What to teach toddlers at home before moving to India ?
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Originally posted by puttoo
BV the situation in India, especially in Delhi is that there are not enough good schools. So what happens that you have thousands of children applying for admission while they have just a few seats available. So how are the school authorities going to admit children. They spend 5 mins with a child and they have to decide to admit or not.
We were lucky when my daughter had to admitted, we landed back in India mid semester and fortunately there was an availabilty ( & a few phone calls!!!) When i was talking to the principal she said during the admission time they get a lot of pressure from all sides to admit children while as they have just a few seats.
Even though the supreme court has agreeed that it is a complex problem
"When counsel Ashok Agrawal, appearing for parents, stated that children should not be subjected to interviews, the Bench quipped "it is so easy" to comment on a complex issue like selecting children for admission to kindergarten and nursery classes. " http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1886237.cms
That is the main reason for children in India being "pushed"to learn all this at ayoung age. Frankly i feel sorry for the lot.
Is that really the intention of the OP ?
My son in grade 2 knows more about nature and civic processes than I do. They learn about working in groups, discussing issues in a very civilised way, 'how' to read a book, encouraging creative instincts while slowly diverting his attention to maths, science and literature (he learns english literature, some words in French and even some common words in Chinese). We teach him to read and write gujarati at home and play games like brain quest which increases his GK while having fun.
The decision is not so hard.
All the best.
Hiren
Location: God's own country
Posted on: 08-05-08 15:30:25
Guys,
Thanks for the positive discussion.
The situation is not only in Delhi but it is almost all across India.
My Sister in law is a doctor in UK and her home town is a city in Tamil nadu. Before when she has one child, whenever she comes for a 2 month visit to India, she used to admit her child in a convent for the period of 2 months. Even 5 years ago, she had to make a donation of Rs.25,000 as capitation fees before she could admit the child. She now has 3 children and has stopped coming to India all together since it is a costly preposition of admitting 3 children at school during their holidays. If at all she comes, she comes for 1 week.
I live in a desolate part of Tamil nadu (It is a very small town). I travelled along a desolate stretch of a highway in 2005 (Erode to Coimbatore) and though I could find no developments, I could find "English Medium Matriculation Schools" every 10 kms or cross a school van every 10 mins. So that is the current situation in India.
The toddler has plans of going to school either in Chennai or Banagalore or Hyderabad in one or 2 years and if the toddler is not taught things the Indian ways from now, the toddlers parents would either end up paying lakhs in Capitation fees or risk sening the child to a very inferior school. As a Canadian citizen studying in India, I belive the toddler is entitled to some good education (foundation) in India.
I also am of the view that Dimple's ideas are very relavant and practical and the toddler would be guided that way.
Peace
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Originally posted by tamilkuravan
. My parents tell me that at age 3, the interview questions for the child of this age (In India) would be to identify capital city's of some countries of this world. I donot think that the Canadian education system can exceed Indian education system (I am not here for a discussion as to which one is better).
What TK is saying is that the kids in India are smarter as the education system is better .... what i am trying to say is that the reason small children are forced to "study"is because of limited "good"schools. Here is another article about Chennai .... it seems schools having an intake of 300 get about 1500 applications!!! so how do they choose http://www.thehindu.com/2007/01/30/stories/2007013016560300.htm
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Originally posted by dimple2001
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I hope this toddler is actually your child. If not, you sound like an owner of a child trafficking business.
This is a pretty strong comment in response to TK's simple question. The guy only asked a normal question. Why post-mortem it, if can't answer?
Yes, it is meant to be a strong comment when a parent makes it sound as if his child is an export commodity. And that was my point which you also have stated - "start from home". Well, people first need to learn to treat their child as their child and not some object in their house.
I have a 2 yr old and from my experience, there's a lot of things that can be done for the child's development regardless of which country you live and how crummy your work schedule is.
Simple things can be exciting for the child and help in learning.
1. Take the child to the public library.
2. Take the child to a train station.
3. Take the child to a bus depot.
4. Baby einstein videos
5. Sit with the child and read books. Make it a habit before bedtime.
6. Give the child a book while in the potty.
7. Spend time in a park (if you don't have your own yard) among dirt, pebbles, plants and bugs.
8. Go to a riverside and shown them boats.
9. Walk them to a letterbox and have them pick the mail.
10. Have them help you with the chores - instills discipline and order.
11. Constantly talk to them about any object and they will repeat it. I call my bluetooth gizmo "cockroach" and my son diligently has picked that word.
All the above are FREE!
If parents can get their focus off the "Indian way" of raising and quit insisting on Einsteining their kid through some unrealistic curriculum and simply focus the child on things that surround their environment, half of the child's learning is accomplished.
Yes, I do understand the absurdness of KG requirements in India, but I'll leave that for someone else to worry. We are happy at home in Canada.
Nice list. Just a note about a survey done about the Baby Einstein vids....apparently kids language skills suffer...heres an article. You will find the survey in question by googling.
http://health.usnews.com/usnews/health/articles/070809/9einstein.htm
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TK, just on a second note I was wondering (I don’t want to start an argumentative discussion on this) “Why the parents of this child want to send him to India in 1-2 yrs”? Why to separate the child from themselves, only because they feel Indian education is better than in Canada?
Jona
Location: Western Hemisphere
Posted on: 09-05-08 09:20:03
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Originally posted by jake3d
Nice list. Just a note about a survey done about the Baby Einstein vids....apparently kids language skills suffer...heres an article. You will find the survey in question by googling.
http://health.usnews.com/usnews/health/articles/070809/9einstein.htm
I agree. TV is not good. They just sit in front of it and stare. The only time my son gets TV is when he eats his dinner. It helps him stay put while we stuff the food into his mouth.
But, there are "Baby Songs" videos that are for toddlers. These videos have choreographed actions that kids do such as walking, running, rolling and spinning.
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Dimple2001
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Originally posted by tamilkuravan
The toddler has plans of going to school either in Chennai or Banagalore or Hyderabad in one or 2 years
Peace
Oh wow! the Canadian education has been so good that now the toddler has his own plans!
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