CONSCIOUS PARENTING LECTURE 3: THE CASE AGAINST TEACHING

In a world that is trying to turn your child into everybody else through teaching and indoctrination, in this lecture Naomi turn the common fixated beliefs upside down so we can discover how children learn. We will explore how to open doors of knowledge and skill for a child without undermining her natural direction and her innovative methods of discovery. Learning to read without teaching. Inventing math when self-directed. How to nurture musical talent without undermining the child’s natural gifts. Cultivating the child’s natural strive for excellence. Freedom, not license.

1. Introduction - The problem of teaching

2. Learning happens best self-directed

3. Striving for excellence

4. Question: How to find good teachers

5. Question: Distinguishing over-teaching from guidance

6. Question: Teaching to read at very young ages

7. Question: Correcting speech?

8. Question: When a child is frustrated with striving for excellence

9. Unschooling vs. Freedom

10. Question: How exactly to respect a child's freedom

11. Question: How much media to allow children

12. Question: When a child appears to thrive on media

13. Question: Eating healthy

14. Question: When children want too much

15. Question: Husband got an iPad

16. Question: How long to not allow sugar?

17. Question: Recommendations for healthy goodies

18. Question: How to enter a competition without ego

19. Question: What to do with child eating snot

20. Question: When a stranger gives your child sugar

21. Question: Creating excellence in children in areas unfamiliar to you

22. Comments of support about restricting sugar

23. Question: When a child asks why he felt what he felt

2 HOURS