Make Your Kid A Genius!
How to Awaken Your Child's Innate Intelligence
| December 2002 |
Issue
#12
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Irene Helen Zundel, Editor, artwhiz@greenepa.net
By subscription only! Welcome to the current issue of "MAKE YOUR KID A GENIUS".
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IN THIS ISSUE
Planning Next Year's Newsletter
Dear Friends,
Next January will be the one year anniversary of launching this little e zine into cyberspace. I hope you have enjoyed, and found useful what you have read so far.
In case you didn't know, all ads in this publication are FREE. If any of you have an educational publication, website, product or service you feel would be of interest to my readers, simply send me an ad by the 10th of the month you want the ad to run.
If anyone has a book or product they want me to review, send it to me at least one month prior to the issue you want the review to appear in.
This year I have given you methods and technologies to jump start your child's learning, creativity, and innate gifts, and to stimulate the amazing and miraculous creation called the human brain.
In the next year, I want to switch the focus away from the hardware and programming of learning, to the human side of it. We all learn from the cradle to the grave in innumerable ways-- through family tradition, socialization, spiritual upbringing, trial and error, hands on experience, through difficult but valuable life lessons, or even through fragments of remembered dreams.
In upcoming issues, I may cover topics such as:
Teaching through storytelling
Forming learning communities
Using life experience as a teaching tool
Using art, music, dance and writing to tap into latent potential
Developing character through teaching etc.
I may use creative stories or poems I have written, or informational articles I have authored to illustrate the topic. Following is an example of what you might see in upcoming issues.
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Helping your Child Cope with Grief
The death of a loved one can be devastating for an adult. For a child, the experience can be painful, bewildering, and overwhelming. Children lack the ability to understand, sort out, and adequately express the jumble of emotions that accompany grief.
According to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, children experience and react to grief differently than adults do. They need a special kind of understanding and support to cope with the loss of someone they love.
Following is a list of questions and answers that will help you:
see the grieving process through the eyes of your child
handle changes in mood and behavior that are likely to occur
react to your child's problem areas with sensitivity and
identify when it might be necessary to call a professional to counsel your child.
There is also a list of helpful books you can read to your child and websites you can visit for more information.
Besides the full article, which I have excerpted here, I might:
include an original story or provide a link to an existing fairy tale, that explains death and grief in terms children can grasp
tell how to teach a child to write a healing story or draw a picture to express their grief
provide a homeschooling lesson about death and grief in other cultures
suggest ways that you can use your own family traditions or life experiences to teach coping with tragedy.
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If you like where I am heading, stay tuned, and tell your friends to subscribe!
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Irene Helen Zundel
Freelance Writer
©2002 Irene Helen Zündel