As a parent, I have quite an opposite experience to your claims.
> Parents spend lots of time in do and don't and giving specific instructions on everything from how to use toilet to how to construct a correct sentence.
What you're missing is that the child is initially a blank page. He has no knowledge of language either, so giving instructions to somebody that doesn't understand your language is challenging, to say the least. And acquiring language is something they do just by listening and observing others, in a very cool game of trial and error. At some point a child starts mimicking what the parent does, repeating words or gestures and then notices the triggered response.
They learn best by observing what you do and not by what you say. They also learn by discomfort. I taught my boy to use the chamber pot, not by language, but by letting him without diapers and letting him pee on himself, until he got the hint that he should use the chamber pot :-)
And of course, you might classify this as "supervised learning", but these are just shortcuts. Because of our ability to communicate in speech and writing, we learn from the acquired knowledge of our ancestors. Isolate a couple of toddlers from the world and you'll eventually see that they'll invent their own language and they'll learn by themselves to not shit were they eat or sleep.
> Parents spend lots of time in do and don't and giving specific instructions on everything from how to use toilet to how to construct a correct sentence.
What you're missing is that the child is initially a blank page. He has no knowledge of language either, so giving instructions to somebody that doesn't understand your language is challenging, to say the least. And acquiring language is something they do just by listening and observing others, in a very cool game of trial and error. At some point a child starts mimicking what the parent does, repeating words or gestures and then notices the triggered response.
They learn best by observing what you do and not by what you say. They also learn by discomfort. I taught my boy to use the chamber pot, not by language, but by letting him without diapers and letting him pee on himself, until he got the hint that he should use the chamber pot :-)
And of course, you might classify this as "supervised learning", but these are just shortcuts. Because of our ability to communicate in speech and writing, we learn from the acquired knowledge of our ancestors. Isolate a couple of toddlers from the world and you'll eventually see that they'll invent their own language and they'll learn by themselves to not shit were they eat or sleep.