"Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God."
Mark 10:14
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Yet what most people have not realized is that little children can appreciate Michelangelo just as easily as cheap and simplistic cartoons. A little baby will learn phalanges, clavicle, and humerus just as easily (and just as joyfully) as he learns fingers, shoulder, and arm. Beethoven goes into their ears just as easily as Pop Goes the Weasel. And he will memorize great scriptures, songs, and sonnets just as easily as he memorizes commercial jingles and nursery rhymes.
Little kids are capable of a lot more than counting to ten and making dirty diapers. You can teach a small child absolutely anything that you present to him in an honest, factual, and joyous way, and if you teach a tiny child the facts, he will discover the rules.
Small kids are experts at discovering the rules that govern a set of facts. Ever hear a small child say "I drinked that"? We laugh at his "poor" speech when in fact he just applied the rule of grammar that says if you add "ed" to the end of a verb it makes it past tense. When was the last time YOU reviewed a language to discover a rule of grammar? May I suggest that you were perhaps three years old?
Little kids will discover the rules that govern any set of facts and you can apply this reality to teach a very small child to read fluently, understand mathematics effortlessly, have perfect pitch, and understand and ENJOY many concepts typically considered far beyond their reach, and you can do so with just seconds of joyful play each day. No pressure, no elaborate or boring lessons, just joyfully showing a child the facts for a few seconds every day, and letting him discover the rules. In our house, learning is a privilege, not a chore.
You can raise a precocious learner with strong character, social grace, and physical excellence if only you will give him the opportunity and environment to thrive in.
Learning many interesting and worthwhile things does not hinder Hunter's imagination, creativity, or desire to learn but fuels it, as you will soon see. The myth of a "lost childhood" applies more correctly to children who are raised by tired, stressed, distracted parents, without a plan or purpose, who try to fit their child into everything else they have going on in their life.
So welcome to our blog, and enjoy the fun, excitement, and inquisitiveness you can have as you discover the potential of life with a preschooler.
.BMP)
Learning every day
Hunter Mitchell Three years old
"We have succeeded in keeping our children carefully isolated from learning in a period of life when the desire to learn is at its peak. The human brain is unique in that it is the only container of which it can be said that the more you put into it, the more it will hold. Between nine months and four years the ability to absorb information is unparalleled, and the desire to do so is higher than it will ever be again. Yet during this period we keep the child clean, well fed, safe from the world about him - and in a learning vacuum."
-Glenn Doman
There is no child too young to learn. And the most curious learner in the world is the small child below six years of age. Babies and little children are natural learners and problems- solvers and they WANT to learn about everything there is to know, and they want to do so right now.
Yet what most people have not realized is that little children can appreciate Michelangelo just as easily as cheap and simplistic cartoons. A little baby will learn phalanges, clavicle, and humerus just as easily (and just as joyfully) as he learns fingers, shoulder, and arm. Beethoven goes into their ears just as easily as Pop Goes the Weasel. And he will memorize great scriptures, songs, and sonnets just as easily as he memorizes commercial jingles and nursery rhymes.
Little kids are capable of a lot more than counting to ten and making dirty diapers. You can teach a small child absolutely anything that you present to him in an honest, factual, and joyous way, and if you teach a tiny child the facts, he will discover the rules.
Small kids are experts at discovering the rules that govern a set of facts. Ever hear a small child say "I drinked that"? We laugh at his "poor" speech when in fact he just applied the rule of grammar that says if you add "ed" to the end of a verb it makes it past tense. When was the last time YOU reviewed a language to discover a rule of grammar? May I suggest that you were perhaps three years old?
Little kids will discover the rules that govern any set of facts and you can apply this reality to teach a very small child to read fluently, understand mathematics effortlessly, have perfect pitch, and understand and ENJOY many concepts typically considered far beyond their reach, and you can do so with just seconds of joyful play each day. No pressure, no elaborate or boring lessons, just joyfully showing a child the facts for a few seconds every day, and letting him discover the rules. In our house, learning is a privilege, not a chore.
You can raise a precocious learner with strong character, social grace, and physical excellence if only you will give him the opportunity and environment to thrive in.
Learning many interesting and worthwhile things does not hinder Hunter's imagination, creativity, or desire to learn but fuels it, as you will soon see. The myth of a "lost childhood" applies more correctly to children who are raised by tired, stressed, distracted parents, without a plan or purpose, who try to fit their child into everything else they have going on in their life.
So welcome to our blog, and enjoy the fun, excitement, and inquisitiveness you can have as you discover the potential of life with a preschooler.
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Quotes
"Those who say we must not rob the child of his childhood by inflicting learning on him tell us nothing of the child's view on learning but a great deal about what he himself thinks of it."
– Glenn Doman
“We are born with the potential brain of all the human greats (and all the scoundrels); intelligence is a result of what we do with it. Intelligence is a result of thinking.”
- Glenn Doman
“In contrast to [the] patterns of modern society, all mothers know intuitively that the first six years of a child’s life are the most important. In this they are absolutely correct.”
-Janet Doman
“Every child has, at the instant of birth, a greater potential intelligence than Leonardo Di Vinci every used.”
- Glenn Doman
“The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.”
- Arthur Schopenhauer
“Children and genius have the same master organ in common —inquisitiveness. Let childhood have its way and as it began where genius begins, it may find what genius finds.”
—Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
“The greatest gift a teacher can give his student is a love of the subject.”
- Unknown
“Learn all your lessons before you grow old, because learning is better than silver and gold. Silver and gold may be washed away, but a good education will never decay.”
- Mary Altman
“Behind every good man…
is a good mother.”
- Anonymous
“In the long run, the greatest weapon of mass destruction is stupidity.”
- Thomas Sowell
“All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.”
- R. Buckminster Fuller
“Genius without education is like silver in the mine.”
- Benjamin Franklin
“If your child is to latter cherish you, you must cherish him every day, every hour of his development. There are no neutral moments in a child’s life. Every moment is a time of continuous need and development.”
- Debi Pearl
“The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world”
Criticism
“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”
-Arthur Schopenhauer
“Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.”
-Hebrew proverb
“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
- George Orwell
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