It seems that today's world has gone mad in consumerism and materialism. Parents give their kids presents on all kinds of occasions where presents didn't use to be given, like random holidays throughout the year, and name days, and half-birthdays, school-end and school-start, and so on. Stores se...
@TorbenGundtofteBruun Regarding this question of yours: I'm kind of unclear about whether you are worried about presents in particular or "stuff" in general:
Interesting. On the one hand, it's a message worth passing on. On the other hand, if the "Juvenile Protective Association" is what I think it is, it's a little creepy to have it coming from them.
I'm looking for strategies to improve my child's learning skills.
I want my child to be a life-long learner -- to pick up new things easily, and to learn even when not being given formal instruction (for example, by picking up a book on something that interests him and learning to do it).
What ...
@Beofett As an example, I know VERY high IQ people with lower-functioning autism... they can do math that most people just don't have the processing power for, but teaching them what the symbols mean and what kind of answer to give so other people understand it, and the underlying mathematical properties is very very hard. Once they've learned to do it, doing it is easy.
@Beofett I'm tempted to take a hatchet to his first attempt, because it is dancing around a really important question that parents should all be thinking about, it's just extremely badly formed.
@TorbenGundtofteBruun In my experience, PPC ads don't get us very far. We've tried it before, and it's just not a great fit for the kinds of users we want to bring in.
Moments in geeky parenting: LF was supposedly having a hard time finding the main idea in stories in reading class. I told him, "just figure out what you would tag it with if it were on the computer, then make the list of tags into a complete sentence" and he got it :P
@PaŭloEbermann Once you get past the introductory, expert guidance can be helpful, especially when one is trying to hit the edges of a subfield or the overlaps between them. But beginner stuff isn't hard to find or evaluate.
@PaŭloEbermann I'm not sure there's anything introductory you can't easily locate on Amazon. Heck, I did when I became interested in crypto as a preteen still living on a farm -- it's not like I had anyone to instruct me.
@PaŭloEbermann Both of those pose huge problems in that they won't be likely to stay well maintained, they encourage others to copy the format (bad questions), and so on.
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I'm looking for strategies to improve my child's learning skills.
I want my child to be a life-long learner -- to pick up new things easily, and to learn even when not being given formal instruction (for example, by picking up a book on something that interests him and learning to do it).
What ...
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