Infants make more attempts to achieve a goal when they see adults persist
Persistence, above and beyond IQ, is associated with long-term academic outcomes. To look at the effect of adult models on infants’ persistence, we conducted an experiment in which 15-month-olds were assigned to one of three conditions: an Effort condition in which ……
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Children`s Human Rights
The United Nation’s Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) is a comprehensive, internationally binding agreement on the rights of children:
These include:
The rights in the convention apply to all children and young people, with no exceptions.
And dont forget ist children`s day.
https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/childrens-human-rights
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Beautiful illustrations of the love between fathers and their daughters
Normally, when we discuss the family’s love, the first thing we think of is the maternal sentiment but we also should not forget other sacred feelings called paternal sentiment.
Just have a look and you will know, perhaps even remember. 🙂
— http://www.boredpanda.com/father-daughter-love-snezhana-soosh/
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Kids challenge Trump
Trump is elected president in the US. You can argue a lot about this. But sometimes its just helpful and convincing to see how children reacted to this election. In Germany we say that children tell the truth. If interested just have a look and listen to your children when you are not sure about what has happened or when you want to get innocent and true feedback.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/inspired-life/wp/2016/11/17/do-not-say-mean-things-kids-are-writing-to-donald-trump-asking-him-to-be-a-kind-president/
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Being bored is good for children – and adults
We don’t have to have a particular creative talent or intellectual bent to benefit from boredom. Just letting the mind wander from time to time is important, it seems, for everybody’s mental wellbeing and functioning. A study has even shown that, if we engage in some low-key, undemanding activity at same time, the wandering mind is more likely to come up with imaginative ideas and solutions to problems. So it’s good for children to be helped to learn to enjoy just pottering – and not to grow up with the expectation that they should be constantly on the go or entertained.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/09/being-bored-is-good-for-children-and-adults-this-is-why?utm_content=bufferb8f6b&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
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Kokeshi – Faces which embody the souls of children
They have been associated with miscarried babies and infanticide. They were guardians of children and keepers of their souls. Today, the word kokeshi is even used as a sexual innuendo.
Kokeshi were originally ………..
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Never disobey or: surrender to submission
Parents usually love their children and children love their parents. Of course there are different ways of showing and expressing your love.
And yet something happened some weeks ago in China I really could not understand. It’s sad that young students make a Kowtow to their parents for their first day of primary school. It’s sad that the children were made to show their gratitude towards their parents and teachers in ways that struck some observers as shameful and old-fashioned.
Well there are differences…..
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Creativity is the child`s brain
The world-famous painter Pablo Picasso was convinced that every child is an artist. So he trusts in life, he trusts in mankind but he didn’t trust in growing up in a specific environment. He didn’t trust in education.
He adds that the problem is staying an artist when you grow up. I think his idea is worth to be thought about. Especially in times of bigger stress on children in education at school and when they grow up in their Job.
When do we I ask myself return to nature like education, to creativity
which is part of childhood and the brain of childhood. Why dont we trust in our children and the vibrant self-regulation of development. 🙂
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Stock market crash or when money kills you
The stock market in China is eroding. People loose ever so much money in ever such a short period of time.
Nearly a quarter of investors say that the value of their investments has fallen by more than 50 percent since the beginning of the year amid falling stock prices. 23.8 percent of the 42,000 people polled by sina said that they “had suffered a loss of over 50 percent and dare not check their accounts”.
Investors and bankers feared already since some months that this would happen soon in China. It is a stock bubble which seems to explode.
Its not my interest to analyse this. I am not the expert for this. But I am an expert for human relationship and communication. Let me tell you first a very personal story. When we …………..
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Gesture and words
Spontaneous gestures can help children to learn whether they use spoken language or sign-language. This is an important result of a new report.
It’s really interesting and important that the reported findings make clear that children have an understanding of the notions before they are able to express themselves in speech. Notion means here a gesture plus word-combination.
Children learn this from their parents. This of course, and this is another result, has been found with children who learn sign-language from their parents. Even deaf children who were not able to learn a spoken language learn a sign-language, so to say a homemade gesture-system in order to communicate.
Please read more about it via this link:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140819094005.htm
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