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| Yong Huang... |
 Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 7:54 am |
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A child does not watch traffic on either or both sides of the road
when he (she) crosses a road. What's the best way to educate him? It
doesn't seem to work to simply keep telling him he must do so. When a
child is of about high school age, he automatically acquires the
"skill" or habit and no education is needed. How can we effectively
bring that habit to him earlier? What's exactly in his brain when he's
young that prevents him from having the habit?
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| Yong Huang... |
| Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 8:50 am |
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On Aug 28, 2:01 am, Dank 110100100 <dank... at (no spam) rocketmail.com> wrote:
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[quote:e2b7e5f680]There are several treatments for this disorder, including a variety of
medications, as well as behavioral therapies.
If the child unit's failure to look both ways before crossing the road
appears unintentional, then it may have attention deficit issues,
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Thanks, Dank. I don't think the child has ADHD. I'm talking about a
general case. In most of the cases, an elementary school child has no
problem studying in school or at home, having satisfactory achievement
academically, musically or otherwise. But when he crosses the road,
there's almost no exception that every child frequently forgets to
watch traffic. I don't believe this is a disease. But some clever way
of education may be able to bring road traffic awareness to them
earlier than high school age.
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| Kenry Hissinger... |
| Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 11:52 am |
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[quote:1d8c1cb694]A child does not watch traffic on either or both sides of the road
when he (she) crosses a road. What's the best way to educate him? It
doesn't seem to work to simply keep telling him he must do so. When a
child is of about high school age, he automatically acquires the
"skill" or habit and no education is needed. How can we effectively
bring that habit to him earlier?
[/quote:1d8c1cb694]
Assuming the children are of normal development:
By scenario training in a controlled environment where the child cannot be
harmed. Give the child experience. Sounds like a fun virtual-reality
computer program could be a solution.
[quote:1d8c1cb694]What's exactly in his brain when he's
young that prevents him from having the habit?
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The ignorance and inexperience of youth. The child has to learn. |
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| Yong Huang... |
| Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 4:58 pm |
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On Sep 19, 12:52 pm, "Kenry Hissinger" <kenry.hissin... at (no spam) hotmail.com>
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By scenario training in a controlled environment where the child cannot be
harmed. Give the child experience. Sounds like a fun virtual-reality
computer program could be a solution.
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I agree with the experience part. But if there were such a controlled
environment, they would know they must look left and right before
crossing. The problem is not that they don't know. It's that they tend
to forget if their minds are full of something else.
I guess if the environment, created in a computer program or
otherwise, *mixes lots of activities* including road crossing, and a
few points are deducted by bad behavior, not checking traffic before
crossing road being one, then they'll get into this habit.
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