Learning day by day...
You know what, we are still learning day by day...
if you take for example when we were born we never knew what we would be like to this day
as we grew older we learnt how to crawl, then we were taught how to walk and learnt how to take each step, of course we fell down but we learnt that we had to get back up once we fell or stepped wrong to do it again and again, yet we never lost focus and kept on going
we learnt how to babble as a baby then talk as we grew older.
It then comes down to if you had any social interaction as you were growing up, if you went to any baby and toddler groups or met up with your parent/s with their friends or even with other family members - there you were also learning believe it or not
you were learning social skills, the sensory exploration of different things like cold,warmth as well as things you didn't like
I believe as a young baby you learn that when you cry, you distinguish that you get what you need
it might not have been what you thought like pick up and cuddles or feeding but you soon learn that the more you do it the more attention you'd get, so trust me - we learn from the get go
As we then look at the later stages of starting nursery, it can become a overwhelming experience for some children, especially if they have attachment issues and like the comfort of being with loved one, I guess as a child you couldn't understand why someone who loves you would just leave you with someone you don't know to well. For some children this is a great experience, they get to meet new friends, they play with new toys and experience outdoors as well as learning new things. I am still trying to establish the difference some children have when they are young and can remember so much when they are older, we apparently can use that part of our brain to get that information, we just need to think really hard about it and as that is not always the part of the brain we use it is very difficult for some.
I'm at that stage with my kids that they are both now in primary school, two very different boys
one that is totally empathetic and the other which cant understand his emotions. I still believe life is a long learning journey. Yes we spend most of our youth in school environment but we have the best role models and teachers in our very own homes, we get taught so much from our parent/s its unreal.
Where am I going with my blog you ask me, well I'm trying to say we are on a life long journey of learning, each day we wake up and we learn
we learn what we want to or what interests us
Today I attended a very informative course all about emotions, it made me understand that we need to focus more on how we talk to our child or children and what we say to them has a drastic impact on how they feel or do things.
We looked briefly at our brains, so I thought it is useful to know and understand what and where our brain functions and what each part does.
Its incredible also to think we are all created to learn differently, of course we are all individuals and we are all unique we all have something very special to offer this world we live in
I'm still trying to get my way around the way we learn, why some parts can keep the information and why somethings that are said we just ignore? I'm simply putting all my feelings down as today was very thought provoking and I'm now interested in the ways we think and why we think that way
Take for example if you were told 'wow you are so brilliant' what will you believe? I'm hoping you would say that you will think you are brilliant in all areas of life, its amazing how if something negative is said, we still as humans take those words to heart but its what we do with them that makes a massive difference in life, as sometimes words can be used to heal, some words used to hurt
I told my eldest son some words are like knives they can stab us deep in our hearts, we just have to learn as a human to 'shake it off' like that song suggests, we have the ability to listen or just pretend to listen
We are constantly learning from primary to secondary the only difference is that its more complicated, more serious and we are expected to understand a lot more in secondary
once we complete that we then have a choice of college or work - that is the choice I believe
but even in work, we are constantly learning, we have to learn that task we applied for unless it is something that comes naturally to us.
I was also looking at the ways we learn as humans, did you know there is more than one kind of learner? well if not, here is a few examples
As you can see from the above there is more than one way we learn...
