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27 authors are posting articles about learning:
This started me thinking just where does this desire to learn come from ?
Children are inquisitive by nature. Spend anya mount of time with a 4 or 5 year old and
you will know just what I am talking about.
When they ask questions answer as honestly as you can. Offer just a little something more that goes
beyond the original question and you are teaching them how to construct their
own puzzle of learning.
If you don’t know the answer, grab some age appropriate book and find out together.
The ~ beauty ~ of this approach is that you teach them that you really don’t know
everything, but you put value and importance on learning yourself.
Children are like tiny little sponges, they are very curious by nature.
When you answer their questions or seek out answers together you are
teaching them that they are worth your time. You also fertilize and
foster a mindset that just wants to know more and more.
Catch them young and nurture that seed of learning, and you set up your childto be a life long learner.
1 comment:
Great thoughts here, Debra. Thanks for adding them to the conversation. Children have allot that they can teach us by watching them live but it is very inportant for the quality of their lives that they value learning. Thumbs up!
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