"Learning flows when needs are met, connections are strong, and kids can absolutely trust their parents, and know their parents are there for them."
photo by Cátia Maciel
Breathing.Links to all those things are at SandraDodd.com/struggle
Clarity.
Peace.
Positivity.
Thoughts about doing better.
SandraDodd.com/foodIf it doesn't take you directly to your chosen topic, you'll get to a search box.
SandraDodd.com/joy
SandraDodd.com/gratitude
SandraDodd.com/abundance
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People learn different ways, but it's rare (and unnatural) for a person to only learn one way. So the thing to do is to present material and experiences that cover all the ways to learn. Some will do a child more good than others. One child might learn one thing very visually, and another thing tactilely. So instead of wasting ANY time trying to find out how they learn, spend good time learning (yourself) how children learn naturally with all their senses, with all their ways of thinking, or with their own best favorites from moment to moment.
Please take time for reflection. Take time for your mind to be calm and quiet. Take time to be open to input, not busy creating output. Don't respond, think. Take the ideas and let them "be" in your mind and go spend lots of time with your children and consider and observe how the ideas might play out in your own home with your own kids.
Being with my children, giving them in each moment all I can, learning and growing with them, changed my understanding of "service."
I have chosen to give, help and serve my children. I feel being with them has contributed towards a new understanding of the word as well as a way of building a connection with them. I can also see how it can be extended to others.
I realize how much weight a word can carry, how changes in my own feelings have lightened that weight and thrown a new light on the word itself. Service now stirs up and brings great feelings of joy.