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माताओं और डैड्स के लिए टिनी टिप्स- संघटक #4 हिंदी- Hindi

बच्चे मानवता के लिए सबसे बड़ा उपहार हैं।

बच्चों को उनके शिक्षक के रूप में सेवा करने के लिए आपको क्या करना चाहिए और आपको कौन होना चाहिए?

आपको “आजीवन शिक्षार्थी” होने के लिए बौद्धिक रूप से तैयार और प्रतिबद्ध होना चाहिए, क्योंकि आप समझते हैं कि सीखने के लिए “हमेशा अधिक सच्चाई और ज्ञान होता है”। आपको यह समझना चाहिए कि जैसे-जैसे आप सीखना और अपने जीवन को बढ़ाना जारी रखते हैं, यह न केवल आपको लाभान्वित करता है, बल्कि उन बच्चों के जीवन को भी लाभान्वित करता है जिनकी आप सेवा कर रहे हैं।

एक शिक्षक के रूप में यह हमारी जिम्मेदारी है कि हम अपने जीवन को सीखना और बढ़ाना जारी रखें ताकि हम अपने जीवन के सभी क्षेत्रों में विकसित हों।  हम कौन हैं और हम क्या जानते हैं और बच्चों के साथ साझा करना है, यह बच्चों को पढ़ाने और सलाह देने का एक महत्वपूर्ण हिस्सा है।  यदि हम उन गतिविधियों में शामिल नहीं हुए हैं जो बच्चों के लिए हमारे पाठ्यक्रम के लिए संसाधन और सामग्री प्रदान करते हैं, तो हम बच्चों को दुनिया के ज्ञान के धन तक पहुंच को सीमित और वंचित कर रहे हैं।  इतने सारे शिक्षक और प्रशासक “बर्न आउट” का अनुभव करते हैं, क्योंकि वे खुद को यह विश्वास करने के लिए इस्तीफा दे देते हैं कि उन्हें स्कूल वापस जाने, यात्रा करने, रुचि समूहों में शामिल होने, खुशी के लिए पढ़ने और खुद को चुनौती देने की ज़रूरत नहीं है कि वे उन चीजों को करने के लिए चुनौती दें जो उनके लिए “बॉक्स से बाहर” हैं। 

हम शिक्षक और माता-पिता बच्चों के लिए रोल मॉडल हैं।  यदि वे हमें साहसी के रूप में दुनिया को पढ़ने और तलाशने का आनंद लेते हुए देखते हैं, तो वे भी दुनिया के खजाने का पता लगाना और खोजना चाहते हैं।  अपने स्वभाव से, बच्चे जिज्ञासु और निडर होते हैं।  वे चीजों का “क्यों” जानना चाहते हैं!  वे जानना चाहते हैं कि चीजें कैसे काम करती हैं!  उन्हें एक पर्यावरण कक्षा या उनके बाहरी कक्षा में उद्यम करने के लिए अनुभवों और समय पर हाथों की आवश्यकता होती है जो उनकी उम्र और परिपक्वता के लिए उम्र और संज्ञानात्मक रूप से उपयुक्त सामग्री का खजाना प्रदान करती है।  हम ऐसी सामग्री और वातावरण बनाते हैं जो बच्चों के सभी 4 डोमेन में उनके विकास का समर्थन करते हैं।

 मैं एक व्यक्तिगत नोट पर जानता हूं कि मैंने खुद को “आजीवन शिक्षार्थी” होने के लिए प्रतिबद्ध किया है।  मैंने हमेशा उन चीजों को करने और उन चीजों में उद्यम करने का वचन दिया जो जीवन और दुनिया के बारे में मेरे ज्ञान की सांस का विस्तार करेंगे ताकि मैं अपने लेखन और वकालत में एक संसाधन बना रहूं।  यह हमारे दिमाग को खिलाने और हमारी आत्माओं की अभिव्यक्तियों को बढ़ाने के लिए हमारे मानव डिजाइन का एक प्रमुख हिस्सा है।  बच्चे सबसे अच्छे हैं कि हम कौन हैं और हम कौन बन सकते हैं ताकि हम उनका मार्गदर्शन कर सकें और उनकी “जीवन की दिव्य यात्रा” में उनका पोषण कर सकें।

माता-पिता के रूप में हमारे पास अपने बच्चों के शिक्षकों के साथ संबंध विकसित करने और उनका समर्थन करने और उन्हें हमारे बच्चों के लिए प्रासंगिक और रोमांचक पाठ्यक्रम सीखने और प्रदान करने के लिए प्रोत्साहित करने की जिम्मेदारी है।  हम उनके अन्वेषण के लिए संसाधन ला सकते हैं।  हम फील्ड ट्रिप प्रदान करने में मदद कर सकते हैं, और मेरे पास हमेशा माता-पिता थे जिन्होंने थोड़ा इन-हाउस पैरेंट सपोर्ट ग्रुप बनाया था ताकि हमारे पास हमेशा स्कूल द्वारा बच्चों की पेशकश की गई संसाधनों से परे संसाधन हों।  शिक्षकों को यह जानने की जरूरत है कि हम माता-पिता के रूप में अपने बच्चों को मार्गदर्शन, पोषण और शिक्षण में उनके साथ सहयोग कर रहे हैं।  यह घर-स्कूल- और समुदाय के बीच एक सहयोग होना चाहिए।  माता-पिता से बेहतर कौन है कि वे हमारे स्कूलों के लिए समर्थन मांगें, जो स्कूल के समुदाय में काम करते हैं और या रहते हैं।  हमारे स्कूलों में सामुदायिक निवेश, शिक्षा की गुणवत्ता की स्थिरता में परिणाम देता है। 

पी.एस.

मैं सिर्फ यह जोड़ना चाहता हूं कि माता-पिता और उनके बच्चे के स्कूल के साथ यह रिश्ता तब खत्म नहीं होता जब बच्चा प्राथमिक विद्यालय से स्नातक हो जाता है।  माता-पिता के रूप में हमें प्राथमिक विद्यालय से हाई स्कूल तक अपने बच्चे के शैक्षणिक संस्थानों में शामिल रहना होगा।  यहां तक कि जब वे कॉलेज जाते हैं, अगर आपके लिए अपने बच्चे के कॉलेज के अनुभव का समर्थन करने के अवसर हैं- खेल, माता-पिता की घटनाएं, या कलात्मक कार्यक्रम जो वे हैं और आपको उनका समर्थन करने के लिए आमंत्रित किया जाता है, तो दिखाएं!

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Tiny Tips for Moms and Dads #69 Home Schooling is not limited to Monday thru Friday- 8-3

Home schooling is a natural part of engaging as a family. Learning takes place in all aspects of what we do with and for our children.

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I know that the privilege of being able to home school your child is not always feasible for some parents! But there are ways to intercede in your child’s learning experience and take charge of what you want your child to learn and be exposed to! There are gaps in our institutional educational system that we as families can fill in. School or learning is not confined to Monday thru Friday- 8-3! There are teachable moments that happen organically and there are opportunities for us as parents and grandparents as well as extended family and the village we create and sustain to support our children.

I have been blessed as a grandparent to participate in home schooling our grandchildren, and after 34 years of teaching children and teaching teachers in training to teach children, I get to have the honor of teaching our grandchildren to love the gift of learning! One of the most critical gaps in our educational system is not integrating the need for curriculum that is eclectic, focuses on the needs of individualized learning, and the role of social emotional develop that needs to be engrained in the overall curriculum. We have a world that is evolving in some unknown direction at warp speed! We have a responsibility to step in and slow down the life our children are being engulfed into!

They need time to discover who they are and what they are passionate about. And we need to be present for them so that as they engage with the world in and out of school, we are afforded the depth of observation that can take place in the home schooling environment! I don’t want to generalize and say that every home school program is perfection because each of us are doing it differently, but opportunities are there to invest daily in the education of their children.

Those parents that can’t or chose institutional programs must still keep these elements in the forefront of educating their children! I will confess the most difficult challenge I had as a parent was how and where to educate my Nikki! I listened to her and followed her direction. At 4 years old she told me she had to go to a school where they talked about God everyday. So she started out in the Lutheran schools and by 3rd grade she decided she wanted to go to Catholic school and did so thru her college education! It was a fit for her! You have to find the fit for your child!

P.S. I don’t know how she found out about Catholic school because we were not Catholic! But it was sooo Niki!

Ua is an influence in his sister Aoluna’s life everyday and he takes being part of her world seriously

The beauty of learning is that it is limitless and shared with this we love!

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Tiny Tips for Moms and Dads #37 Bullying, Violence, and Racism is Self-Destructive and Can Disease the Soul!

We have a big job ahead of ourselves as
“guardians” of our precious children.

So much of what our children are experiencing in this “new world order” is fused with bullying, violence, and racism and we know as adults that it imperative for us as “guardians” of our children to protect them and give them the tools to navigate through the maze of illusions, deceptions, and untruths that try to capture the imagination and soul of our children.  Our responsibility is to cultivate in our children compassion, the ability to be kind, thoughtful, respectful, and non-judgmental of other people. 

Children are not born with feelings of hatred, violence, or racism.  Those traits or actions are taught and imposed by other people in a child’s world of influence.  They come into this world as a clean slate.  They come here to be loved and guided.  They come here to learn, to explore, to discover the world that they have to live in and be a part of.  We have the chance to influence them during the most important developmental time in their life.  We have a chance to instill the values and behavior in our children that will support them in being who they are designed to be.  They were designed to be loving, caring, gentle of spirit, kind, and receptive of being healthy in their perception of what life and people should be like.  Life will challenge them and try to “take them out of themselves”, as our ancestors use to say.  We therefore have to fortify them with the character skills that will sustain them in being their authentic selves. 

We have to be observant in what transpires in their interactions, especially with their peers.   So much is revealed during “play”.  This is the time we can use to have a “teaching moment” with our children.  Firsthand, real-time experiences are the best way to integrate a conceptual lesson.  There are children’s books that can also support us in sharing the concepts we want to instill in our children’s character development.  I realize that what makes “Tiny Tips for Moms and Dads”, different than other parenting books and media content, is that my focus is on helping parents support the character development and spiritual essence of their children.  I understand the significance of this area of human development and how it impacts the overall life journey of our children. 

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Reflections on the Radio Session with Les Brown Talk Radio Show 980 AM

I really wanted to blog to you last night, but we are fine tuning our Heart4Kids theme song and the rehearsal went late into the night. I am so excited about this song and our prayer is that it will go around the world and touch everyone’s heart. We will upload it on the Website when we have the finished product. Once again I had a great time participating on the Les Brown Show. The topic he chose was “How Do You Build Self Esteem in your Children”. . He encouraged parents to call in and share what they were doing to develop self-esteem in their children. This is such an important topic so much so that in my book “Embracing the Gift of Parenthood” I thread the essence of this throughout the fabric of each chapter in different angles. It really speaks to how by loving ourselves and showing our children what that looks like, we model loving one’s self. It also speaks to showing our children that we love them and that they are worthy of being loved. I am going to come back to this discussion and go into it in a more expansive conversation. I know that this will come up in our seminar on Friday, July 22, 2011. I hope you will join us! Check into the website and RSVP (heart4kids@hotmail.com or call 310-422-0766. This is the first of the 12 part series of our seminars on “Parenting from the Heart”.

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Parenting Habits that Get on my Nerves!

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Leilani takes being a mother of her three children very seriously.

A Parenting Habit that Get on My Nerves!

One of the things that really bothers me, is when a parent is crossing the street and is busy on their cell phone having a conversation and not even holding their child’s hand. I really want to jump out of my car and confront them, but instead I gently honk my horn just enough to get their attention but not frighten the child. I put an expression on my face that shouts, ” Hey! grab your child’s hands before they get killed by a car!!” We have to be present for our children! That is what it is to be a parent! It is not easy to be “on” all the time, but we have to be the “watch keepers” it’s our job! We have so little control over so much, we have to be awake and on call for the things we can be in control of. It is a lot of work and that’s why if you are going to be a parent you must realize that you are entering into a life time “Covenant” with your child.