Thursday, July 18, 2019

Every Child Is Unique

My first child is a girl. Since childhood, children are obedient. He is very diligent in studying, so he always gets good grades in school. But there are things that make me sad that are timid, shy and difficult to get along with. So that at school it's hard to get friends.

My second child is a boy. Since childhood, children are agile and active. Besides that, it's easy to be angry and rebellious. Its nature is easily bored so it affects learning achievement. But he is a brave and confident child. Everywhere is always easy to get along with and liked by his friends.

That is the child, even though they are born of the same parents but have different characteristics. As parents we must be able to accept the condition of our children. Never compare with each other because every child must have advantages and disadvantages. It's just how we can educate them so that the shortcomings they have can slowly be improved.

Monday, April 29, 2019

Introducing letters to children early

I want to share my experience in teaching children to be able to read at an early age. When children get to know objects and name objects, it means children have begun to recognize shapes. At that time the child has begun to be introduced to the form of letters.

The media that I use is a newspaper because it's easy to get. Every day I usually only introduce one uppercase letter. The first time I introduce one large printed letter. Usually this letter is at the beginning of the article or article title. Then the child is told to look for the same letter in the newspaper. The next day, the letters that have been introduced are asked again. If the child has remembered then new letters can be added. And so on until the child knows all the letters. In introducing letters it does not have to be sequential, but try to choose letters that are not similar in shape before the child's makeup is not confused.

Then learn to arrange consonants and vowels like BA, BI, BU, BO, BE, CA, CI and so on. For this section it turned out to be rather difficult when I taught by writing. Therefore I taught it verbally. So I mentioned the combination of letters then the child mentioned the sound. When the child is fluent verbally, it can finally be when writing.

After that increase learning words and sentences. At the age of 3 years, my child was finally able to read fluently.