Is There Anything More Stressful....

[Rockgirl]

Than watching a child try to put together a wooden tray puzzle, and helping guide them along with it?

"Yes, that piece looks like it goes there. Try turning it around. No, don't turn it over--turn it around. Just a little turn. Maybe the other way. One more turn. Oops, that was too far. Yes, there you go--no, don't take it out--you had it! Ok, try turning it....."

[Soccermom]

LOL

So true!

Doing puzzles with little ones makes me crazy! ::

[ColorfulSunburst]

anecdote:
A daycare teacher was putting shoes on kid's feet. It took a lot of time. She sweated. When she done the kid said that she done that in a wrong way. The teacher started to take shoes off. It also was difficult. Then she put them on in the correct way. Unfortunately the kid said: The shoes doesn't belong me. The teacher bite her lip but said nothing and took kid's shoes off. When she done the kid said: the shoes belong to my oldest brother but today my mom asked me to wear them. The teacher face turned to red. She put the shoes on kid's feet again. It was really very difficult. The shoes were very tight. Then she asked: Where are your mittens? The kid answered: I stuffed them in the toes of the shoes...
A court hearing will be held next week...

[Rockgirl]

anecdote:
A daycare teacher was putting shoes on kid's feet. It took a lot of time. She sweated. When she done the kid said that she done that in a wrong way. The teacher started to take shoes off. It also was difficult. Then she put them on in the correct way. Unfortunately the kid said: The shoes doesn't belong me. The teacher bite her lip but said nothing and took kid's shoes off. When she done the kid said: the shoes belong to my oldest brother but today my mom asked me to wear them. The teacher face turned to red. She put the shoes on kid's feet again. It was really very difficult. The shoes were very tight. Then she asked: Where are your mittens? The kid answered: I stuffed them in the toes of the shoes...
A court hearing will be held next week...

Lol! I think we've all had days like that!

[Blackcat31]

anecdote:
A daycare teacher was putting shoes on kid's feet. It took a lot of time. She sweated. When she done the kid said that she done that in a wrong way. The teacher started to take shoes off. It also was difficult. Then she put them on in the correct way. Unfortunately the kid said: The shoes doesn't belong me. The teacher bite her lip but said nothing and took kid's shoes off. When she done the kid said: the shoes belong to my oldest brother but today my mom asked me to wear them. The teacher face turned to red. She put the shoes on kid's feet again. It was really very difficult. The shoes were very tight. Then she asked: Where are your mittens? The kid answered: I stuffed them in the toes of the shoes...
A court hearing will be held next week...

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[Rockgirl]

I guess it sounds like I hover over the kids while they do puzzles--I really don't, but if they've been trying for awhile and ask for help, I will assist them. Until I have an anxiety attack, anyway!

[e.j.]

I guess it sounds like I hover over the kids while they do puzzles--I really don't, but if they've been trying for awhile and ask for help, I will assist them. Until I have an anxiety attack, anyway!

I don't hover over the kids, either, but I know exactly what you're talking about! It sometimes get to the point where I just want to grab the puzzle piece out of their hands and put it in the right place for them. ::l That's when I know it's time to say, "You just keep trying, little Johnny. I know you'll figure it out." - while I quickly walk away and find something else to do.

[Rockgirl]

I don't hover over the kids, either, but I know exactly what you're talking about! It sometimes get to the point where I just want to grab the puzzle piece out of their hands and put it in the right place for them. ::l That's when I know it's time to say, "You just keep trying, little Johnny. I know you'll figure it out." - while I quickly walk away and find something else to do.

Yes, exactly!

[Unregistered]

To the OP, that's not how you "teach" a child how to do a puzzle. If a child has to be told how to do it, the puzzle is either too hard for them or they're not ready for puzzles (if it's like say a four piece puzzle). I love easter. I'll never forget I brought in this cute bunny puzzle when I student teaching the day before Spring/Easter break. A child broke a piece and laughed and then started breaking other pieces on purpose. I screamed "THAT'S NOT HOW YOU DO IT!!!!!!!!!!". My cooperating teacher could tell I lost it that day. She gently reminded me not to bring int things I would be upset if broken. She reminded me how we model puzzles for students, not tell them how to do it.

[Rockgirl]

To the OP, that's not how you "teach" a child how to do a puzzle. If a child has to be told how to do it, the puzzle is either too hard for them or they're not ready for puzzles (if it's like say a four piece puzzle). I love easter. I'll never forget I brought in this cute bunny puzzle when I student teaching the day before Spring/Easter break. A child broke a piece and laughed and then started breaking other pieces on purpose. I screamed "THAT'S NOT HOW YOU DO IT!!!!!!!!!!". My cooperating teacher could tell I lost it that day. She gently reminded me not to bring int things I would be upset if broken. She reminded me how we model puzzles for students, not tell them how to do it.

Um, this post was all in fun. I know my kids and which puzzles they can handle, but this was just me making fun of my own quirk of getting anxious over a child's wooden puzzle.

[ColorfulSunburst]

To the OP, that's not how you "teach" a child how to do a puzzle.If a child has to be told how to do it, the puzzle is either too hard for them or they're not ready for puzzles

ooooh, yes!
we have to wait till children "get ready" for puzzle, for potty, for everything....
My DC children are 20 m.o.- 3 y.o. and I teach them how to work with puzzles by showing and describing an algorithm and secrets of the process. In a couple weeks after "wrong teaching" all of them "suddenly get ready" for puzzles and it doesn't depend of their age.
What am I doing wrong?
:confused:

[Unregistered]

If you want to sit for "weeks" telling them how to do puzzles, you can since it's your business. That's not how I spend my time. PLEASE, take a seat. You just compared what separates humans from other animals (the way we depose of our waste) to a toy.

[ColorfulSunburst]

If you want to sit for "weeks" telling them how to do puzzles, you can since it's your business. That's not how I spend my time. PLEASE, take a seat. You just compared what separates humans from other animals (the way we depose of our waste) to a toy.

3 weeks ago I got a new 3y.o. kid here. He was "not ready for anything". His parents provide a bottle with cereal for him. Now he eats by using spoon and fork, puts his shoes on and off, starts pee in the potty most of time .....
Of course all this "suddenly" happen because I spent my time by showing and teaching him how to do all of that day by day and didn't wait when he "gets ready".

[Rockgirl]

If you want to sit for "weeks" telling them how to do puzzles, you can since it's your business. That's not how I spend my time. PLEASE, take a seat. You just compared what separates humans from other animals (the way we depose of our waste) to a toy.

Good grief. The child had put together all but two pieces of the puzzle, and got stumped, so I guided him. I wasn't asking for advice--just having fun with the post.

[AuntTami]

If you want to sit for "weeks" telling them how to do puzzles, you can since it's your business. That's not how I spend my time. PLEASE, take a seat. You just compared what separates humans from other animals (the way we depose of our waste) to a toy.

Actually, I think it's our opposable thumbs and a few other characteristics that separates us from "other animals", but what do I know? :confused:

I *teach wrong* too...

I'm currently *teaching* my 15mo DCB what shapes go in which holes on ones of his toys (the one where the square block goes in the square hole, the round one in the round hole etc..)...

I'm repeating similar phrases over and over. "Try turning it the other way, try a different spot, that's where the red one goes, no you can't force it to go in, that's the spot for the purple one" I feel your pain ::::