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Oswin is a clever little sprog
This makes Granny very happy...
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entorien at My tweets
I'd love Oswin anyway, but she loves learning and she's a real joy to have around.
She started counting because she's fascinated by our chiming clock and never fails to tell us when it's chiming. So we started counting the chimes as a game to play with her.
One of her favourite games is when she brings you a pack of playing cards with pictures and she tells you what they all are. She can pick out all 52 in the pack of British Garden Birds, and say a recognisable name for most of them and she only had her second birthday a couple of weeks ago.
Grandad likes birds, so he used to show her the cards and tell her about the birds, what they eat, where they live and so forth. Then the game of picking out the cards developed from that and she absolutely loved the game and demanded to keep on playing it. "Cards!"
She's getting to know some of the birds in real life as well. We watch them in the garden and try to spot them when we're out walking. "Robin gone"
She can reliably spot at least 10 different plants when we're outside. Every single dandelion gets pointed out when we're walking back from playgroup, but bluebell, daisy, daffodil, holly, ivy, bramble are all easy and she knows where the helliores and chives are in my garden.
Most of that started as a way to stop her getting bored when walking home. "Oswin, can you see a daffodil?", was a good way to make her walk on to show you the next one.
Neither us nor her parents have used a pushchair for six months or so. Used to be that we'd have to carry her a little bit if we walked a long way, now she doesn't even need that. On foot, she sees more, gets interested in more and gets to talk a lot more. She 'helps' in shops, finds things on shelves, puts them into the trolly, passes them to the check out lady, etc. All this invovles more conversation.
I wonder how many more children would have Oswin's vocabulary if their families were in less of a hurry and simply talked to them as they walked and let them explore at their own pace.
We're not deliberately setting out to teach her anything, but we involve her in lots of aspects of our daily lives and run with it when she finds something interesting.
Her most recent 'game' is sorting the cutlery into the draining rack while 'helping' wash the dishes.
Originally posted by
entorien at My tweets- Thu, 18:24: So. Ummm. Health Visitor. Apparently Oswin is *way* ahead of the curve in pretty much every way! O_O
- Thu, 18:25: She's doing things they don't even *look* for at her age, because she should be too young to understand them!
- Thu, 18:26: I actually had to prove a couple of the things I said she does, and the look on the Health Visitor's face was one of stunned amazement.
- Thu, 18:27: Apparently they only look for the very start of colour recognition, don't look for counting at all, and Oswin does lots of both.
- Thu, 18:28: She can count to four fairly reliably, will go higher with a bit of help, knows the whole alphabet, can identify most colours...>
- Thu, 18:29: <... uses two and three word sentences, knows her left from her right, and can identify more objects/animals than kids twice her age.
- Thu, 18:29: What have we created??
I'd love Oswin anyway, but she loves learning and she's a real joy to have around.
She started counting because she's fascinated by our chiming clock and never fails to tell us when it's chiming. So we started counting the chimes as a game to play with her.
One of her favourite games is when she brings you a pack of playing cards with pictures and she tells you what they all are. She can pick out all 52 in the pack of British Garden Birds, and say a recognisable name for most of them and she only had her second birthday a couple of weeks ago.
Grandad likes birds, so he used to show her the cards and tell her about the birds, what they eat, where they live and so forth. Then the game of picking out the cards developed from that and she absolutely loved the game and demanded to keep on playing it. "Cards!"
She's getting to know some of the birds in real life as well. We watch them in the garden and try to spot them when we're out walking. "Robin gone"
She can reliably spot at least 10 different plants when we're outside. Every single dandelion gets pointed out when we're walking back from playgroup, but bluebell, daisy, daffodil, holly, ivy, bramble are all easy and she knows where the helliores and chives are in my garden.
Most of that started as a way to stop her getting bored when walking home. "Oswin, can you see a daffodil?", was a good way to make her walk on to show you the next one.
Neither us nor her parents have used a pushchair for six months or so. Used to be that we'd have to carry her a little bit if we walked a long way, now she doesn't even need that. On foot, she sees more, gets interested in more and gets to talk a lot more. She 'helps' in shops, finds things on shelves, puts them into the trolly, passes them to the check out lady, etc. All this invovles more conversation.
I wonder how many more children would have Oswin's vocabulary if their families were in less of a hurry and simply talked to them as they walked and let them explore at their own pace.
We're not deliberately setting out to teach her anything, but we involve her in lots of aspects of our daily lives and run with it when she finds something interesting.
Her most recent 'game' is sorting the cutlery into the draining rack while 'helping' wash the dishes.
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The sheer amount of joy you can get from kids is amazing, but you need to play with them to get it. Bouncing on the bed with Oswin made me laugh so much that I almost gave myself an asthma attack.
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