[bksvol-discuss] Re: OT: children and learning
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 14:02:16 -0800 (PST)
Gail,
I hope we keep in touch long enough to find out what
your children decide to do with their lives. Sometimes
it takes a fairly long time, though. My elder daughter
seemed interested in medicine,m i.e., watching the
Brain on television and liking biology, but she told
me "no way" she'd ever be a doctor--no way she'd go
through that much school. Not until she finished her
undergraduate work and worked for a year in a bio lab
did she decide to go to medical school--and then,
because she didn't take much science as an
undergrad--she was a psych-bio major in her last two
years, undeclared before that--she had to take the
necessary pre-med science classes for two years before
she could apply to med school--and she didn't get into
one her first year but tried again and succeeded--so
she was 32, I think, before she was able to go into
practice. (I lose track of time).
Cindy
--- "Gail The U. S. Male" <gail1959@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>
> They are still young, so who knows how they'll turn
> out. My daughter is 15,
> my son 12. It will certainly be interesting to see
> how they turn out. Their
> Mom is a total control freak, totally inconsistent
> when it comes to
> discipline. My daughter has already gotten into the
> justice system, since
> she decided she needed a prepaid cell phone more
> than the store did, and got
> caught.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Cindy
> Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 10:33 PM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] OT: children and learning
>
>
> Wonderful! What do your kids do now? It sounds as if
> both were really creative and inquisitive and very
> bright. Your son sounds as if he would become an
> engineer or some kind of scientist. I can't guess
> about your daughter unless she became, among other
> things, a mountain climber. How old are theynow?
>
> Cindy
>
> --- "Gail The U. S. Male" <gail1959@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> > Both kids learned quite a bit about mechanics from
> > me though. They did a lot
> > of experimenting. Most of which I would rather
> they
> > had not done. smile My
> > son saw Mom and Dad putting gas in the car, so he
> > tried to put some in his
> > power wheels car. fortunately, I had the battery
> > out, charging it. that
> > could have turned rather nasty. He also destroyed
> a
> > couple of lawn mowers,
> > taking them apart, but losing key parts, so that
> Dad
> > couldn't put them back
> > together. It was lots of fun. smile He was
> > constantly bringing me things
> > he'd managed to take apart, but had no clue how to
> > put back together, or
> > he'd put them back together, *backward* so they
> > wouldn't work. Kid managed
> > to pull out one of those child proof things you
> put
> > in electrical outlets,
> > and stuck a screwdriver in. Made a nice bunch of
> > sparks and crackling noises
> > I can tell you! My kids got really sneaky, and
> > really quick at doing things
> > that Parents probably wouldn't aprove of. My
> > daughter managed to climb on
> > top of the organ bench, which was on the top of
> the
> > organ. to this day, I
> > can't figure out how she managed that one at 9
> > months. Since there wasn't an
> > obvious route she took. One minute, I answered the
> > phone, next minute I
> > heard her making noise from 6 feet off the ground!
> I
> > nearly had a coronary
> > over that one, I can tell you. If my kids show as
> > much initiative at work as
> > they did at getting into things as young children,
> > they'll both be top
> > executives in Fortune 500 companies. grin.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
> > Behalf Of Gail The U. S.
> > Male
> > Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 8:43 PM
> > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: OT: heavy books
> >
> >
> > Andrew could certainly start learning Braille at
> age
> > three, as long as
> > Cassandra teaches him. My kids are both sighted,
> and
> > didn't want to learn to
> > read, not being interested, but looking at the
> > pictures. We both read to
> > them, but their interest was television. Part of
> > that was their Mom had TV
> > going 24 hours a day, and didn't take that much of
> > an interest in
> > interacting with the kids. I did what I could, but
> > was constantly
> > undermined, so, not much was gained.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
> > Behalf Of Cindy
> > Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 8:23 PM
> > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: OT: heavy books
> >
> >
> > Thanks for the info, Gail.
> >
> > I'm wondering--if a bright sighted child who has
> the
> > inclination and desire can be reading by age 3 (as
> > mine were, just from my reading to them and their
> > following along, and some books that had certain
> > words
> > in the story that the child could read when the
> > parent
> > story-teller cme to it--and Sesame Street and
> > Electric
> > Company), and if young chldren who are brought up
> > with
> > another language in addition to English is in the
> > house can be bilingual at a very young age, by
> > couldn't a child as bright as Kasondra's Andrew
> > seems
> > to be, who seems to want to read, also learn
> braille
> > at a young age? I think Kasondra is right to start
> > to
> > teach him when he's three. One can make a game of
> > it.
> >
> > Speaking of which--I remembered when I was young
> how
> > I
> > enjoyed playing with alphabet blocks, and I bought
> > them when my children were very young and played
> > with
> > them with them and made simple words which they
> > read.
> > But I've never seen Braille blocks. I gather from
> > posts here that one doesn't learn Braille letter
> by
> > letter but that there is a short of short-hand.
> > Maybe
> > one of you could invent and create a graduated set
> > of
> > Braille blocks for kids. The first set would be
> the
> > simplest words that they need to learn, and they
> can
> > play at making sentences (Pat the dog; the dog ate
> > his
> > food). A more advanced set could be whatever the
> > next
> > phase is. And I won't even take a cut of the
> > profits
> > for my idea (lol).
> >
> > Cindy
> >
> > --- "Gail The U. S. Male" <gail1959@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Cindy, indeed, some forms of blindness are
> > > hereditary. Most totally blind
> > > kids start learning Braille in either
> Kindergarten
> > > or first grade. The child
> > > could be taught at a younger age, I suppose, but
> > > most kids aren't.
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
> > > Behalf Of Cindy
> > > Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 6:16 PM
> > > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: OT: heavy books
> > >
> > >
> > > That's a cute story, Kasondra. How old does a
> > child
> > > have to be before he can start learning to read
> in
> > > Braille? Are you and/or your husband bind? Are
> > some
> > > forms of blindness hereditary? Forgive me if I'm
> > > being
> > > too personal.
> > >
> > > Cindy
> > >
> > > --- Kasondra Payne <Kassyp36@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Cindy,
> > > >
> > > > I just walked in my bedroom to answer the
> phone,
> > > and
> > > > I found my two-year-old
> > > > son, Andrew on the floor, trying to read a
> Harry
> > > > Potter book. My husband
> > > > always keeps one on his side of the bed, and
> > > Andrew
> > > > just took off the cover,
> > > > opened the book, and started turning pages.
> It
> > > was
> > > > so cute that I just
> > > > thought I should share it with all you guys.
> > > Andrew
> > > > will read Braille
> > > > someday because he is blind, but at least he
> > shows
> > > a
> > > > healthy interest in
> > > > books now. Yes, that particular book is very
> > > heavy,
> > > > but it was already on
> > > > the floor, so Andrew could move it easier
> > > >
> > > > Kasondra Payne
> > > >
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