We(Varsha and I ) were working on maths. When she completed one sum, she had got it right and I just asked her how she got the answer. She immediately changed her answer though it was the right answer. When I enquired why she had done that she replied saying,'You would say that only if something is wrong'. A learning for me. The child has been conditioned to think that a doubt will be raised only when there is something wrong.
Do we explore right answers as much as we do the wrong answers?
Let's observe ourselves over the next 24 hrs and see that when our children give us the right answers do we take it further by asking them how they got it or do we just move ahead? and how many times in a day do we do that.
When they give us wrong answers how do we respond? We ask them to try again/ how did you get this answer etc.
We unknowingly are encouraging our children to stop thinking and think in terms of right or wrong. If we can inculcate the habit in ourselves to ask or understand how the child got a particular answer instead of it being right or wrong it is possible that the child may focus more on the process (think) through something rather than just try to get the answer we expect from them
what do you think?
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