e3 Child Care and Parenting

HOW TO PRONOUNCE THE WORD  "SIP" and "SHIP"? Childcare article Ezhilarasan Since, I studied in a matriculation school I used to correct the English pronunciation of my daughters now and then at home. Hence, my daughters will always be better in their English pronunciations when compared with the children of my neighbours. This happened when my younger daughter, RAJESWARI ( name changed) was studying first standard or so. She was playing her favourite "TEACHER GAME" in my house along with a few children. A girl who was about 4 years elder than my daughter was left out. She was watching them play and was longing to be included in the game. I had been watching them for a while. Hence, I interfered and suggested that let the elderly girl be allowed to play the teacher role once. So I asked my daughter, RAJESWARI to get down from the teacher's chair and asked the elderly girl to sit in that chair and play the teacher. She started reading out from a

RETHINKING EDUCATION --WHEN LESS IS MORE -- . 1. Exposing children to concepts they are not ready for will actually cause them damage. 2. The earlier the better and the faster equals smarter -thoughts of parents are totally wrong. 3. As we push children to achieve more and more, earlier and earlier, we don't realize that our children may pay a high price. 4. Not only does early drilling and cramming steal the joy from learning but also creates emotional anxiety in the child. 5. Sinagapore is one of the top rankers in mathematics. There they cover fewer topics per grade. Topics are also taught more comprehensively when they are introduced, so the need for repetition in later grades is reduced. 6. Getting --flash cards-- and making toddlers hear Mozart music is like putting a Video cassette in FAST FORWARD instead of PLAY. 7. By overstimulating a child, we cannot necessarily push his developmental window. ***  ***  *** MY HIGH-LIGHTS / NOTES -- As another aca

WHEN LESS IS MORE  RETHINKING EDUCATION  SHORTENED VENKATACHALAM SALEM . . Dear Sir / Friends, The following are excerpts from an interesting article I read in THE HINDU newspaper (June 13, 2010) on education that suits even today. READ, RELISH, RUMINATE Ezhilarasan =॥=॥=॥=॥=॥=॥=॥=॥=॥=॥=॥=॥=॥=॥=॥=॥= RETHINKING EDUCATION WHEN LESS IS MORE -- 1. Exposing children to concepts they are not ready for will actually cause them damage. 2. The earlier the better and the faster equals smarter - thoughts of parents are totally wrong. 3. As we push children to achieve more and more, earlier and earlier, we don't realize that our children may pay a high price. 4. Not only does early drilling and cramming steal the joy from learning but also creates emotional anxiety in the child. 5. Sinagapore is one of the top rankers in mathematics. There they cover fewer topics per grade. Topics are also taught more comprehensively when they are introduced, so the need for repetition