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• Publisher's Pen
• Empowering Parents and Teachers
• Empowering K.I.D.S. (Kids In Daily Situations)

Publisher's Pen: Loving Your Child to Success

“To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.”
                                                            Anne-Sophie Swetchine

Brain research shows us that a powerful way to help our children succeed is to love them into success. The power of our love and encouragement opens up the learning center of the brain, and helps children to develop their creativity, along with their ability to problem-solve.

The opposite is also true: continually telling children (or adults for that matter) that they are wrong has an impact on the brain, too. A phenomenon called “downshifting” occurs, where the different parts of our brain shuts down, one by one, until we arrive at the center of the brain which is in survival mode. It is the “fight or flight” part of the brain, where we look for comfort, and are unable to think clearly or take on new information.

The most recent research says that it takes 55 repetitions for something learned to go from short-term memory to long-term memory. So if you are at the 53^rd time of telling your child what you would like him/her to do, don’t give up! You are almost there!

May we hang in there with our children, show them love and compassion, and have the courage to keep going through thick and thin.

Smiles,

Elaine

Empowering Parents and Teachers:

Study the diagram of what the research tells us, and learn what you can do to help your children, or the children in your classroom.

THE POWER OF LOVE

How Brain Research Supports Loving Your Children Into Success

Empowering K.I.D.S. (Kids In Daily Situations):

Empowering K.I.D.S. (Kids In Daily Situations):

Catch yourself and your friends doing something right. Match up the task with the appropriate brain center.
 

When you are working on a project and have come up with some good ideas, you are using which part of your brain?

            Neocortex                              Limbic                                    Reptilian

When you realize that you have enough money saved to buy the video game you want, it stirs which part of your brain?

            Neocortex                              Limbic                                    Reptilian

When nothing has gone right all day, you walk outside and someone in a group of kids sticks out his foot and trips you, you may have reached which part of your brain?

            Neocortex                              Limbic                                    Reptilian

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