Nintendo and Cartoons for us
Kim
Lisa said:
The
"discovered" Nintendo 64. She plays it as well as my 11 and 14 year olds.
The skills needed to use all 7 buttons on the controller (most often in
combinations of two or more buttons) is definately nothing to sneeze at.
Tabitha can manuever her way around the Mario game and the Banjo Kazooie
game even though just to get to the "world" you are looking for is a huge
maze of hallways and secret rooms, pipes and tunnels. She astounds me with
her ability to "discover" secret rooms the rest of us never found. She also
learned to recognize numbers that no amount of flashcards in combination
with counting bears could teach her. She knows how many "lives" she has
left by looking at the numbers. When we reached the goal the other day in
Banjo Kazooie there was a big quiz about sounds and sites in the game. If
Tabitha hadn't helped us with it we would not have cracked it. She learned
more from that game than from anything else!
She also has an incredible vocabulary. Her preschool teacher wants to do a
test on her because she thinks she's brilliant. You know what our secret
is? Cartoons! I know they are violent and I hate that but she has learned
so much from them that I don't tell her not to watch them. She has tested
as near adult in vocabulary skills alone.
This child was born weighing just over one pound and we were told not to
expect much from her. Well, if anyone ever tells me that unschooling can't
work, I have my Tabby as a demonstration that watching tv and playing
Nintendo can teach plenty. Now if I could get her to watch more of PBS than
Barney and TeleTubbies maybe she could start working on world peace...or
maybe Barney and TeleTubbies are all you need for world peace!
Kim, the long winded.
The
> logical thinking that is required to play most video games rivals thelogic
> used in any textbook word problem.I have to agree with you Lisa, my daughter is 4 now, she was 3 when she
"discovered" Nintendo 64. She plays it as well as my 11 and 14 year olds.
The skills needed to use all 7 buttons on the controller (most often in
combinations of two or more buttons) is definately nothing to sneeze at.
Tabitha can manuever her way around the Mario game and the Banjo Kazooie
game even though just to get to the "world" you are looking for is a huge
maze of hallways and secret rooms, pipes and tunnels. She astounds me with
her ability to "discover" secret rooms the rest of us never found. She also
learned to recognize numbers that no amount of flashcards in combination
with counting bears could teach her. She knows how many "lives" she has
left by looking at the numbers. When we reached the goal the other day in
Banjo Kazooie there was a big quiz about sounds and sites in the game. If
Tabitha hadn't helped us with it we would not have cracked it. She learned
more from that game than from anything else!
She also has an incredible vocabulary. Her preschool teacher wants to do a
test on her because she thinks she's brilliant. You know what our secret
is? Cartoons! I know they are violent and I hate that but she has learned
so much from them that I don't tell her not to watch them. She has tested
as near adult in vocabulary skills alone.
This child was born weighing just over one pound and we were told not to
expect much from her. Well, if anyone ever tells me that unschooling can't
work, I have my Tabby as a demonstration that watching tv and playing
Nintendo can teach plenty. Now if I could get her to watch more of PBS than
Barney and TeleTubbies maybe she could start working on world peace...or
maybe Barney and TeleTubbies are all you need for world peace!
Kim, the long winded.