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CHAPTER 6
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Children and automatic DOGASH |
38 |
Things we say to children |
39 |
Breaking the rules |
41 |
Your Charter of Basic Rights |
45 |
Things I have learned |
46 |
Our natural instinct for survival drives us to learn. Infants, we are told, are born with a natural ability for language. They instinctively possess a universal language that is understood by all babies from all cultures. From birth they can ‘automatically’ communicate with any baby from any part of the world.
A newborn baby has the inherent ability to distinguish every sound, even if that sound is not a part of their exposure to their own parent’s language set. Through their first years of life however, the need for and development of this ability is lost. For instance, if you take a newborn baby from China, and place it with an American family, it will develop speech with a perfect American accent. Later, if you try to teach that same child Chinese, he or she will have difficulty mastering the inflexions required for that complex language. Babies are like sponges – they absorb, they learn, and they take on board everything that is new to them. They don’t reject any influence, be it positive or negative, that is presented to them, and more importantly, they have no bias to any specific influence at birth – they accept everything. Nothing is impossible, nothing is too much, and nothing is beyond reach. It has been shown that a baby learns the meaning and sound of a new word every hour.
This natural talent or ability is inherent in all babies ....
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