You would think every child would simply need a loving mother. But once you become a ‘loving parent’ you quickly realize just how in over your head you are! AND,the most shocking news? It doesn’t really get better once your child starts school. So, what is it that every child needs?

SECRETARY

Your child’s brain needs your brain to keep all the balls in the air. And to help figure out where the ball that dropped landed….yikes…how did that ball get away from us!

COACH

Your child needs constant, authentic encouragement; loving guidance on how to ‘hit the ball’ into the ‘A’ range.

TUTOR

It is very likely that your child will not have one minute of one-on-one learning time while at school today. The idea that we expect a child to complete homework without any one-on-one time is a recipe for failed learning.

What EVERY parent needs…

Support! Allow yourself to pick-up the jobs that you are naturally good at and get help with the rest. Allow others to give to your child. It’s very likely that support will be   MUCH better received from someone else…anyway…more on that next blog….

Questions?….I’m here for you….Melanie

Amazed by your child,  you see creativity, humor, insight, brilliance….at times….then there are the OTHER times…..yikes! Sometimes your child is like talking to an alien life force. The lights are on….but NOBODY is home.

You’re not alone.

All children are born Right Brain Dominant.

60% of all children will remain Right Brain Dominant throughout High School.

What does this mean? Your child is a Picture Thinker. If your child has a “good” picture they express brilliance. But no picture, or the wrong picture, and that same child can be stubbornly off track. Sometimes this is funny and sometimes this drives you MAAAAADDDD!

Thinking in Pictures is actually fairly easy to understand. Ask your child to make a movie while you say this simple sentence: “The dog ran through the house”.  Ask your child to describe the movie that is playing in his head. It is very likely that your child has a good picture of ‘the dog’….and a good picture of ‘the house’….but, watch for your child’s picture for ‘through’. IF, your child’s movie has the dog running out of the house, your child has the ‘right picture’ for the sentence. If your child made a movie and the dog is still in the house, your child is ‘off track’.  In real life, this child will score low on reading comprehension tests and misunderstand oral or written directions, not because they can’t speak, hear, and read correctly, but because they are not making the right movies while reading or listening.

Picture Thinking…simple…but AMAZINGLY impactful!

Questions?….I’m here for you….Melanie

As a parent, you’ve asked yourself: “Does my child have Attention Deficit?” Maybe you’ve had testing done by your child’s school or an outside professional. Perhaps you’ve reviewed the criteria for Attention Deficit Disorder, and yes, that certainly does explain your child.

However, it just doesn’t all add up.

Questions remain:

“Why can my child pay endless attention to some tasks?”
“Why does he remember things that are important to him?”
“How can my child be so bright and creative yet school-world is really tough?”

Chances are Attention Deficit is “one way” to understand the problem. However, the ADD paradigm can often be too limiting. More contemporary research leads us toward evaluating the extent to which your child is Right-Brained dominant. Understanding the nature of the right hemisphere of the brain can provide a much broader understanding of your child’s particular learning obstacles providing you with learning strategies that really work.

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