Ms. Rachel joins WIRED to answer the internetβs burning questions about toddler learning. Is it okay to let kids get bored sometimes? How much screen time do you let your toddlers have? Is it okay to hate playing with your toddler? Answers to these questions and many more await on Ms. Rachel Support.
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00:00 – Ms. Rachel Support
00:19 – The wheels on the bus do, in fact, go ’round and ’round
00:59 – If I put subtitles on, does it count as reading?
02:02 – Potty training: Powered by M&Ms and prayers
02:46 – Itβs okay to hate playing with my toddler, right?
03:31 – If itβs educational enough, it counts as school
04:11 – Surviving parenting, one Ms. Rachel video at a time
04:26 – ABCβ¦ elemenopeaβ¦ Z!
05:06 – Tiny hands, big discoveries
05:49 – Speech delay? Talk to your doc
06:16 – Went down the big slide today. Big day.
07:26 – Selena Gomez is onto something
08:00 – Speaking in comic sans
08:29 – Groundhog Day, but make it toddler
08:53 – I bet you didnβt forget Old MacDonald
09:22 – Routine = predictability = safety
09:42 – βDoes my Mom exist anymore?β
10:22 – Iβm an abstract artist, I color outside the lines
10:44 – The Ms. Rachel effect
11:01 – Is it okay for kids to be bored?
11:32 – βBeing kind is strongβ
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This idea of Object Permanence is debatable. Could be that babies know how to get attention by crying when you leave the room. Or, maybe babies don’t care about the object that “disappears” behind the blanket
Watched as a soon-to-be first-time grandparent. Nice refresher and reminder of what to look forward to. (Except back in my day, we didn’t have…..π)
Ok this is the first time I’m seeing this woman and she is so unintentionally funny.
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Adding onto this as an English/ESL teacher:
There is WAY too much pressure and emphasis on the alphabet and the more βatomicβ aspects of the writing system at basically all levels of education, whether thatβs the ABCs or the seemingly infinite rules weβve defined around style and punctuation. I would kill for my high schoolers to just have a cogent, reasoned thought for 5 paragraphs. If they get the conventions right, thatβs the cherry on top.
A light bulb moment for me as a teacher (and then later helped me as a parent) was administering literacy assessments to PreK students that were split pretty much down the middle of native and nonnative English speakers. A major part of the assessment was literally just orienting pages correctly, discriminating between text and pictures, and indicating a left-to-right reading directionβand that makes total sense! Letters and numbers are weird and arbitrary, and at that age, the idea that someone could represent the things they say on a piece of paper seems almost nonsensical because itβs an extraordinarily abstract technology (and it IS technology because we invented itβno oneβs born a good reader). Getting them to realize that you arenβt making it up while you read is a MASSIVE step forward for their literacy at two or three, and the repetition necessary for them to get it fits right in with their mentality at that age, too! This is why, I believe, reading to them young is so important: It doesnβt just model the behavior, but it gives them the βrepsβ needed to understand what tf mommy/daddy is doing when they take out your favorite bundle of pictures and squiggles.
Speaking of learning through repetitive songs. I thought of the idea to teach immigrants the language through songs describing their new country’s culture.
You can go through the grammar and everyone follows the words automatically. Could have theatre acting it out.
In school I learned a full song in latin without understanding the words. Singing really gets in your memory.
I decided in my 30s that I no longer wanted kids, but watching this video reminded me of how rewarding it could potentially be. I hope you have helped thousands, if not millions of people raise good kids. π