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POSITIVE RIGHT-BRAIN PARENTING (Part 2)

POSITIVE RIGHT-BRAIN PARENTING (Part 2)

Jane Nelsen, author of the "Positive Discipline" book series, asks parents facing any issue to honestly ask themselves: "What do I really want? Do I want blame? …or solutions?" For me, this bit of advice opened up my whole world. The impact of this information has spread to our schools and right brain education programs all around the world. Right-brain children thrive in environments that support them and to do that, we need to guide them to seek solutions. STEP 3: SEEK SOLU

POSITIVE RIGHT-BRAIN PARENTING (Part 1)

POSITIVE RIGHT-BRAIN PARENTING (Part 1)

STEP 1: SET YOUR INTENTION Words are generated by thoughts and feelings. Thoughts and feelings are created by intentions. So… to change our words--really change them--we need to examine our intentions. In parenting, there are only 2 intentions: (1) to REACT from habit and unconscious emotional triggers from our own past (2) to DISCOVER what your child is thinking and feeling and TEACH him how to go grow and learn through each experience We want to respond and teach our childr

Every Word Counts

Pamela Sue Hickein

Every Word Counts

Words hold power and they have a crucial role in activating your child's right brain! In TweedleWink, we can see how positivity and positive parenting affects learning. A positive environment maintains the alpha-wave frequency that is needed for optimum right brain input and memory storage. But its effects are deeper and long-lasting, creating not only IQ but EQ and lifelong good health as well. MASARU EMOTO, WORDS & WATER You might be familiar with Masaru Emoto's work with f

4 Things for MOMS and DADS to Remember When Viewing Child Prodigies

4 Things for MOMS and DADS to Remember When Viewing Child Prodigies

This summer, a video circulated throughout the YouTube world that really brought tears to the eyes. It featured Elisha Mysin, a 6-year-old Russian pianist and composer. If you haven't seen it, here is Elisha's performance. How beautiful! Sometimes we hesitate to post images and videos of early prodigies because parents can feel bad when they see children performing like this, with early expressions of genius. Here are four things to remember when watching videos like this. 1

Right brain teachers: Shhhh... Listen. Let your right brain lead the way.

Right brain teachers: Shhhh... Listen. Let your right brain lead the way.

As a teacher, what I'm about to say might sound a bit controversial, but the more I live and work with children—of all ages and learning styles—the more I understand how important it is not to actively teach. Or to depend upon a plan or curricula. Or to overly plan the day. Children need us to be present and simply listen. I am guilty of trying to cram as much information into as little time as possible--to get it all in, quickly, efficiently, now! Yes, I love flashcards.

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Screens and Video Flashcards... Are They Safe for Young Children?

Research shows that babies should avoid screens. So, many parents wisely ask: "Do your digital flash cards have the same risks? Aren't physical flashcards better for children?" Our simple answer is: Yes. Physical flashcards are always better because they are given with a higher interaction between parents and child. So, why do we teach young children using video flashcards? For a practical reason. Our flashcard program includes 1000's of cards, without exaggeration. Due t

REALLY Seeing Our Children: Symptoms vs. Super Powers

REALLY Seeing Our Children: Symptoms vs. Super Powers

WHAT A BEAUTIFUL CHART! This golden nugget is found in "The ADD & ADHD Answer Book" By Susan Ashley Ph.D. And it begs the question... Do you consider your child's "special needs" and behaviors a weakness or a super power? As a mom of children on the autism spectrum (and a husband with Aspergers), I am guilty of seeing my loved ones in both lights. When I'm positive, then my family feels loved and the climb to their highest levels of creativity and self-confidence. And whe

Sir Ken Robinson: "Education doesn't need to be reformed. It needs to be transformed."

Sir Ken Robinson: "Education doesn't need to be reformed. It needs to be transformed."

Right brain education was almost unknown when we began our little company 30 years ago. At that time our company was called "The Soul Learning Company." We specialized in right-brain accelerated learning techniques. People came to us for training in order to accelerate the minds of their children, or themselves. They left our classes and courses realizing that in order to increase the intellect, you had to go through the heart. Classrooms come alive with creativity and FUN

Right Brain, Left Brain: Is it a Myth?

Right Brain, Left Brain: Is it a Myth?

When asked this question three decades ago, I would explain that there are two sides of the outer cortex, divided laterally—the right and the left. I drew a picture of a circle, added a line down the middle. Then, I wrote in specific characteristics for each hemisphere. Left brain = logical. Right brain = creative. After the "right brain" craze of the 90's, parents and teachers across the globe were familiar with these terms. There wasn't much to explain. But, the term "r

Right Brain Kids Podcast: Episode 1!

Right Brain Kids Podcast: Episode 1!

Whoo hoo! My very first podcast! Thank you for your patience and all of the encouraging comments. <3 Stay tuned for more. I will get better as I go. Thank you to my dear husband, Brent, for being my "sound guy." Here is the audio and transcript. Enjoy! Hello, everybody! So, the question is “What is right brain education?” Right brain education is a new way of learning that the world really needs right now. When I started to teach these types of classes almost 30 years ago,

9 Ways To Approach Dyslexia & Other Learning Issues

9 Ways To Approach Dyslexia & Other Learning Issues

You Can Heal the Brain with Heart-based Education, Food and Exercise As a dyslexic mother of a dyslexic child, and a teacher of many students who have had dyslexic traits over the past 30 years, I am passionate about this topic. I do not accept that dyslexic children are less than capable. In fact, I believe them MORE capable in many, many areas, including creativity! In order to learn, I had to create some methods to translate the world of words to my own inner world of p

How To Raise a Compassionate, Loving Right-Brain Child

How To Raise a Compassionate, Loving Right-Brain Child

I'm often asked how to nurture values in a child from the very beginning stages of life. Because the right brain is the empathy-loving emotional brain, and our type of learning blossoms with sensitivity and kindness, this is certainly a part of what we teach. Our TweedleWink school motto is "Relationships before results" because the right brain opens and flourishes in a loving relationship. Simply put, children can absorb vast amounts of information when they feel happy and

3 Ways to Boost Right Brain Photographic Memory with Kids

3 Ways to Boost Right Brain Photographic Memory with Kids

In a world of TV, DVD, computer and video games, it's important to know which images will help—and which could harm—your child's brain development. What your child sees and hears can enhance future learning. Here are three ways to boost your child's overall memory. Did you know that every child has a photographic memory? It's true. Photographic memory has to do with the right hemisphere of the brain. Contrary to the logical left hemisphere which consciously reviews all i

How to Calm Right Brain Melt-Downs

How to Calm Right Brain Melt-Downs

5 Steps to Calm a Tantrum "Wahhhhhhhhh! I don't want to leave!" It’s happened to every parent at one point or another. You’re leaving the house, or school, or a fun playground and, all of a sudden, BOOM! your over-tired, unhappy child flips into a hitting or screaming tantrum. Or a creative combination of both! You stand there—perhaps next to your husband who has a clueless look on his face (sorry, Dads!)—and wonder what to do. You feel helpless. How do you help your ch

Pregnancy and Right Brain Babies In the Womb

Pregnancy and Right Brain Babies In the Womb

5 Insights that Will Change Your Pregnancy The TweedleWink right-brain prenatal program is now over 20 years old. Over this precious time, we've discovered how to help mothers connect with, and educate, babies in the womb. We do so using five gifts of insight--key concepts and abilities that are present during pregnancy. Your baby has a voice. Your baby communicates with frequencies. Your baby feels loved when you respond. Your connection grows through practice. If you can

Right Brain Kids, Left Brain Schools

Right Brain Kids, Left Brain Schools

What if My Right-Brain Child is in a Left-Brain School? Albert Einstein once said, "It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." Curiosity Creativity Freedom Self-esteem Self-motivation Invention Intuition Passion … Joy! These are all traits we'd rather our children keep and sustain. But, sometimes schools preoccupied with grading and goal-setting lose their focus—the well-being of our children. And in the process, our children lose their desire to learn. LOSIN

Our Amazing Teachers!

Our Amazing Teachers!

This post is dedicated to our teachers with deep, deep gratitude, love and appreciation. TweedleWink teachers give this program Light and Life through the love and devotion they have for the children in their classes. It takes a lot to see each child's most positive state of being—and to hold that image for them consistently. The teachers I've come to know and am honored to teach with in our classrooms are top notch and genuine. They know how to balance fun and play with the

Thank you, Mr. Rogers.

Thank you, Mr. Rogers.

A statue was unveiled today. A friendly likeness of Fred Rogers now looks over the Allegheny River in downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is depicted smiling in kind greeting while tying his shoes. When I saw the news about it, I felt compelled to write, to rejoice, to share, and to feel immense gratitude that he had the courage to offer himself so honestly to the development of children everywhere. For those of us who grew up in the United States, his is a familiar face. M

If the Right Brain Could Talk...

If the Right Brain Could Talk...

...it would sound a lot like Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor. She has firsthand knowledge of the splendor, the peace, the bliss of the right brain state of mind. You see, one terrible day, Dr. Taylor, a 37-year-old Harvard neuroscientist, had a debilitating stroke. Afterward, she could not walk, talk, read, write, or recall any of her life. Over the next six years, because of her understanding of how the brain works, her respect for the cells composing her human form, and an amazingly

Einstein DID Use Flashcards

Einstein DID Use Flashcards

Every once in a while I come across "Einstein Never Used Flashcards" in a store or while browsing on-line. Have you seen it? The full title is: "Einstein Never Used Flashcards: How Our Children Really Learn--and Why They Need to Play More and Memorize Less." It was written by: Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, and Diane Eyer. Now, you may think that because Right Brain Education for little ones includes the technique of flashcards, that I would begin bashing this

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