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Originally Posted by renormalised
I believe that the littlies should also have top quality teachers as well. It's the most important time of their lives, where all their later habits of learning are formed.
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Here is an anecdote that might give you some food for thought.
Maybe not.....might get lost in the noise...
When my daughter was in pre-school she started to develop the
ability to write her own name.
Apparently that is one of the 'milestones' of completing 'Kindy'
Spell and write your own name and tie your shoelaces.
Well it seemed to come to her in just a few days....one day
she couldn't write it, next day she could do it straight off the bat.
But it was all backwards!. Completely and perfectly formed letters,
including a capital at the start, but backwards!
This freaked mum and dad out a bit. We thought we had a child
from the Exorcist movie
So we carefully and quietly told her how to write it forwards.
She then did it perfectly forwards, straight off. She could, back then,
actually write it just as clearly with both hands as well.
For a few weeks this went to and fro, from writing it forwards one
day, to writing it backwards another (by accident).
A teacher then told us that this is very common in pre-schoolers.
From my way of thinking this implies to me that we put blinkers
on kids at this crucial stage and disable or lock out a huge potential
of them perceiving their world. Just imagine what else a kid could
possibly do if this ability was nurtured instead of cut off.
Steve