Andrea H
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« Reply #30 on: September 04, 2009, 04:54:17 PM » |
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Joha,
about the levels on discipline, this is something I invented based in the Civil Code program.
It works like this.
Example: make your bed alone every morning.
When he was 2 he was starting this, so I demanded putting the pijamas aside so I could take off the bedspread and he would strectch his sheets. If he did it happily and at his best capacities (eventhough it was not 100% perfect) he got a +1 (in that time I used happy faces, now I use positive/negative numerals and fractions). If he advanced a level, it would mean that he would achieve something I wasn´t asking: having it done before I got to the bedroom and surprising me, leaving the sheets straighter than before so I could see he had mastered that task (motricity), doing the sheets and taking off the bedspread as well, and so on. I made bedmaking more complex, until the time came when he did it 100% by himself and perfect (adult standard). When he has mastered this, making your bed comes off the discipline pannel to be changed for something new that he needs to mastered, and it is simply part of his dayly responsabilities but he doesn´t get points for it. So the advancing of levels in any of the pannels is left to my subjective opinion (or father´s).
About the German language, I bought the german program from IAHP, that has bits, a guide to lessons and a cassete for hearing. After this we moved on to a teacher that would come once a week only to exercise our conversation, no teaching per se. After this I made a workbook so that he would write everyday (in cursive) and read every day new phrases and sentences, and be exposed to new words. Also I bought an adult course (only book) for learning german and a german workbook which german children (who supposedly know the language) use to write (amazon.de). I also downloaded a huge story book in german, and speak daily to him throughout the day in german...that´s it.
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