Creative Learning International

10Mar

2020

WATCHING THE WORDS CHILDREN USE

Children learn a lot by imitation. They use words that raise the hair on the back of our necks after they must have heard others use those words, or after those words have been aimed at them. Adults’ use different words when they are upset, excited or just discussing with other adults and these words trickle down toward children, usually with the original emotional heat welded to the words. Because harsh behaviour spreads like a cold from adult to child and then from child to child, just about every child on the planet is exposed to name-calling, or bad words, sooner or later.