blog 75 Let’s tak about being sick

I brought a number of’ talking’ books from the Netherlands. We already did one, a long time ago. Now we have the theme: Let us talk about 'being sick'. The stories have been translated into English and the drawings have been 'Africanized'.

Our children are not used to talking about anything. Going to the hospital, for example, brings a lot of tension. By talking about it and working around it, and by getting to know words for the utensils doctors and nurses use, we can take away some of that tension.

A very nice side effect is that the children are now allowed to play. By playing and invent stories themselves, and play games around the theme of being sick, they learn a lot about the subject of being sick.

Learning in Ghana is still often about’ say after me', not being allowed to ask questions and not learning to think for yourself. A small illustration, I know a woman who graduated as a radiologist. For all her exams and exams she always got A, or the lowest  B. But, for the subject 'critical thinking', she got an F. The lowest you can get.