Creating Balance in Children's Lives
A Natural Approach to Learning and Behavior
February 2008 | 150 pages | Corwin
Formerly published by Peytral PublicationsThis insightful resource helps educators, parents, and childcare providers discover how emotions affect learning and behavior, recognize the symptoms and sources of imbalance, and promote students' physical, mental, emotional, and social development.Readers will learn more about the body-mind-heart connection, the importance of nutrition, and options for correcting and preventing imbalance.
Foreword
1. Balance for Children in a Changing World
2. Progress in Understanding Learning and Behavior
3. Understanding the Dynamic Trio: Brain, Heart, Body
4. The Energy of Emotions
5. Nourishing the Dynamic Trio
6. The Wheel of Balance: A Model
7. Symptoms and Sources of Imbalance
8. The Wisdom of Children
9. Options for Preventing and Correcting Imbalances
Options at a Glance
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