This was the presentation I gave at our inaugural Manrichment event. As I state in the DISCLAIMER in the presentation, I am not an attorney. I am not currently involved in law enforcement. I am not an accountant, nor doctor, nor constitutional law professor. Everything here is my informed opinion based on my extensive research into this topic in preparation for this presentation. I hope you find it helpful.
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
NurtureShock Presentation: Surprising Findings about Modern Parenting and Children
Below is the PowerPoint presentation I put together after listening to the excellent Audiobook NurtureShock by Po Bronson and Ashley Merriman. I dictated notes to myself using my phone as I would drive back and forth to work over the course of several weeks. I was so impressed with the content of the book that I decided to arrange a new Manrichment activity to share this fantastic material. One of my complaints with the book was that it was not organized in the most user-friendly manner when it comes to taking the information and applying it to your parenting.
This was my goal with this presentation: To take the information from this book and present it in a more streamlined and application-focused format. I hope that I achieved that with this presentation and that you will find it helpful and insightful in your parenting.
I left off the last two sections on language development and gratitude due to time constraints though I would certainly recommend them for your consideration. I will try to briefly summarize what I felt were the main points of each here in text.
Language Development:
1) Baby Einstein videos were found to actually have a detrimental effect on children's language development for one primary reason: Children need to be able to SEE people speaking the language rather than just hearing it.
2) Children who progressed most quickly with language acquisition had parents who provided frequent and regular feedback (a smile, a touch, a verbal reinforcement or even just acknowledgement) to their children's vocalizations.
Gratitude:
1) Studies found a number of positive effects from having college students keep gratitude journals for a month. However, when they did the same with middle-school students the results were mixed, including a number of negative outcomes for some students. Further investigation found that adolescents--who are very sensitive about their feelings of independence and budding adulthood--actually tend to feel worse when they kept gratitude journals because almost everything they have to be grateful for--a house, food, an education, clothes--they receive from their parents or other adults. This directly conflicts with and undermines their fledgling sense of independence and produces negative effects. So while it is important to teach children gratitude it must be done in a way that protects their sense of independence and aspirations to adulthood.
NurtureShock - Presentation
This was my goal with this presentation: To take the information from this book and present it in a more streamlined and application-focused format. I hope that I achieved that with this presentation and that you will find it helpful and insightful in your parenting.
I left off the last two sections on language development and gratitude due to time constraints though I would certainly recommend them for your consideration. I will try to briefly summarize what I felt were the main points of each here in text.
Language Development:
1) Baby Einstein videos were found to actually have a detrimental effect on children's language development for one primary reason: Children need to be able to SEE people speaking the language rather than just hearing it.
2) Children who progressed most quickly with language acquisition had parents who provided frequent and regular feedback (a smile, a touch, a verbal reinforcement or even just acknowledgement) to their children's vocalizations.
Gratitude:
1) Studies found a number of positive effects from having college students keep gratitude journals for a month. However, when they did the same with middle-school students the results were mixed, including a number of negative outcomes for some students. Further investigation found that adolescents--who are very sensitive about their feelings of independence and budding adulthood--actually tend to feel worse when they kept gratitude journals because almost everything they have to be grateful for--a house, food, an education, clothes--they receive from their parents or other adults. This directly conflicts with and undermines their fledgling sense of independence and produces negative effects. So while it is important to teach children gratitude it must be done in a way that protects their sense of independence and aspirations to adulthood.
NurtureShock - Presentation
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