Comments | nekonannerz: ECE

nekonannerz

ECE

Jan 22, 2007 20:13

Soooo yea....Im in Early Childhood Education in college. Basically its to help me become a pre school / day care teacher. (This is my stepping stone to becoming an elementary school teacher) Anyway....Being in this program really makes me feel like a mom. Like today I had a 3 hour class on nutrition for infants and how breast feeding is very ( Read more... )

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boxxer_auction January 23 2007, 01:54:49 UTC

lol sound so fun! ;D I wish I wold play alld ay xD

nekonannerz January 23 2007, 05:34:38 UTC

lol omg come to school with me one day and play with toys :D We had a sand table lol

ph34rb0t January 23 2007, 16:37:20 UTC

It's good to learn about issues that are "common sense" and discuss them rationally, you know? Like, what happens if you run into some ignorant mom who doesn't like the idea of her own baby sucking on her tit because of some weird sexual stigma and she says "baby formula is just as good, you know!" What then? Do you say "everybody knows breast milk is better" and that's that? How do you tell her she's wrong without having any points to back you up? Can you explain what breast milk has that formula lacks?

Scientists study things we know from "common sense" all the time. Here's a Popular Science article about why it is important to study things we know as "common sense." At the very least you can cite verifiable studies later when you try to make some bigger point that depends on some point of common sense and use actual numbers and data to get specific. Even better, sometimes we learn that what we thought was "common sense" turns-out to be completely false! Remember, at one time it was "common sense" that the sun revolved around the ( ... )

nekonannerz January 24 2007, 01:03:24 UTC

wow I never thought of it that way.. thanks luke ^_^

roquenrokuta January 24 2007, 20:20:18 UTC

I agree with Luke, but I have it in much simpler statement:

Common sense is learned: if you don't learn what's common, you don't have the sense to do what's common.

kryz_3 January 28 2007, 00:28:53 UTC

so.. ummm.. question... when you become an elementary school teacher, will that require you to correct spelling and grammar? of course there's no reason in particular as to why i'm asking this... it's just an innocent question...

p.s. did you know that breast milk can raise a child's IQ? yea... i learned that on desperate housewives,lol! there was this mom who was still breastfeeding her 5 year old son, eeeewwwwww!!!