Treating kids while being adult(this post doesn't make sense. Not reading is recommended.)

This is not about me, and I hardly involve in this issue I'm seeing. Family-wise, yes, it's a close relative's problem, but it's neither in my own family so I'm not that concern. People can do whatever they want as long as it doesn't disturb me. If it did, then I would just be hating on them silently. No big deal. 

 

And this is not something I want to give justice to. Not that I'm saying it's right to do so, but because I can't be concern enough. They aren't my precious people, and I'm sure I can live the same life I have now if they are not here. It's will be better actually, if they are not in my daily shots at all. But they live in the same house as me and doesn't show any sign to move out so I guess my complain is not needed anywhere. 

 

I wrote in the above paragraph that I won't be giving justice to this issue, but you know, I just wonder. 

 

Is it fair to treat kids like they know what adults know?

 

Like, those creatures are so small and know nothing about the hard reality the older people living, yet.. I don't know how to say about this situation.

 

Well, let see. In my case, my cousin is just five or six years old. Pretty sure she's six. She's in kindergarten, and will enroll into the first grade next year. Can't believe she's growing up. I still remember back then.. Ah. Forget about it. 

 

Kindergartners, just like any students, get their own set of homework. It's easy for us to solve their activities book, but for kids to be refusing to do their simple homework, I think it's equal to us doing our own crazy shietty homeworks. 

 

So what my point is? I don't know. I tend to write stuffs without knowing the motive, hence why this post, as well as the older ones are hectic as hell. I'll figure it out along the way. 

 

Yeah, these little creatures got homework, and of course, they would need to do it, often with the aid of someone older. Usually it would be the mother, in my case. Well, of course it will be the mother to teach their kids, because it's their responsibility. 

 

So where's the problem is? 

 

The mother taught her kid. She asked my cousin if she had homework everyday, and that show she care about her kid. But the thing is, the thing that I'm disturb here it the method she use to teach her daughter. 

 

She's.. not abusing, but I don't like how she use her force to make the kid do her homework. I don't know how to describe this situation. 

 

Say, if my cousin stuck on her ABC, or can't spell or read a word right, the mother will scold her. Again, not in a hard way, but she will say things like, "Why can't you remember the word? You have repeated the same thing all over again, and you are still wrong? *Insert a kid name who's her friend and the mother is befriending with that kid's mother too* is good at reading, you know that. Yada yada yada."

 

It's happen a lot, and by a lot I'm saying everyday, if not every single time I see the kid sitting with her activity book opens in front of her. 

 

I don't know what to think of in this situation. I can't even figure out what the thing that is disturbing here. 

 

My cousin in six, yet the mother act like she will naturally know her ABC if she pointed on a random letter and ask her daughter to pronounce it. Well, yes, as she is learning in kindergarten, she ought to know about all those stuffs, but it's normal if she is still clueless about this things, right? 

 

She went to kindergarten since she's five, so that make this year her second year receiving formal learning in school. I'm not sure if ABC is taught in a five-year old kid's kindergarten, so let's take it as she learn ABC this year, (because I can't goddam remember what happen last year so.) 

 

It's already half year. I know that she's already memorized the abc song. The thing she's not really good at is when you need to spell a syllable by syllable and pronounce the word it make. You understand that, right? Yeah. There are some other things she's not good at, but that's not my points. She will learn them as she grows. 

 

The thing is that, eh.. My cousin is treated as if she's a slow learner by her mother. By comparing her with that one friend she had, it look like that. That friend of her, a boy, he's smart. By smart, according to the mother, he can read smoothly, unlike my cousin, who often need a little bit pause before she figure out the word. I think other kids are also like that so it's normal. 

 

I believe she just need a little bit more of time and a more relax environment for her to have a happy time in her kindergarten, but I see that her mother do quite the spoil for the kid. 

 

From how she act I know she doesn't like homework, but poor young mind. No matter what she need to it up and do the shietty stuffs. 

 

What's my point here? 

 

Yes, that her mother is expecting her daughter to know what is in the book because she learnt it in school and that she's treating her like she's a slow learner. 

 

My, this is a hard thing to lay out. The issue I see is not only one, and they are jumbled and I don't know how to put it out one by one. 

 

You see, I have a fairly young little sister. She's eight, which make our age difference nine years apart from each other. She too, doesn't seem interested in school, and has a quite an annoying attitude. Putting that aside, I know in her slow brain she's smart. She's good at catching words by listening, and it still get me awe to this day when I see that she memorize a song just by listening, as I know she isn't the type of actually read. 

 

With that being said, she's a real slow learner when it come to reading. My cousin is quick on this aspect, and it make me wonder. Doesn't the mother see this? Her kid is brilliant, and sometimes I see that she can read short sentences smoother than my sister can. I think this happen last year. Can't really compare them since they got different level of schooling, but yeah? 

 

That kid is a quirker learner in reading them my sister is, but relatively slower one when it come to listening skill. Really, I'm impressed with my sister's listening skill. 

 

What's my point again? 

 

Can't the mother, like, take it slow? I think I need to chunk the problems more before I can make my point, because I'm disastified at how not making sense this post is. 

 

You see, I have a lot more to say regarding this matter, but I don't think I can get more words to be put out. 

 

To those who read until the end, I don't know, how does the parents around you teach their kids? And how do you feel about them? 

 

I don't think people read this shietty post, but heh. Just want to say, I have a lot of satisfaction to the world, to those who closely evolving around my days and life. This feeling of dissatisfaction make me want to rebel to the world, just to bring a deserving right.. Not to help them, but to have myself feel good? Selfish, but if I can stand up with my points, and people listen to them, and make changes, it will lead to a nicer world. Isn't it? 

 

I still don't know what my points are, but bye. 

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-hyphen-
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Ah, the younger the child is the less you should scold them! Instead of scolding, people should educate them and instead of saying "no, don't do that" telling why they shouldn't do it (but if they still do it, then scold).

The worst thing a mother can do, is to tell their children they're stupid or slow. I was almost 8 when I learned to read properly. But my mother never scolded me because of it. She didn't really teach me but she took me to the local library often and I also received a lots of books as presents during Christmas. Because I didn't know how to read when I was younger, my mother read to me and my little sister. I think that's why I started to love books, no one forced me to read.

And when I finally learned to read and write properly (not just single words or small sentences) I became one of the best students of my class. I read everything. Mostly children's novels (you know, shortish stories, around 120 pages, not much pictures) but also books about animals and planets and things like that. If my mother would have scolded me for not knowing how to read, I don't think I'd be writing this now, I'd hate literature too much.