About 7 (was Re:2235 - Brenda's Question)
Nora or Devereaux Cannon
Somewhere over the years I picked up two bits of readiness
trivia, which are pretty handy general guides if you, like me,
periodically find you house full of kidlet friends of varying
ages and skills.
A child is probably physically able to learn to read and write
when he can reach over his head with his right arm and grab his
left earlobe. A child is probably ready to use shading and
perspective type skills in art, if, when he draws a picture of a
house and himself and someone he loves, his own head is below the
ridgepole of the house (both work equally well for girl
children). If you have a game/craft/ activity planned for a
party or suddenly present group, these can be handy dandy
benchmarks to make sure you are neither frustrating nor boring
most of the participants. I was told by a teacher friend from
Zimbabwe that the arm over the head trick is commonly used as
part of school admission.
trivia, which are pretty handy general guides if you, like me,
periodically find you house full of kidlet friends of varying
ages and skills.
A child is probably physically able to learn to read and write
when he can reach over his head with his right arm and grab his
left earlobe. A child is probably ready to use shading and
perspective type skills in art, if, when he draws a picture of a
house and himself and someone he loves, his own head is below the
ridgepole of the house (both work equally well for girl
children). If you have a game/craft/ activity planned for a
party or suddenly present group, these can be handy dandy
benchmarks to make sure you are neither frustrating nor boring
most of the participants. I was told by a teacher friend from
Zimbabwe that the arm over the head trick is commonly used as
part of school admission.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Luz Shosie and Ned Vare" <nedvare@...>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 3:08 PM
Subject: [Unschooling-dotcom] Re:2235 - Brenda's Question
| on 8/12/02 6:50 PM, [email protected] at
| [email protected] wrote:
|
| > I mean the following question seriously, and I'm not being
nasty. But
| > what's so special about seven? Why 7? Why not 9 or 5 or 14?
|
| C'mon, I said "about seven." I agree. Why any age, really. I
agree that
| unschooling begins as parents prepare to have a child, and
continues for
| life. Unschooling is another way, perhaps, of saying
"self-governing."
KT
>heehee, my mother told me that when I was a little kid, and I've tried
>
>I was told by a teacher friend from
>Zimbabwe that the arm over the head trick is commonly used as
>part of school admission.
>
it on 100s of kids all my life, to guess their age. ;)
Tuck