6.What can you do as a parent to promote your child’s development in a few of the following areas: cognitive, language, physical, social and/or emotional development. \n7.What are your hopes for your child’s future?\n8.What bits of wisdom have you acquired that you wish to pass on to your child?
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5. I want my children to be creative, intelligent, motivated, responsible, open, loving, and caring.
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I think I may have done the same project at school for GCSE.\nFirst of all mine was about how play helps a childs development and different ways they learn. \nThere are Four types of development\nP.I.E.S\nPhysical, Intellectual, Emotional, Social. \nThe way I did it was to play different games with the child to help their development and then write how you think it helps.\nExample: Playing with a ball- physical. \nPlaying with a ball with friends- physical and social.\nReading a book- Intellectual.\nWays of observation, writing it down, filming with a camcorder, collecting work the child has done.\nOne thing we did was make sock puppets which were intellectual and then social, it also gave me a chance to see the way the child thought. \nAlso you have to learn what games for which years.\n\nThe first thing I did was lots of research into the ages of the children, if your project is like mine was then they need lots of evidence that you did the reasearch and probably a list of the websites. \n\nNext pick games, first of all they should be a least a bit fun, the child I did the project with had a short attention span, but because the games were short and fun, it was easier to keep his attention throughout. Also try to keep organised I did a timetable so I knew which I was doing when. \n\nAlso resourses since there are a lot of children you probably don't want to buy resources so if you have somethings like jigsaw puzzles. Because the child I obsereved was my brother, I could buy things and then he could have them to use afterwards, but I doubt you want to buy things for five children. I brought paint from a shop and it cost £1 for each bottle. So try to get stuff like these from somewhere else. \n\nNext when are you going to do it mornings are probaby best, in the afternoons kids tend to mess around more.\n\nUnless your doing this with someone else it will probably be hard to take care of all the children so do you want to do the observation while they are all toghethwer or when they are seperate.
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To think of expectations, write a list of attributes you'd like your child to have once he graduates, and how a school can support these things.  Thumb through the dictionary and look up words that describe how you feel-you can also use s thesarus if you'd like to add in a few 'sparkly' words (not too many!).  Have your child come up with a list of what he wants out of school and maybe select the top three to embellish upon.  I couldn't find it now, but there are lists of 'action words' that are suggested for resumes- you can probably use the same list to describe your desires for your child's education.\n\nTo get you started, as a parent, you'd probably like a:\n\nSafe, caring school environment that encourages academic and personal growth.  You might also like a community where parent participation is encouraged and supported by faculty and staff.
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Make the environment hand son and experiential. Make sure each kid has alot of choice in what they can do and always offer a variety of challenges. Group building and team activities work really well with this age group and they enjoy the bonding that things like a high wall or rope challenge bring.Putting the kids directly in a challenging situation will definately make them become creative and self-sufficient. Hiking and camping skills can be taught as well. \n\nteaching kids about local plants and animals can be done as well.\n\nHere are good outdoor therapy ideas:\n\nhttp://www.recreationtherapy.com/tx/txextrst.htm\n\nwww.outdoor-learning.org/horizons
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Great exercise, great way to relieve stress, improve your fitness and balance. Improves your self-confidence. Provides a way for you to learn avoiding conflict or at least a way to deal with it should it be unavoidable.\n\nI thinks it's great and I think that training with your son is a fantastic way to share his interests and support him and get to know him better.\n\nCongratulations, good move!
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i had done this course so i know what to do\ncuddle and reassure the child\ntalking calmly and with a smile\nsolve the problem\n3 points to look at these situations\n1. reassure\n2. identity problem\n3. solve problem
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It's quite true that there are just some things that we have to learn for ourselves. \n\nIt's also true that other people have different perspectives, goals and desires than we do.  Sometimes it's a matter that we are missing something that they see.\n\nIt can be frustrating when you see your own child make a mistake, but you can't protect them, and it is VERY tricky to convey to them what you have learned or what you see that you think they don't see.\n\nSo here is my advice: (!)\n1.  Give up your need to have them follow your advice.  They have to be able to do differently than what you advise, or you are just trying to control them, not help them.  And like I said above, what you want may not be what they want.  And they aren't there to do right everything you did wrong.\n\n2. Learn active listening - see link below.
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What a great opportunity for you to become more connected with your daughter. It sounds like she is really thinking and understands a lot. Great job on raising her well!!!\nSome Saturday afternoon, take her to a christian book store and rent a movie or get a children's Bible about Adam and Eve.  Remember, as parents we worry a lot and sometimes read more into things than we should. However, this will be a great learning experience for her.\nTell her the story of Adam and Eve and how God created them through the use of the children's Bible or video that you get with her.\nExplain that babies are created from God....they are the most precious gift he gives to a mom and dad. And that he wants the mom, dad, grandmas, and grandpas to love the babies with all their hearts. And others too. Take her to a hospital and show her the new babies in the childrens ward and let her see all the people who take care of babies.\nPoint out the things that they do, through God's love to make the babies lives better.\nThen go out and buy her a baby doll. Talk about all the special things we do, through God's love to take care of the babies...taking them to church, loving them, meeting their needs, modelling how to be a good christian, etc.\nDon't make it long and in depth...........make it a good learning lesson. She would probably be okay with just the story of Adam and Eve..however, doing the rest may help her to learn more about the special bond between a parent and child and can be the stepping stones for future learning.
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This is very challenging, indeed!   Time to bring on your "big guns" of creativity...\n\nAct, but do not REACT.\n\nThe first thing that really stands out to me, is that he is really frustrated and feels unable to communicate effectively...and this is where you can really be the hero for him: to show him by your example how far you will go to continue communicating lovingly when you are frustrated.  I know it's tough, and he really needs you to be "bigger" in heart & wisdom than he is.\n\nI imagine that trying to verbally communicate with your son when he is angry and frustrated is nearly impossible.  But I do think that when he is calm, you and he can sit down together to problem solve this together and make a simple plan.  You might be surpised how distressing this anger stuff is to him, as well as be ignited by his brilliance of the ideas that you he would come up with.  But you already know that...;-] Either way, these conversations, however brief the interaction, will lay the groundwork -- on their own -- for the very ideas that he needs to draw from when he's so irrate. \n\n  Remember that often boys' verbal skills develop much slower than girls, biologicaly speaking.  (Do you remember this when you were his age?) My son couldn't speak understandably until he was 5; now an adult, he's an excellent & sensitive communicator.  \n\nSecondly, be very careful about falling into the trap of diagnosis and labels...They're rather like "pin the tail on the donkey", with lots of misses in the dark! While your main intention is to be a responsible and wise, loving dad, who doesn't miss anything crucial, I sense this could easily backfire on you, especially when you are asking him about symptoms of psychosis.  (Beware of projections -- not helpful.) .  Too much information for a 4 year old child who's already stressed.   Toss out the spanking right along with that, because that's really stressing him.  He wonders why you get to hit, and he doesn't. \n\nI never met a child who didn't respond to love, especially from his Big Buddy!\n\nOn the other hand, it is not loving to allow him to hurt you or anyone else.  Thrashing his own room, however, might be another matter...it's his stuff.  The basic element of developing his agression (competition, motivation, hutszpah! but not meanness) is normal, and You can be a responsible loving parent by not repessing his natural (vital, life force) agression and guiding or directing him in how to express his frustrations, safely.  I would clear his room of anything dangerous or hard, limit him to that kind of upset in his own room -- not agression towards anyone -- but allowing him a safe place and manner to vent his feelings until he is ready to rejoin the family.  He's not in his room for punishment, just for safety, just like you guys talked about it.\n\nNonetheless, I can well imagine this does not happen only at home, so you'll need to come up with a similar plan at Grandma's and the grocery store, etc. Remember the key here is not to stop but to guide him.  How do I know he's not the "Child from Hell"?  Because as soon as he calms down (on his own) he WANTS to return to a connected, loving state. And just like anything else thus far, he is looking to you for an answer to something that as yet seems just too big for himself to deal with.  \n\nUltimately, you both will not need him to rip up his room, because together, you will teach each other how to breathe, calm down in the moment, and communicate. You will be mastering this yourself, and teaching him this at every stage of his development.\n\nRight now, this is a stage (tough as it may be), which he will grow out of with your patient and brave guidance...and of course, Love.\n\nLove and Light to you all!\n\nP.S.> IF a diagnosis alone must be considered, I would first look at Asperger's or some other form of Autism, which tends to be
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I have always tried to teach my children to finish what they start. Whether it was a good decision or bad, they must finish it out completely. Can't quit just because they don't like what it is about once they got started.\n\nSame deal here. We need to finish what we started. Good or bad, doesn't matter.
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If you teach your child to mind, you can teach him or her any lesson.\n\nYou could picture a child at a desk with the teacher standing above him with a hickory stick!\n\ns
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there's more than 4 models, i don't get your question quite clear but let me see if I can help, I believe communication is the main key in any relationship, you need to communicate your kids about your believes and thoughts, rules to follow and role your kids play in the house and society, discipline; your kids need to know who's the boss at home and they need to know to respect adults at your house and why not mention on the street as well, love; we all need to feel love and tough love is another way to love as well,persistence; they need to learn that they can achieve anything they want by being persistent and you need to be the best example for them...good luck and I hope you get something from this
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It is difficult to know how to answer your question without knowing more about your paper and exactly what you have covered.  Possibly summarize your findings briefly and succinctly, emphasizing the main areas of learning affected by ASD.  Mention the great variety of learning skills possible among individuals with ASD.  I think it would be important to highlight communication, social skills and behavior.  I hope this is of some help.
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Hello, I helped you with your first question. I wanted to send you a private email, but you don't have that feature enabled.\n\nhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/NLD-In-Common/  This is a message board of mostly parents that have kids with Nonverbal Learning Disorder (NLD).  Nothing on the site is hard to read.\n\nThis is probably the best site on it with the most articles, which are grouped by level of reading difficulty:\nhttp://www.nldontheweb.org/\n\nAlso check out www.nldkids.org.\n\nA good book is called Raising NLD Superstars ( I cannot remember the author but can find it if you are stuck) and The Sourcebook for Nonverbal Disabilities.  You can try looking on amazon or half.com to find these cheap. They are hard to find at the library.\n\nIf you send me an email, I can help you a whole lot more as I am very familiar with this disorder.  Best wishes to you and your son.
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My father, making this same presentation to my class when I was in the first grade, spent half an hour on this complicated hypo about a stolen bike.  When he was done, the only question from the entire class was one kid who wanted to know if all judges have white hair.\n\nFor kids that young, try to find a rule and a dispute about the rule that they might understand.  Maybe something like:  The best student gets first pick of the toys at playtime.  Then you could talk about all the definitions of "best student" - highest grades, tries hardest, most attentive, etc.  And you could talk about things like whether she gets to pick once at the beginning of playtime or just can keep picking up whichever toy she wants. \n\nThat should lead to a discussion of rules, disputes, the role of lawyers to help people make their arguments, and the role of judges to decide them and why it's all better than just two kids fighting over a toy in the middle of the room.\n\nThat's how I'd do it, anyway.
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Inhispresence, I commend you for looking for ways to touch the lives of your young ones.  I just "retired" (had to leave for medical reasons) from teaching first graders in an impoverished area and was constantly looking for ways to reach my kids.  Here are some things I learned:\n\n!. Don't be afraid to tell the kids that you love them.  Some of them never hear it at home.  Back it up (aka: more than words), by doing things to show them that you care.  One of the best/most effective way to show your affection is by running a tight ship diciplinewise-being fair and consistent everytime.  I have found that when children know you love them, they will expend every bit of energy and talent they have to achieve what you ask them to do.  \n\n2. Don't be afraid to praise.  But, make sure you're not giving empty praise.  Meaning, instead of saying "Good Job!" leaving the kid to wonder what you're talking about.  Say "Karen, you spelled 'thought' correctly!  That's great work!"\n\n3.  In every lesson, tell them how they can use what they are learning in the real world.  If they don't think what they are learning is important...Why bother??  \n\n4. Use fun things that they like to do (ie writing letters to their favorite tv/movie stars or sports heros) to teach something they need to learn in Language Arts.  My favorite elementary school teacher was Miss Sylvia Teauge, now deceased.  She let us write letters to our favorite stars.  At that time, I was in third grade, my favorite star was (don't laugh!!) Cher!!  I wrote her and she sent me an autographed postcard back!!  I was in HEAVEN!! Man, do I wish I would have kept that thing!!  \nThis requires getting to know your students on a more personal basis and finding out about the things they like to do.\n\n5.  Use recipies whenever possible to teach concepts.  Food brings people together.\n\n6. Give your kids access to the best materials to work with.  In your writing center, provide lots of different types of papers, writing instruments, things they can use to illustrate their work.  I bought a tool chest (one with about 30 drawers) and filled it up with all sorts of things like shells, googly eyes, sequens, pom-poms, stickers, etc. so they could use them in their writing.  I got excellent results.\n\n7. Let the kids know they are part of something bigger than themselves.  Kids are very egocentric.  However, if you expose them to experiences outside of their realm, they really shine.  Ways you can do this:  get them penpals from another school/county, same grade (write about things you are studying); get them involved in music or sports; get them involved in community service.  We had our first graders go to a local nursing home and preform their PTA songs.  We took along cards and some refreshments.  The kids were really proud that they had made someone's day!!\n\n8. Show the children that you value their work.  Get papers graded and back to them quickly.  Post their work on the walls of your classroom and in the halls of the school.  Allow them to go to a computer and type their final drafts of their papers.  Pick some of the best work from each of the students and ask another teacher, perhaps the gym teacher or one of the "specials" teachers or even the principal, to read and comment on how well the work was done and sign in.  When a child did an exceptional job in my class, I would let the child call his/her parents on my phone and tell them about their success.  I would also talk to the parent and tell them how proud I was of their child's accomplishment.  Calls like these make it easier, too, later on when you need to make calls about dicipline issues.\n\n9. Whenever you can, make things a contest or a game.  We had a reading contest going where I made each student a little truck (that they illustrated) and as they read in minutes, they got to drive their truck across a US map.  The first to reach
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:)  You as a question about a common occurance, yet all-too-rarely addressed.\n\nThis is an ideal situation to bring you and your child closer, and realize that life and love are normal, not something to be scared of.  Not something to ignore.  Not something to avoid.\n\nMost of the suggestions here are outstanding and wonderfully helpful.  You folks have great taste and character, though 'Sassy' leaves a bit to be desired.\n\nAn even more positive comment would be that he was "PLEASING" mommy...... thus avoiding negative thoughts and questions.\n\nMany people seem to make a big deal about 'the talk'........ don't do that that way..... hang out with your child like you always do, share in discussion, encourage their questions, and that you are just as honest and decent as they are.\n\nActively promote their RIGHT'ness for being concerned, that's why they came in to check on you in the first place...... praise that responsibility and protective nature.  Leverage that as you nudge the converstaion towards sex.... to sharing the knowledge about sexuality, how it is tied to real love, communication, values, commitment, etc....\n\nthis is a golden opportunity to SHARE and get closer\n\nENJOY it!