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Love and Logic Magic for Early Childhood by Jim Fay and Charles Fay

Love and Logic Book Summary and Notes

By Lily Talley

There are so many parenting books out there and the Love and Logic book is one of the good ones. It is filled with practical advise on parenting. It also makes the techniques fun. Some parenting books, after reading it, makes you feel inadequate. Although it gave you some good advice, you feel that you are not capable of implanting them. The Love and Logic book however is filled with encouragement for parents. It did not give any quick fixes but techniques that you can use over time. I started using the techniques to the kids that I’m nannying and the results are remarkable. There is still room for improvement but the kids have positive responses with the techniques so far.

The Love and Logic Book has four main ideas. It encourages parents to:

1. Build self-concept

2. Share the control or decision making

3. Offer Empathy then consequences

4. Share the thinking and problem solving

Formula for high-self concept:

Offer empathy, understanding and love

Allow children to struggle and solve their own problems

Encourage children to learn to succeed through personal thinking and learning

They must know how to handle situations without warning

Share control by giving the types of choices that do not cause a problem for you. Allow children to make choices within the safety of limits.

Provide a strong dose of empathy before delivering consequences.

Parents must allow children to make mistakes.

Do not respond with anger. With anger, children go into survival mode rather than learning mode, they think about escaping or getting revenge.

Sincere empathy works wonders.

Share the thinking: 4 Powerful Actions

Raise a child who feels good about him/herself.
Develop a strong bond of love and trust with your child.
Allow your child to make plenty of mistakes and learn from them.
Give your child plenty of practice thinking and solving problems.

The more empathy and understanding we display, the more our children are forced to think about the pain they have created for themselves.

Guidelines for giving choices:

Give 99% of the choice when things are going smoothly.

Provide choices on issues that are not dangerous and don’t create a problem for anyone on the planet.

Always offer two options and both makes you happy.

In 10 seconds flat, choose for the child if he or she doesn’t.

Bonding requires basic limit setting. When children fail to find loving limits, they feel scared.

Set limits in a loving way:

Replace anger and frustration with empathy.

Replace threats and warnings with simple actions.

Set limits you can enforce.

Give away the control you don’t need.

Real world consequences happen without warning. Children should understand that consequences of poor choices can happen without warning.

Set limits once and follow through with loving actions instead of warning. Teach how to make wise decisions the first time.

Save most of the attention for happy times. Ignore them when they misbehave.

Enforceable Statements:

Don’t tell kids something we cannot make them do, otherwise, we give away power and credibility.

Enforceable statements describe limits we can actually enforce 100% of the time.

For example: Instead of saying ‘No fighting!”, say something like: ‘I charge $2/hour to list to fighting in the car. Will you be paying me with chores, cash, or some of your toys?.

Use the Energy Drain technique: Say ‘I’m having an energy drain’. Child pays with chores or toys.

Delaying consequences gives us time to think of what consequence is appropriate and get over our anger.

Neutralizing Family Arguments:

Go brain dead-don’t think about what the child has just said.

Choose an empathetic one liner.

Repeat the one liner over and over again. For example: “I love you too much to argue”.

Walk away if child continues.

Get you kids to do chores:

Start doing chores together as soon as your child can walk.

Model doing your own chores in front of the kids.

Develop a toy ‘lock-up’.

Give choices about age-appropriate chores.

Don’t pay children for doing chores.

If they forget, you do the chore. They will them pay for it with a toy (or anything you think is appropriate).

Summary of the book Parenting with Love and Logic by Jim Fay and Charles Fay

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HOW CAN EXERCISE IMPROVE LEARNING?

How Can Exercise Improve Learning?

a book summary of

Spark: A Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain by John Ratey

by Lily Talley

Dear Parents,

We send our children to preschool to prepare their minds for learning more complex concepts in school. However, we should also take account that preparing them to be physically fit right now can also greatly help them succeed in academics. Physical exercise has some of the following benefits:

Kids are more prepared to learn
Senses are heightened
Focus and movement are improved
Students are less fidgety and tense
The desire to succeed in school is increased
They feel more invigorated and motivated

Exercise improves learning on 3 levels:

It optimizes your mind-set to improve alertness, attention and motivation.
It prepares and encourages nerve cells to bind to one another which is the cellular basis for logging new information.
It spurs the development of new nerve cells from stem cells in the hippocampus.

Most of us have heard that ‘exercise improves learning’. This statement is now backed by research. One of them is John Ratey’s book SPARK: A Revolutionary Science of Exercise and the Brain. Another research claiming that physically fit kids are smarter was done by Texas school research. This article will discuss Ratey’s book whose ideas were indirectly supported by the TEXAS school research done on over 2.5 million kids.

Spark explains the results of a case study about Naperville Central High School in Chicago. Central is implementing a program called Zero Hour PE. The objective of the program is to determine whether working out before school gives the students a boost in reading ability and in increased skills in additional subjects. This program is supported by emerging research showing that physical activity sparks biological changes that encourage brain cells to bind to one another. Neuroscientists agree that exercise provides an unparallel stimulus, creating an environment in which the brain is ready and willing to learn. The students at Central are prepared to learn through rigorous exercise. The difference between the PE at Central and other schools is that, at Central, the essence of PE is fitness instead of sports. They instruct students how to monitor and maintain their own health and fitness. They are taught a lifestyle. The students develop healthy habits, skills, sense of fun, and knowledge of how their body works. They want to produce individuals that are hooked on physical activity instead of settling in front of the TV.

Statistics show that children who exercise regularly are likely to do the same as adults. Central took the TIMSS (Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study) test and scored #1 in Science and #6 in Math in the world. They believe that fitness plays an important role in student’s academic achievements.

Unfortunately, there is a tendency for some people to look down on PE subjects. They think that because PE is not an academic subject, they don’t need to spend too much time on it. The results of the Texas research will change this negative thinking. Not only did it show that exercise is good for the students, it also showed that those who are physically fit are also smarter and perform better in academic subjects. Central’s PE focuses on learning how to be physically fit and eating healthily and not just team sports which have a lot of inactivity (eg waiting for the ball to come your way in soccer). Unfortunately, only 6% of US high schools offer a daily PE class. In addition, children spend 5.5 hours in front of a screen of some sort a day. Lack of PE in school and too much screen time increases our youth obesity problem. Seattle Learning Center aims to follow the same techniques used by Central to encourage children to be physically fit. We will do this by offering PE 4-5 times a week for our students.

There are a number of studies presented on the correlation between physical fitness and academic achievement:

California Department of Education said that in the last 5 years, students with high fitness scores also have high test scores. In addition to this, the organization PE4LIFE claims that the schools in the inner city that are in partnership with them, reduced its disciplinary problems by 67%.

Another proof is the study of Charles Hillman and Darla Castelli that measured electrical activity in the brain. The electroencephalogram (EEG) showed more activity in fit kid’s brain indicating that more neurons in attention were being recruited for a given task.

Ratey claims that the brain is an adaptable organ in the parlance of the neuroscientist. Neurotransmitters, carry our signaling and are elevated by exercise and drugs. BDNF brain derived neurotrophic factor. Neurotrophins such as BDNF build and maintain cell circuitry, the infrastructure of the brain itself. It nourishes neurons like fertilizer. More exercise=more BDNF=more nourishing for neurons=smarter kids.

In a 2007 study of humans, German researcher found that people learn vocabulary words 20% faster following exercise than they did before exercise. Levels of BDNF is correlated to rate of learning, people with less BDNF have learning difficulties.

The brain needs to be worked out to perform better according to a Harvard study. Brain cells grow back, and they found evidence of this published in a 1998 seminal paper called Neurogenesis. Exercise produces new cells. BDNF is unleashed when we get our blood pumping. If we are not moving there is no real need to learn anything.

We can conclude from the above researchers that the benefits of exercise are extremely valuable for both us and our children. Our bodies are designed for aerobic exercise (eg from martial arts, gymnastics, and most sports), which leads to optimum brain development. By helping our children develop a strong educational and physical foundation, we will guide them to become physically fit, life-long learners.

Thank you for reading this article. We truly hope you and your family will benefit from it, and please feel free to share it with others. If you have any questions about this article, please just let us know.

Kindest Regards,

Lily Talley

References:

Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain by John J Ratey

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When is my child ready for potty training?

When is My Child Ready for Potty Training?

Potty training young children can be frustrating for parents and child care providers. One way to alleviate that frustration is to acknowledge that there is no perfect age at which potty training must be completed. The ability to master toilet training is a developmental process. A good number of children are not physiologically ready to be toilet trained till approximately l8-24 months, while some may not be ready until 30 months or older. The American Academy of Pediatrics has specific guidelines for evaluating when a child is ready for potty training.

Look for the following signs of potty training readiness:

Your child stays dry at least two hours at a time during the day or is dry after naps
Bowel movements become regular and predictable.
Facial expressions, posture or words reveal that your child is about to urinate or have a bowel movement.
Your child can follow simple instructions
Your child can walk to and from the bathroom and help undress.
Your child seems uncomfortable with soiled diapers and wants to be changed
Your child asks to use the toilet or potty
Your child asks to wear big-kid underwear

How can you tell if a child wants or needs to go to the potty? You can observe the signals the child gives that he or she may be ready to go to the potty. If a child starts wiggling or grabbing the diapers, that may be a sign that he or she wants to or is aware of the desire to urinate. On the other hand some children go into a corner or behind furniture and squat, while having a bowel movement. They may also grunt, cross their legs, peer at the diaper bulge, etc. When either a parent or child care providers can make any of these observations they should then be communicated from parents to child care provider and vice versa.

A child care provider, daycare center, or preschool teacher plays a large role in toilet training.

Firstly, never pressure a child to use the potty. It is best to introduce them to the potty and give them exposure to the experience.

Daycare providers should regularly ask the child if he or she would like to go potty. If the child refuses, you may ask the child to join the other kids while they use the restroom. This is how you provide exposure and experience. If the child is interested, then help them try it out. Again do not pressure the child. Make sure that he or she can take off their own clothes to use the potty.

Once a child has shown interest in the potty they are probably wearing pull-ups. When he or she has used the toilet for a few weeks, inform them that they can bring underwear to school if they would like.

Toilet training can be a very positive and pleasant experience for both the child and the parent or caregiver especially when they work together play a supportive role in this developmental process.

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Preschool for 2 year olds, Queen Anne, Seattle

Dear Parents,

We are going to open a two year old class at our preschool this fall. Currently we have a preschool for 3-5 year olds and due to great interests, we are excited to add a 2 year old class as well.

We will be holding two open tour days specifically for the parents of 2 year old children. The first day is Wed, August 5^th at 10:00 am, and the second day is Sat, August 8^th at 4:00 pm. Please let us know which day you would prefer to come.

Our school’s location is across the street from Seattle Pacific University, at a building that is also used for martial arts. The facility has a really nice cushioned floor that the kids just love to play on. The aim of our program is to give children a good academic curriculum and expose them to physical education to give children a head start for school. You can read more about our school and mission statement at our website: www.seattlelearningcenter.com

Since this is a new program, we would like to get your feedback and advice, so we can custom tailor the program as best as possible to fit your needs. Please email us at info@seattlelearningcenter.com and let us know what you are looking for in a 2 year old preschool and if you want to come to our open tour days.

Best regards,

Lily Talley

Head Teacher

Seattle Learning Center

Direct Phone: 206-799-2845

340 W Nickerson Street

Seattle, WA 98119

www.seattlelearningcenter.com

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Relocating to Seattle? Looking for a preschool?

If you are relocating to Seattle, there are a number of resources out there to help you transition into your new life. For example:

www.relocatingtoseattle.com

www.seattle.net/information/relocate

http://www.seattlechamber.com

Families with young children have to look for preschools and daycare ahead of time in order to get a spot for the desired school year.

Living in Seattle can be very expensive compared to the cities in the midwest so be sure to visit this site and calculate the standard of living.

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www.seattlelearningcenter.com

Preschool and Playcare in Queen Anne, Seattle, Washington

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