This chapter reflects in my life because it's all about learning. Without this information it would be very hard as a parent or teacher to teach kids new things. I know people haven't read this book and knew what to do to teach, like my mom hasn't read this but is a very good parent. For me to read this helps me learn how to teach my child or children, in about 10 or so years. I know it is a LONG ways away but I hope I can remember what I read.
The chapter talked about how to learn a new behavior. I think that there is 4 different steps in learning. I had to train my dog how to sit, easy said then done. The first step is to tell her to sit and put her butt done repeatedly. After about a day of putting her butt down for her i told her to sit about 4 times and then if she didn't I would put her butt down for her again on the 4th time. After of course she got the hang of that, then I switched to doing it an unexpected number of times. For example say I said it 3 times and then put her butt down, then I would say it 6 times the next to put her butt down. After she got the hang of that she was almost trained to sit, but there is one last step. The next day I would say sit randomly and she would do it, then I would say it again randomly and she wouldn't so I would have to put her butt down and say sit again for her to remember what to do. Of course after every time she sat when I said sit I gave her a treat so now she knows when I say sit she will get a treat. When she does something good she KNOWS she is getting a treat, so sometimes so will go to the bathroom outside just to get a treat and then about 5 mins later she will want to go outside again to get a treat. She's such a putts!!! But I LOVE her and couldn't live without her!!!
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I'm glad to hear you're waiting 10 or so years to have kids =) and I hope you can remember what you read at that point. But even if you can't, I think you'll be fine. People raise kids well without this information all the time, I think it's just instict sometimes. I also think it's neat that you trained Cassie to do tricks in the ways we read about in the chapter. And you did it before reading the chapter (I think).. see instict!
ReplyDeleteI agree with Beth on the fact that parenting is mostly instinctive. However, I think it is great that this information can be applied to everyday scenarios such as parenting, training a pet, or for evaluating situations. I also find it interesting how you managed to train Cassie using these ways without knowing the information that we are learning about.
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