John Sedgwick wrote:Well put, Adlertag. Unfortunately many parents these days defer an unreasonable amount of responsibility onto the teachers' shoulders. I understand the pressures that lead to this phenomenon (e.g. single income family just doesn't cut it anymore), but teachers can't be expected to be miracle-workers. If and when I have children, if at all feasible, I would like to be a stay-at-home dad and homeschool them for the first few years of education. Unfortunately that appears increasingly unlikely in current economic climate change
Although I am no father having no children I see the necessarity that we should teach the younger children and our teens by our own example what will be really necessary to solve future challenges...
Thus as parents we should always consider that we are really teachers by our example how we take care of existing problems...the most important thing I think is to teach the little ones the way of learning by teaching them something about nature, reading, playing with each other old child games, making music, singing and even praying by our own example...
It will be not really necessary to force any early teaching like drill roboters which often somehow happen to the children but to let them discover the world step by step at their own tempo and to let have them fun and joyce doing so...
I know that most of us are so deeply involved in economic processes that we seems not to have the necessary time educating the children but if we do it right we could compensate even some economic losses due to our responsibility for our children...not many countries pay you anything for such tasks and efforts although you educate future responsible citizens but I hope for some better times if we simply start that for our own...There are many ways to solve personal problems and as we are so creative in many ways we should able to solve these problems at the behalf of our lovely children as I think...
That's just my personal thinking and it comes from deep inside my heart as a result of many own experiences...
heartly greetings
Hohenlohe...an old boy scout...*Good Path!!*
"learning by doing and leading by example..."
