Hello @princessbusayo!
This post came from my desire to write a comment on your post but as soon as I started writing comment I realized how deep the topic you touched on.
The topic is very relevant for me now, because I am raising a little daughter and I think it is relevant for many parents.
I thought that if I answer your post with my post, then we can draw the attention of parents on the Hive to the topic that you raised, to your post and to my point of view about it.
In your job you make a very important observation.
The smaller the child, the younger he or she is, the closer he or she is to natural, one might even say animal behavior, and its development is based on research through physical interaction with the outside world.
The child knows little about what is a prank and what is already significant damage, and knows little about how we adults have organized our space and how to behave correctly in this space.
Therefore, from our point of view, the point of view of adults, the behavior of a free child is always basically destructive.
The more the child feels the support of an adult, the freer he or she can behave and allow themselves more active exploratory activities.
You are right that an inactive and overly polite and tidy child is likely to be in fear of shame or fears of getting the disapproval of a significant adult.
A child, to whom his or her adult and his or her space allows to explore the world actively by interacting with it physically through the body, through the senses will be an order of magnitude better developed intellectually than his or her peers, who are kept in tight reins.
They will create better associative connections. They will think more freely and they will be able to create theological chains that adults have not even explained to them yet, because their body has already been in many interactions with the outside world in different moods, in different manifestations and thus helped to develop their intellect.
The case you describe with your student is nice and clear confirmation of this!
Thanks for sharing!
Thank you for attention!
For the benefits of all living beings!
