Child Psychology... Just Cant Deal With It??
By nupats
@nupats (3564)
India
May 21, 2008 11:42am CST
My son is three years old...i am trying to introduce him to names of colours...i show him a red apple and he say "apple" i said" red colour apple" he said no "APPLE"...then i show him a green colour dragon and tell him Green colour he says no thats Dragon....pls can anyone tell me how do i explain the logic of colours to him? pls advise?
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5 responses
@melissacody (88)
• United States
21 May 08
Sounds like my oldest!! She had a difficult time tying the colors to the item I was showing her. I found that I had to change the way I was speaking to her.
I started out with a crayon box, and only a few colors.
Red, Blue and Green.
I would point to each item and say, "This is a RED Crayon, This is a BLUE crayon and this is a GREEN crayon."
Then we would go around her room and find things that were the same color as the crayon.
She would point to the item and I would say GOOD JOB that is a RED BALL. Once she got those colors down we went on to others.
This was a process but it did work.
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@MagicGuy (157)
• United States
21 May 08
I did write a long and boring explanation for this one, but I tried to add HTML code to a few words for dramatic effect and it got deleted. This time I'll give you the short...
...Make sure when teaching colors to use the same item, for example, use two apples, a Granny and a Delicious.
This will eliminate the name of the object coming into question. Don't even say the object name, just the color. Once he has the concept of color, you may now start to teach him the different colors.
My three year old daughter has learned soooooo much from her older sisters (6) that she even knows some colors in two languages (Dora helped her, too). (I don't think she understands that she knows two languages)
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@Hatley (163781)
• Garden Grove, California
21 May 08
He is only three so try crayons and just say the name of the
color like this is red, or this is blue, and do this
over and over.he will soon pick it up.
@holachika (176)
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13 Jun 08
some of the suggestions posted are effective. if i may share, when i was teaching my son about colors, i remember using the book "pat the bunny", picture cards that show colors on one side and common objects associated with that color on the other side. I also supplemented it with colored building blocks. patience is the key.
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