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25.01.2022 A SILENT TRAGEDY There is a silent tragedy that is unfolding today in our homes, and concerns our most precious jewels: our children. Our children are in a deva...stating emotional state! In the last 15 years, researchers have given us increasingly alarming statistics on a sharp and steady increase in childhood mental illness that is now reaching epidemic proportions: Statistics do not lie: 1 in 5 children have mental health problems A 43% increase in ADHD has been noted A 37% increase in adolescent depression has been noted There has been a 200% increase in the suicide rate in children aged 10 to 14 What is happening and what are we doing wrong? Today's children are being over-stimulated and over-gifted with material objects, but they are deprived of the fundamentals of a healthy childhood, such as: Emotionally available parents Clearly defined limits Responsibilities Balanced nutrition and adequate sleep Movement in general but especially OUTDOORS Creative play, social interaction, unstructured game opportunities and boredom spaces Instead, in recent years, children have been filled with: Digitally distracted parents Indulgent and permissive parents who let children "rule the world" and whoever sets the rules A sense of right, of deserving everything without earning it or being responsible for obtaining it Inadequate sleep and unbalanced nutrition A sedentary lifestyle Endless stimulation, technological nannies, instant gratification and absence of boring moments What to do? If we want our children to be happy and healthy individuals, we have to wake up and get back to basics. It is still possible! Many families see immediate improvements after weeks of implementing the following recommendations: Set limits and remember that you are the captain of the ship. Your children will feel more confident knowing that you have control of the helm. Offer children a balanced lifestyle full of what children NEED, not just what they WANT. Don't be afraid to say "no" to your children if what they want is not what they need. Provide nutritious food and limit junk food. Spend at least one hour a day outdoors doing activities such as: cycling, walking, fishing, bird / insect watching Enjoy a daily family dinner without smartphones or distracting technology. Play board games as a family or if children are very small for board games, get carried away by their interests and allow them to rule in the game Involve your children in some homework or household chores according to their age (folding clothes, ordering toys, hanging clothes, unpacking food, setting the table, feeding the dog etc.) Implement a consistent sleep routine to ensure your child gets enough sleep. The schedules will be even more important for school-age children. Teach responsibility and independence. Do not overprotect them against all frustration or mistakes. Misunderstanding will help them build resilience and learn to overcome life's challenges, Do not carry your children's backpack, do not carry their backpacks, do not carry the homework they forgot, do not peel bananas or peel oranges if they can do it on their own (4-5 years). Instead of giving them the fish, teach them to fish. Teach them to wait and delay gratification. Provide opportunities for "boredom", since boredom is the moment when creativity awakens. Do not feel responsible for always keeping children entertained. Do not use technology as a cure for boredom, nor offer it at the first second of inactivity. Avoid using technology during meals, in cars, restaurants, shopping centers. Use these moments as opportunities to socialize by training the brains to know how to work when they are in mode: "boredom" Help them create a "bottle of boredom" with activity ideas for when they are bored. Be emotionally available to connect with children and teach them self-regulation and social skills: Turn off the phones at night when children have to go to bed to avoid digital distraction. Become a regulator or emotional trainer for your children. Teach them to recognize and manage their own frustrations and anger. Teach them to greet, to take turns, to share without running out of anything, to say thank you and please, to acknowledge the error and apologize (do not force them), be a model of all those values you instill. Connect emotionally - smile, hug, kiss, tickle, read, dance, jump, play or crawl with them. **** https://yourot.com//2017/5/24/what-are-we-doing-to-our-chi

22.01.2022 Be App and Game Aware Worried about Fortnite? Heard of Catfishing? Want to know what questions to be asking your kids when they’re online? Have a read at th...ese brilliant posters below. Great information from @nationalsafetyonline about the most popular apps and games. I particularly love the questions to strike up a conversation about online safety. Be aware and be proactive Visit https://nationalonlinesafety.com/resources/platform-guides/ to download these posters

14.01.2022 OUR PLAY SCHOOL COVID-19 SPECIAL Join Emma and Matt for this special episode as they help explain some of the big questions around Coronavirus, from staying at home to washing your hands.

14.01.2022 Autism explained in the most beautiful way. Created by: Alexander Amelines "Break the barriers" ... #autism

13.01.2022 My favorites https://nurtureandthriveblog.com/picture-books-teach-kids-/

11.01.2022 30% off our wide range of Handwriting Student Workbooks until the end of March. Available in store - 7/1 Irwin Road Wangara. Monday - Wednesday 9-12, Thursday - Saturday 1-4.

11.01.2022 this quote from Professor Sahlberg. Otto's readiness in terms of academics, reading and things, don't concern me at all," said Professor Sahlberg. "My main thing is that he loves to go to school, and that he learns to understand why he's at school - what's the purpose of it." Not that he doesn’t care about academics but, that he’s not concerned. He knows that deep knowledge and skill acquisition come through fun and purpose.

06.01.2022 Recent theories in psychology, phenomenology and philosophy of mind, and neuroscience commonly referred to as embodied cognition indicate that #perception... and #motor action are closely connected and, indeed, reciprocally dependent. Writing by hand can improve a person’s #memory. A 2017 study in the journal Frontiers in Psychology found that #brain regions associated with #learning are more active when people completed a task by hand, as opposed to on a keyboard. Using EEGs to study electrical brain activity, the authors of the study observed that when describing words using a keyboard, upper alpha/beta/gamma range activity in the central and frontal brain regions were observed, especially during the ideation phase. The authors of the study say writing by hand may promote deep encoding of new information in ways that keyboard writing does not. Other researchers have posited that writing by hand promotes learning and #cognitive development in ways keyboard writing can’t match. Slowing down, as required when writing by hand, also has many advantages. Because typing is fast, it tends to cause people to employ a less diverse group of words. Research also suggests that when laptops are used to take notes, they may be impairing learning because their use results in shallower processing. A 2014 study in the journal Psychological Science found that students who took notes in longhand tested higher on measures of learning and #comprehension than students who took notes on laptops. While the students who typed could take down what they heard word for word, people who took longhand notes could not write fast enough to take verbatim notes instead they were forced to rephrase the content in their own words, says Daniel Oppenheimer, co-author of the study and a professor of psychology at Carnegie Mellon University. To do that, people had to think deeply about the material and actually understand the arguments. This helped them learn the material better. It also seems that there’s not the same #connection to the #emotional part of the brain when people type, as opposed to writing in longhand. When we #write a letter of the alphabet, we form it component-stroke by component-stroke, and that process of production involves pathways in the brain that go near or through parts that manage #emotion, says Virginia Berninger, a professor emerita of education at the University of Washington. Hitting a fully formed letter on a keyboard is a very different sort of task one that doesn’t involve these same brain pathways. Berninger’s NIH-funded work has also found that learning to write first in print and then in cursive helps young people develop critical reading and thinking skills. Psychologists have long understood the powerful effects of writing on the human brain. Personal, emotion-focused writing can help people recognise and come to terms with their feelings. Since the 1980s, studies have found that the writing cure, which normally involves writing about one’s feelings every day for 15 to 30 minutes, can lead to measurable physical and mental health benefits. These benefits include everything from lower #stress and fewer #depression symptoms to improved #immune function. And there’s evidence that handwriting may better facilitate this form of therapy than typing. A commonly cited 1999 study in the Journal of Traumatic Stress found that writing about a stressful life experience by hand, as opposed to typing about it, led to higher levels of self-disclosure and translated to greater therapeutic benefits. Longhand note-taking can help people in certain situations form closer connections. One example is that a doctor who takes notes on a patient’s symptoms by longhand may build more rapport with patients than doctors who are typing into a computer, says Oppenheimer. And the impersonal nature of keyboard-generated text may also, in some small way, be contributing to the observed toxicity of online #bullying and mean behaviour. If words weren’t quite so easy to produce, it’s possible that people would treat them and maybe each other with a little more care. There are so many reasons why handwriting and using longhand to formulate our communications, and those of our family, is good for learning, thought processing and the betterment of the social fabric we exist in. Let’s hope that good old-fashioned handwriting makes a comeback and never becomes an extinct art form. https://link.medium.com/fNa9dFyF50 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5422512/ https://www.intechopen.com//digitizing-literacy-reflection https://journals.sagepub.com/d/abs/10.1177/0956797614524581 https://www.researchgate.net//Language-emotion-and-health- https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com//a/10.1023/A:1024736828322 #neurochild #authors #writers #education #brainscience

05.01.2022 Brilliant words from a School Principal (shared by a friend) I can’t love it enough. COVID-19 Kids what if? When people say kids are going to be ‘behind’ I ...say, behind what?? Not each other- they’re all in the same boat. Only ‘behind’ the age expectations of a curriculum that currently has limited context due to these extraordinary circumstances. In front on so many other more important fronts I say. What if instead of behind this group of kids is advanced because of this. What if they have more empathy, they enjoy family connection, they can be more creative and entertain themselves, they love to read, they love to express themselves in writing. What if they enjoy the simple things, like their own backyard and sitting near a window in the quiet? What if they notice the birds and the dates the different flowers emerge, and the calming renewal of a gentle rain shower? What if this generation is the one to learn to cook, organize their space, do their laundry, and keep a well-run home? What if they learn to stretch a dollar and to live with less? What if they learn to plan shopping trips and meals at home? What if they learn the value of eating together as a family and finding the good to share in the small delights of the everyday? What if they are the ones to place great value on our teachers and educational professionals, librarians, public servants and the previously invisible essential support workers like truck drivers, grocers, cashiers, custodians, logistics, and health care workers and their supporting staff, just to name a few of the millions taking care of us right now while we are sheltered in place? What if among these children, a great leader emerges who had the benefit of a slower pace and a simpler life, who has a fine sense of empathy and care and concern for fellow humans. What if he or she truly learns what really matters in all this

03.01.2022 [Best of Edutopia 2019] In one of our most popular stories of the year, we wrapped our minds around the latest findings on the teenage brainand took a look at what the science says is really going on.