What kids say  will tell us that growing is a their job not ours:

A: “Wow! who taught you to do that?”
K: Nobody, I just learn it myself.
I really don’t need your help, I can do many things by myself already.

A: “What have you learn in school today?”
K: I don’t know.
He meant I am still processing the knowledge. Give me a break mum, I just finished an exhausting day at school. Don’t make me think and work again.H

A: “What would you like to eat?”
K. McDonald’s happy meal.
It’s not the food, it’s the toy I want.

A: “What is your favourite tv programme.”
K: Disney channel Hannah Montana
I am a kid anymore, I am a teenager in the making.I

A: “Do you know how to tie your shoelaces.”
K: Yes but mum bought me a pair of shoes without shoelaces.
It’s hassle free and mum does not want to wait all day for me to finish off the last knot.

A: “How often do you have to brush your teeth in a day?”
K: Twice a day.
I know that because I have been told many times since I ate my first chocolate cake.

A: “Are potato chips good for you?”
K: I like them very much.
I am not going to say no because I do want to think that I can never have anymore chips and everything else that goes with it, especially movies.

If a child does not grow, he has lost his job. Nobody does it best than the child himself.

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LanguagEGames.org

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The Internet Picture Dictionary

Picture Dictionary provides pictures to assist with language learning. Through this site, you can learn Spanish, Italian, German, and French words for an assortment of categories.

Foreign Language Fun

Foreign Language Fun is weblog loaded with free resources to teach children French and Spanish. Within this blog, you can find language videos, games, lesson plans, and downloads. Not all of the downloads are free, but no-cost items are clearly marked.

Transparent Language

This free language learning site offers games and activities that can be used by younger students to practice and learn languages. Games include Wordseek, Plug-n-Play, Unscramble, and International Cafe.

Learn 4 Good

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Kids Online Resources

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123TeachMe

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Wikijunior

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Lang-8

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Digital Dialects

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Babbel

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Nanduti

Nanduti is a foreign language learning site designed for kids preK-8. This site discusses the benefits of early language learning, program development, teaching resources, and professional development.

Education writer: Karen Schweitzer who writes for Guideto Business School at About.com. She also writes for OnlineCollege.org

This is not deviance: it is a sort of deviation from the norm, which to us is the human person we want our kids to become. Patience, understanding and empathy help to reach out to a 3 year old who is constantly demonstrating zest for learning and experience. When we have the faith in him to grow at his own pace, he will calm down because he starts to feel he has the attention. It does not matter at this point what you have to do to help him listen to you. Our first step is calm ourselves down when our 3 year old toddler misbehave.

In a classroom setting, 3 year old kids have reportedly taken as long as 3 months to overcome separation anxieties and settle down for classes. Teachers have to literally carry the child to the mat to join the rest of his friends during circle time, and teachers do this repetitiously to demonstrate (not tell) the child, that is what is expected of him when we sing to the class “Everybody sit down sit down, just like me.”

Punishment or reward will not help a child to grow out of this phase. To him, he is just like us, a human being with the same potentials which he needs to use at his own will. We want him to be independent yet a deviant child shows his desire to be independent in the best way he can.

The simplest solution to deal with 3 year old kids who do not seem to behave, is to prepare a stress release corner. This is a retreat not an isolation chamber. Here the child gets to release his boredom and stress doing mindless activities like playdough, cutting, chopping, pressing or hitting on drums. Make use of recycled materials and do not leave sharp objects unattended. He should be allowed to use a pair of scissors and shown how to handle it too. A 10 minute lesson goes a long way in educating child the importance of handling a pair of scissors than an hour of nagging about who is to be blamed for not noticing the child is holding one in his hand.

It is an expenditure of energy to obtain money, an outcome, a result or change in the environment they live in.

It is process to explore with experience to acquire knowledge.

It is a journey of experience to achieve a defined need or a desired outcome.

We always tell ourselves, to motivate ourselves to finish a task, we can reward ourselves with an apple or something.

For the child, there is no outcome or change in their environment to expect from in their journey. He does not not expect any reward if he finished a job well. He has to learn by doing, so that he can incarnate the images and impressions in his mind. This incarnation takes palace during consciously and subconsciously, the periods of which can span the entire childhood periods.

The child has to be shown, taught or demonstrated of start and finish by using the concept of time, work scheduling and activity flow. He has always perceived activity as a transitory process; there is not permanence.

To help him understand the concept how work begins and ends, we can introduce the word work in our daily conversations. When we say to the child, “Daddy is going to work love. He’ll be back to join us for dinner tonight.” , we are telling him about work. We also have to refer to the tasks we do at home like laundry, sweeping, wiping, cliening, vacuuming, dusting, watching television or even walking as work. We do not have to explain to him about money, as the desirable outcome of performing the tasks, as work itself does not the tangible reward that may be attached to it. The child understands what work means if we tell them: “Mummy is sewing the button on dad’s shirt.” “Dad is trying to fix the car.” “Your elder sister is cleaning her school shoes,” or “Daddy, would you like me to pour milk in your tea?”

When we use verbs such as sew, fix, clean and pour, we need to emphasise that these are work in motion or action. We will tell him that work means using our energy to move and carry out the tasks. We define what we want to do from the start. Consider these two sentences:

“Let’s tidy up your room” and “Let’s put the toys back in the shelves.” Both sentences call upon us to get up and start cleaning up the room by putting things away in the shelves. However, the first sentence does not specify what the child has to do. He will probably stare at the mess and does not how to start. By being specific, he will be able to follow the instruction more readily. “Put away” goes with an action: toys in boxes or shelves. “Back” means return them. Bit by bit, you rephrase the sentence to “Let’s hang your clothes here in the cupboard.” It is very easy to get the kid to help him hep himself and you too around the house. Be specific when you express your need.

You do not have to reward the child: the reward for him is the ability to complete the task to satisfaction. That is his reward.