a mental characteristic of a child that affects learning living with grandparents?

Question

what are the disadvantage and advantage of a child living with grandparents that affects his or her learning?

Answer 1

I don't think that there would be any disadvantage. Learning - from others is based on what they have to teach someone, their life experience, intellect, textbook knowledfe, life skills, and if they are willing to teach and talk about these things or not.

A child could learn less from an intelligent mother who works too much to teach her children and more from a not so intelligent grandparent who gives them all of the time in the world.

Intellect and what they have to teach is so dependent upon who they are. I dont' think there are any disadvantages. The only one I can see that might be a problem these days is if that grandparent is not fluent with computers, which most are not and technology controls everything these days - which is actually unfortunate. The child could "learn" more the old-fashioned way through the grandparent though.. books, stories - the way things were done before everything was on computers.

There are no disadvantages. I see only advantages.

Answer 2

Well it depends on how supportive the grandparents are. If they are good role models, then it's a VERY positive thing. The only negative in that situation would be why the child was there: the mother or father is out of the picture and that would weigh on the child's mind and could possibly affect behaviors including learning.

Other factors are how the grandparents discipline but that is with any household. If they spank, or don't talk about feelings, etc. that could affect learning.

If the grandparents aren't very supportive, then it's just going to be a hostile environment for everyone involved.

mental characteristics would be withdrawal, depression, sleeping a lot more than usual, grumpy all the time, pessamistic all the time, negative a lot, etc.

Answer 3

Living with both parents and grandparents, as I did for much of my childhood, can be very rewarding. I loved hanging out with my grandmother especially, and learning basic things from her. My mother worked from the time I was about 4, so it was mostly my grandmother who brought me up while I was home and mother was not. The men of the family, in that Pennsylvania German household, were not that involved with the children.

I learned a lot about loving and caring for people from my grandmother, and a lot of practical, no-nonsense things about running a large household. Most of what I know about household matters came from Nana. She died when I was 12, and pretty nearly done learning that sort of thing.

I learned how to approach learning as a pleasure. I sat on her lap while she read to me, and turned the pages when she was done each one. That was how I learned; by following the words as she read them, so that I would know when to turn the page. I don't remember ever not being able to read that well at least. The very concept of what reading was got a very early start that way.

She taught me to sew when I was about three, I think. She decided I could be trusted not to stab myself with the needle too much, and had me embroider everyone's names on hand towels.

Yeah, grandparents are great. It feels bad if the parents aren't there, but the grandparents only become all the more valuable for that.

Answer 4

hay muchos de los dos. One problem could be a distorted view of the family structure. Ofcourse if you are not in America that may not be a distorted view. I think the points to consider here are 1)What part will the grandparents play in rearing the child, and 2)Is your situation such that this is the best for the child.

Answer 5

I don't think there are any distiguishing characteristics,
I raised a grandchild from age 5 to age 14. He now lives with his father and new stepmother.