Childrens brain development Nurturing Parenting Program Facilitator Alicia Phone 916 2908255 Datetime Monday amp Friday 13 pm video WELCOME AND CHECK IN What Nurturing Parenting skill do you feel is your strongest ID: 598165
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Week 2: Nurturing Parenting;Children’s brain development
Nurturing Parenting Program
Facilitator: AliciaPhone: (916) 290-8255Date/time: Monday & Friday 1-3 pm
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WELCOME AND CHECK IN
What Nurturing Parenting skill do you feel is your strongest?
“To nurture is to promote growth and development of all of one’s positive traits, qualities, and characteristics. To nurture is to respect and care for yourself, for others and for your environment.”
Discipline
Expressing Feelings
Attachment
Empathy
Gentle Touch
Expectations
Nurturing Yourself
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WEEK 2 - COMPETENCIES
Parents are able to describe the seven concepts and practices of Nurturing Parenting.
Parents are able to assess the degree of skill and ability in each of the seven nurturing parenting areas.Parents are able to define their philosophy of parenting.
Parents increase their understanding that children’s brains are shaped in the manner in which they are treated growing up.
Parents understand the importance of the “critical windows of brain development.”
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NURTURING PARENTING CONCEPTS
ATTACHMENT
Having
unconditional love for your children.
EMPATHY
Helping children meet
their physical as well as their emotional needs.
NURTURING YOURSELF
Finding time
for themselves as individuals and as couples.
GENTLE TOUCHMassaging children, holding them and rocking them.
DISCIPLINE
Techniques other than spanking
and yelling at kids.
EXPRESSING FEELINGS
Being able to express their feelings in appropriate ways.
EXPECTATIONS OF SELF AND CHILDREN
Having appropriate
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CHILDREN’S BRAIN DEVELOPMENT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNNsN9IJkws
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_5u8-QSh6Ahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVwFkcOZHJwSlide6
CHILDREN’S BRAIN DEVELOPMENT
GOAL:
to increase parents’ ability to promote healthy brain development in their children.
Three Major Concepts
Children's brain are a
work in progress
. How they develop depends to a large extent on the experiences they have growing up.
There are prime times called, “critical windows” when parts of children’s brain acquire certain skills.
Parents play a major role in affecting the way children’s brains develop by the parenting practices they use, and the way they treat their children. Slide7
CHILDREN’S BRAIN DEVELOPMENT (draw/takes notes along with me)
The brain is made up of five major parts:
Brainstem
– Responsible for our heart rate, blood pressure, breathing and other bodily functions.
Cerebellum – Responsible for balance and movements such as dancing,
kicking a ball, and coordination.
Midbrain – Responsible for sleep, appetite, and general movement.
Limbic
System – Responsible for emotions and long-term memories.
Cortex – Responsible for hearing, speech, language
development, problem solving and other complex “thinking” functions.
Brain Stem
Premotor
cortex
Primary
Somatosensory
cortex
Cerebellum
Limbic System
Primary auditory cortex
Spinal Cord
Primary motor cortex
Primary visual
cortez
Midbrain
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CHILDREN’S BRAIN DEVELOPMENT
Critical Windows of Development:
VISION
Birth to 6 Months
What can you do to stimulate a baby’s vision?
VOCABULAR
Y
& SPEECH
Birth to 3 years
What can you do to enhance your child’s vocabulary?
EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENTBirth to 18 months
What can you do to enhance
your child’s emotional development?
LOGIC AND MATH
One to 4 years
What
can you do to enhance your child’s logical and mathematical development?Slide9
WHAT EVERY CHILD NEEDS (handout)
Interaction
TouchStable Relationships
Safe, Healthy RelationshipsPositive Self-EsteemQuality Care
Play
Communication
Music
Reading
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CLOSING ACTIVITIES
Home Practice
Do something to nurture yourself Competencies Slide11
NEXT CLASS
Friday, March 17thNurturing as a Lifestyle;
Building Parent-Child Bonding and Attachment