Teacup Generation? How to Foster Resilience in Children.
Teacups are fragile and used to being served. When they encounter a challenge, they “shatter”. Parents and teachers may do things in the name of caring or efficiency that hamper a child’s ability to develop a tolerance for frustration and failure, and the ability to “bounce back.” It’s very easy for many teachers to get […]
Why Unstructured Play is Critical for Child Development
By definition, play is voluntary, intrinsically motivated, and FUN. Trawick-Smith and Golinkoff agree that free play happens when children call the shots, carry out their own themes, and regulate their own behavior. Unstructured, free play allows children the freedom to explore, create, and discover without predetermined rules or guidelines. It’s been shown to foster cognitive […]
Kind AND Firm At The Same Time
Today, we will discuss the most common challenge that teachers face. Often, the reason why teachers have trouble with the Positive Discipline approach, is that they’re concentrating on the kindness part so hard that they’re forgetting about being firm AT THE SAME TIME. A lot of parents and teachers are trying to “balance” kindness and […]
Positive Discipline Early Childhood Education Training
As a Family, Learning Tree Academy always strives for improvement. We try to keep an open mind and stay up-to-date with recent psychology and neuroscience research about childhood development, learning processes, and how exactly we can contribute to our children’s upbringing in the most nurturing, supportive, and encouraging way. Especially now, in our time of […]
What is Positive Discipline?
“Where did we get the crazy idea that in order to motivate children to do better, first, we have to make them feel worse?” – Dr. Jane Nelson Positive Discipline is a program developed by Dr. Jane Nelsen and based on the work of two psychiatrists, Alfred Adler (1870-1935) and Rudolf Dreikurs (1897-1972). Adler believed that human behavior is purposive; that […]