Renaissance Child

Renaissance Child: Our Top 8 Tips

When you are just getting started We all know there is no simple answer to the question of program organization. Each mother, child, and family differs - as do their goals, interests, and objectives. All of these factors are constantly shifting and changing. The time available for teaching often varies, as do many other factors. There is no one solution that would apply neatly to everyone. Instead, each family must carefully evaluate its own situation and make the best possible plan. Here are some suggestions: 1. Take time to plan and organize your program at least once a week. Look at how far you've come as well as where you are headed. Decide on one major objective for each child each week and, perhaps, several minor objectives. Make a plan for that week and organize your records and materials for the week ahead. Organization is important for creating a successful and joyous Intelligence Program 2. Always prepare your materials well in advance. If you do get behind, stop your program and take the time to go out and get more materials so that you are not tempted to use materials over and over again when they should have been retired. 3. Do a few things really well rather than many things sporadically. Your child will benefit much more from developing real abilities that are solidly established and can be used to solve problems in life than from a brief exposure to many different things. 4. Keep the morning sacred. This is the golden time in the day for your child. Protect this prime time for you and your child to be together. You will fly through your program in the morning and accomplish twice as much as you will later in the day. 5. Take the phone off the hook and turn off your cellphone when teaching your child. Make sure to turn off your cell phone during the program 6. Be flexible. Be willing to change your plans quickly and to do something else that is stimulating and fun if what you planned simply does not work out. 7. Plan time each day for your child to learn how to help take care of the house and prepare meals. (One day your child will be able to take over.) 8. Stay at home as much as possible. If there are a number of things that need to be done outside the home do them on the same day and do them at the end of the day, not in the morning when your child is freshest. P.S. Don't forget to let your older kids help to teach your little ones! Here we see our eNewsletter's editor Spencer (a few years back) teaching baby brother Noah. From : Glenn Doman eNewsletter- Volume 22