feel dumb, unable to answer preschooler questions
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OP, I posted earlier but before the pp who is blind posted had NOT caught that you did not grow up in the US. I imagine education is different all over the world and in different areas of the US--there are parts of the country where no doubt they would be teaching your child that there is no such thing as evolution. I'm not sure what the daycare teacher had in might about "social science" and I think it is silly to think there are academic competencies that are required by age 4 other than basic counting and most of the alphabet and basic colors (yes, I know a child who by age 3 could tell me what asteroids are in the Kuiper Belt--and btw her mom works as a cook in a sports bar and is a broke single parent who got a ged instead of a h.s. diploma, speaking of education). Anyway . . . . children's section of public library, just go exploring. Keep your eyes out for kid science and culture related events at libraries, museums, zoos, etc. And don't let that daycare teacher intimidate you.
Stuff we learn keeps changing anyway (speaking as someone who learned geography when Rhodesia was a country and first heard of Archaea when my kid took biology)--shoot, even someone who graduated from h.s. not that many years ago has lost a planet from the lineup. |
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| Model curiosity — encourage her questions, muse aloud about possible ways of thinking them through. Show how to search for answers. The process is more important than the answer itself. |
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| The Richard scarrey books are great for social studies and naming things. Also the highlights magazine might help you both. |
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| OP - not sure if your kid gets screen time, but I wanted to recommend the TV show Storybots on Netflix. Answers all sorts of great questions in a really cute way. Great for 3-6 year olds (although my older child also enjoys watching). |
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Dinosaur Train and Octonauts are also great for that age. And magic school bus. |
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The best thing you can do for your kid is teach her how to learn something new! Say “I don’t know the answer to that, but here is how we can figure it out!” And show her how to use reference materials, look up books in the library catalogue, how to “google!”
No one knows everything, but the smartest People know how to learn. |
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I just make up an explanation that is so ridiculous that my daughter will suggest that I am probably wrong, then I ask her what she thinks and she usually tells me something she makes ups that is equally crazy.
A lot of my answer start with, “Well there is a man named Bob and he ...” |