WORDS OF INSPIRATION AND MOTIVATION

QUOTES / EXCERPTS OF STANLEY GREENSPAN AND DEBORAH  LEONG

Quotes from Stanley Greenspan M.D :

Quote from Deborah Leong, Ph.D:

“Children need play in order to play. Good, old-fashioned fun-with an empty box or a simple rag doll-provides something very important to later growth and development.” 

Excerpts from writings of  Deborah Leong:

who believed that just as physical tools extend our physical abilities, mental tools extend our mental abilities, enabling us to solve problems and create solutions in the modern world. When applied to children, this means that to successfully function in school and beyond, children need to learn more than a set of facts and skills. They need to master a set of mental tools.Tools of the mind is a research based early childhood model combining teacher professional development with a comprehensive innovative curriculum that helps young children to develop the cognitive,social-emotional,self regulatory and foundational academic skilla they need to succeed in school and beyond.

"Most primary school teachers would probably agree that they don't expect kindergartners to enter first grade with a complete mastery of spelling and addition. After all, it is in the early elementary grades when children learn these academic competencies. However, teachers of entering school-agers do hope that the children who come into their classrooms can concentrate, pay attention, and be considerate of others. These areas are developed not by using flashcards or computer programs, but through interacting with peers during play." -Dr. Elena Bodrova & Dr. Deborah J. Leong in Why Children Need to Play (Scholastic Early Childhood Today, Jan. 29, 2016; Central pg. 6

Quotes about passion, motivation, and wisdom from the professionals in the media segment I watched during Week 2 of the course:

Leticia Lara LCW, the Regional manager of Outreach and Professional Development ZERO TO THREE stated “When I think of the word “passion” and the meaning to the word “passion”, what comes to mind are: What are my values? What are my beliefs? What are the ideas that lead me to action? What do I do so naturally that perhaps seems natural to me but may be challenging to others? What’s in my heart? I also want to say that my passion has been evolving through the years. It’s an ongoing process. It’s like a ripple. You throw a little rock and you have sort of the center- but it grows” (The Passion for Early Childhood)

Sandy Escobido, the Deputy Field Director for the Los Angeles Preschool Advocacy Initiative CA Community Foundation said “We as professionals in the early childhood field have an opportunity to shape a child’s life for the better...”

References

http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/article/why-children-need-play-0#top (By Deborah J. Leong PhD, Elena Bodrova PhD) in Why Children Need to Play (Scholastic Early Childhood Today, Jan. 29, 2016;  Central pg 6. 

https://inspiringyounglearners.wordpress.com/2012/11/23/quotes-from-contributors-in-the-early-childhood-field/

https://www.google.ae/search?q=quotes+by+stanley+greenspan&biw=1366&bih=667&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjIiei27M_KAhVB2hQKH

Media segment by five early childhood professions

My Personal Childhood Web

My childhood web is dedicated to those great and special people who took care of me and nurtured. They contributed in my life to make sure that I go far in live and become a full grown woman that I am today. I really appearance you for all the care, love, support that you gave to me.

-My father: He taught me a lot and I really learned so many things from him he was my mentor, and my best teacher he taught me I first word, he always drop and picks me up from school, and ensure that my school fees is been paid on time. He will always make sure that I do my home work properly. Whenever we are together he will say “I am praying for you my child that one day you will grown up to become a teacher just like me and will me better than me” he will say to me I will make sure you get the best education in life. Academically, material, financial, socially and other wise he was always there for me. My father will always give me gift to encourage me in my academic gift like story books educational toys and will always read and play with me.

-My mother: She is the best mother in the whole world, my treasure and role model. She was a very strong and hardworking woman, she will always bring all her children together to pray in the morning and at night after praying ‘she will read the bible for us and tell us that she loves us and God loves us too’ she is the best cook I have ever seen or know she taught me how to pray and cook, while cooking I always sit and watch her cooking  she grown me into a woman and a good cook, she make sure my food is ready for school and when I gets back from school. When I am back from school she looks at my face and gives me a warm hug, she wants to make sure that all I need is available at all time. The words that comes out of her mouth are words of encouragement and prayers saying “you will be fruitful, you will go far in life you will be the best among all your peers nothing can stop you to reach your destiny in life” she is a very loving, caring, supportive and a mother who always have her children at heart

- Aunty Blessing: She baby sit me when I was still a child and taught me how to hold my hands on things to enable me stand and start walking. She is like a mother to me she likes bathing and dressing me up for school, while bathing me she always sing a song to me with my name she made me fill so special.

-My elder sis ijeoma : I had a great memory growing up around her I was so found of her. She taught me how to play hide and seek and also how to play with toys by pretending to be mummy and daddy. Whenever she is going to visit her friends she always takes me along she makes sure that I had fun when we go to play or to visit her friends. I learnt from her to keep good company as friends those that will add value to your life.

-My teacher Ms Gloria: she was the one who taught me how to read and write, she made me know the different between left, right and wrong and taught me how to hold my pencil in the right way. She always makes sure I finished my lunch when come to school be keeping close to her table and feeding me. She was there for me and cared for me at all time.”My teacher also say to me that children are leaders of tomorrow” I that word is true

I want to say a very big thank you to all the people that took care of me and  for nurturing me and begin there for me and making sure that I become the person I am today and been a full grown woman and mother. I love you all

My blog link : earlych.blogspot.com

Other blog links I visited are:

http://chidimman.blogspot.com//

www.waldenustudent.blogspot.com

Children, Childhood, Parents, Family and Early childhood

A quote about children, childhood, families, early childhood that  are special and meaningful to me.

The goal of early childhood education is to activate the Child's own natural desire to learn, childhood is a race to see how quickly a child can read write and count, is a small window of time to learn and develop at the pace which is right for each individual child. Early childhood quote

We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

-Stacia Tauscher

           
There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.

-Frank A. Clark

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

-Frederick Douglass

The best preparation for being a happy and useful man or woman is to live fully as a child.

-The Plowden Report 

When you look at your life, the greatest happiness are family happiness.

-Dr. Joyce Brothers

Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.

-Jane Howard

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. Your children need your presence more than your presents.

-Jesse Jackson

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

-Robert Fulghum

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.

-Robert A. Heinlein

You will always be your child's favorite toy.

-Vicki Lansky

What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.

-P.D. James

The more we shelter children from every disappointment, the more devastating future disappointments will be.

-Fred G. Gosman

Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.

-Barbara Walters

If a child is given love, he becomes loving ... If he's helped when he needs help, he becomes helpful. And if he has been truly valued at home ... he grows up secure enough to look beyond himself to the welfare of others.

-Dr. Joyce Brothers

An image of a child's drawing and why I chose it.  

The image shows a complete family.

I chose the drawing because it describes a family with father, mother and a child having a good time as a family.
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.

This piece of word from Harold Hulbert teaches that we should love children even when they do not deserve it whether your own child or another person’s child. It should occur to me that “every child matters” no matter the origin, colour, religion, and tribe, rich or from an average income earning home.

The title of a child's book I love and what I love about it.

BOOK TITLE:   THE HUNGRY CATERPILLAR

The caterpillar undergoes a journey from egg to butterfly, symbolizing the human development. Under the pressures of modern society, the caterpillar is faced with many different options, and expected to make life changing decisions in very little time. The caterpillar seems a bit frantic, trying all these foods in hopes of finding the right one. He tries many different options, and then he transforms-after a little time and a lots of effort-into a butterfly.

The author makes a point of telling the reader that the caterpillar popped from his egg on a Sunday. This is, of course, the Sabbath, traditionally a day of rest and prayer. The religious symbolism continues when we are told that the caterpillar, on Monday, begins his gluttonous binge with a red apple, conjuring images of the Garden of Eden, Adams expulsion from the Garden of Eden and a loss of innocence. Rather than simply having one bite of the apple,  the Caterpillar  “eats through” the entire apple. The story is a message that straying from the path of righteousness can lead you further and further down to road of sin.