ACTIVITY 4: AN INTERGENERATIONAL DIALOGUE

  1. How did the child’s responses help you understand him/her better?

Through the recorded video, the children have their own life goals with the effort of constantly improving day by day. The development of the child’s brain also develops as the day progresses, affecting his or her own environment. In addition, she is a talkative person who makes her more confident in dealing with people around her so that she is able to make herself more active at home and at school.

However, she was taught so well from an early age that she became more active and courageous in dealing with different situations. Her ambition can also be seen to strengthen others’ confidence in herself to become a soldier someday.

 This positive response made her more aware of herself by setting her goal of living as a child who wants to serve her parents. Every day, activities that interest you at home such as playing badminton or netball will keep you active in doing something. When asked a few questions that make the child aware and confident about who they are and what their purpose is in life. This, in turn makes her more confident in helping others without asking for anything in return. The concept is that parents need to play a role from the time children are born to shape children’s minds to think ahead with positive things.

In addition, setting the tag for the UPSR next year is a real goal of life whether or not they are students of hope in school. As such, she was always willing to give me an emotional response during the video session. Next year, she wants to get first place in the class and get a good grade of A in each subject. As such, she always strives to set her goals in every field that she pursues. The responsibility of being a parent to her parents is never forgotten as she can distinguish between responsibilities at home and at school. This really helps the development of the brain of the child to continue to develop and the goals set.

2. Were you surprised by some of the child’s answers? Which one, and why?

I was amazed at the response of these girl to the fact that she wanted to become a soldier someday. In my opinion, being a soldier is not easy if we are not prepared to accept all the problems that come our way. Therefore, she always wanted to be a successful soldier one day. Her ambitious ambitions made me more proud and proud of this child for her extremely active and courageous mentality in dealing with all kinds of social situations.

In addition, she could also say some of the reasons for wanting to become a soldier someday is that these children want hard and difficult activities. A strong and consistent mindset at that time is one aspect that needs to be prepared and learned to meet all the challenges ahead. As such, being a soldier is often said in the public which is a real challenge to the weak mentality of the weak to rise up against any adversity that may come.   

3.How did the actual responses compare with your predictions?

Before I had a video session with her, I thought I was more confident that children with poor speech abilities would speak less. Kids of this age have made me more active to ask a few questions and made me feel closer to these kids. But my prejudices were different when the kid was trying to ask me questions. Her personality and the language, she used made me more confident in dealing with her. This child’s literacy also makes me more active in dealing with her. Therefore, the child is able to recognize who she really is. This video session also made me feel more confident and brave in different situations.

In addition, these children also develop well in all aspects of mental health, personality, language, literacy and so on. This has made her way different as she follows the age of globalization today. As a result, these children are beginning to rise up in the realm of real children growing up in a good way

Finally, the upbringing of the parents during the upbringing of the children is so good that the child is able to get close and start thinking about his or her future. In addition, these children can set an example for other siblings to follow in their footsteps in the pursuit of hard work and not forgetting to obey older people. These children also believe that the efforts and prayers of parents can make us successful one day with the dreams we have.