Okay, so remember my last post? Back Talk and Disrespect? The information was taken from Jane Nelsen et al. (Positive Discilpine: A-Z). Well, according to The Institute on HeartMath, "author, speaker, educator, psychologist and counselor Dr. Jane Nelsen," is "one of today’s leading and most respected voices on the subject (of positive discipline)."
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Thursday, February 9, 2012
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Back Talk and Disrespect
"....but everyone at school back talks"! says John at our family meeting. Back Talk and disrespect was our main issue at this weeks family meeting. It's getting out of hand in our house....the back talk....with pointers from the book entitled "Positive Discipline" we spoke about the issue and talked about how to approach it.
John doesn't understand why everyone at school does it and wants me to talk to his teacher, so we can get everyone to stop....oh, if it was that easy....!
If anyone is interested in Jane Nelsen et al. (Positive Discilpine: A-Z) solutions to this issue, I "cut and paste" their comments above.
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Clip Art
Resist from repeating yourself.
Margo advised parents to only say things once (to their children) in her lecture on: Sensory Rich Environments to Support Learning for Young Children: Simplifying yet Enriching Day to Day Experiences in Home and Care Programs.
We also talked about how day-to-day demands on our children with SPD can become overwhelming. Using visual aids is very helpful. here are some websites to get you started.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/images/
http://www.visualaidsforlearning.com/
When John was younger, I printed and laminated pictures of his daily activities, glued the rough side of velcro on the back of the pictures and placed them on a felt board every morning.The pictures made each activity real....if it was on the board, it needed to be done and John didn't question this. As we went through each activity, John removed the pictures and put them back in a designated box. The process was very empowering. It worked out really well for us.
We don't do daily chart boards anymore, but we still have a weekly chart; much less sophisticated, but for the whole family. I prepare it on Sunday, print it and hang it up for the week. Meals are a breeze too. We get together and each pick a meal and create a visual chart of what we're eating each day. When the question, "what are we having for supper?" arises, I just direct the children to the meal chart. Again, although the children are older (11, 8 and 5 years old), nobody questions the chart. It's the LAW.
Happy Charting!
Margo advised parents to only say things once (to their children) in her lecture on: Sensory Rich Environments to Support Learning for Young Children: Simplifying yet Enriching Day to Day Experiences in Home and Care Programs.
We also talked about how day-to-day demands on our children with SPD can become overwhelming. Using visual aids is very helpful. here are some websites to get you started.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/images/
http://www.visualaidsforlearning.com/
When John was younger, I printed and laminated pictures of his daily activities, glued the rough side of velcro on the back of the pictures and placed them on a felt board every morning.The pictures made each activity real....if it was on the board, it needed to be done and John didn't question this. As we went through each activity, John removed the pictures and put them back in a designated box. The process was very empowering. It worked out really well for us.
We don't do daily chart boards anymore, but we still have a weekly chart; much less sophisticated, but for the whole family. I prepare it on Sunday, print it and hang it up for the week. Meals are a breeze too. We get together and each pick a meal and create a visual chart of what we're eating each day. When the question, "what are we having for supper?" arises, I just direct the children to the meal chart. Again, although the children are older (11, 8 and 5 years old), nobody questions the chart. It's the LAW.
Happy Charting!
Saturday, November 5, 2011
Sensory Rich Environments to Support Learning for Young Children
Society for Healthy Sensory Processing Development welcomed Margo Running as speaker to its first presentation. She spoke about creating sensory rich environments to support learning for young children leaving the audience with an understanding that the development and protection of our child’s senses form the foundation for learning. If a child doesn’t properly develop the sensory systems, the child won’t have a solid base for their academic learning. Too often, our children are rushed into academic learning.
As we rushed the kids out of the house this morning, I remembered Margo Running stressing the importance of the “pause”. It isn’t easy, but especially with our children with SPD issues, let’s remember that rushing will just cause frustration and unhappiness; their brains just don’t work that fast….it’s like asking a cat to bark. It’s not going to happen. Pause.
That was yesturday. I would like to admit that I actually took a pause, but life is busy. And I have so much to do… I won’t be able to write everything I’d like to about Margo’s talk. But that’s okay because we’ll invite her again and those of you who missed her will get other chances to hear her. Those of you who attended the talk last week, thank you for coming and for your generous donations!
As we rushed the kids out of the house this morning, I remembered Margo Running stressing the importance of the “pause”. It isn’t easy, but especially with our children with SPD issues, let’s remember that rushing will just cause frustration and unhappiness; their brains just don’t work that fast….it’s like asking a cat to bark. It’s not going to happen. Pause.
That was yesturday. I would like to admit that I actually took a pause, but life is busy. And I have so much to do… I won’t be able to write everything I’d like to about Margo’s talk. But that’s okay because we’ll invite her again and those of you who missed her will get other chances to hear her. Those of you who attended the talk last week, thank you for coming and for your generous donations!
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