Two years old !!!

It''s a topic for discussion, hope u enjoy it and feel free to join with ur own ideas.

It is said that children learn more in the 1st two years of life than at any other stage. What do u think ?

( What kinds of things have most children learnt by the age of two ? By themselves ? Are taught ?)

R u more than 2 ???

 
Two weeks ago my sister just gave birth a baby boy.  I was wondering when my family and I visited her the first time, an hour after the baby was delivered.  I expected to see my sister resting on bed alone and the baby would be took care by nurses in a nursery room.  But not,  the baby had been in her arms since he started breathing a new fresh air of our world and raising his first voice in his life.  He was satisfy enjoying the first drops of sweet milk from his mother.  His eyes moved slowly, looked at there, looked here, looked at us as if he was observing everyone in the room.  And looked up at his mom with a lovely eyes. Dad, my brother in law, was probably so happy, but looked tired because he had been in the hospital since my sister started getting pain of contraction and in the delivery room comforting his wife.
My mom was very happy too, but a little worry about my sister''s health, and going to blame the hospital that they didn''t give my sister any moment to rest.  Shortly after, a doctor came to check the baby and mom and explained about what my mom was worrying.  The doctor said that what they (hospital) were doing was based on many reliable studies and researches about beginning 20 minutes of human lilfe.  The hospital could take care of babies, letting moms and dads have time to recover.  But it''s not a good idea taking away a new born child from parents.  In the early minutes of life, a child would see outside world through his/her eyes and record it in the first page of memory.  The hospital liked the images on that first page of memory would be images of their parents, faces, eyes, smiles, movements of their parents and warm feeling from parent arms and sweety taste of milk.  It is a so very important factor creating bonds of a new born child with his mom, dad and other family members.  He also told us stories about the kids wanted to leave their family as soon as they could, getting away from their moms with a little feeling of homesick.  The voice of doctor was soft and the stories were concincing. 
After visting, we went home with full of satisfaction and happiness.  We were happy because the hospital helped us sowing seeds of love. We believe we are building a good family relationship. We believe we will harvest fruit of what we are sowing seeds now. The boy''s father stayed in the hospital and took a quick lesson of feeding baby, changing diaper, taking bath for the little boy.  The hospital provided him chances, besides mom,  to raise the kid and share of love.
It was the Sharp Hospital in San Diego, California
Nghia
Được txnghia sửa chữa / chuyển vào 22:38 ngày 11/11/2003

Hi there,
Itâ?Ts easy to see that this is not an attractive topic and I can guess the reasons. Maybe most of you are two old to have a little sibling. Maybe many of you donâ?Tt have time for small babies. Maybe a lot of you are too young to be a parent with a little baby. But one thing I know for sure is that none of us can remember anything about our early childhood.
Although I expected to get many different ideas from you, I still feel so glad to get the valuable story from txnghia. His writing about his family experience is very interesting and beyond my imagination. In my mind when posting this topic, there is no thought that we all could have the first lesson from the world right after we were born. Because this is a real story it becomes very convincing.
When I first read this question, I immediately asked myself :â? Wow, yes, why didnâ?Tt I notice this before? Itâ?Ts very true that the most important lessons of our life are learnt just in the first two years !â? The first lesson is to breathe, and then, as txnghia wrote, is to get the images of our family in our first page of mind and to feel the love of the others around, of the new world to live. The next are certainly to listen, to understand others before saying the first words to let the whole world know what we want. Other things that we quickly learn in early years are to crawl, to stand up straight, to walk and to run. Are these important to us ? The answer is surely yes, extremely important.
So if there are times you feel tired in this life, you get fed up with this world, it is easy to find the way out. First take a deep breath, then seek for the love around you â?" which will strengthen you, after that try to listen & understand. I bet that you will soon get your energy back to stand up straight to continue walking and begin to run.
Oops iâ?Tm going too far from the starting spot. Actually an innocent up-to-two-year-old child doesnâ?Tt know that he/she will have to learn these for all his/her life.
Okay ...

Proportionally, I aggree with the coment.
Such as..from 8, multiplying to 16, seems a large distance because it is -doubled-. However from 1500 to 1508 is a small step, even though the difference between two cases is the same, that is 8.
Just my two cent
However, I do believe that the younger one is, the more potential and flexibility one posesses, so it is easier for youngsters to learn language than the older population.
=*) Nice stories by the way. Very cute.
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