The difference is that she had environment to become interested in this.
This is extremely interesting. I completely understand what you are saying. My question is, my children are very close together. One son is 20 months, one son is 6 weeks. I stay at home but my time is now mostly taken up by the new baby (many feedings, ect.) – what do we do to keep older son happy and occupied and not regress? I am still trying to figure it out.
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I think that the first thing is to make your older son be sure that he is loved. Children without love fade like flowes without water. It’s not so easy in your case but it’s possible.
Try to speak with him as much as possible about everything like with your friend. Comment every your action, ask him to help you with the something very simple. ( My daughter likes to take clothes out of washing mashine when they are washed. Also she likes to put there dirty clothes. She likes wash potatos and other vegitables)
Praise every time he will do something for you and especilly when you speak with your husband and friends. Children of such age admire to overhear everything even if they don’t show that they are listening. He will feel himself involved and very important. This will be the best encouragement.
Have you showed him Baby Einstein and Brainy videos for kids? This video is great. It will help me a lot because it gave me possibility to something about the house while my daughter was watching it. She learned numbers and all animals with help of this video while I was washing the dishes or cleaning, ect. Then when I had free time we spoke about everything she saw there and look for animals and numbers in other books, count apples and spoons while washing them. This video will help you while your other son will grow a little. Then you’ll have more free time to read with both of them and play.
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Nice Post.Made intresting reading keep up the good work.Bookmarked
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