You can’t punish eight-year-old yet
Eight-year-old children learn best when you reward them positively ('well done'). They're barely sensitive to negative feedback ('too bad, not good'). Twelve-year-olds react in the opposite manner. They're more sensitive to people pointing out mistakes.
That’s the result of brain scans conducted by Leiden psychologist Eveline Crone and her team at the brainlab of Leiden University. The study was published in The Journal of Neuroscience this month.
Crone suspects that the difference between eight- and twelve-year-olds is caused by complexity. Learning from mistakes is more complex than continuing as you were. The new knowledge could have great impact for anyone who wants to teach children something new, Crone says in the article.
Future Vision by Erwin van Lun on this article
Small children often react intuitively, very close to nature, very strongly in the here and now. At a certain age, they’ll start to think, something that developed countries stimulate strongly. ‘Thinking’ is valued much more highly than ‘feeling’. If you feel good, you don’t want to be slowed down, but be stimulated. Doesn’t that go for everyone? But we simply can’t do everything we want to do. You can’t just eat an apple in a supermarket, walk into someone’s house or touch people. This perhaps almost automatic behavior that children still have is something we need to block with our minds. They’re the norms and values, collective thoughts that we need to feel safe in a society.
People are only limitedly able to raise children. They throw everything into it, but still they’re unsure. That’s especially the case because people today only have a few children, not even helped to raise their brothers or sisters or have had a lot of experience with previous children. These kinds of insight will lead to personal child brands to help us raise our children. They’ll literally (!) listen along to what’s happening in a dialogue with our child, in an incident for example. Facial expressions, body stance and body language will be measured through all kinds of sensors. To discuss the incident with us later, at night when the little one’s asleep. Completely automated. Before this is common practice, however, we’re talking about 2050, the time of the pamper planet.
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