Posted by D J Lancaster on June 21, 1998 at 13:44:41:
"How to Have Intelligent and Creative Conversations with Your Kids", by Jane M Healy, Ph.D. really breaks the ice on what it means to have a genuine intellectually stimulating dialogue with children. Here is a list of what intelligent dialogue with children can spark:
*enhance brain functioning
*develop mental skills that lead to academic success
*lay the groundwork for mathematical and scientific reasoning as well
as for reading and writing.
*strengthen a child's ability to express his or her true views about
various issues and the meaning of life.
Other books by the author: "Endangered Minds" Discusses how passive
learning effects the brain.
"Your Child's Growing Mind"
Following is a brief paragraph about the power of dialogue as reflected in the life and times of Benjamin Franklin.
Benjamin Franklin attended school for only two years, he was 10 at the time. In place of school, Ben's father, realizing his son had a bit of a gift, made sure to invite the town's thinkers and doers to the house for an occasional meal. The dialogues exchanged at the dinner table served to cultivate and shape Ben's curiousity, thrist for adventure, and mental growth.
Here are a few contributions Franklin made to the enhancement of our collective human experience.
*The Pot Belly Stove
*Bifocal lenses
*Experiments with Electricity
*Poor Richard's Almanac
*etc
Franklin never applied for a patent on the pot belly. He wanted everyone to benefit from a more efficient system for heating their homes, than to profit from his invention.
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