WHAT IS UNIQUE ABOUT CHILDREN?

WHAT IS UNIQUE ABOUT CHILDREN?

By: Hendra /NIM: 060954

Children are the gift from God that must be kept and educated as good as possible. All children are unique and that they need to be loved and respected for their differences. They are mandate that should be managed, treated, and taught well. Childhood is our past phase that we have encountered. It is our job to detect and encourage the positive attributes in each one. Observing the children’s character, attitude and world will be interesting since they are a unique creature that always make adult people some time are not aware who the children are.

They are unique because they have some typical characters and attitudes as follows:

Ø  They learn easily from what they see and hear

Children are easy to learn everything, they can learn easily from what they have seen and heard. It is because they are eager to know everything and so curios about anything. Their brain also is still empty and fresh. It is like an empty bottle, which is easy to pour any water into it. E.g. children will be easy to learn any activities after they have seen it, and they will be easier to sing a song after they have heard it.

Ø  They tend to have relatively short span attentions

Children will pay close attention deeply with what attracted them. They will fully enjoy and then forget anything except with what thing being seen, but it is no longer. They have a relatively span attention to an object. They are likely to be bored. The thing will be soon boring for them. E.g. they will deeply pay close attention to an object for a short span of time and then leave it.

In this respect, we should spend it to focus them in useful activities.

Ø  They want to try thing continuously, they have exploratory image.

Children always try something new for them; they will continuously explore and elaborate the objects that interest them. E.g.  If they get a new toy, they will explore and elaborate it to know everything in it.

Ø  They are unique in their skill

Children have unique skills. Such as they are easy to remember the thing, they have strong memory. They are also easy to be managed and educated. Hereby, learning in the childhood is like curving on the stone.

Ø  They use play as a mode for learning

By playing with materials and equipment, children are able to find out how things work. They may wish to play games purely for fun. We need to consider which games to use, when to use them, how to link them up with our objectives. We should make them as convenient as possible when they are learning something.

Ø  They learn with real and concrete object

Children will learn with real and concrete object. By using their imagination for instance they consider a matched box as if it is a car or a bolster as if it is a doll. They imagine everything as if it is real for them.

Ø  Rhymes make things easier for them to remember because their auditory pattern is strong

The use of traditional songs, stories and nursery rhymes in teaching children can create an excellent learning experience for them. It is because they have strong auditory pattern.

Having conceived these characteristics, then I can take some benefits as follows:

1.      We hope that we can teach children well

2.      We are able to determine which suitable program or activities for children

3.      We can treat them considering their psychology, physical, emotional, social, and cognitive.

4.      We are aware that children are not miniature of adult but they have their own world.

5.      we will be wiser in facing and treating the children