The Natural Laws of Children

Author: Celine Alvarez
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
ISBN: 0834842297
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 416

Book Description
A powerful, neuroscience-based approach to revolutionize early childhood learning through natural creativity, strong human connections, spontaneous free play, and more. All children are born wired to learn and to love. As young children explore the world and interact with others, their brains can naturally develop in incredible ways. And yet, despite our best intentions, early education often fails to fully encourage this natural learning and empathy. The Natural Laws of Children draws on current research in childhood development to share powerful insights on how to enhance learning for all kids, regardless of income or access to resources. This book tells the story of Céline Alvarez’s pioneering work in early childhood education. Over three years in a low-income school, Alvarez’s students achieved exceptional results in math and reading, as well as outstanding social and emotional skills. The Natural Laws of Children shares, in a clear and accessible way, the main scientific principles that underpin human learning to revolutionize early childhood education by supporting strong human connections, spontaneous free play, and more.

The Natural Laws of Children

Author: Celine Alvarez
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
ISBN: 0834842297
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 416

SUMMARY - The Natural Laws Of Children: Why Children Thrive When We Understand How Their Brains Are Wired By Celine Alvarez

Author: Shortcut Edition
Publisher: Shortcut Edition
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 34

Book Description
* Our summary is short, simple and pragmatic. It allows you to have the essential ideas of a big book in less than 30 minutes. *By reading this summary, you will discover how to use the main principles of learning and human development to offer an alternative education to children and make them educated and responsible citizens of the future. Céline Alvarez conducted an experiment in a nursery school in Gennevilliers, based on a great principle: autonomy. Here are her conclusions. *You will also discover : that the environment within a classroom, when it is adapted, promotes learning; that we learn best by being active and by doing what motivates us; that the teacher's role is to help the child organize his knowledge; that the child goes through different sensitive periods of specialization; that without exchange and relationships, human intelligence cannot develop. *40% of children leave elementary school unmotivated and without basic knowledge. Yet, we are all capable of this learning. For Céline Alvarez, this failure is linked to the fact that all human beings do not learn in the same way. The child learns by doing, and this, from birth. Inspired by the work of pedagogues, neuroscience research and cognitive psychology, Céline Alvarez tells how to set up environmental and pedagogical invariants, allowing children to use their full potential, to learn with ease and joy. *Buy now the summary of this book for the modest price of a cup of coffee!

Breastfeeding Made Simple

Author: Nancy Mohrbacher
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
ISBN: 1572248629
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 352

Book Description
The Definitive Guide to Breastfeeding Your Baby Breastfeeding may be natural, but it may also be more challenging than you expect. Some mothers encounter doubts and difficulties, from struggling with the first few feedings to finding a gentle and loving way to comfortably wean from the breast. This second edition of Breastfeeding Made Simple is an essential guide to breastfeeding that every new and expectant mom should own-a comprehensive resource that takes the mystery out of basic breastfeeding dynamics. Understanding the seven natural laws of breastfeeding will help you avoid and overcome challenges such as low milk production, breast refusal, weaning difficulties, and every other obstacle that can keep you from enjoying breastfeeding your baby. Breastfeeding Made Simple will help you to: Find comfortable, relaxing breastfeeding positions Establish ample milk production and a satisfying breastfeeding rhythm with your baby Overcome discomfort and mastitis Use a breast pump to express and store milk Easily transition to solid foods

Ivy and Kem and The Seven Universal Principles

Author: Rhea Welch
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781737017400
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 52

Book Description
Ivy & Kem and the Seven Universal Principles is a children's book that tells the everyday stories of two friends. The main characters, Ivy and Kem, are pre-teens. Through their daily lives, children of all ages can learn the 7 Hermetic Principles. The book uses relatable, realistic, and modern short stories to help the young reader remember each principle. Each chapter includes a short story from Ivy and Kem and the author's detailed interpretation explaining each Principle in a way a tween can understand. The book has beautiful full-color images to engage a young reader. And for parents who may want to begin explaining these concepts to younger children, the book provides relatable content to begin to explain each principle. The Principles of the Universe are natural laws that govern everyone and everything and date back more than 5,000 years to Ancient Egypt. They are the Principles of Mentalism, Correspondence, Vibration, Polarity, Rhythm, Cause and Effect and Gender. Introducing these principles to children early will help the young reader begin to master self and live in more harmony with the Universe. Everything starts in the mind. Introduce your young reader to the Hermetic Principles for children in this full color, illustrated, easy to read book.

The Constitution of Man in Relation to the Natural Laws

Author: George Combe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Human beings
Languages : en
Pages : 280

Book Description

The Oxford Handbook of Children and the Law

Author: James G. Dwyer
Publisher:
ISBN: 0190694394
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 954

Book Description
The Oxford Handbook of Children and the Law presents cutting-edge interdisciplinary scholarship on a broad range of topics covering the life course of humans from before birth to adulthood, by leading scholars in each area. Authors present and analyze the law and science pertaining to reproduction; prenatal life (including fetal exposure to toxic substances and abortion); parentage (including biology-based rights, background checks on birth parents, adoption, ART, and surrogacy); infant development; child maltreatment (including corporal punishment and religious defences to abuse and neglect); the child protection system and foster care; child custody disputes between parents; schooling (including financing, resegregation, religious expression in public schools, at-risk students, special education, regulating private schools, and homeschooling); delinquency; minimum-age laws; and child advocacy. It is an essential resource for scholars and professionals interested in the intersection of children and the law.

The Natural Law Reader

Author: Jacqueline A. Laing
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1444333216
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 468

Book Description
The Natural Law Reader features a selection of readings in metaphysics, jurisprudence, politics, and ethics that are all related to the classical Natural Law tradition in the modern world. Features a concise presentation of the natural law position that offers the reader a focal point for discussion of ancient and contemporary ideas in the natural law tradition Draws upon the metaphysical and ethical categories put forth and developed by Aristotle and Aquinas Points to the historical significance and contemporary relevance of the Natural Law tradition Reflects on a revival of interest in the tradition of virtue ethics and human rights

The Oxford Handbook of Children's Rights Law

Author: Jonathan Todres
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190097620
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 797

Book Description
Children's rights law is a relatively young but rapidly developing discipline. The U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, the field's core legal instrument, is the most widely ratified human rights treaty in history. Yet, like children themselves, children's rights are often relegated to the margins in mainstream legal, political, and other discourses, despite their application to approximately one-third of the world's population and every human being's first stages of life. Now thirty years old, the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) signalled a definitive shift in the way that children are viewed and understood--from passive objects subsumed within the family to full human beings with a distinct set of rights. Although the CRC and other children's rights law have spurred positive changes in law, policies, and attitudes toward children in numerous countries, implementation remains a work in progress. We have reached a state in the evolution of children's rights in which we need more critical evaluation and assessment of the CRC and the large body of children's rights law and policy that this treaty has inspired. We have moved from conceptualizing and adopting legislation to focusing on implementation and making the content of children's rights meaningful in the lives of all children. This book provides a critical evaluation and assessment of children's rights law, including the CRC. With contributions from leading scholars and practitioners from around the world, it aims to elucidate the content of children's rights law, explore the complexities of implementation, and identify critical challenges and opportunities for children's rights law.

From Human Dignity to Natural Law

Author: Richard Berquist
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
ISBN: 0813232422
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 264

Book Description
From Human Dignity to Natural Law shows how the whole of the natural law, as understood in the Aristotelian Thomistic tradition, is contained implicitly in human dignity. Human dignity means existing for one’s own good (the common good as well as one’s individual good), and not as a mere means to an alien good. But what is the true human good? This question is answered with a careful analysis of Aristotle’s definition of happiness. The natural law can then be understood as the precepts that guide us in achieving happiness. To show that human dignity is a reality in the nature of things and not a mere human invention, it is necessary to show that human beings exist by nature for the achievement of the properly human good in which happiness is found. This implies finality in nature. Since contemporary natural science does not recognize final causality, the book explains why living things, as least, must exist for a purpose and why the scientific method, as currently understood, is not able to deal with this question. These reflections will also enable us to respond to a common criticism of natural law theory: that it attempts to derive statements of what ought to be from statements about what is. After defining the natural law and relating it to human or positive law, Richard Berquist considers Aquinas’s formulation of the first principle of the natural law. It then discusses the love commandments to love God above all things and to love one’s neighbor as oneself as the first precepts of the natural law. Subsequent chapters are devoted to clarifying and defending natural law precepts concerned with the life issues, with sexual morality and marriage, and with fundamental natural rights. From Human Dignity to Natural Law concludes with a discussion of alternatives to the natural law.