You definitely have to have a lot of patience with teaching kids anything, because they don't even have a full grasp of the words you're speaking. They also can have really interesting imaginations that might be construed as not learning, when really they do know what it is they have, but are pretending it is something different. Thankfully I retained enough of my imagnation to figure that out with my daughter.
Like for Ari, she very well knows what a horse is. If I point to her horse toy and ask her what that is, she'll tell me it's a horse and even make a horse neigh sound to illustrate. But then later she might be playing with her toys and pretend the horse is a dog, making the barking sound. At that point Terry gets flustered and tell Ari she's doing it wrong, when really she isn't doing anything wrong, she's just using her imagination for play.
Imagination is one thing--my mother says she used to deliberately read a book to us wrong because she got tired of reading it. [I don't remember if it was me or my brother who complained it was wrong, but the other went along with it.]
What I mean is the failure to demonstrate understanding, the "I know how to do this!" and subsequent failure to prove it. Even the odd slip-up gets to me over time just due to the perceived accumulation to where I have to remind myself of the triviality in the grand scheme of things. So, fail x repetition = DOOM
Right. I think I'm more off on a tangent. But to reright the train tracks, it is like how the last President of my job kept getting the formalities of how payments post in the system wrong and after both the Accounting departmentand my own department taught him how the system works, he brushes us off saying he can do it... and then gets it wrong again.
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Like for Ari, she very well knows what a horse is. If I point to her horse toy and ask her what that is, she'll tell me it's a horse and even make a horse neigh sound to illustrate. But then later she might be playing with her toys and pretend the horse is a dog, making the barking sound. At that point Terry gets flustered and tell Ari she's doing it wrong, when really she isn't doing anything wrong, she's just using her imagination for play.
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What I mean is the failure to demonstrate understanding, the "I know how to do this!" and subsequent failure to prove it. Even the odd slip-up gets to me over time just due to the perceived accumulation to where I have to remind myself of the triviality in the grand scheme of things. So, fail x repetition = DOOM
in a nutshell :/
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But to reright the train tracks, it is like how the last President of my job kept getting the formalities of how payments post in the system wrong and after both the Accounting departmentand my own department taught him how the system works, he brushes us off saying he can do it... and then gets it wrong again.
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