Seeing ya tou, i can't help being in awe at how smart young children are! My ya tou is on dangerously steep learning curve now. She acquiring knowledge and skills in speed which is quite beyond our expectation of a one and a half year old child. O well, maybe it's our ignorance. haha..
Erm, apologise if the following is boring. Just jounalising ya tou's development here.
1. same-same concept
Relating similar/same things. I can't quite remember on what context she exhibited this. But definitely she can tell me that the white horse on this book is the similar to the brown horse on that book. "Mummy, same same."
2. consolating
We borrowed this nlb book on emotions (Duck & Goose series). There's a page where the goose is crying. When reading this page, i'll always say, "The goose is sad. Don't cry, you are a brave goose." while stroking the goose. Now, ya tou does the same. She'll consolate and 'sayang' the goose and say, "Don't cry."
3. violin-ing
This is very cute. It all started when Daddy taught her the actions of playing a violin while listening to Vivaldi's 'Four Seasons'. Ya tou immediately picked it up. From then, whenever we ask, "how do you play a violin?" or hear classical music, she'll start to play her violin.
4. singing and composing
Ya tou had always love listening to songs and mummy's singing. She can partially sing songs like 'Old Macdonald had a farm', 'Itsy winsey spider', 'Ba ba black sheep', 'Do re me', 'Twinkle twinkle little star', 'Rain rain go away' (funny, she sings this when it rains), 'Xiao mi feng'.. But more splendidly, she composes! We'd heard her composing and singing her own tune. Really! :)
5. independence
A display of self-reliance, ya tou now likes to do things on her own. In the aspects of eating, hands washing, ascending/descending stairs, passing urine, bathing and even wearing panties. OMG! She can even help Mummy run errands these days. :P
6. sentencing
Arising from the motivation for food, comes ya tou's first sentence 'I want biscuit'. She has yet to say, "I want Mummy." which means my appeal is less than that of a little cookie.. what?! hehe.. anyway, good job Zhirui! Recently, she could recite San Zi Jing too. :)
Monday, April 5, 2010
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Wow!! :D 好聪明!! Think as children grow up, they can definitely tell the difference btw right and wrong, happy and sad by xperience and/or recognition of facial/visual tell-tale signs. But Zhirui is definitely picking ths up faster!!
Thanks for sharing Zhiruiz development!! (Smhow, Marpig felt like Zhirui is like herself... omg!! So ttz how mothers think when their children grow!!) Keep it up!!
Dun ever worry tt at Zhirui's seemingly young age there's possibly too much info for her to absorb, SS--do u noe tt human infants are really clever? If not how are they (or us) understand wat is being told to them just by listening to their caretakers? Doesn't matter wat language too, all babies are the same. Read this nugget from Tony Buzan's "Use Your Head" book tt includes the Mind Map techniques i was talking about in an earlier comment. The human brain is the "last frontier" to explore, with at least 1,000,000,000,000 neurons imagine the 1 followed by 800 noughts number of permutations that can be made and even then all these is just tip of the iceberg since there's still ongoing research on our brain. Hence it's expense can be said to be boundless, so all our "potential" comes from knowing the Methods to access and utilise our brain/mind. I am thinking that the more things Zhirui gets exposure to, the more chances she get to exercise her own perception and choose those methods that have more affinity to her--if you can observe wat those are and help her with d discipline to stick to and keep on practicing those methods until she masters them, she will be in control of her own mental/emotional growth while she grows up physically.
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