A core memory of mine was learning a cool math trick in school and coming home to tell my dad about it. He very coldly told me he didn’t find the trick impressive because he already knows math. That was the last time I ever came home excited from school.
Damn, sorry. This is why it’s important!
What’s great with this, is that eventually they WILL tell you facts you DIDN’T know, which is an amazing feeling.
I’m a teacher in training and in my internship this year I’m teaching first years (12 years old in my country). It’s actually so funny and interesting to me that they often ask me questions from a perspective I would’ve never thought about, just because they’re working with novel and limited information. I didn’t experience that at all when teaching year 3 or year 5 because they’re less of a ‘clean slate’.
Thus encouraging them to share information they find important with people
And not telling them that once they’re not small and cute anymore, nobody gives a shit.
