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Back to School Stress
Back to School Stress
Going back to school can be stressful for both parents and children. Here are some tips to help avoid that stress:
- be excited about the start of school;
- paint a positive picture of school;
- take a back to school shoping trip;
- take three weeks or so to slowly get back to a school schedule for bedtime and wake up;
- tell stories about the fun you had in school.
Talk to your child. School related stress can also be a symptom of an underlying problem or struggle. Sometimes a bit of tutoring or outside support can make a huge difference. The Neuro-Linguistic Learning Center offers a variety of back to school programs.
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Schools and Child Abuse
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Schools and Child Abuse
"Every year we go to great lengths to protect our children from various forms of child abuse. Why? Because we've learned that the fear, anxiety and stress caused by physical and emotional abuse are deep and long-lasting.
However, every year almost 20% of the children we send to school suffer undue anxiety, stress and fear simply because they do not learn the same way as the other 80%. These children are not disabled or ill-behaved or broken, yet they are shamed, ridiculed, embarrassed and set apart only because the approach to learning that works for the majority of children does not work for them. If it sounds like I'm blaming teachers, the answer is an emphatic, NO! Teachers are in a no-win situation assigned to an impossible task--to educate 20 or 30 unique children using one basic approach to learning.
On the surface, it appears that we have all these different methods available to teach children, but what we fail to recognize is that the fundamental nature of all these methods is skewed to a very specific style of learning. While these methods will accommodate about 80% of children, they are the very antithesis of how the other 20% of children learn.
It is difficult to predict the exact outcome for the children who suffer year after year of shame, stress, ridicule and embarrassment, however, if we consider the long-term effects of physical or emotional child abuse, the prognosis does not look good.
So what can be done? Get these children help. Let's stop assuming that just because a child doesn't learn like other children he or she is broken or stupid. And let's stand up for those who can't fight or themselves". -- by Gerald Hughes, Director, Neuro-Linguistic Learning Center
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posted by
creatress
on Aug 11, 2009 at 01:27 PM
Or... we could change the flawed system? Open more charter schools? Demand a better "free and public" education for our children? posted by
swish4fish
on Aug 29, 2009 at 11:08 PM
I think we all have to remember that the "institution" of public education was designed to help keep people out of poverty. It was NEVER intended or designed to accommodate overachievers. And it has never been great at accommodating anyone who did not fit into it's institutional box.
I think we all have to remember that when you send your children to public school, you are,effectively, institutionalizing your child. Your are placing them in an institution with a gatekeeper and 25 to 30 other children with whom they must conform and adapt to in order to survive. In the prison system , the gatekeeper's task is to keep the inmates confined to a rigidly defined physical space. In our educational system, the gatekeeper's role is to keep the "inmates" confined to a rigidly defined informational space. This may sound harsh but school can be a harsh place for those who do not fit the institutional mold. At the NLC we do what we can to help those outside the box children survive and thrive in a system that is simply not designed or equipped to accommodate their unique needs as well as their unique gifts.
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