Personal Growth

Prepare Your Child For School

By K. Siingh

Child’s learning process starts in the home under the love and care of his or her parents or close relatives. However, home is not the only center for learning. For child’s all round mental and intellectual growth, it is equally important that child should go to school, where he or she learns to interact socially and important that child should go to school, where he or she learns to interact socially and imbibes knowledge.

Most of the children do not like to go to school initially. If the child is suddenly put to school without preparing him mentally to face the change of environment from home to school, he will strongly resist it and he may develop permanent repulsive feeling about school. There are parents, who without trying to analyze the psychological problems of the child, put force and drag the child to the school daily with a hope that one day he will go to school willingly. But very often it is wrong. It may make an adverse effect on the child in developing his intellectual growth. Child should never be put to force in doing things in the process of developing his mental faculty. Right from infant to adolescent every activity of the child should never be put to force in doing things in the process of developing his mental faculty. Right from infant to adolescent every activity of the child should be entertaining and a fun-game. Applying pressure or force should be as far as possible avoided. The basic reason of child’s aversion to go to school is due to sudden change from home environment to a strange new one of the school. Considering this aspect, parents should prepare the child to face a new environment similar to that of school. If this environment is properly and carefully developed as a pre-schooling preparation, then the child will be looking forward fro the day when he or she will start going to school.

For creating a school atmosphere in the house, make either on room or a corner of a room as a proto-type classroom by arranging a small desk and chair. For infants school is not only a study place, playing is an important curriculum, and according along with desk and chair also keep dolls and other attractive items for game. The class room of the child made in the house may be furnished with nicely stacked colorful books, toys, games, pencil, paper, crayons, painting brush and inks, plaster of Paris as a clay for making articles, audio and video cassettes etc. These will give child an idea about the school atmosphere which is full of fun and pleasure.

28.08.2007 Автор admin | Parenting, Child’s |

GTD: Strategic Planning

A step-by-step program for creating a strategic plan and tactical plan guaranteed to help you get more of what you want done.

You are pursuing a strategy en route to your vision. Whether it is revolutionary or evolutionary, it does not matter. You are on the road, committedly driving your business in a direction of your own choosing. The important thing is that you have, in fact, chosen this course.

And, once you have made this choice, how are you going to realize this strategy? The answer is just like the answer to “How do you climb Mount Everest?” One step at a time. The way you realize your strategy is one step at a time - the trick, of course, is to know what steps to take, and in what order to take them. This article details an approach to developing a strategic and tactical plan.

Completing the past

The first step in creating a strategic plan is to review and complete the previous past period. For the balance of this article, we will refer to that period as a year, although your planning horizon may be either longer or shorter. You complete the past for two reasons - to learn everything possible from your previous actions, results, and mistakes, and as importantly, so that what ever is left over, whatever issues are hanging over your head, are no longer a burden.

Answer the following questions:

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23.08.2007 Автор admin | GTD, Time Management, Motivation, Intellectual growth |

Learning To Read

By Rebecca Walker

Learning to read is one of the most important steps in your child’s development, both socially and intellectually. Reading is the basis for education, and without that ability your child will find grasping new concepts a difficult task – from elementary years through to higher education. It is therefore in your best interests, as a parent, to embark on a reading programme with your child as early as possible, to ensure charted intellectual growth and development, and to allow independent thinking and the basis of intelligence. In this article we will reflect on some of the most salient ways in which you can promote your child’s reading abilities from an early age.

Learning to read is important in allowing your child to participate and develop his understanding of the world at a conceptual level. In conjunction with emotional and social education, reading and literacy on the whole is crucial in ensuring your child can sustain intellectual development throughout his academic and working life. It is therefore imperative that the education process as far as reading is concerned begins as soon as possible, to allow your child to gain exposure more readily to wider concepts as they develop; without the ability to read fluently, this process will become significantly harder for your child, and could have an adverse affect on your child’s passion for learning.

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15.08.2007 Автор admin | Education, Intellectual growth |

Some Benefits Of Breastfeeding

By Apurva Jain

Which mother wouldn’t like her baby to be healthy and get the many benefits of breastfeeding? Breastfeeding is not only good for the baby’s health but it is also very beneficial for the mother in many ways.

Breastfeeding Provides Essential Nutrition To The Baby

Breast milk is beneficial to the baby and her mother in many ways. Basically, it provides the optimum amount and type of nutrition to the baby for its healthy growth. Breast milk contains lactoferrin, an essential element that has many functions. It helps in iron absorption and fights the bacteria that can harm the gut. Breastfeeding also provides lipases that help in the metabolism of fats and gives other useful hormones that help in the development and growth of the baby. Besides quenching thirst, mother’s milk also satisfies hunger and gets the baby to be accustomed to various tastes and flavors that vary with the diet of the mother. Formula milk is in no way equal to what breast milk can provide to the baby by way of adapting to its nutritional needs and strengthening its immune system.

How Breast Milk Gives Immunization To A Baby

Out of all the benefits of breastfeeding, immunization is perhaps the most important. Human milk provides antibodies that guard babies from many intestinal and respiratory ailments. The immunization process is facilitated due to the presence of immune cells and Colostrum. The benefits of breastfeeding include protection of the baby from many bowel diseases like Crohn’s disease, Celiac sprue, rheumatoid arthritis and immune system cancers like lymphoma. All these diseases are very common among babies fed on formula milk. If the babies switch over to human milk, immediate improvements are noticed. Besides these diseases, the benefits of breastfeeding also include protection of the baby from developing eczema, allergies and asthma.
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08.08.2007 Автор admin | Women's-Interests, Education, Child’s |