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Posted in WEEKLY XL, August 22, 2010
Communication signs before they learn to say 'mama', English classes after three months , `kill 'from two years ... Welcome to the world of stimulation early. Is it useful for something or is it just a fad that makes up the shortcomings of the education system? Can you determine the professional future of our children or have fallen into the last snare of the service industry to parenthood? The debate has only just begun.
The class is over and children saying goodbye to the `seño '. For an hour, 15 students have studied English and mathematics, received a lesson in road safety education, mammals have been reviewed and have provided a self-portrait of Van Gogh.
When parents ask them what they did, they respond in their own way. Maitane still impressed with the biography of Van Gogh, and vaguely reminiscent of an ear was cut "because his head hurt." A 'compete' corrects' Malita had his head ", referring to the alienation of genius. "I was unwell the 'welcome'," qualifies the other, refine the diagnosis. "It was sickening," Maitane follows. "I was deaf in one ear," Claudia sentence.
Students in this bilingual early learning center Brisbane, Castro Urdiales (Cantabria), aged between 18 months and three years old. Have not heard too, but no matter. "At no time pursuing the child memorize or repeat anything. The goal is not that. What we seek is to create new connections and neural circuits, to give the child skills that will serve for life, and create new interest in him while we satisfy their enormous curiosity, "says Rosina Uriarte, director of the center, which follows the method of Dr. Glenn Doman, whose research focused at first on the rehabilitation of children with brain injuries and that, in view of the results, decided to apply also to healthy babies. His technique is known bits of intelligence, some cards with visual stimuli: words, mathematical sets and images encyclopedia. The class is going at full speed. "At these ages, the activities have to be short and fast, or lose the child's attention. In the bits we show planets, animals, architecture ... Is a collection of ten images you teach them for ten days straight, while it's named for a higher volume than usual. It's the same principle as the TV ads, which you repeat the learn much by accident. There are images that pass quickly, because if you do not get bored. They always want more, "describes Uriarte.
All activities are in English and English. "Until four years the brain is structurally prepared for the acquisition of languages. It is what theorists call the temporal window. Once past this age window is closed and the language learning will involve great effort. The reason is that all languages \u200b\u200buse the same frequencies. However, higher frequencies differ greatly. English, for example, uses a variety of high-pitched sounds, ranging from 2,000 to 12,000 hertz. The Castilian uses frequencies from 1,000 to 3,000 hertz. In practice, we are 'deaf' to the frequencies used in other languages. But if children hear them very young, you create circuits between neurons. When we tell a story in English do not pretend to understand. What we want is to consolidate these brain circuits to become long term, information highway, "explains the teacher.
Parents face a new dilemma in our country. If until recently the great dilemma was whether enrolling their children in a public or private school, now have to make decisions much earlier. Do we carry the child to daycare or early learning center? At what age? The answer is usually hysterical asap! What type of school? Because supply has increased to reach a sophistication that confuses the best of us. Method " Doman? "Gardner's multiple intelligences System? "Baby signing of nonverbal communication? "Kumon math? "Music as the Tomatis method or Suzuki? "English with Helen Doron or Jolly Phonics? Not counting the extras: swimming, Mandarin, playful environments at Gymboree ... There are even cooking classes for creatures that feed on baby food yet. And what about the MBA for children three years, with lessons in economics and business administration, enrollment at 2,000 euros! Thankfully, for now, only offered in China ...
A dozen international franchises have landed in Spain. It's a new market niche. Is premature to talk about figures, but the journalist Pamela Paul, in his book Parenting, Inc., on the costs of parenthood, estimates that annual spending per child in America has doubled since 1958. In Spain, the kids account for 60 percent of household spending. The annual cost in education, toys and leisure between 2,940 and 10,400 euros in rich countries.
One of the key issues in infant stimulation is when to start reading. Some argue that babies are taught, others that it is counterproductive to start before six years. In fact, they are not talking about the same. There are two methods basic learning. The best known is the syllable (the alliteration "My mother spoils me" you learn with primer). Spatial organization and requires the child to have very clear concepts of left and right, a function that is not usually acquire skills to six or seven years. Is taught in school. The problem is that it puts pressure on teachers to teach the method syllable from three or four years. A study by the University of Cambridge and discouraged it gives an example of Finland, the country holding the top spot on reading skills, math and science. The cole starts at age seven. Previously, children engaged in ... play.
Then there is the overall interpretation that is used in early learning. For example, it teaches the baby the word 'table'. And he shows a card with the entire word is pronounced while loudly. The small tends to see the word as a whole. Does not look at the letters. The visual memory is usually better than the hearing, thus, little is familiar with the written word. Over time, say the advocates of this system can be read without being conscious of having learned to read, like spoken language. An eye should not put babies to write. No skipping steps. And most importantly, is a game, "warns the child educator Rosina Uriarte.
In any case, the term `early learning ', become a mantra, it has been incorporated into the educational offer with a rapidity bewildering that is changing the concept of pre-school, as at the time the university went decorating with a multitude of masters and postgraduate. And it is time to not settle for the simplistic explanation that the parents, with delusions of grandeur, wish their children to be Oscar Wrigley, the English child of two years with Einstein's IQ has been accepted with great pomp in Mensa, the association gifted international. This is pure survival in a system where educational failure is overwhelming (in Spain, four in ten secondary students repeat grades.) What many parents have in their heads, but are loath to admit it, is that their children gain competitiveness in the educational career.
A career that does not begin at age six, when they come to school. Many parents believe that advancing the starting gun will give their children an advantage that, ultimately, serve to have more opportunities than their peers desk. It describes what the German sociologist Berthold Vogel in his essay The decline of the middle class. The precariousness of being. "The early stimulation is no longer an elitist affair. We are facing middle-class parents trying to fight their own lack of training with an excess of zeal. They are vulnerable to unemployment and overwhelmed by the future. The fear that their children may not achieve its own level of life leads them to offer a perfect training schedule has already taken over his desire competitive. "
perfect That agenda involves a danger of hyperstimulation. "We fall into the mistake of thinking the more activities that make our children more intelligent. Today we find guys with the agenda of an executive. And do not bombard them with so many proposals, "warns psychologist Adriana Sarasa. Another pernicious effect of overstimulation is that children are increasingly the lowest level of frustration. This translates into impatience and inability to concentrate.
And the doctor Juan Casado, service manager at Children's Hospital of Infant Jesus of Madrid, even talk of a new form of abuse. "These are children that even before going to school get a full program of stimulation and training that takes all the daylight hours, making the balanced development of personality." Lounging on a Sunday with parents can be a beneficial, but get bored.
addition, the time spent with parents is important. Eulalia Torres de Bea, a renowned child psychiatrist, is blunt: "The baby's neurons develop according to the quality of the stimuli that are interacting with parents: hugs, kisses, touches, sounds, voices, mime ... All this enriches your nervous system, emotional strength and knowledge of the world and himself. " Is contrary to advance the socialization of baby born too early to kindergarten.
One of the preconceptions about early learning is that these kids are bored in school, are proud, and do not play with others believing themselves superior. Pablo Pascual Sorrentino, teacher and director solohijos.com content, disagrees: "Those who are bored most are those who can not keep pace with the class. And they go bad because the lack of success undermines their self-esteem. "
early learning specialists are defended. The game is paramount in most of the methods and the involvement of parents. And the children play pump. However, Uriarte called common sense. "This is not to create genius. Our goal is to support kids in their development, no pressure to get his children to be ten. Is the educational system puts pressure on them, which skips the stage, which aims to start Primary ability to read and write. And he has students in preschool sitting on chairs, making chips, where it is very important that they move. The soil phase is critical. Crawling is an exercise that works mature brain and ocular convergence, very important for reading and transmitting information from one hemisphere to another. "Furthermore, there are no exams. And, therefore, no wrong answers. Nor was torpedoed lagging self-esteem. So when Gaizka, to the Picasso Harlequin in the mirror, cries convinced that Pikachu painted it, it's just an anecdote. Two years old. When you talk at school of Cubism, not to sound Chinese.
Carlos Manuel Sánchez The class is over and children saying goodbye to the `seño '. For an hour, 15 students have studied English and mathematics, received a lesson in road safety education, mammals have been reviewed and have provided a self-portrait of Van Gogh.
When parents ask them what they did, they respond in their own way. Maitane still impressed with the biography of Van Gogh, and vaguely reminiscent of an ear was cut "because his head hurt." A 'compete' corrects' Malita had his head ", referring to the alienation of genius. "I was unwell the 'welcome'," qualifies the other, refine the diagnosis. "It was sickening," Maitane follows. "I was deaf in one ear," Claudia sentence.
Students in this bilingual early learning center Brisbane, Castro Urdiales (Cantabria), aged between 18 months and three years old. Have not heard too, but no matter. "At no time pursuing the child memorize or repeat anything. The goal is not that. What we seek is to create new connections and neural circuits, to give the child skills that will serve for life, and create new interest in him while we satisfy their enormous curiosity, "says Rosina Uriarte, director of the center, which follows the method of Dr. Glenn Doman, whose research focused at first on the rehabilitation of children with brain injuries and that, in view of the results, decided to apply also to healthy babies. His technique is known bits of intelligence, some cards with visual stimuli: words, mathematical sets and images encyclopedia. The class is going at full speed. "At these ages, the activities have to be short and fast, or lose the child's attention. In the bits we show planets, animals, architecture ... Is a collection of ten images you teach them for ten days straight, while it's named for a higher volume than usual. It's the same principle as the TV ads, which you repeat the learn much by accident. There are images that pass quickly, because if you do not get bored. They always want more, "describes Uriarte.
All activities are in English and English. "Until four years the brain is structurally prepared for the acquisition of languages. It is what theorists call the temporal window. Once past this age window is closed and the language learning will involve great effort. The reason is that all languages \u200b\u200buse the same frequencies. However, higher frequencies differ greatly. English, for example, uses a variety of high-pitched sounds, ranging from 2,000 to 12,000 hertz. The Castilian uses frequencies from 1,000 to 3,000 hertz. In practice, we are 'deaf' to the frequencies used in other languages. But if children hear them very young, you create circuits between neurons. When we tell a story in English do not pretend to understand. What we want is to consolidate these brain circuits to become long term, information highway, "explains the teacher.
Parents face a new dilemma in our country. If until recently the great dilemma was whether enrolling their children in a public or private school, now have to make decisions much earlier. Do we carry the child to daycare or early learning center? At what age? The answer is usually hysterical asap! What type of school? Because supply has increased to reach a sophistication that confuses the best of us. Method " Doman? "Gardner's multiple intelligences System? "Baby signing of nonverbal communication? "Kumon math? "Music as the Tomatis method or Suzuki? "English with Helen Doron or Jolly Phonics? Not counting the extras: swimming, Mandarin, playful environments at Gymboree ... There are even cooking classes for creatures that feed on baby food yet. And what about the MBA for children three years, with lessons in economics and business administration, enrollment at 2,000 euros! Thankfully, for now, only offered in China ...
A dozen international franchises have landed in Spain. It's a new market niche. Is premature to talk about figures, but the journalist Pamela Paul, in his book Parenting, Inc., on the costs of parenthood, estimates that annual spending per child in America has doubled since 1958. In Spain, the kids account for 60 percent of household spending. The annual cost in education, toys and leisure between 2,940 and 10,400 euros in rich countries.
One of the key issues in infant stimulation is when to start reading. Some argue that babies are taught, others that it is counterproductive to start before six years. In fact, they are not talking about the same. There are two methods basic learning. The best known is the syllable (the alliteration "My mother spoils me" you learn with primer). Spatial organization and requires the child to have very clear concepts of left and right, a function that is not usually acquire skills to six or seven years. Is taught in school. The problem is that it puts pressure on teachers to teach the method syllable from three or four years. A study by the University of Cambridge and discouraged it gives an example of Finland, the country holding the top spot on reading skills, math and science. The cole starts at age seven. Previously, children engaged in ... play.
Then there is the overall interpretation that is used in early learning. For example, it teaches the baby the word 'table'. And he shows a card with the entire word is pronounced while loudly. The small tends to see the word as a whole. Does not look at the letters. The visual memory is usually better than the hearing, thus, little is familiar with the written word. Over time, say the advocates of this system can be read without being conscious of having learned to read, like spoken language. An eye should not put babies to write. No skipping steps. And most importantly, is a game, "warns the child educator Rosina Uriarte.
In any case, the term `early learning ', become a mantra, it has been incorporated into the educational offer with a rapidity bewildering that is changing the concept of pre-school, as at the time the university went decorating with a multitude of masters and postgraduate. And it is time to not settle for the simplistic explanation that the parents, with delusions of grandeur, wish their children to be Oscar Wrigley, the English child of two years with Einstein's IQ has been accepted with great pomp in Mensa, the association gifted international. This is pure survival in a system where educational failure is overwhelming (in Spain, four in ten secondary students repeat grades.) What many parents have in their heads, but are loath to admit it, is that their children gain competitiveness in the educational career.
A career that does not begin at age six, when they come to school. Many parents believe that advancing the starting gun will give their children an advantage that, ultimately, serve to have more opportunities than their peers desk. It describes what the German sociologist Berthold Vogel in his essay The decline of the middle class. The precariousness of being. "The early stimulation is no longer an elitist affair. We are facing middle-class parents trying to fight their own lack of training with an excess of zeal. They are vulnerable to unemployment and overwhelmed by the future. The fear that their children may not achieve its own level of life leads them to offer a perfect training schedule has already taken over his desire competitive. "
perfect That agenda involves a danger of hyperstimulation. "We fall into the mistake of thinking the more activities that make our children more intelligent. Today we find guys with the agenda of an executive. And do not bombard them with so many proposals, "warns psychologist Adriana Sarasa. Another pernicious effect of overstimulation is that children are increasingly the lowest level of frustration. This translates into impatience and inability to concentrate.
And the doctor Juan Casado, service manager at Children's Hospital of Infant Jesus of Madrid, even talk of a new form of abuse. "These are children that even before going to school get a full program of stimulation and training that takes all the daylight hours, making the balanced development of personality." Lounging on a Sunday with parents can be a beneficial, but get bored.
addition, the time spent with parents is important. Eulalia Torres de Bea, a renowned child psychiatrist, is blunt: "The baby's neurons develop according to the quality of the stimuli that are interacting with parents: hugs, kisses, touches, sounds, voices, mime ... All this enriches your nervous system, emotional strength and knowledge of the world and himself. " Is contrary to advance the socialization of baby born too early to kindergarten.
One of the preconceptions about early learning is that these kids are bored in school, are proud, and do not play with others believing themselves superior. Pablo Pascual Sorrentino, teacher and director solohijos.com content, disagrees: "Those who are bored most are those who can not keep pace with the class. And they go bad because the lack of success undermines their self-esteem. "
early learning specialists are defended. The game is paramount in most of the methods and the involvement of parents. And the children play pump. However, Uriarte called common sense. "This is not to create genius. Our goal is to support kids in their development, no pressure to get his children to be ten. Is the educational system puts pressure on them, which skips the stage, which aims to start Primary ability to read and write. And he has students in preschool sitting on chairs, making chips, where it is very important that they move. The soil phase is critical. Crawling is an exercise that works mature brain and ocular convergence, very important for reading and transmitting information from one hemisphere to another. "Furthermore, there are no exams. And, therefore, no wrong answers. Nor was torpedoed lagging self-esteem. So when Gaizka, to the Picasso Harlequin in the mirror, cries convinced that Pikachu painted it, it's just an anecdote. Two years old. When you talk at school of Cubism, not to sound Chinese.
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