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Hi,
I am the brand new Parent Forum Moderator and I am delighted to be here.
I have taught parenting classes at businesses including: Nike Corp, Timerland World Headquarters, the University of NH, and Public Service of NH. I design and teach courses for Adoptive and Foster Parents for the College for Lifelong Learning and also teach for the Child Welfare Training Institute (Southern Maine University). Currently I am teaching an online course on Infant and Toddler Development.
I am mom to two sons, one of whom just graduated from Northeastern University in Boston, and another who is a senior at Roger Williams University in Bristol, RI (by the sea)! They have taught me so much about parenting and about life!
Do you have questions about your child's learning style? If so, please let me know and I'll do a little research to find some answers.
NancyNic
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Hi Sabra,
Well, you know your daughter very well - she's type A, so she's very busy; she's first born so she's responsible; she's choleric so she is practical and rational (and emotionally may be irritable, prone to anger and impatience); and she learns in a concrete random style.
She can see many options and solutions to problems and is creative so perhaps brainstorming ways to use her time wisely would work with her. She learns from real world experiences and has good instincts and insights for solving problems so perhaps talking with her about past experiences when she hasn't managed her time well, will help her figure out creative ways to be more aware of managing her time. She probably doesn't like restrictions and limitations so the idea of time management should be expressed as something that will offer freedom rather than restriction.
Regarding helping her to put those time management techniques into practice, I'd ask her what she would find helpful from you ... and from the sounds of how you describe her, I bet she will have a very creative answer!
Thanks for the question, Sabra, and best of luck! Let us know how it goes~
NancyNic
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My son will be three next month. He is fluent in his first language and is learning English at the moment. In the one and a half months he has been with us he has picked up about 4 nursery rhymes, his ABC and numbers uptil 10.
A couple of queries - are we pushing too hard? He seems to enjoy learning and every second question is "What is This?" How long will it take for him to be 'fluent' in English? He is a very happy child and the paedriatician says his IQ is high for his age.
Just would like some expert input...
Hi,
It's very exciting to see a child who is curious and bright and who loves to learn. If you are following his cues and curiousity and are teaching him what he wants to know, then that is not pushing too hard.
As to when he will be fluent in English, that is difficult to determine. Children generally learn languages must faster than we do as adults.
Keep in touch as to his progress!
NancyNic
Good Morning!
I am trying to do some "Home Schooling" with my oldest this summer. He is seven, and has just finished kindergarten. He was born two months prematurely, and was hospitalized for six months - mostly for breathing difficulty. He has hydrocephalus, and strabismus. He does have a shunt, and has had three eye surgeries to help the wandering eye.
The problem I am having right now is getting his visual attention. He doen't look at the subject ( ABC flash cards, books etc.) He has wonderful aduitory memory, can easily memorize and recite long passages, but he won't learn to read if he won't look at the letters and words.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks,
LAI-S
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Thought I'd jmp in on this one. The wondering eye may be the real reading problem. My son had difficulty with his eye(undetected) and was presumed mr as he couldn't read at nine.(or copy letters, recognize 2 digit numbers)
Anyway, a developmental optomitrist discovered that his eyes, while fine seperately, did not track together. So, when he looked at a word, when the second eye hit the first letter, the first eye was on the third letter sending his brain mixed signals. He was able to give us simple eye exercises to train his eye to track.
He now reads above level. Just something to look at.
Hi Nancy Nic:
Thank you very much for your suggestions. You described many aspects of her personality to a "T." So glad you did. As you described her I was able to understand your answer even better.
Because of her personality and learning style mix and knowing that she does not like restrictions and limitations as you mentioned do you have any ideas on how I can express to her that time management is something that will offer her freedom rather than restrictions?
She sees the advantage of planning and writes herself a schedule on many days when needed. I think some of her time manangement needs could have to do with transitioning. Even when she was in pre-school and did well she took longer to transition on to the next activity. She has a desire to do better with getting ready on time but does not have the skill to move faster. I wonder what would help her?
Thank you so much for your help.
Warm regards,
Hi Sabra,
You might describe time management as a tool which will save your daughter time and allow her to get more accomplished (which she might relate to - being a Type A). Managing time well results in having more time and energy. So, as an example, when homework is done each day after school (rather than the day before a big assignment is due) results in having time for fun and less stress - and more freedom. Using examples from your daughter's experience will make sense to her.
Regarding transtitioning, she probably likes to 'be on her own time' and gets very involved in activities. Perhaps giving her a bit of warning before she needs to change activities would help ... then she might feel that moving on to the next activity is her idea and she won't feel so rushed.
Nancy
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Hi Nancy Nic and Lucy Joy,
Burr usually looks at people when he is speaking, or being spoken to. About 20% of the time he will lookoff to the right, or will turn his head. He wears a patch over the strong right eyes every morning for two hours. He is extremely extroverted, very interested in everything that is going on.
This is hard for us, because both my husband and I are visual artists, and of course very interested in what we see. We are also both introverted. (I have done reading on Myers-Briggs Typology, Mike and I are both INFP's and our son Burr is most likely an ESFJ)
I have talked to the doctor's about his visual attention. I have received answers like "Well that is just Burr." and "He is so much better than he use to be." Which are both true, but not very helpfull. He does have a checkup with the eye surgeon next week - which is usually a very quick vision check, glasses and tracking check.
Lucy Joy I would appreciate some more information on the eye exercises. After three trips to a Pediatric eye specialist - which is an hour away - an still not receiving any eye exercises I decided not to see that doctor anymore!?!?
Thanks,
LAI-S
It's kind of tough to describethe eye exercises without being able to show you. For one, we used a big chalk or dry esrase baord.
He had him touch his nose to the center and make a mark to focus on. He put chalk in both hands and drew large circles. He drew one direction, and then the other.(always both hands). The idea is to focus on the middle and keep he circles following the same line.
We also put a string accross the floor and he would walk heel to toe up tight against the string.
There's another one, but I can't think how to describe it, sorry.
Both the ped doctor and the regular ey doctors missed this because the eyes are usually checked on at a time. I asked to have the tracking checked because Martha Welch had noticed some "eye jumping" on another of my children once. So when my son kept twisting the books and getting frustrated anytime we did visual stuff, I asked the developmental optomitrist to check for it. You might also put a magnigying glass on written stuff. They gave my son glasses to make the print bigger until his eyes focused better.
Hi Karen,
What a sweet story - singing lullabyes to cars in English - that will be something you can tell your child in years to come !
Being new at parenting is like the beginning of a wonderful journey, there is so much to learn and so much to see!
Thanks for your post. We'll look forward to hearing more.
Nancy
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Hi,
Thanks for your posts on learning styles ... which seems to be a popular topic here!
There are many different theories which are attractive to us, and which help us to understand our children and ourselves better. It's great to have different theories to consider so that we can help our children learn.
If you know of a particular theory that you would like to share or would like more information on, let us know!
NancyNic
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