BABY LEARNS TO SPEAK AND SING
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GROW YOUR MAGNIFICENT CHILD
CHAPTER 45
LEVEL 7.
BABY LEARNS TO SPEAK AND SING.
Baby’s language and speech development.
Your child’s OMSDEP: Her language and speech development intentions:
To speak perfectly; which includes being able to communicate perfectly with others.
To sing perfectly.
A world of communication:
Your child should now have an excellent standard of speech development for her age. She should be well prepared for the many occasions when speech is required in her society.
Throughout history great communicators have become the great leaders of the people around them. Great leaders exist in many parts of the world and they are not necessarily well known outside of their local community. Great communicators and leaders lead community groups who help the poor, build local playgrounds, lead nations to prosperity and social justice, lead multinational companies that provide goods and services to the people of the world, organise contractors and others to construct buildings and often lead the way in scientific research such as genetics, neutralising nuclear waste and controlling deadly diseases. Leaders organise local tree planting projects, save wild animal habitats from destruction and extinction and organise local chess clubs. They also grow magnificent children. Leadership requires good communication skills and as a result of your magnificent parenting your child should now be well prepared as a communicator and well prepared for leadership whenever she is called on to lead.
Active hands-on group activities:
Now is the time to begin introducing your child to various organisations and community groups with which she can become involved. She will still need your help and assistance but she should now be capable of, to some extent, playing her own part in the world. She will, most likely, not want to spend long periods sitting and listening to people speak; but she will likely want to participate in activities and speak about them while she participates. Activities she is likely to enjoy include choir or music groups, dance classes, ‘nipper’ life guard groups, tree planting groups, board game groups, bush walking groups, chess clubs and physically active group games such as tag, land and sea, stuck in the mud, “Crocodile can I cross the river?” and others.
If your child has done the magnificentchildren.love activities since birth then she is likely to be in the educational category known as ‘gifted and talented’ and a proportion of your communities educational resources may be allocated for her and similar children. If you contact your local State or National Department of Education then you may find that some activities are provided for gifted and talented children such as your child. Many universities throughout the world are supportive of programs for gifted and talented children and may have special workshops or classes that your child can attend. Workshops run by universities for 4 to 8 year old gifted and talented children include music, dance, craft, maths, science, chess and physiology and medical studies such as dissecting and studying hearts and other body organs.
Behaviour problems:
Unfortunately many children, and some adults, have behaviour problems (usually as a result of insufficient attention and guidance from their parents). The poor behaviour of others in groups you and your child join can sometimes be difficult to avoid. Until you can be sure that your child is in a safe environment where group members treat each other with respect she will need your constant attention and assistance to deal with the poor behaviour of others.
With a few exceptions, you are likely to find far fewer behaviour problems in group activities that are organised for gifted and talented children. The children who attend these groups are keen to learn about and participate in the activities. The parents of gifted and talented children are also usually keenly interested in their child’s education and well being and therefore often participate in facilitating the activities. Your family might therefore form valuable friendships when attending activities for gifted and talented children.
Activities for parents and children:
In general:
Continue to use the methods and activities described in the previous Levels for as long as you see a need. In particular emphasise daily exposure to excellent speech and music.
2. Encourage natural leadership.
Encourage your child to make daily leadership decisions in her own life. Those decisions include allowing her to decide; what to buy with her own money, what possessions of hers she will give to friends as gifts, what pets she will have and how she will care for them. Encouraging your child to make leadership decisions also means including her in family decision making as described at Level 6 of “ENJOYING SOUNDS, MUSIC AND LANGUAGES. Use the same guidelines as described in that Level to help your child make a variety of leadership decisions while remembering that parents should never be authoritarian but always have the final right to veto or approve any decision. Make a distinction between how good leaders work for the good of the people they are leading while poor leaders might try to acquire controlling power over the people they lead and make them, more or less, slaves.
3. Group activities.
Introduce your child to various organisations and community groups with which she can become involved. Ensure that other participants are well behaved. Try to include choir and activities for gifted and talented children.
4. Group games.
Learn the rules to group games such as tag, land and sea, stuck in the mud, “Crocodile can I cross the river?” and others and organise for groups of 4 to 7 children to play them together. Constant parental supervision is usually required during these games in order to prevent some children from undermining others, cheating, playing unfairly, putting others down and generally undermining the fun and enjoyment of the games. Ideally children will play a variety of these active games for a total time of about 45 minutes each day.
5. Show and tell.
Once each day have a family ‘show and tell’ session.
6. Cards and boards.
Play a card or board game every two days. Teach your child the rules of many different games over the next few years and try to let her win as often as possible.
Suitable board games include, snakes and ladders, Land and Sea, chess, Rummiking, Junior Monopoly, Dominoes, Mastermind, Ludo and draughts.
Suitable card games include, Uno, Solitaire or Patience (using a standard 52 card pack) and Gin Rummy
