Becomingan effective fairy godmotheris a piece of cake

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Becoming an effective fairy godmother is a piece
of cake

• Happy, healthy and confident children - nurturing
  our children's potential

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My Fairy Godmother

• May you always remember the joyous time you
  spent with us at Bernby school in America. And
  all the joy you left behind for us to cherish and
  remember.
• With Much Love,
• Miss Bea

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Who is your Fairy Godmother?

• Who inspired you to do what youre doing?

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What would you wish for?
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Once upon a time
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My Baby Layette
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Dr. Suzuki and World Peace
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Olympic Athlete
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Glen Doman
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Wiring up the babys brain
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Where active play is serious fun
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Empowering parents and caregivers to raise happy,
healthy and confident children
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• Why?
• What?
• How?

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Why nurture our childrens potential?

• Our planet needs this generation to grow into
  confident, resourceful adults who can develop all
  of their multiple intelligences for a peaceful
  and sustainable future.

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Before I flew I was already aware of how small
and vulnerable our planet is but only when I saw
it from space, in all its ineffable beauty and
fragility, did I realize that human kind's most
urgent task is to cherish and preserve it for
future generations. Sigmund Jähn, "The Home
Planet."
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Our world is out of balance
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Starvation / Obesity

• Treatable illnesses, such as pneumonia, malaria,
  diarrhea and malnutrition, become
  life-threatening when combined with poverty, war,
  poor sanitation, inadequate health care and
  insufficient preventive measures (www.care.org)
• Obesity has devastating physical and emotional
  effects. An earlier onset of obesity related
  diseases such as type 2 diabetes, is being
  reported in children (Koopman Diaz).

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What are we Nurturing?

• Nurturing our childrens multiple intelligences
  to reach their full developmental potential.
• Distinguish between intelligence and intellect.

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Intelligence versus Intellect
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How do we Nurture Our childrens potential?
Dr. Bruce Perry MD, PhD
www.childtrauma.org
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Move Baby Move
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Development of Memory

• The development of a powerful memory is what sets
  us apart form the rest of the animal kingdom
• Memory enables us to develop new levels of
  intelligence from generation to generation
• What babies learn in their first 5 years forms
  their brain structure

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When we nurture our babies in safe, stimulating
environments, they learn empathy and sharing,
fully expressing their developmental potential
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The brain is like a four-layered cake
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The brain develops in a sequential order

• The three Rs
• Playing with friends
• Exercise and movement
• Love and cuddles

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Brainstem Development

• You cant spoil a newborn baby
• Babies need to feel safe and secure to learn
• Babies need attuned, attentive, predictable,
  dependable, well-informed caregivers
• Human touch is essential to the infants
  developing brain

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How do you support Brainstem development?
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Mid-brain development

• Sensory motor experiences
• Touch, taste, smell, sound and movement
• Loving and emotionally functional interactions

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How do you support Midbrain development?
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Limbic system development

• The critical time to encourage social skills and
  empathy is in the first five years when the
  limbic brain is forming
• Teaching empathy to a teenager is much harder!
• Children learn social skills through positive
  play experiences with friends and family
• Each child learns at their own pace
• Some children are ready to share and cooperate at
  a very young age. Others take longer
• One negative comment can wipe out the benefit of
  5 positive comments

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How do you support development of the Limbic
System ?
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Development of the Cortex

• Children need to learn to take risks safely to
  learn
• Children need to feel safe before they are
  willing to take risks
• Praise the good and the bad will go away
• Seeking novelty and challenges is vital for
  creativity
• Physical problem solving transfers to mental
  problem solving
• Parents need information about the link between
  play, reading and writing readiness and learning
  at school

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How do you support development of the Cortex?
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Magic Words The Language of Self-Esteem

• To nurture happy kids we need to be prepared to
  accept the expression of a lot of unhappiness
• We make kids feel right by accepting their
  feelings
• When kids feel right they behave right
• Theres no such thing as a good or bad child
• Use anger without insult. Describe the situation
  and how it makes you feel

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How can you use Appreciative Descriptive Praise?
Magic Spell 1 A child at your centre has just
mastered independent balancing on the outdoor
equipment. How would you (a) Praise
unhelpfully? What might the child say to
him/herself? (b) Praise by describing in detail
what you see or feel? What might the child say to
him/herself? Magic Spell 2 You have just
finished directing the Christmas nativity
performance at your centre. A child comes
running up to you and asks Was I good? How
would you (a) Praise unhelpfully? What might the
child say to him/herself? (b) Praise by
describing in detail what you see or feel? What
might the child say to him/herself?
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Testing the Spell Your Turn
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More practice using Appreciative Descriptive
Praise

• What was something a child did at your centre
  recently that you appreciated but never
  mentioned?
• What could you say to him/ her to show your
  appreciation using the skills of descriptive
  praise?

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Self-Evaluation

• In a healthy person the source, or locus, of
  evaluation lies within
• Your job is to help the children youre teaching
  believe in themselves. Use appreciative
  descriptive praise
• Describe what you see
• Describe what you feel
• Sum up praiseworthy behavior in a word

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Happily Ever After

• In order for us to all live happily ever after
  we need our children to grow up to be humane and
  self-regulating, have high self-esteem and
  healthy relationships, we need to recapture the
  lost wisdom of healthy child-rearing
• You, as caregivers of children under 5, have one
  of human kind's most urgent tasks - nurturing
  this generation to grow into confident,
  resourceful adults who can develop all of their
  multiple intelligences for the peaceful and
  sustainable future of our planet
• You are the fairy godmothers of the children in
  your care.

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Thanks for helping me find the magic in my life!
Love Flo (Movie Star)"
www.movebabymove.info
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Thank You
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