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Juniper Cottage

Locality: Port Elliot, South Australia

Phone: +61 402 921 006

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25.01.2022 Studies show that when a child’s #brain is being affected by #anxiety or any strong emotion, the area of their brain responsible for logical thought and cogniti...on (as well as memory!) is compromised as a result. This is why we ‘can’t think straight’ when we’re upset, worried or under pressure. The frontal cortex or ‘higher thinking brain’ quite literally isn’t as accessible as it would be if your child was emotionally regulated. If you want your child to start a nerve-wracking situation with their best foot forward, you need to be intentional in helping your child feel emotionally grounded. The process of helping your child work through their big emotions is not as overwhelming as it may sound. There are a few basic things you can do: Stay connected Having a safe landing place (not just physically but emotionally!) is crucial for your child to feel supported and confident in school. Finding at least a small amount of time each day to set down your phone to be present with your child will help to meet their need for love and attunement. Establish a ritual Creating rituals to help ease separation anxiety is another wonderful way to keep the parent-child bond strong and provide a relational buffer for your child’s back to emotions. Some ideas for rituals that establish connection and bonding: Special handshake to use right before and after reconnecting Your child gets to pick a special meal for the night before the event Giving your child something of yours they can bring with them and use as a physical comfort (ie scarf, bracelet, hair tye etc) Create a mantra your child can repeat to give them confidence Go on a shopping date to prepare together Leave lunchbox notes for them to help them feel loved at lunch. Give them a safe place to talk As parents, we all fall into that the trap of talking way more than we listen when it comes to interacting with our child. Being listened to and feeling understood is deeply therapeutic for your child and plants essential seeds for raising an emotionally intelligent child. Being intentional with preparation Kids are concrete thinkers and need a little help when it comes to grasping complex subjects like scefules and timelines. There are lots of ways to make preparing fun and more concrete: Making a countdown calendar or paper chain Bring your child to get clothing, lunch groceries, supplies etc Role-playing scenarios such as lunchtime for younger kiddos Visiting the place, such as a classroom, ahead of time Reading books about the event to your child and making a list of questions your child has about it Write a story with your child about the day. Allow your child some control A very powerful component of managing stress for humans is feeling some degree of agency or control over your life. Allowing your child to help with simple decisions such as outfits, backpack designs or what they want for lunch will go far to help them feel more secure in an overwhelming situation. Be an encourager Listen to your child’s concerns but seize opportunities to breathe confidence and excitement into conversations. Find out what their favorite parts of their day is and tell them the strengths you see developing in them as time passes. The secret to an awesome time in independent situations starts with you. With a foundation of emotional intelligence and a strong parent-child relationship, you’ll be setting up your child for an excellent experience. https://parentswithconfidence.com/strong-start-school-year/ #neurochild #childdevelopment #familygoals

22.01.2022 Our first care session begins tomorrow. Thanks to all who visited our home during our open hour, and also to all who called to register their interest because they couldn’t make it; we are feeling the love!

21.01.2022 ***** THIS THURSDAY EVENING 7.30-9.30 ***** An exclusive special event for our Southcoast families Contact Kate at https://www.facebook.com/kate.mindfulfamilylife/ or email her at [email protected] $20 each, or negotiable if your income has been affected.

21.01.2022 Do you need a safe, nurturing environment for your children to go, filled with nature play, songs and purposeful activities? Juniper Cottage is opening it's doors THIS WEDNESDAY. Come along between 3.30-4.30PM on Wednesday the 4th of March to meet our family, and see if you would like to enroll. Care begins Wednesday the 11th and Thursday the 12th of March!

20.01.2022 A wonderful read about childminding the Waldorf way

14.01.2022 Children’s ability to move and play are being restricted more than ever. We are trying to protect them by saying No climbing, No running, No spinning, Th...at’s too dangerous, and Get down from there! However, research shows that the drastic decline in risky outdoor play in kids is creating behavior problems. By constantly hovering over kids, restricting their movement, and diminishing their time to play, we are causing more harm than good. According the to American Academy of Pediatrics (2013), a recent study shows that the average child spends eight hours a day in front of screens (television, video games, computers, smart phones, and so on). Older children and adolescents are spending an average of eleven hours a day in front of screens (Hanscom 2016). That’s a huge amount of time spent in front of screens, which provide little to no proprioceptive or vestibular input. In prior generations, this time was spent outdoors or in play. In order for kids to listen, focus and learn to sit still for a period of time, they must develop both proprioception and vestibular sense. The most critical time to develop a child’s proprioception and vestibular sense is before age six. With all the time spent in front of screens and telling kids to sit still, avoid climbing, and stop jumping, it’s not surprising why kids won’t listen. Proprioception is what tells you where your body parts are without having to look at them. This is the sense that helps you make sense of gravity. It’s the reason you can switch from the gas pedal to the brake without looking at your feet, or bring popcorn to your mouth without taking your eyes off the movie screen. Without properly developed proprioception, kids can push too hard during tag, fall out of their seat at the dinner table, or trip while walking up stairs. Vestibular sense provides information about where the body is in relation to its surroundings. This is the sense that helps you understand balance, and it connects with all the other senses. When the vestibular system does not develop properly all other senses will struggle to function properly. Without a strong vestibular sense, kids will have no choice but to fidget, get frustrated, experience more falls and aggression, get too close to people when talking, and struggle with focusing and listening. Because they literally cannot help it. In order for kids to learn to listen, focus and follow directions as they grow, they need to develop proprioception and vestibular sense by experiencing many physical challenges during childhood. Without it, kids can’t pay attention in school because they are too distracted by their own bodies. When children jump, swing, spin, pick up rocks or dig in the dirt, kids are doing exactly what they need. They aren’t intentionally doing it to get hurt, act rambunctiously, worry you or get messy. They are doing it to help themselves become safer, calmer and happier kids. https://themilitarywifeandmom.com/why-kids-wont-listen #neurochild #childdevelopment #letthemplay

13.01.2022 It shouldn't be surprising that the system based on evidence, on research, on reality, would outperform the one based on the fantasies and feelings of people w...ho are not professional educators. In Finland, they do not try to teach kindergarteners to read because the evidence tells us that formal literacy instruction should not start until at least the age of seven and that children who are compelled into it too early often suffer emotionally and academically in the long run. In the US we are forcing kindergartners, and even preschoolers, to learn to read. There is no, as in zero, research that finds longterm gains from teaching to read in kindergarten. In fact, the research that has been done tends to find early instruction reduces literacy in later years. See more

09.01.2022 Proprioception is a very undervalued sense to develop. Waldorf educational pedagogy focuses heavily on this in the early years.

08.01.2022 Some words from ‘Remembering the Soulfulness of Play’ by Vince Gowmon: The soulfulness of play has been lost, and therefore so too has the unique portal into ...our soul that #play opens us tothe portal into the generative spaces between our busy thoughts and plans, the urgency of what we think matters, and the heavy load of curriculum we think kids should learn. We have lost touch with the deeper rhythms of mystery, the invisible that #children point us back to a thousand ways a day. The essential is being paved over with the concrete, consensual, literal, measurable, fast-paced and amnestic world we think life is, the one we prepare children for more than ever before. We feel our kinship with the essential that burns in our hearts, the trees, rivers, mountains, eagles, stars and eyes of the other. Life is lived as a #child livesin intimate relationship with community, nature and the cosmos. In many rural land-based cultures and societies, often indigenous, youth are initiated through trials, ceremony and ritual into a deeper relationship with the unseen, mysterious nature of their soul. It is a right of passage between the unseen and seen, an acknowledgement of belonging to something much bigger than the temporal world. The elders plant and hold the stake of remembrance for the youth and community at large. The eternal tug of longing and the #gifts within the soul are then birthed when ripe, and guided into a more outward stage of existence and purpose. Everyone benefits from the initiation. As each unique heart song is sung, members thrive in greater harmony with one another, nature and the whole. Without this mentorship and conscious relationship with soul longing, #teenagers are set on a dark lonely path disconnected from their environment, inner compass and heart song. The essential, the longing, is forgotten, and they travel unfed by it and lost. They stop belonging. This has become the norm, certainly in Euro-western cultures. Our communities are full of spiritually immature adults who are #anxious, #depressed, in denial, lonely, fighting, competing, and living and working with little to no sense of inner calling, heart-integrity, or social and emotional intelligence. Integrity comes from the word integration, which means, nothing left out. When the depth of the ocean is deniedleft outwe live out of integrity with the essential. Our reality becomes one of skimming the surface with another drink, game of pool at the pub, political spar, bout of gossip, corrupt business deal, and reality TV show. This becomes much more alluring than diving into and feeling the vast unknown below the surface of what we assume to be our life, and everyday living. Doing so would mean rocking, and potentially sinking our comfortable, well-traveled ship, challenging our psyche and the life built from separation. The security of separation is ostensible, at best. Life eventually initiates us. No matter how firm our grip on the wheel is, or how well thought out our course may seem, the #intelligence of the invisible eventually brings us a stormy relationship, a tidal wave of audits, an undercurrent of disease that brings us to our knees and drags us into the depth we have long forgotten. Here we feel the depth of our much-circumvented feelings, including the grief that comes with years of suppression and separation. Ignorance only works so long. The baptism of unexpected initiation soon stirs the pot of convenience so the essential is tasted. It is not the easy or convenient life for which I search, but life lived to the edge of all that I may be. ~ Mary Anne Radmacher https://www.vincegowmon.com/remembering-the-soulfulness-of/ #neurochild #existentialintelligence

03.01.2022 Exposure to #music and music instruction accelerates the #brain development of young children in the areas responsible for language development, sound, reading ...skill and speech perception. In a two-year study by researchers at the Brain and Creativity Institute (BCI) at the University of Southern California, neuroscientists monitored 6- to 7-year-old children where some of them received music instruction where they practiced up to seven hours each week. The researchers compared them to other groups by tracking the electrical activity in the brains, conducting behavioural testing and monitoring changes using brain scans. The results showed that the auditory systems of the children in the music programme had accelerated faster than the other children not engaged in music. The auditory system is stimulated by music and the system is also engaged in general sound processing, which is essential to #reading skills, language development and successful communication. Science Direct: http://www.sciencedirect.com//article/pii/S1878929315301122 Science World Report: http://www.scienceworldreport.com//childrens-brain-develop University of Southern California: https://dornsife.usc.edu/bci/brain-and-music/ Southern California Public Radio: http://www.scpr.org//usc-study-continues-to-provide-data-/ News Medical: http://www.news-medical.net//Music-instruction-improves-co Slipped Disc: http://slippedisc.com//la-phil-research-learning-music-sp/ https://musiceducationworks.wordpress.com//a-childs-brain/ Research seen via Green Child Magazine #neurochild #musicalintelligence #linguisticintelligence