There are two ways to deal with children – ways that differ widely in principle and results. Faithfulness and love, united with wisdom and firmness, in accordance with the teaching of God’s word, will bring happiness in this life and in the next. Neglect of duty, injudicious indulgence, failure to restrain or correct the follies of youth, will result in unhappiness and final ruin to the children and disappointment and anguish to the parents.
Love has a twin sister, which is duty. Love and duty stand side by side. Love exercised while duty is neglected will make children headstrong, willful, perverse, selfish, and disobedient. If stern duty is left to stand alone without love to soften and win, it will have a similar result. Duty and Love must be blended in order that children may be properly disciplined.
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A healthy, growing child is naturally active and inquisitive. He moves a lot and asks many questions. He is into sorts of nooks and crannies and gets into all kinds of trouble. These are perfectly normal and no cause for concern.
However, in order to develop fully, a child must learn to fucos on an activity, to stick to it until it is done. This is where the hyperactive child may find difficulty. He cannot usually finish tasks set before him.
Moreover, he moves too fast to adequately assess the situation. So he goes about unaware that he may be harming others or destroying plants and property. This situation is cause for concern.
The child is said to be hyactive when: he cannot keep still or stay put for any length of time; his attention is easily diverted, he is too restive to finish the task at hand;he has very little patience or persistence; he does not listen or obey. If he obeys at all, he does things his ownway; his movement are rough and uncontrolled. He frequently hurts his playmates and breaks his toys; he seems thoughtless and indefferent to what others feel; he demands immediate gratification and his hyperactivity becomes pronounced when schools starts.
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Rhythm is the regular, measured beat of sound. The child can learn rhythm from the sounds produced by stones or sticks or metals beat in regular intervals against anything that reverberates. The rhythm created can accompany songs or poems or dnaces.
In music, it is to rhythm before tone or tune that the child first responds. It is important to develop his sense of rhythm so that he will love and enjoy music.
To teach him that music can come from many sources, put together an improvised “rhythm band”, as follows:
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Turn an old kettle into a drum with a spoon for a drumstick.
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two large metal pot covers are cymbals when clapped together.
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flattern metal bottle caps into discs; nail them in pairs to a board and you have a tambourine.
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two bamboo slats can provide added rhythmic sounds.
Use the above “instrument” to accompany the child’s song. Let the child discover the various tones and beats produced. Let him move and dance to the rhythm.
Also, familiarize him with the sounds of nature (the blowing of the wind, the pitter-patter of the rain, the barking of dogs and other animal sounds). Then, point out the rhythm to these sounds.
Teach him to sound out rhythm with his voice or with the clapping of his hands. For example, let him repeat the “ik-pak, pik-pak” rhythm of the rain.
Get him to elicit rhythmic sounds from his bodily movements. Let him stamp his feet, slap his arms and thighs, etc.
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Tagged child development, development, learning in music, music, playing instrument, rhythm
Read to your children, together or individually. They will love it, and you will be investing in their education for life.
Make a “date” with each child at least once a month. I had a friend who took each of his daughter on one date a month – anywhere they wanted to go. This made their relationship much stronger.
Support your children’s hobbies or sports by watching, cheering from the sidelines, volunteering, and where necessary, driving them to and from events.
Spend time with your kids on their homework. Even on a busy day, sitting with your child will encourage him or her, keep them focused, and remind you of when you were in school.
Make shared memories: holidays as a family, cooking and baking, gardening, house cleaning, doing a craft or just coloring.
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Besides being an amusing and engrossing hobby, collecting is a very educational activity. While collecting all kinds of things, the child learns a great deal about his world. It sharpens his curiosity. He learns similarities and differences and increases his scientific store of knowledge.
Children Collection
The collection could be of anything – colored stones, seashells, seeds, pictures from magazines, pressed flowers or leaves – whatever takes his fancy. He could start his collection during outing.
Give your child a box or a drawer where he can keep his collection. Ask him to sort out and arrange the items according to size or color or shape, etc., and perhaps to “catalogue” them by drawing the items he has gathered in a small notebook.
Talk to him about his collection – what makes the pieces the same and/or different, whether there are special features, where and how he found them.
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An understanding heart considers the feelings of others. In difficult situations, the right things to do is not so hard to find if you pay attention ot other people’s feelings and acknowledge your own.
An understanding heart knows how to praise another, how to graciously give credit where credit is due. Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit; we cannot flower and grow without it; an understanding heart is never too busy; an understanding heart protects and enlarges other people’s self-respect; finally, an understanding heart knows how to give a portion of itself.
In a world crying from hunger, fear, sorrow, and threats from every side, every man, woman, and child should aim at developing an understanding heart. The opportunities for using this imaginative gift will never become limited or extinct; people everywhere are in desperate need its attention. And understanding hearts pay benefits to their possessors; they will be rewarded for each thoughtful word spoken, for each benevolent act rendered to those in need.
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Children. They can either be legal or biological. Childhood offers a brief opportunity for parents and children to share intimate moments of love and respect. Time well spent with one’s child is an investment for the future.
So, What is a Child?
- Fruit of marriage. Married couples who love each other welcome the arrival of the fruit of their becoming one flesh.
- Miracle of conception. Not all wives are capable of conceiving . The Bible calls the sexual union of a couple as intimate knowing. Through this avenue, they can bear a child that will add joy to their relationship.
- Bonding factor in marital affair. A child can either enhance and deepen the marriage relationship or become a headache to his or her parents. He or she is an antidote against a couple’s selfishness and self-centeredness. He or she is the cement that glues marital bonding.
- Mentor in parenting. Couples can never learn the lessons of parenting without a child mentoring them.
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As mothers, we need to learn the right method and acquire tact for the training of your little one’s that they may keep the way of the Lord. We need to seek constantly the highest culture of mind that we may bring to the education and training of our children a restful spirit, and a loving heart. We need to imbue them with pure aspiration, and cultivate in them a love for things honest, pure, and holy.
Few realize the effect of a mild, firm manner, even in the care of an infant. The fretful, impatient mother or nurse creates peevishness in the child in her arms, whereas a gentle manner tends to quiet the nerves of the little one.
I have a high regard for my sister-in-law, she had eight year old daughter. Even though she is a working mother, she can still attend her daughter in preparing all the need things of her child, without pressure. She can still smile and when you look at her you can be inspired by her strength and determination. She has the spirit of gentleness in every thing that she does.
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The period in which the infant receives its nourishment from the mother is critical. Many mothers, while nursing their infants, have been permitted to overlabor and to heat their blood in cooking. The nursling has been seriously affected, not only with fevered nourishment from the mother’s breast, but its blood has been poisoned by the unhealthy diet of the mother, which has fevered her whole system, thereby affecting the food of the mother’s mind. If she is unhappy, easily agitated, irritable, giving vent to outbursts of passion, the nourishment the infant receives from its mother will be inflamed, often producing colic, spasms, and in some instances causing convulsions and fits.
How important then that the mother, while nursing her infant, should preserve a happy state of mind, having the perfect control of her own spirit. By doing so, the food of the child is not injured, and the calm, self-possessed course the mother pursues in the treatment of her child has very much to do in molding the mind of the infant. If he is nervous and easily agitated, the mother’s careful, unhurried manner will have a soothing and correcting influence, and the health of the infant can be improved.
Our infant will depend of the mother cares. Mother should watch their feelings, thought, and food intake while in she breastfeeding. Mothers usually pay attention to their infants’ behaviors and interrelate with them through toys during play. The joint attention between infant and mother to the same is one of the important factors for the interaction.
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Every Family should have quality time at least once a week. After a long day of work we should set time to spend just for our family. And we have set an ideal time and place that the family will talk and strolled together.
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enjoying the view
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just watching
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i’m happy with my family
We were roaming around at the Ayala with baby in his stroller. My son enjoys himself with the ride in his stroller. He expresses himself through the smiles he gave to people who took notice of him. He looking around and glare at things which interest him. He seemed to be amazed with the surrounding, and just enjoy the different looks of people and things we came across with. He was so happy and he smiles every time turn around to see us. He had a great moment strolling.
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