Ask HN: What is your education and technology strategy for your children? My wife (staying at home) and I have a 2yo girl and a 7mo girl and raise them trilingually (English, Spanish, German).
To our surprise, the 2yo has a better pronunciation than monolingual peers.
She also has a remarkable memory and can remember names of places and people.
Moreover, she discovers letters on signs and posters. Her favorite book is a visual dictionary. [3]
In general, our daughters can have access to all tools after a short introduction and under supervision.
Scissors? Hold em like this. Kitchen knife? Handle with care. China plates? Careful. Most people in our neighborhood do not have a strategy on how to raise the children. They rather trust in day care to take care of that or follow their intuition. I feel a strong need to strategically work out an education. So far, I have been studying the Montessori work, namely 'Montessori, the Science Behind the Genius' [2]. I am interested in the following questions: 1. What educational strategy / syllabus do you have for your children? 2. At what age do you introduce smartphones / tablets for their independent usage? () 4. How do you teach technological foundations (STEM) without technology? 5. What activities do you perform outside / in nature? (e.g., Usage of animal guides / plant guides) 6. My daughter sees me working a lot with tablet / laptop and wants to do the same. (She's even 'scheduling meetings'). How would you deal with this? () I am familiar with a related question from 2014 (Ask HN: How much screen time do you let your kids have?[1]). --- [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8746045 [2]: https://www.amazon.com/dp/019536936X [3]: https://www.dk.com/us/book/9781465447562-5-language-visual-dictionary/ [4]: https://www.who.int/news/item/24-04-2019-to-grow-up-healthy-children-need-to-sit-less-and-play-more |