Your Child’s Critical Thinking Skills
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I enjoy watching the development of our youngest daughter’s critical thinking skills.
She’s five and that’s the most fun, I think, stage in their thinking and creativity solutions!
Today, for example, we were talking about cats on her t-shirt. She loves to spell it out in fingerspelling in ABC.
I asked her what did the “C” sound like in a letter.
“Uhhh…. It sounds like K.”
Me: “Yes, it does. Why do you think they do that, putting a ‘C’ instead of a ‘K’ for cat?”
Livia: (thinking) “Because it sounds right.”
Me: “Ok, then. Why not change it to ‘kat’ if it sounded right?”
Livia: (thinking) “Because it is not right. I like c-a-t. I love cats!”
How about yours?
She’s five and that’s the most fun, I think, stage in their thinking and creativity solutions!
Today, for example, we were talking about cats on her t-shirt. She loves to spell it out in fingerspelling in ABC.
I asked her what did the “C” sound like in a letter.
“Uhhh…. It sounds like K.”
Me: “Yes, it does. Why do you think they do that, putting a ‘C’ instead of a ‘K’ for cat?”
Livia: (thinking) “Because it sounds right.”
Me: “Ok, then. Why not change it to ‘kat’ if it sounded right?”
Livia: (thinking) “Because it is not right. I like c-a-t. I love cats!”
How about yours?
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~Q Magazine
"Kisses for the glow...kisses for the lease." - BDRII
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oxc
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Have a very happy holiday!!!!
oxc
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He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion.
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Happy holidays, too!
I want to read more cute stories about kids, though!
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~Q Magazine
"Kisses for the glow...kisses for the lease." - BDRII
I can't remember any......that's how old I am!!!! Two are in college!
oxc
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He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion.
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obviously, i don't have a story of my own kids since i don't have any.....but i'll give you one from my teaching days.
i was just about giving up on being addressed correctly. then during one class, 3rd grade i think....yet again a student called me 'miss d2d' and a little boy proceeded to tell the other student that was NOT my name, and WHy it was not my name....got totally into the differentiation between 'ms,' mrs' and 'miss'...he got it absolutely right and i was completely dumb-founded.
when i changed schools..i simply gave up and introduced myself as 'mrs. decides2dream'....and of course, was still called 'miss.'
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This is the kind of "rule" that I clung to as a kid. I was unbelievable at just remembering anything anyone ever explained to me. I think I once gave a classmate the same explanation as this little boy did. I was awfully know-it-ally (hehe still am to a degree). But it always annoyed me when for example, our kindergarten teacher would explain the difference between Ms., Mrs., and Miss and one of my classmates still got it wrong. I was always like "don't you remember, we already learned that!!!" I still remember grammatical rules from my second grade teacher...of course as a kid I got pissed at anyone who forgot them.
yes, it definitely was along the lines of "yes, she explained all this already...we learned it....don't you know!" but he was so polite and matt-erof-fact about it, like a little college prof giving a lecture. it was a dorable. i have countless stories/experiences like that, but yea...my memory is failing me at the moment. that was the one story that popped into my head after reading the first post.
Let's just breathe...
I am myself like you somehow