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Strategies for Building a Better Brain
“I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.” Albert Einstein
Learning Difficulties Diagnosing Learning Difficulties • Strategies Abound • If you have a checkbook or an insurance card, someone has a diagnosis • Easy to get several different opinions • Feel lost in the midst of the opinions of the “experts” • Wonder who is right, and what to do! • It is real, and painful for you and your child • Mom wonders if it is her fault • Parents wonder where to turn • Relatives suggest SCHOOL! • In a desperate search to “fix the problem” easy to spend thousands! • Some kids start of strong, are quick readers, then stall out in algebra
Children often feel • Guilty • Ashamed • Inferior • Depressed • Stupid • Ask emily
Testimony of Emily • Emily struggled in public kindergarten, private Christian school in 1st grade • We pulled her out after Christmas in 1st • Thought the “right program” would make all the difference! Tried everything • Thought the right specialist would resolve it • Thought it would resolve soon • It took 7 years for her to read fluently
What does God’s Word say? In the life of Joshua Be strong and courageous, for you shall give this people possession of the land which I swore to their fathers to give them. Only be strong and very courageous; be careful to do according to all the law which Moses My servant commanded you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, so that you may have success wherever you go. This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it; for then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have success. Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous! Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go. Joshua 1: 6-9 NASB
After decimating the city of Ai, as commanded by the Lord: Then afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, according to all that is written in the book of the law. There was not a word of all that Moses had commanded which Joshua did not read before all the assembly of Israel with the women and the little ones and the strangers who were living among them. Joshua 8:34-35 NASB
The king went up to the house of the LORD and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests and the prophets and all the people, both small and great; and he read in their hearing all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of the LORD. 2 Kings 23:2 Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of the prophecy, and heed the things which are written in it; for the time is near. Revelation 1:3 Yet the Bible also says • The entire vision will be to you like the words of a sealed book, which when they give it to the one who is literate, saying, "Please read this," he will say, "I cannot, for it is sealed." Isaiah 29:11 • Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of the prophecy, and heed the things which are written in it; for the time is near. Revelation 1:3
Story of the Quines of Cornerstone Curriculum son Bryce By the way, at about the age of 12 Bryce started to read. Let me share with you the titles of the first five books he read: Fellowship of the Rings, Two Towers, and Return of the King all by J R R Tolkien and Kidnapped and Treasurer Island by Robert Lewis Stevenson. At sixteen, in just four short years of reading he was assessed as reading at college level. He could not read until he was 12 years old – lawyer now Expectations Sometimes we get a little too wrapped up in WHEN they SHOULD do something. Compare too much to the neighbors, family, friends and other siblings. Proverbs 22:6 We may well get old, training them to read! Don’t inoculate your child against learning, by FORCING things too early We don’t learn everything why do we expect our children to?
Strategies for learning “Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel” Socrates The most important thing is to find the pathway into your child’s brain Is there some missing component that you are overlooking
Learning styles • Visual learners • Auditory learners • Kinesthetic learners
Discover Your Child’s Learning Style, Mariaemma Willis and Victoria Kindle-Hodson Their website http://www.coachingforlearningsuccess.com great book list too!
http://www.ldpride.net/learningstyles.MI.htm
Brain - Integration Therapy Workbook Dianne Craft Bring Out The Best in Your Child Cynthia Ulrich Tobias & Carol Funk Gift of Dyslexia (The) Ronald D. Davis Learning In Spite of Labels Joyce Herzog M.A.joyceherzog.com IDOC Planner Individual Student Educational Plan Sharon Wallace or Julia Hoch Books on tape have been invaluable
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. |
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| Dark Eye Circles | Sudden Aggression |
| Scarlet Earlobes | A Spacey Look |
| Extreme Activity Changes | Wiggly Legs |
| Red Cheeks | A Mottled Tongue |
Our Toxic World
Chemicals damage:
· Our immune systems causing infections, allergies and cancer;
· Our endocrine system causing thyroid, and adrenal disease, and diabetes;
· Our nervous system causing learning and behavior problems;
· Our reproductive system causing major sexual difficulties, and changes.
We now have epidemics of ADHD, cancer, fatigue, headaches, obesity, early puberty, sterility, brain defects, muscle and visual problems to name only a few. We must stop and figure out why. Eliminate the cause and there's nothing to treat. Chemicals are major causes of today's health challenges. Find out why you must make your own nest safe, now!
Chiropractic Care
- Can be a HUGE HELP!
Building self esteem
BUILD strengths
John Maxwell, who has written all the Christian leadership books says that each person has the things they are “3” in and others that they are a 7 or 8. We can usually go up 2 levels. Why focus on bringing up a 3 to a 5, when you can take a 7 or 8 to a 9 or 10.
Recognize weaknesses and work on them – but keep a balance Realizing we all need functional literacy -
We tend to be ALL WEAKNESS ALL THE TIME
· My child can’t spell. We certainly work on it, but we don’t spend hours and hours on it. Check spell and voice operated software
· Math is difficult. But she understands the power of compounding interest, how to save and invest her money to be a millionaire
· She is good at web design
Focus on what is important to your child
Build on that
The myth of the well rounded child
I could spend all day working on my dyslexic, pereceptually challenged child’s weaknesses in spelling and math, and reading OR I can challenge her heart, focus her mind and train her as an adult.
Copyright 2008
By Lisa Baughn of www.ThePrudentWife.com
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