At what ages should children be learning ABC's and reading?
I was wondering at what ages children usually know their ABCs (picking out each different letter), what age they usually start reading and writing as well. I know all children are different, so I am just looking for some sort of a guideline.
How do I make my 13-year-old son get interested in his studies so he takes them seriously and gets A grades without me telling him all the time study and get As? How come some kids his age are very serious about studies and their parents don't even care about it?
I guess the main reason other kids can do it is because their parents don't care. Here's my story:My parents never bothered to interfere with what or how I was studying. They'd only listen to my results at the end of the year. If it was bad, they'd ask me to improve or else they'd congratulate. In 7th grade, (13 years old) I scored something like 70 percentile and my English marks was poor. This time my mother was tensed, she felt I'd not to do well and kept asking me to study throughout 8th and history repeated itself. By the time of 9th grade, she had stopped asking me to study. That year I scored 86 or 88 percentile. In the first test of 10th grade, I failed in second language. The classteacher called up my parents and told I'd fail my tenth grade and they'd remove from school and every possible bullshit. This time my parents told nothing, they didn't ask me to study or force me to or anything a common parent would do. I realised it was the time to pull my sock up and started studying. I ended up falling in love with science. I scored a 9.6 CGPA that year. You can't force someone to love a subject. It'll only make them hate it more if you pressurise them to. I've seen so many people whose parents force them to study but in vain. They ended up destroying the creativity in their own children.
Are grown people with Asperger’s still childlike?
Ha! Look at my profile picture. Yes, in some ways. Like everyone else commented, intellectually well above average. Most people think I’m younger than I really am.Examples off the top of my head of how I’m childlike:insatiably curious, always asking whytrusting and naiveoptimistic beyond logic at timesextremely honest, oversharingsilly and playful (not at all times of course)honest emotional reactions and facial expressions (so even if I know better than to say something aloud, it’s written all over my face and much, much harder to have a poker face and I have to make a conscious effort to do so)excitement and a sense of wonder and awe at things like if we’re dining on a patio and a bunny hops by in an adjacent field I will most likely squeal, “Bunny!” while either bouncing in my chair and/or hand flapping in the middle of someone talking before I can even remember others in the restaurant or the company I’m with or the nature of the conversation and whether or not this is ‘appropriate.’Manner of dressing. Sometimes my choices are odd and out of place for the environment. If nobody judged and I could get away with it I’d sometimes wear Halloween costumes. I like wearing the same outfit for days and do so at home only because I know it’s against the social rules and people will think you’re gross even if you didn’t get them sweaty or dirty.My hair is usually unkempt and I rarely brush it.I’m a picky eater and have offended people because of making a ‘yuck face’ when it’s an unfamiliar dish or if it looks gross. I smell it and ask what’s in it.There’s a lot more, I’m sure, but I think that’s enough for you to get an idea.