Binzopa

Binzopa is a children’s poem audio book featuring all eight of my kiddie poems. I noticed that a lot of parents liked my children’s poems when I first posted them last year. When I posted the second batch of poems last week my brother and sister both said that I should make a book. After reading them to my nieces and nephews I noticed that all children do not learn the same. Some children are visual learners and learn by reading and writing. Some children are auditory learners and learn by hearing and speaking. Some children are hands on learners and learn by watching and doing. I was impressed when my five year old nephew told me “I’m supposed to eat veggie tables, because that’s what you said.” I didn’t think he was listening and paying attention when I was reading the poem but apparently he was. He memorized everything that he heard me say in the poems. He also memorized how many months away everyone in the family’s birthday was by hearing his dad tell him. My four year old niece on the other hand couldn’t repeat back anything that I said in the poems, but she remembered the color of all of the poems after only seeing them once; she is a visual learner. I have always been a visual learner myself. I learn and process information by seeing, reading and writing. I have what you call an iconic memory or what most people call a “photographic memory”. I can remember ten digit phone numbers and sixteen digit card numbers just by looking at it once. I can remember how to spell words and the definition of words by looking at them in the dictionary once. I can go somewhere one time and remember how to get there again just by looking around at the landmarks and the scenery. I can recite the alphabet backwards because I visualize the order of the letters in my mind. It’s easy for me to come up with words that rhyme because I visualize the words as I’m writing them. Only a few people know this about me but I actually cannot hear that well. When I was 17, I went to the doctor for a physical and I failed the hearing test. The doctor told me that I needed a hearing aid but I never got one and I refused to wear one. I think that’s why I was never able to learn how to produce music. I can ride a beat lyrically but I can not play melodies and harmonies. If you notice, I have very small ears and very big eyes. People used to tease me when I was younger about how huge my eyes were. I came to the conclusion that all adults do not learn the same either. That is actually the main reason why so many people worldwide are illiterate. The school systems and our world as a whole caters more to visual learners. The entire world is based off of a literary system. Our society does not operate off of sounds and symbols, so people that are auditory learners are left hanging, often becoming illiterate in a world that does not cater to their way of learning and comprehension. That does not mean that they are any less intelligent or less smart than anyone else. They just simply have a different way of learning and processing information. Some illiterate people will even tell you. “Just because I can’t read does not mean that I’m stupid. I’m not stupid at all." The world has always been more accommodating to visual learners and literacy; letters, e-mails, menus, phone books, street signs, road signs, magazines, job applications, taxes, bank statements, contracts, recipes, books, pamphlets, scriptures, text message, Twitter, Facebook, etc. With technology it has become more accommodating of auditory learners; Google Voice search, GPS, Voice calling, even apps that can read text messages for you. Some religions and ancient practices were strictly oral and never had any written texts, history or scriptures. I actually find auditory learners to be quite intelligent. To be able to hear something once and store it in your memory bank and repeat it back later is very impressive.

The prefix RE means “again”. When you REad something you can find it again and again and again because it was written. It is there forever for you to go back and REference or REsearch it. To hear something is exactly what it says, it is HERE. Hearing is the HERE and now. It is only there for the moment to be heard at the moment. The only way to hear something again is if the person that said it is there to REpeat it or if it is REcorded for you to go back and REference it. That’s why the world operates on a literary system because it’s easier to just write something once for people to read as needed, like a street name sign or a menu, than record something that has to be played back over and over at the time needed. Someone would have to be there to REtrieve it and REplay it for you or to REpeat what needed to be heard. If what was said originally is not recorded and someone is repeating something that was said to them, they may accidentally not say what was originally said verbatim and repeat the wrong thing.

So I thought it would be a good idea to make this an audio book for parents and children that learn and process information by hearing rather than reading and writing. I understand that we were all made different for a reason. What is your strength may be someone else’s weakness and what is your weakness may be someone else’s strength. So I hope you enjoy my new children’s poem audio book, Binzopa, (bin zo puh) rhymes with sofa. It took me 60 hours to come up with that title. The word has absolutely no meaning. It’s a word that I came up with because I wanted it to be unique and the only thing by that name when searched for. I also designed the book cover myself.

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For children ages 3 – 12

Enjoy!