Encouraging your Child & Showing Enthusiasm
Just like after sessions in which you are teaching your child to read, after every math session you need to remember to tell your son how proud you are of him and how good and smart he is. Tell him that you really love him. Hug him and express your love to him physically. Do not bribe your child by rewarding him with cookies, candy and those types of things. Keep in mind the speed that he will learn within a very short amount of time, and all that candy or cookies will end up being very expensive for you as well as terrible for the health of your child. On the other hand, cookies are a pretty shabby reward for such a big achievement if you are going to compare it to love and respect. Children learn with the speed of lightning and if you teach them these words more than three times a day, you will bore the child. If you only show him a flash card for more than a second, you will lose his attention. Try to do an experiment with another adult, daddy or a friend. Ask th
at person to stay looking at a card with six dots for thirty seconds. You will be able to see how difficult this can be. Remember that babies are able to perceive much quicker than adults are able to. Now you will be teaching your child two sets of math cards with five cards in each set, and each set needs to be taught three times a day. Your son and you will now be enjoying six different math sessions spread out throughout the day that will only take a few minutes in total. Remember that the only warming sign that can show up in all this process of learning math is boredom. Do not ever bore your child. It is much easier for a child to become bored because you are going too slow than it is for him to get bored because you are going too fast.
Consider the splendid work that you have just achieved. You have just given your child the opportunity of learning the real amount of a number, and right at the moment when he is young enough to perceive it. Most of us did not get this opportunity when we were babies. With your help, the child has achieved two very extraordinary things which are that you have helped his vision to develop and what is even more important; he is capable of distinguishing between an amount or one amount and another. He has also come to dominate a skill that we adults do not dominate and which we will probably never dominate either.
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