Parents go round and round thinking that we can offer our children the best educational method. Sometimes, however, we forget that our children already bring series mechanisms perfectly tested by the evolution of human beings that are the three bases of your child's learning: the error, the game and the imitation of models. Let's start talking about the error.
The error
The error is perhaps the most important of all these learning bases and in which we usually make mistakes more commonly, with good intention, but limiting the child's chances of learning through it.
The human being is designed to learn by trial and error. Doing something several times until you can control it. Assuming the natural limits, applying the experience and drawing conclusions.
Some learning can only take place autonomously, and driven by the natural impulse to explore and know. Parents are guarantors of the child's safety, not who we have to do everything for them or who we must be continuously correcting or setting goals sometimes not appropriate to their normal development process.
In fact, adults continue to learn much more from experience and personal experimentation than from what others tell us or mark. The word "evil" should be banished from the educational language, sometimes because it denies the child by transmitting that he is not capable, kills his curiosity, and others, perhaps even worse, setting goals prior to what could be a surprising and creative personal path.
Let the children try and make mistakes (always, of course, ensuring their safety but nothing else). What you learn from your mistakes you learn forever.
Given the importance of allow the child to make mistakes, we will see another of tomorrow three bases of learning Childish, the game.
