http://subs.zinester.com/48051 Can parents change, or are they saddled with their present attitudes and habits? Does understanding of a child and his problems of grow­ing up make any real difference in what parents actually do, or in how the child matures? en http://archives.zinester.com/48051/101874.html?rss=1 Many parents,teachers and society in general has the tendency to label
children.
Oh, he is lazy, she is so stubborn, she is a problem child, etc.

Labelling does not explain a child's behaviour.

    * Did you know that "laziness" may actually be languor, lack of vigor, or a
low energy level.
    * Did you know that "stubbornness" may be caused by an inability to perform
well at school.
    * Did you know that "stupidity" may be stemming from failing repeatedly.
    * "Inattention" may be attention to something else some stimulus that is
more insistent than the desire to learn to read.
    * "Resistance" may be caused by anxiety the child's unconscious fear that
he will lose himself if he conforms to the pattern a parent has prescribed for
... ]]> 101874 Wed, 02 Aug 2006 09:05:30 MSD http://archives.zinester.com/48051/99952.html?rss=1 Why is reading aloud to children sometimes unsuccessful?

There are many possible reasons.


If the adult dislikes reading aloud, or reads from a sense of duty,
his attitude is communicated to the child. Adult and child should
both enjoy the story.

The child may not be quite ready for the story the parent is reading
though the parent remembers that he loved it when he was the child's
age. Times change, and children's interests shift somewhat from
genera­tion to generation. Sometimes the child's unreadiness to
listen may be merely temporary; something else had absorbed his
attention for the moment. It is better to recognize this immediate
... ]]> 99952 Sat, 15 Jul 2006 10:02:14 MSD http://archives.zinester.com/48051/99353.html?rss=1 When a child sees Daddy reading the evening paper, Big Sister
reading a letter from her boy friend, Mother consulting her cook­
book, Brother reading the road signs as he drives the family car;
when he hears people read aloud some passage of interest at home,
in Sunday school, or in church, he begins to realize how important
and pleasant it must be to read.


A tenth-grade girl accounted for her keen interest in reading by
saying, "The person I have to thank for most of my reading back­
ground is my mother. Even as a harried housewife with two young
children, she managed to read two or three novels and innumerable
magazines a week. I used to watch her and beg her to teach me some
words, and by first grade I knew enough to be thoroughly bored by
Dick, Jane, Sally and their going, coming, seeing, and run­ning!"
... ]]> 99353 Mon, 10 Jul 2006 21:52:03 MSD http://archives.zinester.com/48051/99020.html?rss=1 When the baby is just beginning to fumble with speech,
baby-talk games may encourage him to make sounds.
Refusing to speak the child's language at this stage
may slow down his speech develop­ment. However, he must
soon begin to learn to make the sounds of the language
we all speak.
To this end, we must speak to him slowly and clearly,
accurately and intelligently.

Qs.2  Are children who try to learn two languages during
the pre­school years handicapped in learning to read?


Preschool children who try to learn two languages are usually
somewhat retarded in both. There are, of course, exceptions.
... ]]> 99020 Fri, 07 Jul 2006 21:51:47 MSD http://archives.zinester.com/48051/98884.html?rss=1 An adolescent boy made this comment:

"Parents pay a lot of at­tention to their children during the early
years, but neglect them more and more as they grow up."


This tendency is due partly to the adolescent's apparent rejection
of parental authority and supervision and partly to the parent's
feeling of inadequacy to guide an adoles­cent's learning.

The home loses much of its influence as the peer group comes to be a
decisive arbiter.

For example, in the matter of speech, a word sounds right to an
adolescent if it is used by the clique or gang, and wrong if it is
... ]]> 98884 Thu, 06 Jul 2006 14:34:16 MSD http://archives.zinester.com/48051/98883.html?rss=1 Dear Subscriber,

Just as the preschool years are a prelude to a successful
beginning in reading, so success in the primary grades builds
a firm foundation for effective reading in years to come.

Starting with a desire to read and the ability to differentiate
ob­jects by observing their distinctive details, the child learns
to recog­nize a number of words at sight.

By the end of the third grade he should be able to identify
instantly the basic Dolch vocabulary x of 220 words, which make up
at least 50 per cent of the running words in his elementary school
books.

... ]]> 98883 Thu, 06 Jul 2006 14:22:45 MSD http://archives.zinester.com/48051/98778.html?rss=1 Four-year-old David, holding the newspaper upside down, looked at it intently
as he had seen his father do. "I'm reading," he said.
His twin sister picked up her mother's grocery list and rattled off a number of
items that bore no resemblance to those on the list. Both children were merely
imitating their parents, whom they had seen reading in these ways, for
different purposes.

Billy was looking at a picture book and telling an authentic story about each
picture. He was learning to observe details, to see relations, to get meanings,
and to communicate them to others. So far he had no need for printed words.
"Words are for people who can't read the pictures," his brother explained.

Jeannie liked to hear the same story over and over. Soon she could remember it
exactly as Mother read it. When she picked up the book herself and repeated the
story page by page, she appeared to be reading, but she was really only
... ]]> 98778 Wed, 05 Jul 2006 20:33:20 MSD http://archives.zinester.com/48051/98594.html?rss=1 Reading aloud to children has many values.

It introduces them to the delights that lie between the covers of books;
it acquaints them with the vocabulary and language patterns of printed
materials;
it arouses their curiosity and desire to unlock for themselves the stories and
characters imprisoned in the pages of print.
Sharing a loved book also brings parent and child closer together emo­tionally.
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