The process is as important as the result

An old proverb says that “the end justifies the means”. But not when we talk about children, about to acquire knowledge and moral values. Learning the children have to be as complex as it can lead to all the senses, to be active and playful. Do not cheat and do not skip steps. The result is important, but the trip to the result is even more important. Along the way you discover other hidden talents, knowledge and skills of the children.

We hear parents say that no matter how they learn this or that. So the most common question when children come home from kindergarten or school is: “What did you learn in kindergarten today?” instead “What did you do to kindergarten today?”. The child has learned more in kindergarten, but can not conclude, he can not say that the drawing of a house he realized is about proportions, shapes and colors.

Therefore the process itself to result is quite serious, sometimes difficult, but well-intentioned. We can not speak of bad "road" or bad results.

Children have sensory capacities from the womb: they smell, hear, sight, taste and feel. Feel, smell and taste of mother's breast, and then reveals the movement. Grab everything, turn the things on all sides and put them into the mouth. Instinct! Only in this way everything around him comes to a shape, color, smell, sound, taste. Experiences are beginning to make sense and are becoming more complex with increasing age.

Until children can talk with words, adults have the job to describe what they see, what they catch, what they taste.

Children imitate a lot from adult behavior and language. Never a result will be satisfactory and both children and we want more. All the time. The results are not an end point. It’s a point from where we start to find other unknowns. Children learn colors, we want to know how to draw properly; they learn the name of animals, we want to know "how they do", what are benefits that they bring us; they learn letters, we want to know how to read and write themselves, then read many books; they learn numbers, we want to know how to count and increasingly with complex terms. Thus, the result is only a period and we are moving to other destinations.

Speaking of children, the results are often measured in smiles, in their stories and experiences with all their senses in excitement. You know you've reached your goal with them when others talk about them in a positive and superlative way.

Therefore, the results come sooner or later, but the journey to them will always be accepted. So, the adult’s job is to guide children to as many "result" as is necessary because these are never ending.