Sunday, July 15, 2012

Sunday School ...for Global Parents

I just attended an inspiring presentation on Prosperity...realizing prosperity, cultivating prosperity.  One important take-away from mindfulness prosperity practice? When we pay any bill, experience/express gratefulness for having each dollar we have to pay that particular bill!

  • Thank the source of the money we have available to put back into circulation.
  • Thank ourselves for getting up each day to engage in the work that earns that money.
  • Thank the system of currency exchange now available 
  • Then steward our co-creative powers ...in our mind's eye elevate it to a Higher Power, expand it's capacity to align ever more closely with honor, goodness (GODNESS), and claim every capacity to change for the better of our race, The Human Race.
Our devotion and commitment to our role, as students and practitioners of Global Parenting, fuel desire to expand application of all good learning to other arenas.  So we are encouraged to transfer the prosperity lesson above to being appreciation of the our toddler's TERRIFIC TWO'S:
  • Thank your toddler for demonstrating a sense of industry and passion when s/he wants to exert power over matters and material in his/her environment: match this level of passion with gratefulness:"Thank you for caring so much! Thank you for  wanting to do this work!  Let me help you even more: Watch how we can do it even more easily": (demonstrate). 
  • Thank our toddlers for getting up each day with energy and enthusiasm to engage his/her self-chosen work of being one and two and three...later his/her engagement in the work will earn money accordingly! (If you find you must take them from their work because of a higher order priority they are too young to understand, acknowledge the goodness of their desire.  Tell them when you will bring them back to it, make time for it, do it together.  Their desires are big deals.  Honor their passion for active engagement.  It is the bud of productivity!!!
  • Thank your genes for working well in your progeny! You are witnessing a system of currency exchange now in active development.  Handle it with care, matched passion, gratitude.  Be true to your promise: when you tell a child you will take responsibility for getting them back later to their "work," do it! They model your trustworthiness, straightforwardness, steadfastness.  Make these characteristics part of you family system. 
  • Then steward your co-creative powers ...in your mind's eye elevate your child's interest and zeal to a Higher Power, expand it's capacity to align ever more closely with honor, goodness (GODNESS), and claim every capacity to change for the better of our race, The Human Race.

Monday, April 23, 2012

How does our engagement in work serve our development? society?

Recasting our "Terrible Twos"

So what happens within a perfectly born person who doesn't learn to fully engage a worklife?
at something valuable to himself?
to her family?
our neighborhoods?
our nation?
the world?

Humans beings display an inherent sense of INDUSTRY by age two.  We allude to "the terrible twos" in our culture ... because toddlers want to do everything for themselves.

We need culturally to make a firm shift in parenting perceptions, ..and words:
this event in human development is not "terrible" it is in fact  marvelous, monumental, psychosocially "on track," and to be welcomed, respected, nourished, honored.

Monday, December 5, 2011

Announcing for all Global Parents... Unity Worldwide Ministries partners with Conversations With God author, Neale Donald Walsch and School of the New Spirituality for Children

The time we've anticipated is now... an inspired and inspiring spiritual curriculum for children is now available.  To read more, and to tithe your support  (and receive materials to use with your children), please click the link below:

www.cwg4kids.com/unity

Saturday, May 28, 2011

Film Recommendation! Something Borrowed

Filmed in NYC, this romantic comedy has a very important lesson: sometimes we "borrow" a relationship...we don't know anything exists that is actually more powerful/authentic, convenience, flattery, boredom, status quo/expectations, to please someone else/not hurt an other's feelings.

Darcy borrows...Dex borrows...Rachel allows everyone to borrow from her, until she gets how wrong that becomes for everyone involved.  All Palladio Big Sisters have several options this upcoming week for c-viewing and debriefing re use of this film as a resource with your little Jane Eyre sisters.  Consortium and Council Circles have posted reflections and responses and suggestions for your facilitation.
Please, see their websites for further information.

Monday, May 9, 2011

Calling All Global Parents for Applications

Dear Stakeholders!
Our school community is accepting applications now for membership on the R&D Council.  Mail applications to sb2822@columbia.edu.  Parameters for the MICROLAB follow in a letter to Friends: 


Friends,
I commend your leadership team for writing a clear and specific set of recommendations that seem well-linked to the data (I did not read the original report, nor of course seen the actual data, nor been privy to how the data was gathered). What I recommend to you is a most effective model that fosters collaborative on-going research and clinical practice by all stakeholders (faculty, administration, parents, and students):
  1. request a team assembled of all stakeholders (students, parents, teachers, administrators: only those intimately engaged with classroom learning and instruction)
  2. this team sets up a Clinic Classroom (CC) designed to model positive/cooperative practices by each population of the stakeholders
  3. the content of the classroom might be a course in study skills (pertinent to any content course)
  4. any teacher or administrator can use CC to model pedagogy (preceded by a brief written proposal/interview with team's "OK") 
  5. any student can offer to participate in the planning, design, learning experience (preceded by a brief written proposal/interview with team's "OK")
  6. any parent, community adult, student, or teacher can observe CC practices (preceded by a brief written proposal/interview with team's "OK")
  7. CC would also provide any stakeholder an opportunity to gather students, design curriculum, and select pedagogy to experimentation/revision/instructional learning on an on-going basis.
  8. CC can begin small and grow organically as needed (i.e. take place during he lunch period times to allow for the greatest number of teachers and students to participate/create the CC climate and content 
  9. CC becomes then a kind of MICROLAB for collaborative study of all stakeholders by all the stakeholders ...thus fostering unity, on-going research, and the truth about education:a collaborative process among all the stakeholders, rather than a "hierarchy" public education must acknowledge the essential interdependence among each stakeholder population, and that any human endeavor improves only overtime with concerted efforts that design-deliver-disassemble-design to deliver again!  
  10. Education is all about learning and updating.  The human climate must welcome risk-taking, respect for each, on-going dialogue and development of all stakeholders. It must be free of bureaucratic controls.

Thursday, April 14, 2011

So what is colic?

So what is colic?
The article recommends the Rule of 3 suggested in the fifties...hree are the three questions:
Is the infant crying at least three consecutive hours/day?
for at least three days each week?
for at least three weeks?
Are some parents inclined to self-diagnose "colic" for crying that is normal (but seems to be "excessive" from the parents' viewpoint)?
This article gives clear indicators for parents to review.