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Are You on Autopilot?
May 17, 2017
When we plant trees, we plant the seeds of peace and seeds of hope. We also secure the future for our children.
-Wangari Maathai, The Green Belt Movement
-Wangari Maathai, The Green Belt Movement
"Have you ever stopped to consider the true emotional toll parenting takes on you?" asks Monica Bielanko in her Babble article, "Are You Really Seeing Your Children?" "Not the obvious stuff like loss of sleep or the ever-present worry for your kids' general well-being, but the constant, almost subconscious, mental scanning of your little one's needs?
"You're doing it all day, every day. You don’t even realize you’re doing it because it becomes second nature almost the minute your baby is born. But think about the toll all of that CONSTANT analyzing and assessment takes on your system!
"But sometimes, amid the chaos of life, when we're so tired we switch on parenting autopilot, we forget to REALLY look at our children. Not assessing what they need, but looking into their eyes to see how they're really doing, how they're really feeling, as opposed to the constant welfare-check-type scanning a parent regularly does."
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Through her collection of stories and photographs, learn to suspend your adult agenda to really see children's perspectives and the amazing ways they experience the world. Taking up this practice will bring joy and deeper understanding to your work and life and allow you to engage with children in a more meaningful teaching and learning process. |
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This topic is valid and very often not considered. Thank you for writing from the parent and teacher perspective.
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