November 2010
10 posts
Positive and Negative Parent-Child Conversations
1. Seven-year-old Alice had made plans to spend the afternoon with her friend Lea. Suddenly, she remembered that her Brownie troop met that afternoon. She started to cry.
Positive:
MOTHER: Oh, you’re disappointed. You were looking forward to playing with Lea this afternoon.
ALICE: Yes. Why can’t the Brownies meet another day?
Mother’s goal (from high to low): make her feel...
5W1H (added "when")
WHO
Double-income family with first child who is 7-10 years old.
WHAT
A product or service to facilitate parent-child communication. To encourage child to communicate his/her feelings precisely; to increase parents’ awareness of child’s feelings, and coach parents effective ways of interaction with child.
WHY
For parents to understand their child’s feelings and thoughts in order to...
Revision of 4W1H
WHO
Double-income family with first child who is 7-10 years old.
WHAT
A product or service to facilitate parent-child communication.
WHY
For parents to understand their child’s feelings and thoughts in order to educate him/her in more effective ways; for child to practice expressing emotion precisely in order to have a healthier mental growth as well as better communication skills.
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More Parent's Point of View
I talked to two family(father&mother and a mother) last night and this morning. They are both double-income family. Here are some key findings:
During a day, the longest conversation with child is happening on the way from school to home.
During week day, average of getting togther time is 3 hrs.
There is no certain role for mother or father(they would take turn,) but each of them has...
The Business Model Canvas
We did a group exercise under Manuel Toscano’s guide this afternoon. He talked about viability in the marketplace and how to create frameworks for mapping our projects’ opportunities. Personally, I really feel benefit from this exercise because I think the problem I focus on for my thesis might not be solved by a single product. It would be good to consider how “Key...
What things parents would like to know about their...
I talked to two mothers, and following are some findings of things parents would like to know and the methods they use to find out answers.
How to control balance of learning and playing for their child. Instead of having communication with child, they intend to feel and observe if there is any complain from child.
What happened in school? Instead of having communication with child, they...
WHO, WHAT, WHY, WHEN, and HOW ?
I had a wonderful first meeting with my thesis advisor Paul Pangaro on last Thursday. Paul tried to help me find out how the system might work. The important first step would be defining the goals and methods. But we can’t complete the system diagram at that time since I didn’t clarify the problem space. Paul asked me to think about WHO, WHAT, WHY,WHEN, and HOW of my concept....
From Learning to Communication
Go back to see most research I have done so far, I found that parents have less problem working on their child’s homework issue. Because there is a completed education system supporting students wih learning disabilities, therefore, their homework would be well designed for them which means they can complete homework with less pain. It seems has a huge conflict with my initial hypothesis. I...
