Intercept1 has a quick alien hit for you. He was just out and about, relaxing at his favorite watering spot and was ever alert as he always advises us to be. The conversation at the next table was a slight bit shocking. He thinks he has detected the Aliens Amongst Us in the wild, so to speak. It’s a quick listen so please give it a turn at capturing your attention. If it is what Intercept1 thinks it is, the Alien incursion is getting closer than we thought. We may find ourselves having a drink with one of them very soon.

This episode of the Parenting Tutor is about an hour and covers the key elements of the physical/doing dimension from the infant times to the teenage years. Below are excerpts from each of the sections Sharon focuses on in the tutorial. Listening to the tutorial gives you a good foundation as you live and grow with your child. We hope you enjoy the tutorial and find the tips and suggestions helpful.

Your Growing Child: Your baby starts her journey into adulthood with very little going for her other than an inborn potential to grow and become. Within the first few weeks of life, she begins the lifelong process of experiencing, exploring, and expressing herself. This is a very physical/doing time of life for baby. She spends most of her waking hours looking, making noises, learning to hold up her head and turn over, squirming and moving around, trying and then learning to pick things up, usually putting them in her mouth, and gradually organizing her life around the major goals of getting to things and getting into them. As your baby becomes a toddler (around the age of eighteen months), the circle of her world starts to expand. There are myriad things to get into and to learn to stay out of, to climb on and around, to explore and experiment with, to take apart and throw around. There is a long list of things to do, such as learning to talk, to use the bathroom, and to feed herself, figuring out new ways to get others to pay attention, finding out about rules and restrictions, getting better at moving around without falling down - generally discovering the physical world. …

TOUCHING AND PHYSICAL CONTACT: All infants have a strong and very real need for physical contact. Without it, the deprivation is very real and may be permanent. Your baby's need for touching and cuddling is like food for physical and emotional growth. Your infant's need for physical contact strongly suggests this physical/emotional/social being also needs to be "fed." Without such contact, your child "starves" physically, emotionally, and socially. …

TOILET TRAINING: When should toilet training begin? First, it should not begin until your child seems to know what the potty is for and can relate the idea to "making messes" in her clothing. For most children, this relationship does not become clear until they are about twenty-four months old. By that age children have enough bowel and bladder control to participate in the toilet training process. If you wait until your child is about thirty months old, she will probably start training herself. …

LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT: Sometimes we are told making baby talk with an infant is a bad idea. Common sense says this is not so. If your infant makes a sound, it is appropriate for you to try to duplicate it. Pretty soon, your infant is trying to duplicate the sounds and noises you make. Once this happens, verbal communication has really begun. Even with an infant only a few hours or days old, it is good to interact with sounds and words. Call the rattle a rattle. Ask him if he wants some juice. Call people by their names. Talk to him about things going on around him. Does he understand? No, not at this very early age. But your infant does need to hear language from a variety of people. By the time your infant is fifteen to eighteen months old, he likely starts referring to some people and things with specific words. Perhaps only you understand, but nonetheless, this is the beginning of verbal communication. He also understands more words than he is able to produce. By the time he is two, he understands a large vocabulary and has available several dozen words for "talking." …

SPEECH PROBLEMS: A special note should be made of speech problems in children. First, some toddlers and preschoolers do not talk clearly, or stutter and stammer, talk too fast, use words incorrectly, or have other difficulties with the production and flow of speech...

Hey folks, there has been an alarming development. The Aliens Amongst Us have tipped to what I have been up to. They have detected that I have been intercepting their transmissions and what's even more alarming, they have figured out that I have been sending them out to you on the AliensAmongstUs.com feed. Even worse, they claim to be able to highjack the AliensAmongstUs.com RSS feed and broadcast their own messages whenever they choose to do that. So far, I only have what they say as reason to believe that they can take over the feed but I certainly suspect they can. What's more, I think there is little doubt that they will start broadcasting sooner or later and probably sooner. We can only be ready for what comes.

 

For now, here is the alarming transmission that causes me so much concern. Please listen carefully and draw your own conclusions.

Hey folks, there has been an alarming development. The Aliens Amongst Us have tipped to what I have been up to. They have detected that I have been intercepting their transmissions and what's even more alarming, they have figured out that I have been sending them out to you on the AliensAmongstUs.com feed. Even worse, they claim to be able to highjack the AliensAmongstUs.com RSS feed and broadcast their own messages whenever they choose to do that. So far, I only have what they say as reason to believe that they can take over the feed but I certainly suspect they can. What's more, I think there is little doubt that they will start broadcasting sooner or later and probably sooner. We can only be ready for what comes.

 

For now, here is the alarming transmission that causes me so much concern. Please listen carefully and draw your own conclusions.

Hey folks, there has been an alarming development. The Aliens Amongst Us have tipped to what I have been up to. They have detected that I have been intercepting their transmissions and what's even more alarming, they have figured out that I have been sending them out to you on the AliensAmongstUs.com feed. Even worse, they claim to be able to highjack the AliensAmongstUs.com RSS feed and broadcast their own messages whenever they choose to do that. So far, I only have what they say as reason to believe that they can take over the feed but I certainly suspect they can. What's more, I think there is little doubt that they will start broadcasting sooner or later and probably sooner. We can only be ready for what comes.

 

For now, here is the alarming transmission that causes me so much concern. Please listen carefully and draw your own conclusions.

Hey folks, there has been an alarming development. The Aliens Amongst Us have tipped to what I have been up to. They have detected that I have been intercepting their transmissions and what's even more alarming, they have figured out that I have been sending them out to you on the AliensAmongstUs.com feed. Even worse, they claim to be able to highjack the AliensAmongstUs.com RSS feed and broadcast their own messages whenever they choose to do that. So far, I only have what they say as reason to believe that they can take over the feed but I certainly suspect they can. What's more, I think there is little doubt that they will start broadcasting sooner or later and probably sooner. We can only be ready for what comes.

 

For now, here is the alarming transmission that causes me so much concern. Please listen carefully and draw your own conclusions.

Hey folks, there has been an alarming development. The Aliens Amongst Us have tipped to what I have been up to. They have detected that I have been intercepting their transmissions and what's even more alarming, they have figured out that I have been sending them out to you on the AliensAmongstUs.com feed. Even worse, they claim to be able to highjack the AliensAmongstUs.com RSS feed and broadcast their own messages whenever they choose to do that. So far, I only have what they say as reason to believe that they can take over the feed but I certainly suspect they can. What's more, I think there is little doubt that they will start broadcasting sooner or later and probably sooner. We can only be ready for what comes.

 

For now, here is the alarming transmission that causes me so much concern. Please listen carefully and draw your own conclusions.

Here are the areas covered in the tutorial. They give you a sense of the tips and suggested strategies covered in the podcast. You certainly won’t learn all you need to know about parenting by listening to the tutorial but you will have a good understanding of the scope and important keys. You will also have a good feel for how things are going with you and your child and when you would be well advised to reach out for help.

 

Your Nurturing Family: Your child is special, a unique individual, the only one of him (or her) there will ever be. If you do not embrace this simple truth with reverence and enthusiasm, your child will know and will never completely get over it. …

 

Responding in Moderation: "Nothing in excess - everything in moderation." This old saying certainly applies to being a parent. The challenge usually has more to do with "How much?" than it does with being correct or incorrect. This dilemma of child rearing is more easily understood than explained. …

 

Rules and Boundaries: During their developing years, your children move from a world with no rules or boundaries set by you into a world of maximum rules and boundaries. They then gradually move back to a world with no parent rules or boundaries. You, in a parallel way, begin by setting no rules or boundaries for your children. You then move to setting maximum rules and boundaries. Gradually, you then eliminate the rules and boundaries. …

 

Discipline: Discipline has a negative side as it relates to rules, boundaries, and to the life-circle. Somewhat simplistically, this has to do with making your children mind and assuring they avoid unnecessary risks. Discipline also has a positive side. It encourages your children to participate in those activities and experiences that are good for them, even though this Sometimes means insisting. …

 

Expectations for Children: You want your children to become effective, successful adults. Reaching this goal begins with having clear notions about what qualities and characteristics effective and successful adults share. You then encourage them in your children. Alternatively, those qualities and characteristics not found in effective and successful adults should be discouraged. …

 

Development: Your children's development starts with their physical, doing dimension. It incorporates their physical bodies, their potentials and capacities to do and behave, and most of what is visible in terms of their actions and activities. …

 

The Learning Process: Your children first discover and then experiment with what they have discovered. They then repeat the activity, action, behavior, or experience until they have either mastered it or determined it has no value for them. When your children achieve mastery, their knowledge and skills become conscious: they use the knowledge or skill when it is needed for the sake of something else. …

 

Assessing Your Relationship: How are you and your child getting along with each other? For the following questions, is the answer almost always yes, usually yes, sometimes yes, seldom yes, or almost never yes? …

 

Assessing Your Child's Adjustment: How is your child getting along? Does he seem to be getting along well or do you see behavior or other problems that concern you? Trust your good judgement and experience. Think about your child and answer "Yes," or "No," to these questions. The questions that you answer "No," focus your attention on the problems and issues needing your attention. (If your child is too young for the question to apply, simply skip that question.) …

 

Hey folks, I sure don't understand how this transmission appeared on our feed. I would like to tell you that I cleverly intercepted it but I didn't. It just suddenly came across without me doing anything. Please be alerted that you may start getting the transmissions from the aliens amongst us without me doing anything or maybe not even knowing there is a transmission. I fear that the aliens amongst us are capturing our feed. Please stand by. For now, here is the mystery transmission. The Aliens amongst us are returning.

Hey folks, I sure don't understand how this transmission appeared on our feed. I would like to tell you that I cleverly intercepted it but I didn't. It just suddenly came across without me doing anything. Please be alerted that you may start getting the transmissions from the aliens amongst us without me doing anything or maybe not even knowing there is a transmission. I fear that the aliens amongst us are capturing our feed. Please stand by. For now, here is the mystery transmission. The Aliens amongst us are returning.