Archives for child reading blog
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Apr
2012
Help in teaching boys Spanish or anything else for that matter..
By Ricardo Cuevas on April 23, 2012 in child reading blog with No Comments
After much frustration with my boy’s inability to just sit and listen, he’s slowly taught me how he wants to learn and so over time I’ve adjusted to his style. There is only one exercise that my boy will sit through for an extended amount of time, and that’s reading. I’m not sure if that’s true [...]
4
Apr
2012
Latinos, teach your children Spanish
By Ricardo Cuevas on April 4, 2012 in child reading blog with No Comments
This article was written by Eric J Cortes. I found it very interesting, I’m sure my Latino readers will as well: With the New Year upon us, and most of you making resolutions to lose weight, eat better, or read more of my articles, you should add one more resolution to your list: teach your children Spanish. [...]
30
Dec
2011
New year’s resolutions for raising a bilingual family
By Lydia Maldonado on December 30, 2011 in child reading blog with No Comments
Get help. The holidays are a great time to come around family and multilingual families need to rely on each other to practice their minority language. Children need exposure from a number of different sources in order to see the importance of their multilingualism. There is no better way than interaction. Whether it’s by finding a [...]
26
Dec
2011
Children are not Zombies
By Ricardo Cuevas on December 26, 2011 in child reading blog with 6 Comments
Many opponents to Educational Children’s Television believe that the dangers of TV come from its ability be a “passive” medium. That is to say that children and adults will watch it regardlessof its content. That because of its quick editing cuts, loud scenes, multiple colors, funny noises, zooming in/out we will watch (like zombies) regardless of [...]
22
Dec
2011
Teach your baby to Hear
By Ricardo Cuevas on December 22, 2011 in child reading blog with No Comments
The above sentence sounds insane doesn’t it? We don’t need to teach our babies to hear. They’ve been able to hear spoken language since before we knew what they looked like (except for those 3d sonograms which I don’t agree with). Teaching children to to hear isn’t necessary because hearing is a function of the [...]
2
Dec
2011
A common misconception on Reading Spanish
By Ricardo Cuevas on December 2, 2011 in child reading blog with 1 Comment
Your kid has to be a genius to learn to talk before the age of three! But fortunately kids are geniuses. Once we stop underestimating our children’s capabilities then you quickly realize that your child went from speaking only a few words at the age of one, and then transformed into a fluent speaker in [...]
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Oct
2011
Benefits for baby before first birthday
By Ricardo Cuevas on October 16, 2011 in child reading blog with 1 Comment
Bilingualism shows benefits beyond the ability to speak a new language: New research according to Princeton Neuroscientist Sam Wang shows Bilingual toddlers have an improved ability to resolve “conflict cues.” In other words, their minds are more flexible – better able to unlearn previously learned rules in light of new, conflicting information. Cognitive science has demonstrated [...]
23
Sep
2011
Peer pressure, the good kind!
By Ricardo Cuevas on September 23, 2011 in child reading blog with No Comments
As I was brushing my little boy’s hair this morning he screams out ¡No!, ¡Para!, ¡Me dueree! (he has trouble with the word “Duele”, the Spanish word for “hurts”). Since I was brushing his hair very softly, I knew there was no way this was actually hurting. So I try to explain to him that [...]
5
Sep
2011
Introducing trauma, drama and teachersIntroduciendo trauma, drama y maestros
By Ricardo Cuevas on September 5, 2011 in child reading blog Uncategorized with 1 Comment
The period of childhood between five and six years old can be the most traumatic in a child’s life, period. Nothing else compares. There isn’t even a close second. You are taking a child that has until now spent very little time away from home, then ripping him/her away from their warm, caring, loving, [...]
10
May
2011
Who said anything about fun?¿Quién dijo que esto es divertido?
By Ricardo Cuevas on May 10, 2011 in child reading blog with 7 Comments
Fun? Reading should be fun? most of us remember a ‘reading corner’ in our youth. In school this place was where you went from fun, food, and friends to…. quiet time, silent time and boredom. It’s no wonder so many parents don’t want to teach their children to read. Their own experience is drab, a grind, [...]
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