What does it take for kids to learn?

[MrGiggles]

Re: What does it take for kids to learn?

wow ninja'd by 2 extremely long posts good lord

[~Zero~]

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From what I learned through my psychology class states that children can learn from many different manners. Children can learn through habituation: "It is a neutral form of learning in which a neutral stimulus is repeated many times." Child-directed speech is another way to help children, specifically infants. Child-directed Speech: "Any of various speech patterns used by parents or caregivers when communicating with young children, particularly infants, usually involving simplified vocabulary, melodic pitch, repetitive questioning, and a slow or deliberate tempo." Also children learn more depending on the type of attachment they had with their parents, I remember the professor showing us some graphs and charts saying that children who had a secure attachment with their parents performed better in school.

Children can learn by taking tasks and turning them into games. There was this story our professor told us where the child would always throw a tantrum in the super market because he/she couldn't get what they wanted. So the parent decided to let the child help with the food shopping and every isle they where in and told the child to find the items to be placed in the cart rather than him just idly standing by.

Some other stuff I remembered from that class was stories our professor told us about children who were beaten. It involved this father who always worked and mother always stayed home. And every time the father came home, the mother would explain what the child has done and then he would go to beat/spank him for almost every thing he did that was wrong. The father became a figure of fear and the child begin to tally his beatings and by the 100th time he killed his father (I think his father had a gun and I think that's how he did it)

I know this doesn't specifically answer your question, but the more information spread, the better.

[Superfreak04]

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Just putting in my two cents that spanking/yelling doesn't work.

Source: Psychology class taken last semester. It's in college books and everything, it really doesn't work. I was never beaten in my life, maybe once because I kicked my brother in the face as a child, but that's about it. And I respect my parents a lot, lol yup. And yes I realize that someone is gonna say, "Just because it's in a college book, doesn't make it true". Welp, then it's like saying in a math book, "1+1 = 2". NO, just because it's in the book doesn't make it true. just don't beat/yell at your kids, that's all.

[welsh_girl]

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My thoughts

Yelling does not work, neither does any physical violence towards a child (Spanking etc.) that's child abuse anyway. Full stop.

A parent who yells or smacks isn't a parent who has used a last resort, it's a parent who has lost control of the situation and takes it out on the child.

A 4 Year old will not really listen anyway, they're 4. Ignoring the bad behavior and rewarding the good by "Well dones" and cuddles could work, but it will be a long process if all She's used to is shouting.

She sounds like a normal 4 year old tbh, whinging and being told to do something 3483846 times, I dunno about getting her to listening, though. All I can think of is just stop yelling and getting down at her level and reasoning, with plently of praises so She knows She's done something right instead of always wrong and getting yelled at.

[who_cares973]

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[G.S.M]

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Yelling/spanking works.... not for the better though. I was very rarely spanked, but I did dumb things back then.

@rubix i don't normally care what people post but i have read your posts from many different threads and you really do come off as an ass even if you don't know it, or even if it's "statistically proven", though I have a ego too.. just not so big.

I am sure you don't care but other people do :P

[Reincarnate]

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I only come off as an ass if people are stupid -- it's pretty simple.

[welsh_girl]

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Yelling/spanking works.... not for the better though. I was very rarely spanked, but I did dumb things back then.

What do they achieve but putting fear into a child?

I think the only time it is acceptable to yell at a child is if they're in danger.

[who_cares973]

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i consider any raising of the voice yelling so whats going through my head is probably different to everyone else when thinking "yelling at a child"

[Rubin0]

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I agree with everything you said welsh_girl, except that you should expect bad behavior from a 4 year old. A child can be trained to behave at a very early age and if done correctly and consistently you can have a very obedient four year old. This is not always the case because people don't expect much from infants. They are unbelievably intelligent and perceptive. If they know that doing certain things will result in certain things that they like, they will do it. I've worked with children, both in child care and in therapy settings, and I can tell you right now that you don't have to tell a child things 2348949 for them to do something the first time.

[who_cares973]

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i taught my brother to be an awesome child. im so proud to be his brother :'}

[MrGiggles]

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**** yes but on this note if we're going to talk about child abuse we might as well go all the way.

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=beat

Golden oldie from the ever-abrasive Maddox.

[ghost-]

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oh what a beautiful woooorld~

Oh my, it seems this thread has gone off-topic. But yeah virus I'd just trust what the people who were really trying to help you have said, they definitely have given you great advice.

If all else fails, your sister needs to go with what she feels would be the right thing to do.

[-XxW_CxX-]

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hardly off topic at all

[kommisar]

Re: What does it take for kids to learn?

rewards help encourage kids to do the right things, albeit unpleasant for them at times. a bit of praise goes a long way, even for the smallest things. parent needs to be hella patient though, which isn't the most common scene.


3rd grade if I did well on a test, I'd get a ****ing sticker. it's a sticker, but at the time dang did that ever prime me.