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LOL. I'm purposely using complicated language with my kids. They many time get only gist of it but its lot of fun. For example, instead of saying "go ask you mo
by sytelus 8y ago
LOL. I'm purposely using complicated language with my kids. They many time get only gist of it but its lot of fun. For example, instead of saying "go ask you mom", I would purposely say "Have you considered proposing this question to your mom?". I'm not sure what child psychologists would say about this.
- feiss 8y agoI agree with this approach. They understand the message, and learn a richer and more complex vocabulary and language in a natural way, which may eventually lend in more subtle and complex mental model.
- Endy 8y agoThat seems significantly less complicated to me. After all, you're presenting the same overall concepts explicitly and without concatenation. The concept of "big words are scary" in much of our modern education is one that I have difficulty in understanding; a word should be judged on the complexity of its meaning rather than its spelling or pronunciation.