|
|
Post by cakewalk on May 9, 2018 21:57:20 GMT
I think you're right liz. Subliminal learning (albeit not necessarily intentional) definitely happens in the course of every day living. While I was on maternity leave after having had Tommy, and Danny was still very tiny (they are only 18 months apart in age so D was maybe 5 or 6 months old), I started tuning in to Countdown every day. Tommy surprised me hugely one day by showing me he could recognise letters long before he actually started speaking words. I can remember it today like it was yesterday. I was in the kitchen reading the Sunday Mirror and the usual headlines were in capitals. Tommy came to me and pointed to one of the letters in the headline and said quite clearly 'E'. Of course, I was amazed and he went on to point out and say more or less all the letters in the headline. I wish I could remember what the headline was, but he'd clearly been watching Countdown with me, and Carol Vorderman had effectively taught him his alphabet! We then went on a bit of a journey with books (there was a series called Little Letter books which helped teach not just what a letter looked like (both big and little) but how it might sound. 6 months later (and by then he was speaking properly-ish) he was able to read words by the age of 2 and a half. At three, he was reading books to his nursery class  |
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on May 9, 2018 22:07:31 GMT
So much of it comes back to the family environment.
|
|
|
|
Post by carrie on May 10, 2018 9:04:24 GMT
I think you're right liz. Subliminal learning (albeit not necessarily intentional) definitely happens in the course of every day living. While I was on maternity leave after having had Tommy, and Danny was still very tiny (they are only 18 months apart in age so D was maybe 5 or 6 months old), I started tuning in to Countdown every day. Tommy surprised me hugely one day by showing me he could recognise letters long before he actually started speaking words. I can remember it today like it was yesterday. I was in the kitchen reading the Sunday Mirror and the usual headlines were in capitals. Tommy came to me and pointed to one of the letters in the headline and said quite clearly 'E'. Of course, I was amazed and he went on to point out and say more or less all the letters in the headline. I wish I could remember what the headline was, but he'd clearly been watching Countdown with me, and Carol Vorderman had effectively taught him his alphabet! We then went on a bit of a journey with books (there was a series called Little Letter books which helped teach not just what a letter looked like (both big and little) but how it might sound. 6 months later (and by then he was speaking properly-ish) he was able to read words by the age of 2 and a half. At three, he was reading books to his nursery class I had exactly this with my eldest boy, I always joke that Countdown taught him his letters  . He's always been very quick at learning, he used to know his little cardboard books word for word by the age of 2. |
|
|
|
Post by Geoffers on May 10, 2018 9:09:55 GMT
Slightly worrying is an English school teacher who thought phosphorus was metallic, rather than cobalt .
That old chestnut.
Your children's education is in safe hands
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on May 10, 2018 9:48:00 GMT
Far more impressive than the ability to learn the names of letters is the ability to automatically learn a language, not only vocabulary but rules of grammar, simply from watching other people use it. When we speak we run all the words together, so how does a child learn where one ends and another begins? Amazing!
|
|
|
|
Post by deansay on May 10, 2018 10:40:43 GMT
Watched this last night, thought I'd just see what JC was like.
Actually I found him better than I expected, but I still can't stand the bloke.
I shall watch again tonight to see if anyone takes more than the 1K, and puts him out of his misery!!
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on May 10, 2018 11:17:01 GMT
I have not watched them all but the ones I have seen have left me exasperated at the lack of general knowledge the contestants have.Some of them struggling to answer the first 5 questions.Certainly no Judith Keppel among them.
I said straight away that Cobalt was a metal.Phospherous that we used at school was a soft type of material which burst into flames when exposed to air.
What type of eduction do youngsters receive nowadays,certainly not the rounded one I had, followed by 6 years at technical college.
I think they are just taught to pass exams so the school can look good in the results leagues.
|
|
|
|
Post by deansay on May 10, 2018 13:54:21 GMT
With regard to science lessons these days in schools, I think the some of the experiments which we could do when we were at school have now been curtailed due to H&S rules and long risk assessments and therefore just reading about it doesn't stay in your mind like actually seeing the visual effect.
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on May 10, 2018 14:16:44 GMT
We had to dissect frogs in our biology lessons! I bet that’s not allowed any more. I actually refused to do it and was sent to the Headmistress !
|
|
|
|
Post by Geoffers on May 10, 2018 15:05:57 GMT
General knowledge is that,keeping up to date with things is part of it.
l had a member on another forum admitting not knowing who Harry Styles was,with the phrase 'never heard of him'.Which to me is hard to grasp,you may not he able to name a One Direction song but when they were all over the news surely you would have noticed.But then at a quiz night, I set an easy tv related question and someone said they don't watch Channel 4.So it never ceases to amaze me what people don't actually know.
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on May 10, 2018 15:31:31 GMT
I don’t watch much on Ch4 either.
|
|
|
|
Post by Geoffers on May 10, 2018 15:38:14 GMT
I don’t watch much on Ch4 either. But would have heard of The Banker and Deal or No Deal? |
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on May 10, 2018 16:07:06 GMT
Yes from reading the paper or just hearing it talked about. I see your point, similarly it annoys the heck out of me when a question is about WWII and somebody says they don’t know the answer because it’s before their time !
|
|
|
|
Post by Geoffers on May 10, 2018 16:14:30 GMT
And don't get me started 'on haven't a clue',when the options are in front of you.  |
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on May 10, 2018 16:34:47 GMT
A thing that really annoys me is when people are asked a question about WWI or WWII and they say they don’t know because it was before their time, for goodness sake it was before my time but I still know about it.
|
|
. He's always been very quick at learning, he used to know his little cardboard books word for word by the age of 2.
Anymore to come?
