I spotted two sunbirds in a bush in our front garden, one purple romped male sunbird and another a female sunbird. The male sunbird flew away without looking around for flowers to gather nectar. The female sunbird looked around and spotted a Hibiscus flower and flew towards to gather nectar.
What was common between both of them was the swift body movements and an alert state to look for flowers. The Hibiscus flower was several feet away, but the Sunbird flew directly towards the flower. They have large eyes with good distant vision.
They stay in one site for a short period. Their light weight helps them to fly fast and high. It is when they fly high they catch insects.
What fascinated me today was the sunbird's detective sense! That is its
unique skill !
In a conversation with a group of parents yesterday, I explored with them about their sense of awareness of multiple intelligences in their children. Although parens are aware, their search to recognise any of the seven domains of multiple intelligences is not active.
I feel that the academic dimension receives so much attention and consumes time that young children, who ought to have a wide variety of experiences to develop their multiple intelligences do not get enough guidance in the class room or at home.
Now the traction towards entertainment in the TV, and mobile phones occupy the leisure time even form pre-school years.
To a suggestion to a group of parents a few months ago, to introduce picture based story book reading, drawing and colouring, singing and action songs. athletic activity, dancing, and playing outdoor, to pre-school children, some parents sent messages about the surprise discovery of the interests of children in these areas. That encouragement brought an awareness about the prospects of augmenting the multiple intelligences in young children!
Let me suggest that there is so much more interests, skills and aptitude resident in pre-school children, well beyond what is often known to their parents. If only parents can be active explorers of the interests of their children early in life, children would grow up wider in experiences and interests!
I wish parents have a separate child development plan for each of their children!
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)
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