Children Learn at their own age
By Jenette
@Jenette (37)
India
March 26, 2007 10:54am CST
Every child has a different learning curve. Most of the times we see that the girl child picks up things fast and show improvement at a early stage than a boy child.
All children don't speak at the same age, this depends on their growth.
So we should not compare our child with others as normally parents do.
3 responses
@Stringbean (1273)
• United States
26 Mar 07
Girls usually learn to read sooner than boys because the part of their brain that is used to learn reading skills develops sooner in girls, but boys usually learn mechanical skills, such as riding a bike, or working with their hands sooner than girls.
A while back, there was a study where they were trying to hold boys back from entering school until they were 7 to make up for this reading difference, but parents raised so much objection it was never implemented. Too bad it wasn't because it would have save a lot of boys from being at the bottom of the class all the way through school because of being push to learn to read when they weren't ready for it.
I used to teach junior high school kids and you could see the difference there. Most of the boys still were lagging behind in anything that took reading skills.
@pelo26 (1552)
• Philippines
26 Mar 07
Yeah but there are benchmarks to which we can compare our children's learning curves to the established norm. It's just normal for parents to compare their children to others because they wanted their children to be the best among the rest.
