Cecile Lupan Early Development Methodology
The popularity of Cecile Lupan's child-rearing methodology among parents is explained by the fact that it is written in simple accessible language, captivates with the author's soulfulness, living examples, and a sincere belief in the effectiveness of early child development.
Sooner or later, a book by French actress Cecile Lupan "Believe in your child" falls into the hands of parents interested in methods of early child development.
It evokes mixed reviews: someone enthusiastically begins to translate Lupan's advice into life on their own child, while someone finds a "thousand and one" flaw in the proposed method of teaching and raising children.
Let's try to figure out which of them is right, using the modern tool of human cognition, which is given at the training of Yuri Burlan "System-vector psychology".
about the author
Cecile Lupan was born in 1955 in Belgium, received the profession of an actress and successfully performed on the Belgian stage. In 1981, she followed her husband to America with her baby daughter in her arms. There she got acquainted with Glen Doman's method of early childhood development and tested it on her children. In fact, the Lupan technique is what she managed to put into practice, to refine using the Doman's method.
Cecile explains her personal genuine interest in early development by the fact that she wanted her daughters to grow up physically healthy and intellectually developed. In addition, she remembered her bitter experience: "I was the last in the class in terms of academic performance, because … had difficulty reading." The parents involved a psychologist, began to devote more time to her, and as a result, Lupan overcame school difficulties. And what kind of mother does not want to protect children from the difficulties that befell her?
Cecile loves her daughters with all her heart and comes to the thought: "If I can give a person life, why should the greatest joy of introducing my child to the world of knowledge go to others (who, of course, will feel it much less than me)?"
Lupan selflessly immerses himself in raising children. She described the result of her observations of the little ones, their results in mastering the programs for teaching logic, counting, reading, swimming developed by Cecile in her book.
The popularity of Cecile Lupan's methodology among parents is explained by the fact that it is written in simple accessible language, captivates with the author's sincerity, living examples, and sincere belief in the effectiveness of early child development.
The main postulates of the method
Cecile Lupan's book “Believe in Your Child” is divided into two parts: “Family Life - The Most Fascinating Adventure” and “A Practical Guide”. It examines in detail the development of babies in the first year of life, the physical development of children, the method of teaching reading, logic, numeracy, science and art. At the same time, in contrast to the method of Glen Doman, great attention is paid to the individual characteristics of the child, his soul and heart.
Cecile recommends that parents adhere to the following principles of parenting:
1. Maintain the child's emerging interest.
2. Engage in swimming, "diving" from birth.
3. Every day, sing songs to the child, walk, do massage, gymnastics, watch picture books, learning cards together.
4. Pay great attention to the physical development of the baby in the first year of his life, which will contribute to a high level of development of his intellect in the future.
Cecile Lupan. What should parents know about a child?
The child should see the adult's interest in him and his desire for joint activities. At the same time, “it is necessary to leave the child to himself more often and allow him to do his own business”.
But if parents are with their children, then they should make the most of the time, spend it brightly, emotionally, richly. They should encourage any efforts of children, rejoice in any of their successes. Maintain children's curiosity with novelty, do not test your child.
Cecile Lupan is convinced that the child most of all loves to learn "even more than eating candy." For children, however, learning is a game. In order for the interest in learning not to fade away, you need to stop the game in time before the child gets tired of it.
It is important that the baby remains “not fed up” and leaves the “table of knowledge” with a feeling of “hunger”, so that he wants “more”.
Children need to cultivate self-confidence, for this it is not necessary to force events (to develop in the child what is not yet ripe) and be sure to finish classes with the baby with the element that he is good at.
The main advice that Cecile Lupan gives to parents in order to discover as early as possible the wonderful world of their child's childhood is to see a person in it.
“The one who, from the very birth of his baby, looks at him as an already established human being, and not as a larva, talks to him a lot and clearly, introduces him to the world around him, explains everything that accidentally passes before his gaze; someone who treats his child with respect, encourages his slightest effort, rejoices at the slightest success, encourages the child to ask questions and answers them with enthusiasm - such a person has already done the main thing. It is very important to understand this before moving on …"
Systemic conclusion
The Cecile Lupan Method is an attempt to individualize the Glen Doman Method for her daughters. Her practical guidance, developed methods of teaching and developing children from birth to school in reading, logic, numeracy, history, art are interesting as a study of parenting experience.
Meanwhile, Cecile herself says that her book is just recommendations, and not an exact instruction for action. Each parent must choose the methods that he will use when raising his own child, taking into account his individual characteristics.
If we remove the chapters on swimming in infancy, then, by and large, Cecile's advice is not much different from the recommendations of Soviet teachers on the education of preschoolers.
It should be borne in mind that Cecile Lupan is a developed skin-visual woman (as evidenced by her profession as an actress), so she perceives the process of raising a child through the prism of her own desires and needs. So, much attention is paid to the development of flexibility in the baby. However, not all children from birth have similar properties in order to develop them. Developing something that does not exist by nature is a big mistake.
For example, anal children are not endowed with mobility, grace, flexibility, but they are assiduous, diligent, solid.
In the Lupan method, there are a lot of exercises aimed at developing tactile perception and vision, which is also not suitable for all children. These are dermal children, endowed with sensitive and delicate skin, enjoy new tactile sensations, strokes, massages, and anal children love various "hugs". Visual kids enjoy beautiful pictures, beautiful things that surround them. For the development of innate properties, bright colors and new impressions are important to them. Sound children will remain indifferent to such activities for the development of visual perception, for them something completely different is significant.
The correct postulate in this methodology is Lupan's understanding of the importance of influencing the child through lack. We all strive to fill our gaps. The correct development of the child includes the correct formation of his deficiencies. For example, when reading a book to an anal-visual child, parents seem to be accidentally distracted (important urgent matters), do not read it to the end, thereby forming a desire for him to learn to read and finish reading interesting stories on his own.
The painful points of Cecile's method are that she does not have exact knowledge in order to differentiate children according to their innate characteristics. She relies on her observation, which, as you know, does not always work and, moreover, some mothers do not have it at all.
In addition, very often parents, choosing the early development of their child, set themselves the goals of "raising no cattle", "investing the maximum knowledge at an early age in order to ensure success in the future", "making their dreams come true." The child himself, his desires, his needs remain in the background.
The choice of early development methodology, the content and frequency of exercise are all left to the parents. And they only guess about the peculiarities of the child, act by touch in such a serious matter as education. Guessing on the coffee grounds. They play roulette with the fate of their own child.
Jacques Desjardins said correctly: "You do not teach what you yourself know - you teach what you yourself are."
It should be noted that, as in most early development methods, Cecile Lupan's method does not emphasize socialization as the main task of preschoolers. If you look at the regime for Cecile's daughters, it is obvious that three hours a day, starting from the fourth year of life, is too little for a child to stay in kindergarten. During this time, the kid does not have time to rank in the children's collective, that is, to understand his place in society, his role, his value, does not participate in spontaneous children's games, where various social roles are played.
Thus, the bias towards intellectual development negatively affects the development of social communication skills, experience of interaction in a team. As a result, we get a gifted child with a broad outlook, who can read, write, count, swim, but who cannot build relationships with peers.
Often, a young child prodigy, having listened to teachers and parents, looks down on other children, which does not contribute to his acceptance into the team. The fate of an outcast, an intellectual nonadapter - this is what parents sometimes forget! - the extreme that can become a reality if the priority of raising a small child is not socialization as an urgent task of a given age, but the development of intellectual abilities.
So, when it comes to Cecile Lupan's early development method, you need to be careful. And the point is not that it is necessary to "preserve the childhood of the little ones," not that Cecile's daughters did not become Nobel laureates, but in being able to separate the wheat from the chaff.
Parents, firstly, need to understand the innate characteristics of their child in order to choose the content of the exercises he needs, so as not to try to "mold" an eagle out of a duck - anyway, as you know, an unfortunate duck will grow up.
You can effectively use specific exercises from the Cecile technique if you know the innate properties of your child. Then you will not rattle pots over the sound child, "developing his hearing" (he loves silence), you will not frighten the anal child with the novelty factor, nor will you let him finish the job he has begun (anal people have a rigid psyche, it is difficult to adapt to changes, everything new causes them stress).
Each child is definitely an individual and deserves an individual approach. And it is better to act not at random and not blindly copying someone else's (albeit successful experience) but based on the data of modern psychology.
Secondly, parents must know the actual tasks for each stage of the child's growing up. Everything has its time, and it is important not to be late, to create conditions on time to meet the urgent needs of children.
Communication with adults solves many problems, especially has a beneficial effect on the child's mental abilities, enriches vocabulary, allows you to learn to read earlier, develops logic, gives knowledge about the world around you, but more importantly, at the age of three years, communication with peers.
Only an understanding of the natural properties of a child, the ability to correctly form deficiencies for his development, knowledge of age characteristics and tasks will help parents to raise him as a Man, and Happy.
