All children's names have been changed.
Example by Verena König, Remscheid
Our intern has founded a choir, which Murat (6;1) joins with great joy. Their first song was “…und wenn ein Lied…” [“…and when a song…”] by the Söhne Mannheims [Sons of Mannheim, German Pop-Group]. After the first session Murat knew the words of and was able to sing the chorus, for the entire lyrics (and they are really difficult) he needed only two more sessions.
Date of publication in German: May 12th, 2010
Example Mara, observation int he family, anonymous
This week Mara (2;3) recites from the book „Meine Fahrzeuge“ [My Vehicles], she does so in the exact wording and from memory. This is done 5 sentences each, throughout several pages. All the while she is checking with the book and moving her lips much more elaborately than usual.
Date of publication in German: May 12th, 2010
Example by Petra Cohnen, Herzogenrath
Ergün (3;10) recalls, effortlessly as it appears, incidences from months ago. On annual festivities he strikingly recalls the exact course of events during that same festivity the year before.
Example: Ergün talking about the previous year's Easter festivities to a kindergarten teacher: “Right, and last year we were hunting for bunnies and eggs outside, mine and Nina's were underneath the jungle gym.”
Date of publication in German: May 12th, 2010
Example by Sabine Handke, Frankfurt/M.
John (4;5) is being picked up by grandma. It's 3:30 pm. John hugs his grandma and reminds her to buy cheese, bread, milk and some goodies. (The mother had mentioned this in the morning.)
This also shows an early readiness to take on responsibility.
Date of publication in German: February 2 nd , 2010
Example by Monika Meeus, Bornheim
When the talk was of sweets recently, Enno (4;0) told us, he liked rice paper the best. … He suggested that I buy rice paper to have at our kindergarten some time.
I answered: >Sure, why not.<
Said Enno: >I even know where to get them.<
Then he took his time to tell me which shop to go to, which aisle to walk down, which objects I would go past, in which exact shelf it would be and what there would be next to it.
He was actually able to tell me to the last detail where the rice paper was to be found.
Date of publication in German: September 10 th , 2009
Translated by Arno Zucknick
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