Over the years, structures get modified for continuing growth. Here you will find the help to encourage life long learning.
Enjoy the bi-weekly articles below.
These sections are organized by age level, but the information is not confined that so consider looking at other ages ranges as well. Also, make sure to check out the Archives.
Enjoy the bi-weekly articles below.
These sections are organized by age level, but the information is not confined that so consider looking at other ages ranges as well. Also, make sure to check out the Archives.
Maturing of Your Children
Check your parenting ability to see if your children have the following skills:
1: Impulse control helps your child think before acting.
2: Emotional control helps your child keep his feelings in check
3. Flexible thinking allows your child to adjust to the unexpected.
4: Working memory helps your child keep key information in mind.
5: Self-monitoring allows your child to evaluate how he's doing.
6: Planning and prioritizing help your child decide on a goal and a plan to meet it.
7: Task initiation helps your child take action and get started.
8: Organization lets your child keep track of things physically and mentally.
Providing the support and discussion that your emerging adults need to make sure they are developing these skills will go a long way toward giving them wings. Environments that allow your children to practice and develop these skills at home are necessary before they have to use them alone in society. It is parents' responsibility to help your young people learn to utilize these skills.
We Can Give Freedom as We Get Freedom
The Fourth of July makes me think about how much freedom we enjoy. Do we give it to our children? Do we give them the freedom to be themselves? Do we give them the freedom to make their own decisions and mistakes? Do we give them freedom to create their own activities and actually DO things?
Too often, parents fail to guide their children in managing a situation and instead, move in too quickly to solve the children's problems. Parents need to help their children develop the ability to handle challenging situations on their own. This freedom leads your children to better mental and physical health, healthier social relationships and academic success.
Too often, parents do not teach children how to regulate their emotions and behavior effectively resulting in their children acting out in the classroom, struggling in school and having a harder time making and keeping friends. Managing emotions and behavior are fundamental skills helping children have freedom to interact with others, but not to endanger the freedom of others. Parents can help children cope by teaching them strategies such as deep breathing, listening to music or retreating to a quiet place.
Parents can also set good examples for their children by using positive coping strategies to manage their own emotions and behavior when upset. Nichole B. Perry, Ph.D.
Too often, parents use their freedom to protect their children from real and imagined danger. Commercial interests make loads of money by exploiting parental anxiety. Children need the freedom to explore and discover their ways. Children need to be encouraged to take risks and make mistakes, but parents need to be available to guide and support them. Parents can guide their children's choices as to friends, actions, foods, but not the freedom to make those choices.
Freedom is the ability to act or change without undue or unjust restraints as long as it is not unjust, unnecessary or unreasonable limiting another's freedom. We must teach our children to use their freedom for their own good and the good of others. Sharing and following rules are necessary to secure freedom.
Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity. Herbert Hoover
USING WRITING TO LEARN
You may think writing is unimportant due to advancing technology, but the technology cannot think for us. Writing enables us to think more clearly. It helps us to find ways to express our feelings, our emotions, our affections, our strengths and weaknesses. E-mail doesn’t keep; writing on paper does. Famous people—women and men—have written pages of their thoughts that lie dormant for many years. Once discovered, these writings are valuable sharing of their lives and the time in which they lived.
Writing also strengthens reading. They are double-dipped to help us accumulate knowledge. If you can read it, you can write it. If you write it, you can read it. It just takes stimulation that comes from an exciting teacher and an interested parent.
Writing down information helps to remember, no matter what age, especially if talking to ourselves as we write. Engaging the senses is a positive way to help memory, and memory helps students pass tests.
There are sections of standardized tests that require students to write their thoughts about timely topics and even show their outline skills as they need to organize their thoughts before writing the required text. Although computers are increasingly used for state testing, putting thoughts on paper is still an important way to communicate one's preparation and organization in writing about a topic.
Scholarships are awarded in part due to the quality of writing on applications for scholarships. The more clearly your children can express their desire for further education and their need for financial aid, the more confident they can feel about obtaining this kind of help.
Students often laugh when I tell them to keep their dictionaries or Ipod handy when writing, but even if they cannot spell the entire word, their attempts at “sounding out” the word will help them find it correctly spelled in the dictionary pages. Correct spelling is crucial for effective communication and precise understanding. Students must care enough to spell correctly and use proper grammar.
There are contests that encourage good writing. Civic and veteran’s organizations (VFW, Eagles, Rotary) often hold contests in which they invite young people to tell what good citizenship means to them. Contact their nearest units to find out what they are seeking for their contests, and the timeline for them.
THE PEN IS THE TONGUE OF THE HAND.
Check your parenting ability to see if your children have the following skills:
1: Impulse control helps your child think before acting.
2: Emotional control helps your child keep his feelings in check
3. Flexible thinking allows your child to adjust to the unexpected.
4: Working memory helps your child keep key information in mind.
5: Self-monitoring allows your child to evaluate how he's doing.
6: Planning and prioritizing help your child decide on a goal and a plan to meet it.
7: Task initiation helps your child take action and get started.
8: Organization lets your child keep track of things physically and mentally.
Providing the support and discussion that your emerging adults need to make sure they are developing these skills will go a long way toward giving them wings. Environments that allow your children to practice and develop these skills at home are necessary before they have to use them alone in society. It is parents' responsibility to help your young people learn to utilize these skills.
We Can Give Freedom as We Get Freedom
The Fourth of July makes me think about how much freedom we enjoy. Do we give it to our children? Do we give them the freedom to be themselves? Do we give them the freedom to make their own decisions and mistakes? Do we give them freedom to create their own activities and actually DO things?
Too often, parents fail to guide their children in managing a situation and instead, move in too quickly to solve the children's problems. Parents need to help their children develop the ability to handle challenging situations on their own. This freedom leads your children to better mental and physical health, healthier social relationships and academic success.
Too often, parents do not teach children how to regulate their emotions and behavior effectively resulting in their children acting out in the classroom, struggling in school and having a harder time making and keeping friends. Managing emotions and behavior are fundamental skills helping children have freedom to interact with others, but not to endanger the freedom of others. Parents can help children cope by teaching them strategies such as deep breathing, listening to music or retreating to a quiet place.
Parents can also set good examples for their children by using positive coping strategies to manage their own emotions and behavior when upset. Nichole B. Perry, Ph.D.
Too often, parents use their freedom to protect their children from real and imagined danger. Commercial interests make loads of money by exploiting parental anxiety. Children need the freedom to explore and discover their ways. Children need to be encouraged to take risks and make mistakes, but parents need to be available to guide and support them. Parents can guide their children's choices as to friends, actions, foods, but not the freedom to make those choices.
Freedom is the ability to act or change without undue or unjust restraints as long as it is not unjust, unnecessary or unreasonable limiting another's freedom. We must teach our children to use their freedom for their own good and the good of others. Sharing and following rules are necessary to secure freedom.
Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity. Herbert Hoover
USING WRITING TO LEARN
You may think writing is unimportant due to advancing technology, but the technology cannot think for us. Writing enables us to think more clearly. It helps us to find ways to express our feelings, our emotions, our affections, our strengths and weaknesses. E-mail doesn’t keep; writing on paper does. Famous people—women and men—have written pages of their thoughts that lie dormant for many years. Once discovered, these writings are valuable sharing of their lives and the time in which they lived.
Writing also strengthens reading. They are double-dipped to help us accumulate knowledge. If you can read it, you can write it. If you write it, you can read it. It just takes stimulation that comes from an exciting teacher and an interested parent.
Writing down information helps to remember, no matter what age, especially if talking to ourselves as we write. Engaging the senses is a positive way to help memory, and memory helps students pass tests.
There are sections of standardized tests that require students to write their thoughts about timely topics and even show their outline skills as they need to organize their thoughts before writing the required text. Although computers are increasingly used for state testing, putting thoughts on paper is still an important way to communicate one's preparation and organization in writing about a topic.
Scholarships are awarded in part due to the quality of writing on applications for scholarships. The more clearly your children can express their desire for further education and their need for financial aid, the more confident they can feel about obtaining this kind of help.
Students often laugh when I tell them to keep their dictionaries or Ipod handy when writing, but even if they cannot spell the entire word, their attempts at “sounding out” the word will help them find it correctly spelled in the dictionary pages. Correct spelling is crucial for effective communication and precise understanding. Students must care enough to spell correctly and use proper grammar.
There are contests that encourage good writing. Civic and veteran’s organizations (VFW, Eagles, Rotary) often hold contests in which they invite young people to tell what good citizenship means to them. Contact their nearest units to find out what they are seeking for their contests, and the timeline for them.
THE PEN IS THE TONGUE OF THE HAND.