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Children are little angels, yet fragile and so innocent. They are the best gifts from God Almighty, and invaluable treasures we need around us. Talk of faith? Oh, yes! children can believe in anything. Promise a child that you will buy a plane for him/her, yes, a costly airplane! They will believe it without questioning where will my dad or my mum get the money to purchase a plane or aircraft. How ingenious are children and the way they think! No wonder the Bible says, “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.” How I wish that we the adults in the room, the world leaders included, and the people in various positions of responsibilities have that children mindset and spirit! The world would have had the peace that it never had and may never have.
The Power of Parental Influence on Their Children Matters
Parents should be careful the way they instruct their children because if the kids receive the wrong signal they would behave and think wrongly. Some experts maintain that parents do not need to repeat themselves over and over to their children. They instead sustain that giving them the right instructions to do one thing or the other, would mean expecting them to plan ahead, and enabling them to do stuff by themselves. Interestingly, they say, kids especially of about three years old, do not plan ahead. However, they store their knowledge for future use as their cognitive development is still lacking behind as against the older kids, of say eight years.
Experts recommend that parents should learn to give their children the chance to develop their thinking skills, thereby enabling them to become creative and increase their imagination in what they intend to do. Children like to copy what their adults parents. Children like copying what their adults’ parents do, but they always fall short of expectations for being children and do not yet master the art of how to copy rightly. It’s ill-conceived to think that kids can plan ahead, even if their brains can perform equally as adults.
It’s ill-conceived to think that kids can plan ahead, even if their brains can perform equally as adults. The pupillometer became an indispensable tool to determine the mental effort of the child— a computer game designed to study the cognitive abilities of children between (three and eight years old). The CU-Boulder researchers’ finding proved that the older kids could plan better than the preschoolers who only recall when the fact is out. The researchers found that children neither plan for the future nor live entirely in the present. Instead, they call up the past as they need it. For instance, if the outside is too hot for the child, just let him know that if he finds the weather outside hot should come and drop his jacket. Definitively, he will come to drop the jacket once he feels the pinch of the heat without anyone reminding him or repeating it again and again to him.
The children being children, they don’t do well planning ahead as their parents do. Though they copy but are not good at copying because they’re children who need straightforward instructions from their parents. However, the good news is that older kids could plan better than the preschoolers who only recall when the fact is out. The world needs that tenderness, that children’s mindset. Children believe everything even before they see it. That’s not believing by sight but by FAITH.