Let the children play

Posted on | March 9, 2010 | 4152 CommentsLet+the+children+play2010-03-09+21%3A08%3A32Greetje

I love the music of Santana and at certain times the music pops-up and draws my attention to soemthing important.

Today I was talking with one of the parents of my group of dyslectic children.
She’s a very nice woman, who “seems to have accepted the dyslexia of her child”, as the file stated.

She was very interested in what we’re teaching her child and she smiled when she saw the little booklets and the leaflets the children use.
No hesitation was shown to ask questions and I was happy to answer them all.

Then suddenly I heard the music of Santana in my mind “Let the children play”.
It hit me that the child is growing up with very caring and loving parents, but that maybe there’s an imbalance in the little child’s life which isn’t good.

The coming spring was a nice subject.
“Does your child like spring? Does your child have favorite outside activities?”

Turned out that mom didn’t like the fact that the child was playing outside the garden and that they never went on a bicycle tour and such.

“Let the children play”…

It was a nice moment to tell the mother that a good brain development also involved discovering the world outside the garden, meeting other children and telling afterwards about the experiences.

I saw that never before someone pointed this out to the mother.

We agreed that she will create more situations that enable her child to tell what it has done.
That way it learns to formulate better sentences, to summarise and to translate feelings into words.

Comments

4152 ResponsesLet+the+children+play2010-03-09+21%3A08%3A32Greetje to “Let the children play”

josie
March 10th, 2010 @ 3:00 am

children learn more when they interact with other children, w/c help in their personality development when they grow up.
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Paul
March 10th, 2010 @ 5:50 pm

A song by Santana that I have never heard before, very nice
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