Is he ready for school?
Parents of children aged 4, 5 and 6 years are beginning to wonder about the quality of preparation: Is he ready for school? How is he ever going to be able to behave in school? He can not sit still!
It is important to think about what schools require children. The pace of education increased. However, the structure of our brain and the development has not changed since our brains have evolved when we were hunter-gatherers.
What do we ask our kids to do they actually have brain structure and development to be done?
When you observe kindergartners and first-graders, boys are generally 1 to 1.5 years behind girls in developing their fine motor skills, their ability to sit, and ability to follow directions.
Send him to school as late as possible! In this way, hell be the oldest in her class. This will benefit him through all the years of school
An additional year of kindergarten is advised. An upward trend in America, and more established in Europe, kindergartens are outdoors. This gives boys, especially, the possibility of being outside, to be physical, learning a way that is much more him. It is preferable that the teachers (93% chance she is a woman) saying, here you are in the classroom, time to sit and learn.
Another part of the development is the language regions of the brain. They are slower to develop than girls. So while there are girls in the first grade that can write complete stories, follow sequences, and read, your child may not be ready to play until the second or third year.
Of course, there are boys who read when they are 3 or 4, every child is different. But overall, trying to teach a 5 year old, is like teaching reading of 3.5 years to read! Can you image? Development of his brain is not yet ready to process language, followed by the words on a page, and be able to match the sounds and symbols.
At school, have been too much, too soon, of many of our boys.
Having boys enter school before they are ready for development and try to learn to read them before they are ready, defines them up for failure from the start. In the first year, they feel isnt school for them, they see the girls succeeding where they can not - yet.
What are their alternative solutions to this stress? They become withdrawn. Or they become even more exuberant, perhaps becoming the class clown because somehow they must act on, to process what they're feeling.
We see this pattern of manifest failure at the other end of the school, too. Fewer men graduated from high school than ever. Even in college, here in America, only about 44% of the population of the college is male. Men who go to university are less likely than their female counterparts to complete their curriculum.
Were setting them up for failure by putting them in school too early.
10 ways to bring out his best at school:
- Boys need to move. If it moves in a car or rides the bus to school, he has to move before entering the classroom.
- Arrive early and jumping rope, playing basketball, running around the block.
- Break. As schools recess is shorter, its being shown that academic performance actually increases with more movement.
- Active learning. Lessons designed with an active learning component built social relationships and increases memory retention.
- Water. Frequent sips of water reduce stress and hydrate the body and brain.
- Relevance. The boys want their learning important and they want to know how to apply it and how it will impact the world.
- Gross Allow. The boys speak with a different subject. We need to blood and guts as acceptable as unicorns and flowers.
- Free time. The kind of free time, do you remember when the summer days seem to stretch to infinity, because there was nothing on the calendar. Be sure to schedule in some quiet time to free game every day. He needs time to process his day.
- Nature. Nature is the antidote to all the stress of school, media, family dynamics, and simply grow. Time in nature is essential to healthy bodies and minds.
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