Guardians Report from Center for Children and Families

Guardians attending  Symposium on Human Nature and Early Experience are grateful for the financial support  allowing them travel to Notre Dame's Center for Children and Families.   The blogging hasn't slowed down yet since their return to Palladio last week!  This year's focus Addressing the "Environment of Evolutionary Adaptiveness," offers our new research forum in the Global Parent Network at Palladio precisely the position and rationale that our longterm practitioners hoped to substantiate and promote to parents worldwide. 


Visit http://ccf.nd.edu/symposium/ to review two foundational leads:

1. How Early Life Matters
2. Parenting Effects and Modern Cultural Practices

Just yesterday, our Principal Investigator, posted the "All Call" for quality websites that promote parents' intuitive desire to be senstive to infant/toddler sleep development. Our research forum has firmed connections with Darcia Narvaez,Ph. D.,  her research team and longitudinal results...
http://al.nd.edu/news/16831-research-shows-child-rearing-practices-of-distant-ancestors-foster-morality-compassion-in-kids/


Together with Dr. Narvaez and the Center for Children and Families, our Palladio community will further not only this current research, but also to provide Dr. Narvaez and The Center access to our Global Parent Academy resources and our growing network of parent practitionersworldwide. We are commissioned to recognize and promote nurturing, developmentally sound, and relationship enhancing practices. 
Refer to Blogposts: 

1. Infant/Toddler Sleep: Call for Websites
2. Sleep Whisering 

We look forward to hearing from you through the blog made for you after you visit
http://ccf.nd.edu/symposium/


http://al.nd.edu/news/16831-research-shows-child-rearing-practices-of-distant-ancestors-foster-morality-compassion-in-kids/

Principles of Filial Research

Dear Parents in Practice,

This blogsite offers you opportunity to identify and practice recording logs/notes that 

• A ... reflect objective description of facts you observed, rather than
• B ... reflect jumping to conclusions, interpreting observations, or labeling too soon.

Visitors to the site are encouraged to read the example of in each category (A, B).  Next, recall a recent episode in your parenting life.  Record a Type A description. Contrast A with a possible Type B response:

Example #1.

A.  Twenty-eight month old female walked into the living room w/o adult supervision.  A dish of candy corn sat on the coffee table.  Mother raised her voice from the kitchen in the direction of the child, "Don't you pick up that candy! And get back here now! You better not be eating any! " The child returned to the kitchen in four minutes.  Her cheeks were bulging.  She was drooling. "I didn't," the child said to her mother.

B.  A very cute toddler named Felicia made a bee line for the living room to grab some forbidden candy while her mother yelled at her not to.  The mom just let her go and kept yelling at her from the kitchen.  What did she expect from the toddler?  All kids love candy.  She's teaching her kid to lie, by the way.  It's surprising how early kids can learn to lie!

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Your turn...

Internships Available with Parents Conducting Filial Research

At each level of your apprenticeship in the  Global Parents certification program, we have made it easy to  link with parents engaged in Filial Research.  As Retired Seniors from fields in which you advocated for children and families, you offer unique gifts to the world of young parents, to our world in general.  Matching your background, expertise, gifts and needs with the best internship experience is our intention and goal.  

• Since four levels of internship are required throughout your certification program,  it is crucial to keep abreast of the descriptive postings online.  This electronic format is much like EHarmony, Match.com and similar electronic people networks.  

• Contact the particular Center for Research listed below each entry of interest for further information, interviews, and evaluation.  A wide range of home circumstances however lead to various levels of challenge during the four stages of your apprenticeship. 

• Our process aims to provide you with research opportunities that are within your independent Zone of Proximal Development.   Please set up an appointment at your earliest convenience to find placement in a peer coaching team. 

Sleep Wispering

Kelly wrote in that 18 month old Justin is able to climb out of his crib.  If he isn't "ready" to go to sleep,  he simply attemps to leave the crib.  It can take Kelly up to an hour -cajoling, talking to, reading to, etc. to keep Justin in his room, in his crib, before he goes to sleep.

It's important here to begin gathering more information before prescribing help.  A more encompassing view of Justin's make-up and Justin's environment helps to reduce a sense of urgency that naturally occurs when we expect a quick fix.  A more spacious view allows us to reset our approach to child-rearing.  One of child-study can emerge instead.

Self-knowledge and child-knowledge flourish with such a disposition.  Child and parental frustration can ease as we examine variables surrounding Justin's life, developmental directions/needs, and family life.  Reliable and more workable options emerge to further explore. Professionally speacking this endeavor is called "Filial Research."

While parents engage in study and carefully examined practice, they might benefit from consulting our network of Global Parents, seeking internships.  They are trained to assist, guide, collect data, and offer respite care to parents engaged in Filial Research.  Many are retired teachers, social workers, or long-terms grandparents.  To get started, call today for consultation and support.
In the meantime, plan to keep a notebook and enter  daily logs around the following areas:

Look for precipitating events, stimulus-response connections.  
Compare evenings that "go well" with those that don't: 
Let's make note this week around emerging differences in your child's  experiences of people, places, things, routines. Don't jump to conclusions or interpretrations of recorded details.  Make objective notes that describe behavior, rather than label or interpret.
More questions may reveal some obstacles to infant/toddler readiness to sleep...
Is s/he napping/resting/inactive too much by day?
Is s/he eating foods w sugar anytime during day, or evening?
Is s/he getting lots of physical activity, hugs, peer play by day, ?
Is s/he spending enough active engagement time out in fresh air?
Is s/he getting enough time w mommy/daddy/soothing music?

Have you removed access to tv, video, stimulating visual/auditory after three oclock?

Does his/her caretaker schedule allow thoughtful observation of natural sleep-awake cycles? Metaphorically speaking, infant and toddler cylces resemble the waning and waxing moon.  Knowing the signs, the indicators of need for stimulation vs saturation is crucial among your child's caretakers.  It is important that s/he is getting enough stimulation during the awake phase...as well as  not being over-stimulated as her awake phase fades.

  

Infant-Toddler Sleep: Call for Websites

At the last meeting of Global Parent Network, we identified our collective need to deconstruct  "sleep training" practices.  A culture of sleep training has emerged based upon a medical physician's well-marketed text, and parents desperate to sleep through the night.  

Child Development Specialists, Social Workers,  Intervention Specialists, Early Childhood Educators and very widely-read novice parents have continued over the decade to express deep concern around "sleep training"  practices.  Now, the growing body of brain research deserves our full attention with regard to the likely effects of "sleep training."  Developmentally sensitive means must be explored nation-wide in order to better educate and support  babies and parents.  We are developing a blog forum for gathering and sharing caring, developmentally sound, and brain sensitive information/practices.  Our blogsite is  entitled,  "Sleep Whispering."

It is Global Parent's mission to study, practice, conduct research, and educate parents and those considering parenthood around the world.  As professionals committed to healthy bonding, developmentally enlightened practices, and expanding our capacity to share healthy options worldwide, we agreed make infant-toddler sleep our clinical and research issue for this professional year at Palladio.  Our commitment is to delve deeply into both extant research, and conduct current collaborative discipline research.  This makes access to tappong into clinical experiences of practitioners and their personal networks worldwide.  

Please share this All Call with your network connections before this Sunday's DinnerFest.  During DinnerFest, our focus will be 

1. the range of states and countries contacted
2. variations in contact approaches to derive the greatest response worldwide
3. appreciating you for your professional commitment to the health and well-being of parents and children world-wide.  Children now and children to come will prosper further than in previous times because of our advocacy.

Getting the kids off to school on time ... or not: TIMERS!