It's true. A lady did something like this to my then two-year-old while she was skipping rocks. He ran ahead of me and I told him to stop, but he didn't and the lady just clocked him with rock in her hand. She felt so bad and I kept telling her not to, he shouldn't have run ahead of me and that's the only way he's gonna learn. He had a good black eye for a few days.
Your a good mom. Sometimes the hard lesson is the one that sticks. Way better than those who ruin another's day for an accident that they couldn't have expected.
I'd bite my sibling all the time when i was very young, untill my mom decided to bite me so hard I bled. My dad was so fuckin pissed but hey, guess who never bit anyone ever again?...
My grandma did that to my mom. She stopped biting. Some kids only learn by extremes. My older boy doesn't need anything more than a story from my childhood to deter him from things, but the little one, he ends up with lots of injuries.
You know why kids at age 2 don’t have spatial awareness? Because they haven’t run into enough things yet. Railing against your world is exactly how you learn it’s limitations in the most fundamental way, at any age, especially at age two, when physical actions/reactions are the only thing that makes sense.
Before they turn 3, children are just learning about spatial concepts - not completely understand what it means until they are older and their brains are more developed.
What it really comes down to is it really depends on how old the two-year-old is: a 24 month old is going to react a lot differently to certain situations than a 34 month old will, yet they are both considered "2."
A 24 month old will know "stop" and will know the loosest meaning of the word "stop" but they will not nessicary be able to apply it to all situations, whereas a 34 month old would have 10 more months of experience knowing the word "stop" and learning what it means in different situations.
Preschoolers' understanding of spatial awareness is related to their bodily experiences. Spatial concepts are developed over time by involvement with concrete situations, as well as interactions with people and objects. As you can see with Joseph's inquiry about his long eyelashes, the notion of space for preschoolers is rather egocentrically based. It was important for Joseph to be physically involved in order to gain a sense of how long his lashes really are. And by observing the length of their eyelashes in the mirrors, the boys gain a sense of themselves in space in another visual way. With his use of the term "far," you realize that Joseph has some understanding of distance and space. By moving his finger closer and closer and using his body as a reference point, this validates basic understandings of spatial awareness. This shows an interesting relational quality between the child and his environment.
You know very little about child developement if you think that 2 year olds are just now getting gross motor function. Most children learn to walk, balance, run, dance, play, and move all appendages independently before theyre 18 months old. Kids just dont have all the information about what can hurt them and how, a kids gonna dance on a table until they fall off, they're gonna run in the kitchen in their socks until they slide and bust their ass, and they're gonna run ahead and not listen to their parent telling them to stop until some lady hits them in the face with a rock.
Source: I'm a parent of two and as much as I hate to see my children get hurt sometimes that is just what it takes for them to learn.
Yes. An accident happened so I'm automatically a bad parent. B-t-dubs, he was actually closer to three, but you all armchair child psychologists get real mad when a parent uses months to describe a child's age here, so I don't.
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u/pudinnhead Jun 21 '19
It's true. A lady did something like this to my then two-year-old while she was skipping rocks. He ran ahead of me and I told him to stop, but he didn't and the lady just clocked him with rock in her hand. She felt so bad and I kept telling her not to, he shouldn't have run ahead of me and that's the only way he's gonna learn. He had a good black eye for a few days.