How To Help your Child LearnWritten by Barbara White
How To Help Your Child Learn.Just as every snowflake is unique, so is every child. The way that your child learns depends a number of different factors, which combined together, create his unique learning style. By helping your child discover how he learns best, you will set him up for life time success in learning, and reduce frustrations that come through trying to learn in a way that does not use his particular strengths and to him seems uncomfortable. Every parent has been through school system and hopefully discovered ways that facilitated a style of learning that worked for them. However it is a fallacy to presume that a parent’s style is necessarily going to be best way for their child, in fact it could have a detrimental effect to insist that they learn in that way. For example traditionally accepted environment to do homework is to sit at a desk in a quiet spot to help concentration. However this is only likely to help learning for a percentage of students. If this is not a comfortable way of learning for a child it can actually inhibit flow of ideas and create a learning vacuum where mind becomes a blank. Some may need to spread out on floor, sit cross-legged on bed or even in front of TV to find an environment where their best learning can take place. Some students need music or background noise, food or drink and to feel comfortable before real learning can take place. Some remember best when they can move about or learn by doing, some need to visualize or see pictures, write or read information for themselves, and others need to hear information and speak it back in order to remember it. Using a combination of two of these modes may work best for some students. Another important factor that comes in play is way a child perceives and orders information in their mind. The conventional method is for information to be structured in a logical step by step process, which leads in a linear form from beginning to its logical end. This method works for many students, however some may have learning styles which in take information and put it into meaningful bits or chunks, which are stored in mind in a more random way. Such a student will reach desired result, but will not use a sequential logical format in learning process.
| | MY SON-IN-LAW GETS LOST ON THE RIVERWritten by Irvin L. Rozier
Matthew 18 verse 11 "For Son of man is come to save that which was lost."On Sunday night, April 10th, 2005, I received a phone call from my daughter, Eva. She was very distraught. Her husband, Jack, was missing and she had no idea where he was. She is a nurse, and had been working at nursing home that day. She had came home, and Jack wasn't there so she thought that he had run to Walmart's or somewhere else. Then she noticed that their canoe was missing. A couple of days earlier, I had went by their house to see them. No one was home, so I wandered around yard, looking at all beautiful flowers and great landscaping Jack had done. My attention was drawn to that canoe that was sitting on top of side of carport. When Eva called me, I began to pray for Jack, that Lord would keep him and protect him. A few minutes after 10 PM, Jack's Mom, Debbie, called me and told me that they had found Jack's vehicle by river, but there was no sight of Jack. We had received much rain, and river was full, and current was swift. After I heard this, I prayed again, and Lord gave me assurance that Jack would be okay. We went over to river where Jack's vehicle was found. Many people were gathered there, including representatives of Sheriff's Department and of Georgia Game and Fish Commission. They already had a boat, and were getting ready to go search for my lost son-in-law and his two friends. Eva was really all to pieces, thinking worst. Just before boat was to be launched, sheriff received a call on his radio. Someone reported hearing someone hollering at next bridge down. We loaded up, and drove over there (about 10 miles). It was dark, and we begin to yell for Jack. No answer. It was now after midnight, so Eva was exhausted and said, "I just want to go home." Eva, her brother, Joel, my girlfriend, Nancy, and I started to leave and were stopped. Debbie said, "Jack just called, they are safe!"
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