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
