TEaching my kids

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TEaching my kids

Postby Budotastri » Dec 10th, '04, 23:00



I noted one fellow was from DAFT (love the a cronym). My son is ADHD, and feels very self-conscious about not being able to learn things quickly :oops: but is coming to love magic, and it's one of the few things that he can spend a lot of time focussed on. The issue: he has great difficulty following a routine as they are usually written. Soo far I've developed a way of writin it out on a MS WORD table with three collumns, and multiple rows.
In the first colum : What the audience notices (note: notices, not sees), in the second: What the magician might say (eventually, I nag him to write his own, but first he has to learn someone elses, and we talk about why each thing is said , and how it is said). Finally, in the third column I write what the magician actually does. The three columns help him visually see the various aspects of the trick, and the rows help him get everything done and said in the correct order.
This has been working fairly well, but it's rather labor intensive to re-write everything for him (Good practice and thinking for me though). Anybody got any ideas on ways to simplify his learning :?: :idea: . He loves it, but I don't always have the time to write out new stuff as much as he'dlike. His age is 14, daughter is CAli, she's learning now too. P.S.. DVD.s don't seem to work well for him. Thanks for any input :D

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