jba blog » learning http://jbablog.com the personal blog of John BouAntoun Fri, 18 Nov 2011 01:18:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 On cognition and young minds http://jbablog.com/2008/04/on-cognition-and-young-minds/ http://jbablog.com/2008/04/on-cognition-and-young-minds/#comments Wed, 02 Apr 2008 02:32:40 +0000 jba http://jbablog.com/2008/04/on-cognition-and-young-minds/ On this past Sunday I was putting my three year old on the toilet when he started pointing at my shirt spouting out the letters Y – E – E – K. I was wearing shirt that is a rip off of the “FCUK” shirts (picture to come), which has the word “GEEK” printed on the front. It was given to me as a farewell gift from one of the last few companies I worked at.

Anyway, I looked down at his fingers as he was saying “eeee” the second time, and he was pointing at the second “E” in “GEEK”. To my amazement he was identifying and saying each of the letters in the word on the front of my shirt. Now he confused the lower case “G” for a “Y”, but that’s an acceptable error.

The thing that freaked me out the most is that we haven’t been going through his letters with him lately. We read to him regularly, and he’s incredible at numbers, but we haven’t started focusing on letters yet.

He’s been spending way too much time with this toy for the past two weeks and it appears that he’s learned some of his letters largely from the letter games in this toy.

The cognitive process of the human mind is an incredible thing to watch developing.

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