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Giving your Child Exams in his Learning Program
We have talked a great deal about learning but we have not discussed much about exams. The best advice we can give you in this sense is to not give exams to your child. Babies love to learn but they do not like taking exams (as do none of us). They are very similar to adults in this aspect. Exams are exactly the opposite of learning because they only cause stress. Remember that teaching a child is a wonderful gift but that examining him is like demanding pay in advance. The more you examine the child, the slow he will learn and the less he will want to learn. However, the less you examine him, the quicker he will learn and the more he will want to learn. Knowledge is the most precious gift that you can give your child; therefore you should give it to him with generosity just the same way you feed him. So what exactly is an exam anyways? In essence, an ex
am is the intent to discover what it is a child does not know. It is a way of committing him and saying to him that he does not know something. It is similar to a lack of respect to your child because the child will come to understand that we do not consider him capable of learning unless he is able to prove it over and over again. The intentions of exams are negative on a child and they manifest what a child does not know, not what he does know. The consequence of exams is to reduce learning and disposition to learn. Do not examine your child and do not allow others to do it either. So, what is a mother supposed to do then? She needs to be interested in teaching and providing her child with all of the possible opportunities to know the joy that learning and achieving can bring. Therefore, instead of giving your child exams make way for him to resolve problems. The purpose of an opportunity to resolve a problem is that the child is capable of showing what it is he knows if he feels like showing it. |