14
Sep
The Incredible Years are research-based, proven effective programs for reducing children’s aggression and behavior problems and increasing social competence at home and at school.
10
Sep
Your child’s achievements whether big or small needs to be recognized. This gives them a sense of fulfillment which builds their self-esteem. Letting them know the good work they have done makes them do more and even make it better than the first try. Here are some ways to praise their work or effort:
Wow=Winner=Superstar=Well Done=Super
Awesome=Good job
Good work=Excellent=Outstanding=Very good=Great
Wonderful=I like what you did
That is so nice=Beautiful=Magnificent=Superb
Nice work=Spectacular=Creative work=I just knew you could=Perfect
Cool=Remarkable=Lovely=Bravo=Fantastic=Outrageous
You’re incredible=You rock=You’re special=I love you
Way to go=That’s correct=That’s the best=Hurray
You are a star=Marvelous=Terrific
I’m proud of you=Super
Can you add some more? Just be sure you are sincere when you say these words. Add these words with a smile on your face or a pat on a child’s shoulders or back makes a child’s day complete.
31
Aug
A friend asked me today what are some expectations and what should the activities of a one year old child be since her son just turned one year old a month ago. I told her that her son is doing good and his development is very alright as I have been also observing him. The following are my reasons:
He is very interactive to people around him, he smiles to everyone who notices him, he looks eye to eye with another person, he already started walking by the time he turned one, he babbles words, he picks objects and toys during our nursery class and he cries when he is hungry, sleepy or some feelings of uneasiness that he wants to communicate.
I advised her that children need a lot of stimulation from his/her environment. Singing songs or playing children’s music is very helpful. Children love music. She can also have storytelling with him each night so that his son would be able to acquire language. Storytelling is also a great time for parent and child bonding. Children would think that learning comes best from parents.
I added that if she wants her son to love reading and learning, books should be within a child’s reach so that it would not mean to a child that books are for serious matters only. She may try to put the books near the toys or just part of the toys so that books would look like it is part of the fun and excitement toys give him.
Lastly, we agreed that children should not be forced to do anything that the child can not do at the moment. Every children develops in their own pace.
25
Aug
25
Aug
It’s been around (i guess) more than six months that I had been called in a certain duty in our Church. Although I had been in various callings before, this one is something new to me. Sometimes, too, the duties we are assigned to is not forever ours that’s why there’s no reason to waste time because eventually people will take our place. And we move on with a different service to render.
For this one, I found it quite hard at first but interesting (maybe for some). But since this is not forever mine, I always try to make it as wonderful as it can be for me and the little ones I am handling. There were times I had five students (happened only once) to teach and manage; but my real and constant students are only three. This includes Sophia, my daughther, and the Sularte brothers. Children should be 18 months up to three years in order to be in my class. In short, they are the toddlers who like to run a lot and can never sit still. They are just so excited to practice their recently developed motor skill. Sometimes, too, they don’t seem to listen at all. That’s why visuals are effective means to manage them. At two years old, their play is solitary. All they think about is ME, ME, ME or MINE, MINE, MINE! But when I read about this poem, this really inspired me a lot. This may not only be for teachers but for parents
as well with toddlers.Please read on. Thank you. 
To A Nursery Teacher
by Leslie Ethington (1981)
The Savior came to me one day
And said, in His kind and gentle way.
“Come, follow me. I have need of you
To do a job only a few can do.”
“Teach them love.”
I followed His footsteps one by one.
The joy I felt made me want to run.
We came to a door and He opened it wide.
He said once more, as I stood by His side,
“Teach them love.”
As the door opened there, I was eager to see
The special call the Lord had for me.
“These precious ones that you can see
Recently dwelled in Heaven with me.”
“Teach them love.”
Sitting there among a few odd toys
Were several little girls and boys.
“But they’re so small, Lord” I started to say.
“What can I teach these children today?”
“Teach them love.”
As I eagerly greet each girl or boy
And help them to share a game or a toy,
As I tenderly dry a little one’s tear
When he misses his mother and wants her near.
“I teach them love.”
As we discover the beauty of a butterfly wing
Or I teach them a little song to sing;
As I set an example and show them the way
The Savior would care if He were here today,
“I teach them love.”
“That’s my teacher,” I heard a little voice say
In a very proud and tender way.
And a tiny hand reached up to mine.
Then I thought, “This is a very special time.”
They teach me love.
“Dear Father,” I very humbly pray,
“Thank you for showing me today,
Through the eyes of this very little one,
The way I can be more like your Son.”
“Teach me love.”
