I was teaching preschool the other day. One of the kids was drinking milk from their cereal bowl. The way the child had his bowl turned milk was going to run out of it. I told the child to turn his bowl a different way before his milk run everywhere. The little boy sitting beside him looked at me very seriously and said "milk don't have legs, it can't run." After I got my composure back together from laughing, I smiled at him and said you are right milk don't have legs and it can't run. I just didn't want your friend to spill his milk.
This class had made me more aware of my communication with others especially kids.
Darn those multiple meaning words (run). LOL
Have you ever had something like this happen before?
This made me laugh. But you are right: we all need to be aware of our communication with others, especially kids. Lets face it, none of us are perfect and we all make mistakes, but when we are teaching children, we really do need to be extra careful about what we say and how we say it. Children tend to look up to the adults in their life and imitate them, and if we do make a mistake, we need to be sure to let them know and correct it so they know what is correct. I can't think of something like this happening to me off the top of my head, but I guarantee that it has happened to me a million times! ha. I know I need to work on this myself!
ReplyDeleteI have a funny example of semantics too! When my sister was around 3 years old she was doing something she shouldn't have been doing. My Mom said "Whitney hit the couch now!" My Mom meant for Whitney to go sit on the couch, but she didn't understand that. She looked at Mom really funny and walked over to the couch and hit it with her hand. My family has laughed about this since.
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