28/07/2022
She is so smart and she is interested in it so I let her watch it....
Group of five-year-olds sits at the breakfast table chit-chatting. Suddenly one announces “I will cut my hand with a knife” the rest calls the teacher “Mrs. She says she will cut her hand”, the student adds I will cut also your hand, lets find a knife", student stands up walks to the drawer with cutlery to find a knife…. Teachers and pedagogical team brainstorms, observe, talk, analyze browse the media the child has access to, the content, toys, games, movies it could watch. Team analyzes the other kids' incoming ideas…what could have sparkled this idea. A day later dots are connected, a father of the girl proudly shares with one of the administrative team that he currently studies human body and one of his online lessons was about dissection, and the daughter was so interested in the dissection, in the human brain, that she watched and listened to the University level lecture along with the father.
“I will cut my hand with a knife”, said the five year old.
Let’s hope that our five-year olds will not be interested in s*x, crime, murder, drugs and other inappropriate content so that we don’t have to let her/him watch it - because they are interested….
Kids interests in some part are their wants, not their needs. It is an adult's job to be responsible for content that reaches our children. As we see from this example children live what they learn.
This is a similar example to a child, 5 years old watching Jurassic Park with Parents.
A student for whom the blood thirsty dinosaurs ripping and devouring people is a positive character, simply because it's a dino 🦕, recreates the movements and actions his action hero performs. Student jumps to the neck of his friends, makes horrifying sounds, destroys things around him. From the students perspective he is just playing what he learned and got inspired by, us Adults failed to understand what kind of material is appropriate for child at this age.
Tom and Jerry, Sonic, Squid Game, Ninja Go, Minecraft…list goes on flashing images, super powers, dying and returning to life, hurting and not not seeing the effect of the wound inflicted…. This all influences how the children see and interpret the world around them….and then 4 year old hits his friend with a hammer on the head …. And the friend is hurt, head is wounded, blood runs… and student does not know why…Jerry slammed Tom on the head with a hammer and nothing happened 🤔.
