Why Should We Involve Children In Music?
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| In an age when there are so many pressures on teachers to teach a variety of subjects to children, music is often pushed to the side and seen as not important. How can we be so far from the truth? I challenge any teacher to find another subject that teaches coordination, language, concentration, confidence, team skills, tolerance and understanding of other people and other cultures, while develo . . . more
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Why do we smack our children?
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| Most New Zealanders now condemn all forms of interpersonal violence and many would like to see perpetrators of violence treated harshly when they appear before the Courts. There is one major exception to this revulsion towards violence � and that is the belief that hitting children is an appropriate and effective means of controlling the behaviour of children.
Many of us have experienced phy . . . more
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Musical Development in Children
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| Every child is unique and develops at their own pace. This is a rough guide to your child's likely musical development.
Before Birth
A baby in the womb can hear sounds from 20 weeks after conception.
0 - 18 Months
From conception to eighteen months your baby is developing rapidly and its response to musical activity will not only be rewarding but highly beneficial to his or he . . . more
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Determinants of Children's Academic Successes & Difficulties.
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What are the Determinants of Children's Academic
Successes and Difficulties?
Environmental factors can influence both the pre- and postnatal brain. Most of us are aware that in the Eastern world the concept of "intrauterine education" goes back in Chinese literature over 2000 years.
I could find one reference published in the Ming Dynasty in 1237 when women were advised to behave favor . . . more
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Affect of Music on Learning.
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| Does Music Affect Our Children's Learning.
When you were a child, did your mother make you taking music lessons that you always hated and was finding all ways to avoid it? Without knowingly, your mother's insistence that you practice your musical instrument an hour a day actually made you smarter! Recent studies had shown that your mother was probably right to make you stick to your piano or v . . . more
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Ways to have peaceful holidays for all.
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Some of us face seven weeks of summer School Holidays with dread. Our internal and public monologue goes something like "How absolutely ghastly! Fifty days without relief. How on earth will I occupy them? I can't bear the thought of fifty days of fighting. Who was out to punish mothers when they thought up a long summer holiday?!"
Others of us look forward to the School and Kindergarten h . . . more
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Anxiety Management with Children
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The following are common unhelpful strategies which well-intentioned parents and teachers use in response to anxiety in children (alternative strategies are provided in the next section):
> Excessively Reassuring the Child: While some reassurance is helpful, it is a fact that the more reassurance one gives, the more the child needs and demands it. Reassurance is a form of positive attention and . . . more
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Carers NZ
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| Carers New Zealand is an information and advocacy organisation for the one in five New Zealanders who provides care at home for sick, frail, injured or disabled family members. It works with regional organisations that support carers, providing information resources and guest speakers. Carers New Zealand also undertakes research, makes input into policy and service developments important to care . . . more
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Help for Kinship Carers
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| "If you are raising someone else's child and giving them a home, you may be able to get financial support to help with the upbringing of the child..................."
A new brochure, "Help for Kinship Carers- a guide for someone raising someone else's child" is available through Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Trust regional coordinators, the New Zealand Family and Foster Care Federation, Ci . . . more
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Walking School Buses
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Walking to school is about to get way cool with StreetWise Rangers
By now you might have heard about the walking school buses which are starting up all around the country. StreetWise Rangers is a new theme EECA has developed to make the walking school bus even more fun and exciting for children. The story below tells you all about these superheroes...
Ten thousand light years away from . . . more
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