Hi Nam, You are not only a great uncle but also a great teacher, and may be a great great father in the future!^^^^hi! Hope to see both your niece and you in person in Hanoi.
Best regarads Nguyen Thuy ----- Original Message ----- From: NgoNam To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 8:29 AM Subject: [ESL Podcast] Re: A gift to a child Hi, I wholeheartedly agree with you. You're a great aunt! ^_^ I also have a niece, and finds it extremely difficult when choosing a suitable toy for her. Intellectual toys are always my top priorities. However, two major problems facing when deciding what toys to buy are the quality and the usefulness of those toys. When mention the quality, I mean the substances, the materials that are used to produce those toys. I'm very worried about that because I've heard toys made in China are often very harmful, even dangerous for children as they were made from poisonous materials :( Children are childish (^^), they can't protect themselves, they may put everything to their mount no matter how dangrous it is. Therefore, It would be much more dangerous to give children such deadly things. That's why I always hesitate when choosing a China origin toys and prefer wood toys since they're often much safer. My second concern when choosing a toy is its usefulness, its functions. That toy must be suitable with the age, and therefore the ability (the intelligence) of the child. Once I bought my niece a jigsaw toy, however I didn't know how to teach her to play even though it was not too compicated. After a long time of thinking, I finally found the method. It's certainly that I didn't ask her to join all pieces of the jigsaw together but just only one piece left in order to complete the picture. However, she still couldn't join that last piece because she even hadn't recognized and distingished different colours. So I decided to join the piece slowly in order for her to see and after that unjoined it and put it next to the remainder. She did her job perfectly in this time. By that way, I increase the level of difficulty by rotating the piece and unjoining more pieces. Gradually, she made all the members of the family greatly surprised by her talent of playing with the whole jigsaw pieces. It was marvelous, everyone could hardly believe that ^_^ From that story, I realized that each toy has a variety of functions, these functions can be guided in the introduction part and also be discovered by yourself. Having useful toys is very important, however learning how to play with them is more significant. Renewing an old toy by finding out a new function or a way of playing with it. Cheers, Nam ----- Original Message ----- From: Nguyen Thuy To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 1:30 PM Subject: [ESL Podcast] Re: A gift to a child Hi everyone, It is my belief that toys have a great influence on children's development. The problem is that how we can choose toys suitable for them. Some toys can help children's brain develop quickly, while some might destroy their internal ability. Many scientists have shown that children might become violent if everyday they play with guns, tanks, etc, and I totally agree with them. Therefore, it is advisable for parents to be careful when selecting toys for their children. My brother has two nice "angels", and certainly I often buy presents for them on special events. I highly appriciate the intellect of LEG0- toys. I think LEGO-toys are very useful for improving children's imagination. With some colourful pieces of LEGO toys my brother's older sister can sit for hours to image and creat many things such as houses, train, bus, etc which are usually considered as marvelous "masterpices" by her. However, it should be noted that LEGO toys should only be given for children who are over two years old whose brains are mature enough to image. My brother's three-year-old daughter is also keen on learning how to count and do some simple calculations, therefore i often buy some thin books including number for them. Sometimes i select colourful pictures of animals, flowers or other objects like square, ovan, tangle, etc; with a view to helping my niece be able to realize the diffrences beetween them. Along with books and pictures in my opinion, VCD, CD music also play an important role in improving children's memory because they often tend to copy what they see and listen on TV. I believe that the children will feel music better if they are exposed to it at early age. Finally, I would like to say that children can become much smarter than we expecte if they are taught and brought in right ways in early childhood. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ESL Podcast". To post to this group, send email to: [email protected] or just reply this message For invite your friends, visit: http://groups.google.com/group/eslpodcast/members_invite Know how help us, visit this FAQ at: http://groups.google.com/group/eslpodcast/web/frequently-asked-questions -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
