Parenting With Teacher Nancy

The warmth of physical touch, and responding to your children is essential for healthy development.  This is sometimes referred to as attachment.  This need for attachment stretches beyond the first year, and can be compensated later, children don't get it early.  There is always hope!  The First Year:  A Baby's Brain Needs Love to Develop EXTRA Children can still develop these bonds of love and attachment, even in their adolescence.  Here is a moving story on NPR's This American life about the benefits of loving your chldren.  This recording is well worth the time. This American Life:  Unconditional Love  (Recording) .  (Transcript) BOOK DISCUSSION  This semester's book is  No Drama Discispline, but Daniel Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson .    Please pick up a copy (the  library  has  many copies of the book in E nglish  and  Spanish , ebook and audio, and can easily be found in your local bookstore or online).  We will begin our book discussion of the Introductio

Welcome  to those that are new to the class, and welcome back to everyone else! You may be familiar with Ages and Stages of your child or seen this handout before, but check it out again.  Your child is growing, so s/he could be at a different stage now compared to when you last looked. Here are resources with a quick overview on your child's development, common issues and what you can do at this stage. Zero to Three Age Based Handouts (0-36 months) Three to Four Year Olds Four to Five Year Olds Consider This: Did anything surprise you about your child's development? Is there any suggestions on the list you want to try? QUIET OBSERVATION In class, we will be taking time to do Quiet Observation of our children.  Quietly watching our children in action is an ideal way to learn about child development.  The principals used in class are taken from  Magda Gerber's ideas of the RIE Approach .  Pick up the article in class that explains this. Also, here is one RIE Ex