How to Get Smart Kids
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sleepy:
胎教 is important too
Plus brain food.
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Thanks for the article. I’m gonna send it all those who think I was too lax with my kids. After all, I may not be that wrong, hehehehehe
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It’s a struggle though to balnce between believing in this and letting my kids go play, when the exams are looming…
But, I do recall my own childhood days when seems to be playing everyday, riding bicycles, climbing trees, playing marbles and five stones, etc… And still doing pretty well in the exams!
Shall we all just a take a leap of faith and just do it, given the professional endorsement and advise given?
Who dares? -
struggling:
In my experience, this is true.It's a struggle though to balnce between believing in this and letting my kids go play, when the exams are looming....
But, I do recall my own childhood days when seems to be playing everyday, riding bicycles, climbing trees, playing marbles and five stones, etc.... And still doing pretty well in the exams!
Shall we all just a take a leap of faith and just do it, given the professional endorsement and advise given?
Who dares?
The current PSLE syllabus is constructed in such a way (and is so demanding) that we MUST leverage on the very efficient subconscious learning that happens through play. My son barely has to study Science but still scores well in P5 and P6 simply because I encouraged him to play with his physical surroundings and do experiments with them. He started at 2.
It's a bit like playing around in the kitchen with Grandma without being taught from age 2... and then enter a culinary school to learn cooking theory and rigorous practice. The theory and practice becomes so much more intuitive simply because you've messed around so much during childhood.... that one needs little effort to master them.
Parents fear so much that unstructured play teaches nothing... or that kids cannot recall. It's quite ok if they can't verbalise or recall what they've learnt through play in toddlerhood and P1 & P2. It'll all come together in P5 and P6. Actually, if encouraged to play and explore, kids absorb much more, than if you make them do assessment books all day in K2.
Amongst other things, my son learnt his alphabets by spitting on ants to make them run in the shapes of the alphabet. -
From a man's perspective...
Find a smart intelligent woman to love, to marry and is willing to bear your child/children.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/brainy-sons-owe-intelligence-to-their-mothers-1339099.htm -
Why must everything be dictated by "smartness"? We let them play because it makes them "smarter"? We get tutors for them because it makes them LOOK "smarter" (and argue about it like verbal mud-wrestling)? We work on their motivation so that we can maximise their "smartness"? The latest that makes me roll my eyes absolutely - the debate on breastfeeding and how it makes children "smarter" or not.
No wonder the top prize winner of the UOB art competition is called "Let Me Sleep". -
What about street-smartness? We heard how some kids grow up to be academically smart but not street smart. My DD is academically weak - failing all subjects - but many adults including teachers who know her call her as very street-smart with strong influential skills.
I toggle between pride and fear coz I don’t know if her street smartness will be enough to get her past her basic education in Singapore. Also at times, I wonder where she gets her street smartness from? I’ve got 4 kids and DD being number 2, has been "nurtured" similarly but she’s turned out alot more resilient and street smart than the rest. -
beanbear:
What about street-smartness? We heard how some kids grow up to be academically smart but not street smart. My DD is academically weak - failing all subjects - but many adults including teachers who know her call her as very street-smart with strong influential skills.
I toggle between pride and fear coz I don't know if her street smartness will be enough to get her past her basic education in Singapore. Also at times, I wonder where she gets her street smartness from? I've got 4 kids and DD being number 2, has been \"nurtured\" similarly but she's turned out alot more resilient and street smart than the rest.
You know, funny thing, I've got three kids and my second child seems to be the 'street smart' one too!
Wonder if it's the second child - independent from young - kind of attitude?
Yes, I do think it's sometimes more important have life skills - 'street smart', be articulate and social, rather than an academic bookworm.
If only we all have enough faith to let our kids enjoybtheir childhood by playing and interacting with others much more.
I must admit, I do get 'scared' into following the norm and nagging them to hit the books all the time, especially since this is PSLE year for him.
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if only Qin Shi Huang had completely burnt all books and / or buried all books with him, then we won’t have such problem today with smartness and exams
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verykiasu2010:
if only Qin Shi Huang had completely burnt all books and / or buried all books with him, then we won't have such problem today with smartness and exams
That's only for Chinese subject. Anyone burning the English books? :evil:
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