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
Kind AND Firm At The Same Time
A lot of parents and teachers are trying to “balance” kindness and firmness because they want to be nice to the kids…..until they can’t stand their behavior…and then they decide they were “too nice” and get “firmer”…until they start to feel guilty…and go back and forth just trying to get the right balance. The KEY […]
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 […]