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You Are Your Child's First Teacher: What Parents Can Do with and for Their Children from Birth to Age Six QUOTES

You Are Your Child's First Teacher: What Parents Can Do with and for Their Children from Birth to Age Six QUOTES

1 " Imitation and repetition are the keys to discipline
with the young child, not reasoning or punishment. "

― Rahima Baldwin Dancy , You Are Your Child's First Teacher: What Parents Can Do with and for Their Children from Birth to Age Six

2 " fantasy and imagination, which are so natural for the young child, form a better foundation for later creative thinking than early learning. Creative thinking is more needed in our highly technological world than four-year-olds who can push the buttons on the computer. "

― Rahima Baldwin Dancy , You Are Your Child's First Teacher: What Parents Can Do with and for Their Children from Birth to Age Six

3 " Children enter the world with a great deal of love and trust. They are not yet able to perceive good and bad, but they take everything as good and appropriate to absorb and unconsciously imitate. "

― Rahima Baldwin Dancy , You Are Your Child's First Teacher: What Parents Can Do with and for Their Children from Birth to Age Six

4 " As a preschool and kindergarten teacher, I observed a dramatic difference in the quality of play of children who did not watch television. Their inside play was much more imaginative and more likely to have a story line than that of other children, who were more likely to run around and attempt to catch one another. When a child arrived at preschool wearing a Batman T-shirt, the play immediately turned into chasing one another. I then asked the parents not to send their children in clothing with insignias so that imaginative play could find a little space in which to grow and flower. "

― Rahima Baldwin Dancy , You Are Your Child's First Teacher: What Parents Can Do with and for Their Children from Birth to Age Six

5 " real difficulty comes when we are doing something that we don’t want to be doing. For example, if we must work when we want to be home, or if we are staying home when it is driving us crazy, then our parenting will tend to be influenced by guilt, resentment, and a whole range of other negative emotions. We need to make our best choices at each moment. We can’t always have what we feel would be ideal, but we can actively do the best with the options as we see them. "

― Rahima Baldwin Dancy , You Are Your Child's First Teacher: What Parents Can Do with and for Their Children from Birth to Age Six

6 " Giving a child a doll with breasts is projecting her out of her childhood into the teenage world. Barbie dolls and those with “attitude” like Bratz dolls form a multimillion-dollar enterprise that shortchanges the world of the young child. "

― Rahima Baldwin Dancy , You Are Your Child's First Teacher: What Parents Can Do with and for Their Children from Birth to Age Six

7 " Kindergarten, as first conceived by Friedrich Froebel in the nineteenth century, was a place where children would play, as if in a garden. However, the push to teach to the test has squeezed self-directed play out of kindergartens almost entirely, as described by the Alliance for Childhood in their report Crisis in the "

― Rahima Baldwin Dancy , You Are Your Child's First Teacher: What Parents Can Do with and for Their Children from Birth to Age Six

8 " Just as it is important not to skip steps like crawling in physical development, it is important not to skip play, which allows for the development of a wide range of experiences, so that what is first grasped through action can later be learned anew through thought. Thus when the adolescent studies the laws of levers and mechanics in physics, he will have had the experience of shifting further forward or back on the seesaw, depending on the size of his friend; or the study of trajectories will have had its foundation in throwing balls or skipping stones. "

― Rahima Baldwin Dancy , You Are Your Child's First Teacher: What Parents Can Do with and for Their Children from Birth to Age Six

9 " The abundance of the children’s room must be every parent’s or child’s worst nightmare. “I’m bored.” “I’ve got nothing to play with”—even though the shelves are full to the brim. Dust-collectors, a useless mess. Where is the love for the teddy bear, the doll, the car? The present which was given in love and did not drown in abundance is hard to find. The child does not need the toys—the toy factories need the child.15 "

― Rahima Baldwin Dancy , You Are Your Child's First Teacher: What Parents Can Do with and for Their Children from Birth to Age Six

10 " Before the age of two, children who are exposed to television don't really watch the screen for more than a few seconds at a time. The medium is totally inappropriate for the toddler, who needs to be moving and actively exploring. "

― Rahima Baldwin Dancy , You Are Your Child's First Teacher: What Parents Can Do with and for Their Children from Birth to Age Six

11 " You can nourish the development of your child’s imagination by providing nourishing images from stories the child hears and limiting images the child receives from television, computer games, videos, and movies. "

― Rahima Baldwin Dancy , You Are Your Child's First Teacher: What Parents Can Do with and for Their Children from Birth to Age Six

12 " Our actions speak louder than our words with the young child, who cannot help but imitate. Through us, children learn whether or not their initial love and trust in the world were well founded. "

― Rahima Baldwin Dancy , You Are Your Child's First Teacher: What Parents Can Do with and for Their Children from Birth to Age Six

13 " The years from three to six provide a lifelong foundation for creativity that should not be undervalued or foreshortened "

― Rahima Baldwin Dancy , You Are Your Child's First Teacher: What Parents Can Do with and for Their Children from Birth to Age Six

14 " Indeed, we came to believe that the more informal education that families provide for their children makes more of an impact on a child’s total education than the formal educational system. If a family does its job well, the professional can then provide effective training. If not, there may be little a professional can do to save a child from mediocrity. "

― Rahima Baldwin Dancy , You Are Your Child's First Teacher: What Parents Can Do with and for Their Children from Birth to Age Six

15 " Parenting is a process of mutual growth, during which parents and children grow on different levels through their interactions and through the elements they bring into one another’s lives. "

― Rahima Baldwin Dancy , You Are Your Child's First Teacher: What Parents Can Do with and for Their Children from Birth to Age Six