How to TEACH your CHILD at HOME?

Teaching Recipes for the HOME:

• High Confidence Diets
• Environment Boosters
• Learning Banguets

HIGH CONFIDENCE DIETS
"If we are able to make our child say and believe "I CAN DO IT", chances are that he or she actually will do it.

• Teach your child how to have a positive self-image. Hold in your mind's eye the most positive vision possible of an individual. Avoid labeling your kids. Do not call them stupid, crazy, or wild because they will later tend to hold a negative concept of themselves.

• Teach your child the value of teaching a younger child. Cross-age tutoring seems to help older children for many different reasons. For one, it requires them to review basic materials that may have been fully mastered the first time around.
• Teach your child the value of holding family meetings. A family meeting is a regularly scheduled "coming together" of all family members to discuss issues of mutual importance. Such meetings provide parents and children a venue for sharing positive experiences, expressing feelings, planning fun things to do together, establishing family rules, setting conflicts, deraling with recurring issues and problem-solving cooperative climate.
• Teach your child to follow rules, routines, and transitions
• Teach your child the use of effective communication skills. Parents of misbehaving children tend to use significantly more commanding and negative statements and fewer neutral and positive ones with their children, than do parents of the so called 'normal" children. Such negative communications rarely have the intended effect of forming better-behaved children.
• Teach your child the beauty of touch therapy. Touch appears to stimulate the rel;aese of endorphin in the brain. Endorphin is a substance with a pain-releiving effect similar to morphine. It helps dissolve tension and frees up constricted muscular energy that can then flow in a child's body more naturally. Touch is simply human energy. A brief back-rub, a kiss, a hug. Giving our children these could not possibly cost a parent anything and yet could mean a world of difference to them and their learning.
• Teach your child the value of bonding or spending time together. A positive relationship between parents and their children prepares the latter for full and active participation in the world. This relationship is forged by all the little moments spent together:moments of playfulness, creativity, respect, solving problems, wonder, silliness, curiosity and delight.
• Teach your child physical relaxation techniques. Life has never been as stressful as it is today. By teaching your child to use physical relaxation strategies, you empower him with techniques that will equip him for the rest of his life.
• Teach Your child by enhancing his self-esteem. One of the best self-esteem buliders is the use of affirmations or validating statements like; "I really love the way you smile!" or "You've got such a great sense of rhythm!" or, "Hey, you were great in yesterday's basketball game!". At its heart, self-esteem education should touch every part of a child's life, parents help a child handle conflicts, overcome obstacles, and meet challenges.
• Teach your child the proper use of TV, video games, and computers. 
• Teach your child to have positive career goals. We can help stimulate career aspirations in our children by exposing them to wide range of theses and other high-variety, high-movement vocations through trips to the library and exposure to vocation-oriented movies and television programs.
  
• Teach your child positive-talk. Self-talk represents a process whereby an individual develops key phrases that can guide him through a complex task or difficult situation. Self-talk can be used to help children organize themselves. If you want your child to clean up his room, the question "Now let's see, where do I begin?", could prompt him to iniatiate a coordinated set of actions, and might be followed by "Okay, taht's done, What do I do next,."

Special thanks and courtesy from HENRY S. TENEDERO, the author of COOKING UP A CREATIVE GENIUS.2009


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