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Anecdotal evidence only but I and my two brothers were all homeschooled and learned these skills from our parents. There is a great deal opinion among child dev
by zaphar 4y ago
Anecdotal evidence only but I and my two brothers were all homeschooled and learned these skills from our parents. There is a great deal opinion among child development experts that is not necessarily backed up by evidence. I would need to see some peer reviewed studies before I would be willing to believe these assertions.
I suspect that the truth is that children need play and interaction to build social skills but that whether this involves other children in any specific quantity is irrelevant. The challenge in the pandemic of course is that the parents did not really have capacity to engage in those activities due to their own jobs and Video Conferencing is a very poor substitute. But suggesting that it has to be other children is probably incorrect. It's just a hypothesis on my part though.
- ch4s3 4y ago> I and my two brothers I think you're probably underestimating how much you learned this from each other. > but that whether this involves other children in any specific quantity is irrelevant. Again, this very much runs contrary to the general consensus about childhood development. If you disagree, then you need to bring some facts and research to the argument.
- zaphar 4y agoI have only anecdotal evidence so this is a fair point. However I'll point out that I have not seen the experts provide facts or research either so it appears that they have the same obligation. In fact a cursory survey of the research I can publicly get access to indicates that parent-child, or teacher-child interactions are considered very essential for moral and social development and there is very little mention that I can find of inter-child interactions as a critical part. Most of the research that I can find highlights the importance of adult-child interactions. If you can point me to some studies that counteract that I'm interested.
- zaphar 4y agoI suppose I should provide some links to what I was able to find: Contra studies on the importance of inter-child interactions: * https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4684-2187-3_12 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4684-2187-3_... * https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Child-care-and-children's-peer-interaction-at-24-36-Rubin-Chen/a02ac33203bd1ebc53541f8bbf820dfcd88be518 https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Child-care-and-childre... Study indicating that most of the assessment instruments supporting inter-child interactions and their importance is flawed: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/001440298305000310 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/001440298305000310