Yesterday we started a series of entries talking about the drawing of the children in which we are offering you cinco tips to get children to stop drawing.
These tips are very easy to follow, so much so that even if you didn't read these entries, most of you would end up following them. Moreover, if you do not follow them, because you do not see them adequate, be calm, that someone in the school will surely do it.
After commenting on how interesting it may be that we treat the children's first strokes as if they were smeared or scribbled (I speak ironically, of course), we are going to offer you the second and third advice.
2. Think you're wanting to express something
Another of the mistakes that adults make is to think, when we see their first drawings, that they want to express something or that they are representing some concrete situation.
AdvertisingChildren whose naturalness and whose desires have not been diverted by adults usually make their strokes spontaneously and modify them as they grow and mature. From the circle they pass into other forms, usually unrecognizable by adults, because they are nothing in particular.
So, when his drawings expand, we want to understand and we want to know and we make our first mistake: ask him what he has drawn.
The child is surprised, because he did nothing concrete, but enjoy the strokes. However, he realizes that adults expect something to be recognizable on paper and begins to name their drawings and add intentionality and message, usually trying to say what adults want to hear.
3. Teach him to complete his drawing
Then he says that it is a forest with some trees and we, who want to teach him new concepts and possibilities, so that he sees that on a paper many things can be said, we teach him to complete his drawing: “And there is no one in that forest? "," Maybe people are behind the trees? "," Was it day or night? Because I don't see any sun or moon ... "
We believe that we are teaching him to think, to overcome his limitations for being a child and to perfect something that could be better and the error is of concept, because we think that all children have to learn, we must teach adults, as if they were not able to learn for themselves.
So what we really do is force you to travel a path that, rather than helping you move forward, helps you get away from your own path, bringing it closer to ours and distracting you from your own needs, your own concerns and desires and trying to understand our way of seeing things, which is not the one he was building.
This way you can disorient him and make him feel insecure, because since then he will try to understand us and follow the path that we believe is good.
To be continue
Tomorrow we will end the advice, offering you the two that remain. If you have already begun to follow the advice, we can talk about it to have some feedback and see what results you are getting.
