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See the World Through My Eyes
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Dr. Wally Goddard
Family Life
[Title Slide – See the World Through My Eyes; Dr. Wally Goddard – Family Life, U of A Division of Agriculture.
See the World Through My Eyes. Drawing of a girl holding a teddy bear standing
next to several adults.]
[Dr. Wally Goddard] You know if we didn't know better, you would think that children were
designed to make us crazy. Children just, they have their own ideas and their
own little ways of doing things and sometimes they don't make a bit of sense… to
us. And so we start to think they are just quite deliberately trying to make us
crazy and sometimes it appears they are pretty effective at it.
You know, I remember a woman who once said to me when she was really stressed
with her little four year old girl. She said, "That girl is trying to make me
crazy!" And I asked her if she could tell us some of what her girl was doing
that was having this affect.
She said, "Well, let me give you an example. Just yesterday, this
four-year-old came down the hall to the living room and she did not turn off the
lights in the hall." I bet you just can't believe that, can you? It just seems
obvious that that little four-year-old was trying to torment her mother, or the
other possibility is that that four-year-old was being a normal four-year-old.
And four-year-olds are still four-year-olds. They're child-ish. There is still a
lot they don't know and what they do know they don't always remember.
So we at the Extension Service created a program called "See the World
Through My Eyes". [Dr. Goddard holds up the See the World Through My Eyes
publication] And in this program, we invite parents and any adults who work
with children to try to understand what's happening in the child's world.
So for instance, that little four-year-old, was she trying to make her mother
crazy, or was she simply being a four-year-old? Inside this program, we have
twenty one different things that are common that little children do when they
are pre-school years that are not nearly as bad as they seem, if we understand
them. [Dr. Goddard holds shows the 21 handouts]
So I hope you will check with your county agent and get a copy of "See the
World Through My Eyes" so that you can understand, work effectively, and love
effectively the children in your life.
[Narrator] To learn more, contact your county extension agent and follow
the links in this section. [U of A University of Arkansas Division of
Agriculture]
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