TEACH ME, I'M YOURS: If you want your child to be smart, you be the first teacher!

Written by Joan Bramsch


TEACH ME, I'M YOURS: If You Want Your Child To Be Smart, You Be The First Teacher by Joan Bramsch

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TEACH ME, I'M YOURS is an ideal way for parents to help their child grow in many areas ... physical fitness, body awareness, physical perception and mental alertness. It is a well-designed, effective program for all young children. By using it,repparttar children will gain self-control and self-confidence which will aid their self-actualization and layrepparttar 111652 foundation for success in school and everyday life. This program is a must for all parents of preschool and primary school-age children.

EDWARD J. MEELL President Media Management Services, Inc. Formerly: Editorial Director, McGraw-Hill Films

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You Want Your Child To Succeed This book is written with one goal in mind: To teach you to teach your child. Not reading or writing or arithmetic -- though those are very important, but to teach your child skills that he will need to succeed in formal education.

"Every first pregnancy is an uninformed decision. Parenting still is basically an occupation done by amateurs," says Judy Todd, psychology professor. Glenn Doman, a Human Potential expert adds, "We raise our turkeys on purpose, and our children by accident."

But with TEACH ME, I'M YOURS, that's all going to change. Children Lose Creativity in School Statistically, in Kindergarten, children ask ninety-five percent ofrepparttar 111653 questions, withrepparttar 111654 teacher asking only five percent. But byrepparttar 111655 end of First grade,repparttar 111656 numbers are completely reversed. Nowrepparttar 111657 teacher asks ninety-five percent ofrepparttar 111658 questions, andrepparttar 111659 children have to be goaded to askrepparttar 111660 remaining five percent. In other words, creative thought often goes outrepparttar 111661 window whenrepparttar 111662 child enters school.

But with TEACH ME, I'M YOURS, that's going to change for your child. And why is that? you may ask.

Because your home is your child's first school and you arerepparttar 111663 first teacher. I promise you'll be a very good one, too. That's what TEACH ME, I'M YOURS is all about -- a training manual for you and your child.

Unfortunately "the job of parenting is one ofrepparttar 111664 few things we expect people to be good at without having any training," according to Hannah Nuba-Scheffler. But now there's TEACH ME, I'M YOURS. Your Child Can Far Exceed Today's Existing Standards To begin with, your child must know where her/his body is, in time and in space, before s/he can learn anything academically. I'll repeat that. Your child must know where her/his body is, in time and in space, before s/he can learn in school.

Too many parents underestimate a child's ability to learn. Studies conducted by Dr. Benjamin Bloom, noted child psychologist fromrepparttar 111665 University of Chicago, have shown that 50 percent of a child's intelligence develops byrepparttar 111666 age of four, another 30 percent byrepparttar 111667 age of eight andrepparttar 111668 final 20 percent byrepparttar 111669 age of seventeen years. Intelligence, in this case, is defined asrepparttar 111670 ability to manipulate and process information.

Parents trained to teach positively, help their young children exhibit mental and linguistic growth far exceeding that of other same-age children.

Your child's future intelligence depends to a large extent on what you put into her/his mind beforerepparttar 111671 age of five years. Illiteracy Rate Growing Rampantly We need a new approach to Learning forrepparttar 111672 preschool, Kindergarten and primary aged child. In a recent report,repparttar 111673 U.S. Department of Education stated that there are more than 24 million functionally illiterate Americans of voting age.

Each day this figure grows larger -- it's now more than one-third ofrepparttar 111674 American adult population -- and many young people reachrepparttar 111675 age of 18 and are unable to readrepparttar 111676 front page of a newspaper or complete a job application form. Children Being Pushed Ahead In School What arerepparttar 111677 reasons for such a gigantic problem? For years, too many children have been pushed ahead from grade to grade, falling farther and farther behind. They weren't prepared forrepparttar 111678 learning process. Instead they were pushed intorepparttar 111679 formal classroom before they had an opportunity to prepare their bodies and their minds for this new challenge.

Most children are not taught body control, body awareness orrepparttar 111680 main facets of perception so they can prepare themselves forrepparttar 111681 joyful goal of a lifetime of learning. In other words,repparttar 111682 child hears, but does not listen;repparttar 111683 child looks, but does not see; s/he touches, but does not feel; and eats, but does not taste. The child does not grow toward a full potential in life. Let Learning Become A Joyous Experience TEACH ME, I'M YOURS will help your child to enjoy and to excel inrepparttar 111684 learning experience. Mentally, today, too many children are Third Grade "dropouts." So, if you want your child to be happy and smart, too, use this book and berepparttar 111685 First Teacher!

NOTE: Please print out this book's contents on good quality paper (you'll be using it for many years!), then either have it bound in a comb binding or use a 3-ring binder.

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INTRODUCTION TO "TEACH, ME I'M YOURS" TEACH ME, I'M YOURS (TMIY) contains a multi-sensory total program of audio (ear), visual (eye) and tactual (touch) perception (understanding), and motor (muscle) development activities designed to encourage your child to reach his own personal goal of physical fitness, body awareness and, both, physical and mental perception. TMIY also introduces creative problem-solving skills, memory and concentration development, space and time recognition, stress management and harmony with Self and others, as well as, letter, number, color and shape recognition.

This program will, with your joyful help, encourage your child to strive for excellence and will openrepparttar 111686 doors to new ideas and thoughts about individuality andrepparttar 111687 world at large. Throughrepparttar 111688 TMIY program you can show your child that self-control is a learned process that leads to self actualization - your child can personally decide to be a winner! But this process isn't something he will pick up from cartoon shows or from other children You really do have to help him. What better way can you spend time with your child than by helping him learn through joyful activities? It's what good parenting is all about -- to teach your child to grow with dignity and withrepparttar 111689 skills needed to be a successful adult. With this program, your child will move ahead at his own rate, building a series of successes, rather than failures. Soon a belief system forms -- knowing success, he can succeed again and again.

Reshape The Family Diet -- Avoid Dinnertime Trouble/Cyndi Thomas, ND

Written by Joan Bramsch


Reshape The Family Diet -- Avoid Dinnertime Trouble

by Cyndi Thomas, ND

When I announced that my family needed to change its diet somewhat... well, to say my children weren't as excited as me would be an understatement.

More than once they cried: What? Salad again! When are we going to have some real food?

My understanding reply was usually, "This is dinner...eat it or starve." After all, I had taken it upon myself to get my family inrepparttar best possible health -- NO MATTER WHAT!

I had decided no more junk food. We were going to sprout alfalfa and have produce delivered by truck once a week. We were going to have meals made up of just fruits and vegetables. We were going to drink juice made from... gulp, barley grass and carrots. My kids were going to be thrilled withrepparttar 111651 change!

So I sat them down -- all seven of them -- and gave a brilliant lecture onrepparttar 111652 importance of good nutrition. I even had charts and graphs. I knew that once they understood,repparttar 111653 change wouldn't be a problem at all. After all, I had intelligent kids. They would understand. Right? Wrong!

C'mon mom... do you really mean no more hot dogs, hamburgers, ice cream, brownies, potato chips and soda pop. You don't expect me to give up soda pop -- DO YOU?

I no longer recommend anyone do what I did. My path to healthy living was paved with good intentions. But my family sufferedrepparttar 111654 potholes that accompanied my attempt to overhaul their eating habits overnight.

You won't have to endure as much agony. I've compiled a few guidelines to make such a transition easier forrepparttar 111655 caring mother (or father) wanting what's best for her or his family: 1. Do not say anything torepparttar 111656 family about what is to transpire. (The exception here is ifrepparttar 111657 family already has an excellent, above-average level of communication and they would rather have apples instead of Ding-Dongs for dessert!) So like I said, "Don't say anything."

2. Without comment -- and over a period of months --repparttar 111658 meals should gradually become more nutritious.

3. To complement torepparttar 111659 regular meat main course, you serve lightly steamed vegetables and a tossed green salad. Less high-fat dairy products, fried foods, pre-prepared foods and canned foods appear onrepparttar 111660 table.

4. Make a deal withrepparttar 111661 kids: We eat like I say five days a week... twice weekly, you can pickrepparttar 111662 menu. Most kids would be agreeable to that. Mine were. Of course, it took me a month to realizerepparttar 111663 importance of letting them choose occasionally.

(It was during that month that my then 16-year-old son came home one night with two large pepperoni pizzas. He walked in with a smile and a grin-delivered greeting: "Gee mom, you work so hard. I thought I'd take care of dinner tonight!" With his minimum wage salary from sacking groceries, takeout pizza was something he couldn't afford very often.) The transition is much smoother when mom AND Dad agree onrepparttar 111664 diet change. Stillrepparttar 111665 rule isrepparttar 111666 less fanfare,repparttar 111667 better. Slowly introduce more nutritious menus and set a good example of eating and enjoying. Make positive comments about how goodrepparttar 111668 vegetables taste -- and how good they are forrepparttar 111669 body.

If questions are raised as to whyrepparttar 111670 menus are different, be honest and direct: "We've been reading (orrepparttar 111671 doctor told us -- or Bob and Mary have been telling us) that junk food makes our bodies sick."

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