Give your child a "Motivational Tune-up" for effective progress along the Educational Pathways.
Tips and Resources #2
YOUR CHILD IS WATCHING TO SEE THIS.
How important child raising strategy is to you. Your child may not be aware of this ongoing process, but this information is surely stored in their minds and used as they mature into adulthood. Following the five Tips listed below are product reviews, testimonials or product descriptions as resources for you.
Tip # 1: How you are raising them. A primary goal for middle class families is quality education from pre-school to college graduation. Decisions you make that define why they are added to this world will contribute to how well they meet your primary goal.
Brain Quest Workbook: Pre-K -Jam-packed with hundreds of curriculum-based activities, exercises and games in every subject, Brain Quest Pre-K Workbook reinforces what kids are learning in the classroom. The workbook's lively layout and easy-to-follow explanations make learning fun, interactive, and concrete. Plus it's written to help parents follow and explain key concepts. Includes ABCs, 123s, tracing letters, mazes, shapes, colors, beginning sounds, sorting and matching, "what's wrong with this picture" games, and much, much more.
The Complete Book of Questions: 1001 Conversation Starters for Any Occasion . This book has 1001 questions, but unlike other books, I feel it has a MUCH broader range of questions. To help you navigate, they've been divided into 10 categories - from Light & Easy (Do you squeeze the toothpaste tube or roll it? What's the advantage of your method?) and Preferences (What's your favorite ice cream brand and flavor?) to Hard-Hitting (What's one regret you live with?) and From the Heart (When was the last time you cried? Why?)
Because of the broad range, there are questions that are great ice-breakers for use with strangers or mere acquaintances, as well as "deeper" questions that can be used with closer friends.
Tip # 2: How they got placed in their reading group at school. You want to raise a good reader, so start them as early as today. When you encourage your child to love literature, your child learns to love reading.
Social Studies for the Preschool/Primary Child . This popular text provides a multitude of practical ideas, suggestions, and activities that prospective early childhood teachers can use to both interest young children in social studies and integrate social studies with other sciences, art, literature, mathematics, reading, and writing. Because play is the basic means of young children's learning, the text offers a full chapter on the topic and incorporates ideas for “playing” throughout the material.
Tip #3: Provide a spiritual foundation for your child to build upon.
Spiritual Disciplines Handbook: Practices That Transform Us . Calhoun, a pastor of spiritual formation at Christ Church in Oak Brook, Ill., writes as one who has lovingly studied, appreciated and collected some of the most influential Christian spiritual material over many years. Her language and style are respectful to Christians from many traditions—Orthodox, Catholic, reformed and evangelical. Readers could dip into this handbook at any theme or practice and find enough prayer and reflection suggestions to keep them engaged in holy mystery for a long time. The practices range from personal and introspective, such as engaging in silence and solitude, to extroverted and service-oriented, as in stewardship and care of the earth. Calhoun also offers a multitude of options for companionship—spiritual direction, a mentor, accountability partners, prayer partners, spiritual friendship and small groups. This handbook is a treasure of "tried and true" spiritual practices written well enough for everyone from the novice to the master to use. (Nov.)
Tip #4: Your child wants to see how you react to the birth of other children and assume that to be the way you reacted to their birth.
Helping Young Children Learn Language and Literacy: Birth Through Kindergarten. The unique focus of this book integrates constructivist learning, diversity, and instruction-based assessment, and helps translate principles into practice for teachers of early literacy.
The book begins with a brief overview of the recent key national policies and initiatives that have had a significant impact on the teaching of reading and writing at the preschool level. Renowned and respected authors Vukelich, Christie, and Enz describe a continuum of approaches to reading instruction, ranging from emergent literacy to Scientifically-Based Reading Research. They also present their vision of a “blended” approach to teaching literacy that includes the best elements of these diverging views. The authors end this introduction with a set of principles to guide the effective teaching of literacy in preschool and kindergarten classrooms.
Tip #5: Prepare your child with “why they were added” to this world before they begin to ask.
Born for Love: Why Empathy Is Essential--and Endangered . The first human beings were commissioned by their creator to add value to this world. If you believe as I do, that each generation of man has made significant additions to their era in history, then you also believe your child will make significant additions to make to this world.
An inside look at the power of empathy: Born for Love is an unprecedented exploration of how and why the brain learns to bond with others—and a stirring call to protect our children from new threats to their capacity to love
From birth, when babies' fingers instinctively cling to those of adults, their bodies and brains seek an intimate connection, a bond made possible by empathy—the ability to love and to share the feelings of others.
How important child raising strategy is to you. Your child may not be aware of this ongoing process, but this information is surely stored in their minds and used as they mature into adulthood. Following the five Tips listed below are product reviews, testimonials or product descriptions as resources for you.
Tip # 1: How you are raising them. A primary goal for middle class families is quality education from pre-school to college graduation. Decisions you make that define why they are added to this world will contribute to how well they meet your primary goal.
Brain Quest Workbook: Pre-K -Jam-packed with hundreds of curriculum-based activities, exercises and games in every subject, Brain Quest Pre-K Workbook reinforces what kids are learning in the classroom. The workbook's lively layout and easy-to-follow explanations make learning fun, interactive, and concrete. Plus it's written to help parents follow and explain key concepts. Includes ABCs, 123s, tracing letters, mazes, shapes, colors, beginning sounds, sorting and matching, "what's wrong with this picture" games, and much, much more.
The Complete Book of Questions: 1001 Conversation Starters for Any Occasion . This book has 1001 questions, but unlike other books, I feel it has a MUCH broader range of questions. To help you navigate, they've been divided into 10 categories - from Light & Easy (Do you squeeze the toothpaste tube or roll it? What's the advantage of your method?) and Preferences (What's your favorite ice cream brand and flavor?) to Hard-Hitting (What's one regret you live with?) and From the Heart (When was the last time you cried? Why?)
Because of the broad range, there are questions that are great ice-breakers for use with strangers or mere acquaintances, as well as "deeper" questions that can be used with closer friends.
Tip # 2: How they got placed in their reading group at school. You want to raise a good reader, so start them as early as today. When you encourage your child to love literature, your child learns to love reading.
Social Studies for the Preschool/Primary Child . This popular text provides a multitude of practical ideas, suggestions, and activities that prospective early childhood teachers can use to both interest young children in social studies and integrate social studies with other sciences, art, literature, mathematics, reading, and writing. Because play is the basic means of young children's learning, the text offers a full chapter on the topic and incorporates ideas for “playing” throughout the material.
Tip #3: Provide a spiritual foundation for your child to build upon.
Spiritual Disciplines Handbook: Practices That Transform Us . Calhoun, a pastor of spiritual formation at Christ Church in Oak Brook, Ill., writes as one who has lovingly studied, appreciated and collected some of the most influential Christian spiritual material over many years. Her language and style are respectful to Christians from many traditions—Orthodox, Catholic, reformed and evangelical. Readers could dip into this handbook at any theme or practice and find enough prayer and reflection suggestions to keep them engaged in holy mystery for a long time. The practices range from personal and introspective, such as engaging in silence and solitude, to extroverted and service-oriented, as in stewardship and care of the earth. Calhoun also offers a multitude of options for companionship—spiritual direction, a mentor, accountability partners, prayer partners, spiritual friendship and small groups. This handbook is a treasure of "tried and true" spiritual practices written well enough for everyone from the novice to the master to use. (Nov.)
Tip #4: Your child wants to see how you react to the birth of other children and assume that to be the way you reacted to their birth.
Helping Young Children Learn Language and Literacy: Birth Through Kindergarten. The unique focus of this book integrates constructivist learning, diversity, and instruction-based assessment, and helps translate principles into practice for teachers of early literacy.
The book begins with a brief overview of the recent key national policies and initiatives that have had a significant impact on the teaching of reading and writing at the preschool level. Renowned and respected authors Vukelich, Christie, and Enz describe a continuum of approaches to reading instruction, ranging from emergent literacy to Scientifically-Based Reading Research. They also present their vision of a “blended” approach to teaching literacy that includes the best elements of these diverging views. The authors end this introduction with a set of principles to guide the effective teaching of literacy in preschool and kindergarten classrooms.
Tip #5: Prepare your child with “why they were added” to this world before they begin to ask.
Born for Love: Why Empathy Is Essential--and Endangered . The first human beings were commissioned by their creator to add value to this world. If you believe as I do, that each generation of man has made significant additions to their era in history, then you also believe your child will make significant additions to make to this world.
An inside look at the power of empathy: Born for Love is an unprecedented exploration of how and why the brain learns to bond with others—and a stirring call to protect our children from new threats to their capacity to love
From birth, when babies' fingers instinctively cling to those of adults, their bodies and brains seek an intimate connection, a bond made possible by empathy—the ability to love and to share the feelings of others.
