In four simple steps you create your own real card swith Saluer Greeting Cards. Really?

1. You choose whether you send a postcard or greeting card.
2. You choose a design, if you want you upload a photo, add frame or sticker, add your personal text and there you are.
3. Your personal card!
4. Add the postal address, do the payment and the card is printed in full colour, and posted by Saluer.

Your advantage with Saluer Greeting Cards?

1. Would you rather not go to a bookstore to look for a card?
2. Would you rather not have to stand in line for a post stamp?
3. Would you rather not have to go to the mailbox in the rain?
4. Would you rather personalise your greeting card with your own photo, your own layout and your personal text?

How is it delivered?

Just 4 steps. Choose the design, personalize it, add the address and send. It helps you not forget and be in time. Create the card now and choose the date of sending. The card will be there right on time!

A is for and

M is for Mother

I is just I

L is  for Love

Y is for You

Father and Mother I Love You

The final test for a student’s language skills usually rests on his creative writing abilities. He language seems to follow a defined natural laws or patterns which Maria Montessori termed as ‘the natural laws of devlopment’. The acquisition of language occurs over a period of time and the more opporunities he gets to express himself in school or at home, the better will be his chance of developing an interest to pen down his thought in writing.

This is a piece of creative writing practice from an 8 year old child wh happens to be quite imaginative and expressive. She was asked to write about  80 words based on the pictures given. She ended up with 167 words. Towards the end of her story,you will see she takes herself away into a path of imagination. “The parents followed the tracks and found their son lying  on a hospital bed. He had not been seen for 2 weeks.” Well in real world, we would have expected the parents to file a missing person report to the police!

“Would you come with me please?”

“Would you like to come with me please?

“Would you like to come with me to the work area?”

“Would you like to follow me to the work area?”

I find that I get the same response whether or not I use the word ‘Please’. In fact, if I drop the word please, it goes unnoticed and then child will respond just as well.

I watch children educational programmes Dora The Explorer, Diego, Hi-5, Barney or Blues Clues. There are no deliberate attempts to use the word ‘Please’ to get the viewers to stay tuned to the programmes. All the characters used in the programmes manipulates the psychology of the mind with speech modulations, articulations, graphics, songs and drama to edutain (educate-entertain) the child. There is no need to use the word ‘Please’ to get them to dance, sing along or play pretend. The power to move the child does not rest on this one so called magic word.

Would you like to try some? Please??

YET, when a child forgets to use the word ‘Please’, they get a quick reminder to rephrase and repeat. It happens all the time to children. Let me highlight 2 things relating to the real life experiences between a child and the adult:

You don’t always get what you want even after using ‘please’. My daughter wants to watch television after dinner at 6 p.m. and has asked me permission. My response has been “No dear, you have homework to do and school in the morning.” She wants to drink coca cola with her McDonald’s meal, she doesn’t get it. I saw a 3 year old boy who struggled with his mother who refused to let him sip his apple juice before he takes a bite off this burger. He stared at his mother who talked down at him, “Say please first.”

You don’t earn your respect from a child just because you say please. Some children are just boisterous and need a lot of room to express themselves.

“I want to eat now,” says the boy.

“How do you say it?” asks the mother.

“May I eat now?” asks the boy.

“No how do you say it politely,” the mother asks.

“May I eat now please.”

“That is better.”

There is nothing wrong with ‘May I eat now?” The boy knows no difference between saying please and not saying it. However, adults are apt to stretch children’s psychological development so much so they become egocentric at teaching a child to use the word ‘please’ in his request for favours. The child who has been rejected once or twice whilst he has used the word ‘PLEASE’ can no longer understand why he should serve the selfish desire of his parent to feel respected before receiving a harmonious response.

I used to think ‘Please’ is a magic word. I think it is probably only a word that reconstructs the psychological freedom path the child is walking on. If the child asks, ‘May I eat now?’ in a soft, comfortable polite tone, he should already be rewarded for his effort to express his wish in proper correct sentence. Anything more to correct it, will only lead him to question its relevance and the paradox becomes greater and more confusing.

What Is BlogCatalog?

A social website which is said to have more than 80,000 sites submitted in one place. I may be wrong with the figure but you can see it for yourself that there is a huge number of bloggers everyday busying chatting, discussing and exchanging shouts (their personal mailboxes) with one another everyday. They have covered every needed feature a blogger would require to get the traffic, exposure and learning experience.

It is undeniably the place to submit your blog if you want to get a headstart in blogging. It might take you 48 hours to wait after your application is accepted but once you have your foot in the doorway, you will expect nothing less than 80,000 other blogs to connect with.

If you have studied the theory of society of cohesion, a term coined by Maria Montessori, you will understand perfectly the idea of how members of social community cohere to form a binding contract of friendship based on mutual freedom and respect for one another.

What you stand to gain from joining BlogCatalog is what bloggers want to achieve anyway. Readers, readers to comment on your blog, bloggers to discuss and share their experience, and lots more.

The key to BlogCatalog’s success is in their discussion board, shoutboxes and the fact that bloggers are free to choose who they want to connect with. Bloggers are people and human beings have to interact and actually become socially skilled and confident. That is the foundation of society.

Bloggers On The Main Discussion Board

Bloggers who have joined BC (blogcatalog) wear their badge proudly I think. I mean it creates a sense of belonging to a community. I know there have been many instances where you do get into disagreement in the discussion board. You can leave the general discussion board and focus on connecting people within your own groups.

Like I have stated before in a mirror post, “You are not a blogger until you join Blogcatalog”. Join now and get approval.

This is not deviance: it is a sort of deviation from the norm, which to us is the human person we want our kids to become. Patience, understanding and empathy help to reach out to a 3 year old who is constantly demonstrating zest for learning and experience. When we have the faith in him to grow at his own pace, he will calm down because he starts to feel he has the attention. It does not matter at this point what you have to do to help him listen to you. Our first step is calm ourselves down when our 3 year old toddler misbehave.

In a classroom setting, 3 year old kids have reportedly taken as long as 3 months to overcome separation anxieties and settle down for classes. Teachers have to literally carry the child to the mat to join the rest of his friends during circle time, and teachers do this repetitiously to demonstrate (not tell) the child, that is what is expected of him when we sing to the class “Everybody sit down sit down, just like me.”

Punishment or reward will not help a child to grow out of this phase. To him, he is just like us, a human being with the same potentials which he needs to use at his own will. We want him to be independent yet a deviant child shows his desire to be independent in the best way he can.

The simplest solution to deal with 3 year old kids who do not seem to behave, is to prepare a stress release corner. This is a retreat not an isolation chamber. Here the child gets to release his boredom and stress doing mindless activities like playdough, cutting, chopping, pressing or hitting on drums. Make use of recycled materials and do not leave sharp objects unattended. He should be allowed to use a pair of scissors and shown how to handle it too. A 10 minute lesson goes a long way in educating child the importance of handling a pair of scissors than an hour of nagging about who is to be blamed for not noticing the child is holding one in his hand.

Still trying to figure out how kids learn so well?

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Written by: Annie Cook

Kids look at things differently.
A table does not have a top because we cannot see it
We think the legs of the table are the table;
we accept that not being able to see the table is not a big deal,
we see the legs of those who sit on chairs when they eat at the table,
and we are given our very own high chair too, so how could we complain?

The seat of the adult chair is too tall and uncomfortable
because our legs keep dangling in the air when we are seated;

The pencils and sharpeners are not stationery,
They are magic tools; with them our hands become useful
We can draw, scribble and make pictures,
We can tell others what we imagine.

Food we eat are not source of our physical growth and energy,
Running, jumping and walking are what make us energetic
and help us grow.

Books are not our main source of our intelligence
People and the environment are our teachers

We yearn to grow and become adults
because we want to be able to sit without our legs dangling in the air

We want to use the pen and all other stationery without
being told they are too sharp or we are too small to handle them properly
That include the scissors which we know so well,
will shape anything with a single cut. Desparate!

We have the freedom, but there is only thing that freedom cannot help us,
It cannot make us grow taller or bigger even if we will it.

We have to wait, the voice whispers in our ears, constant and angelic,
Oh no, we cannot wait for that to happen!
We have to try to be taller, so we try this trick: tip-toe,
Hey that works, and to add to that height,
we extend our hands to reach out,
Hey that works even better, we try even harder
The effort we take to feel taller is showing,
our body is stretched, our neck is stretched,
as far they can, and we tip-toe even more,
The end of our the fingertip is the highest point to us,
And at the highest point reached,
our face is a signature of joy and happiness,
that we have done it
Our eyes are fixed on the space higher than
than the highest point which our fingers have reached.

We stand tall before we are tall, and when all is done
our two feet feel the floor again,
but just for the moment, that we felt tall,
we could remember exactly how it worked.
The next time we want to feel tall again,
we know how, we know we can stand tall even before we are tall.

- Annie Cook

On small pieces of cardboad, write the letters of the alphabets on them. Toss them in the air or shuffle the pile of letters. Have you child to select a letter and then write the names of the animals. Very easy? It is ok if the child does not know how to spell the name of the animal, take the opportunity to use the dictionary instead for this.

Then ask your child to draw the animals against at the name of the animals he has selected.

It is that easy.

If you run out of animals, browse through a book. They do not have to know how the animals look like basically; the purpose is to encourage the child to take part in writing and drawing.

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url of this blog is inspired by a book of the same name, “The Absorbent Mind”, written by Maria Montessori, founder of the Montessori Method of Education. This lady had written several other books based on her research and works with children about whom she had immense in learning about how they grow and develop from the day they were born.

The

book was first written in Italian, as described on the translator’s notes: “precise, condensed, scientific and popular”. It took me two years to complete the book in its entirety while I was pursuing my Diploma in Montessori Methods of Education. The book has been such a great source of knowledge to discover how and what kids learn, so much so that I have not been able to dump it like I did with Principles of Economics.

Most

of Montessori’s books are not written according to the phases of child’s development from birth to adulthood; understandably she was learning on the job. However, her discoveries had led her to prepare, create and invent methods just to cater to the learning patterns which the children presented themselves. It was in the Children House (as she affectionately called it), that the system of teaching begun to take shape.

So

on one hand, you will find books written by Maria Montessori to be profound and scholarly; on the other hand, you will also be wondering how it would be practical to put her philosophies to work in today’s education. If you have not had the time to read any of her books, the best place to find information about her is on the internet. Just type her name on google and you will get lots of search results there.

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