Home
Find us on Facebook
Follow us on Twitter
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.
Member Since: August 07, 2008 Last Signed In: October 10, 2009 Blog Views: 15 Send To A Friend Sign Guestbook Add as a Friend
Schools and Child Abuse
August 08 September 08 October 08 November 08 December 08 January 09 February 09 March 09 April 09 May 09 June 09 July 09 August 09 September 09 October 09 November 09 December 09 January 10 February 10 March 10 
RSS 2.0    |
|
|
"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
|