Love Language Power

Can you speak your child’s love language? If you want your child to feel loved, valued and accepted, you need to speak their language. If your child’s love language is different than yours, you need to express love to them in their language not yours. Research confirms that people who grow up feeling loved are happier, more resilient, and do better in school and life. Today’s podcast will show you how to determine you and your child’s love language and how to speak all five love languages. Implementing this knowledge will create closer relationships and make you a better parent, spouse, friend and teacher.

Find our textbooks and workbooks at https://teacherstacklebox.com/homeschool

Links:

Love Languages Assessment

Love Languages Overview

How to Speak Your Child’s Love Language: Tips and Techniques

The 5 Motivational Languages: What Motivates You to Change?

How to Show Love and Appreciation to Your Child the Right Way: 5 Love Languages of Children

Parenting Practices, Child Adjustment, and Family Diversity

Teaching is all about being an effective communicator. In today’s episode, we will be talking about ways to improve your communication skills. We will show you that your nonverbal and verbal communication must match for your messages to be understood. We will share with you how to use I Messages when you must correct behavior. We also will talk about the importance of using the technique of Reflective Listening to truly understand what your loved ones are saying and feeling. You will also learn about the theory of Transactional Analysis which explains that all people communicate with three ego states, the child, parent and adult, which refers to the ways that we think, feel and behave, changing across time and contexts. Understanding these concepts and implementing new strategies will help you to sidestep some of the pitfalls that can sideline your teaching day when communication channels seem to break down.

Nonverbal Communication:

https://www.verywellmind.com/types-of-nonverbal-communication-2795397

I Messages:

https://www.bumc.bu.edu/facdev-medicine/files/2011/08/I-messages-handout.pdf

https://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/psychpedia/i-message

Reflective Listening:

https://colinjamesmethod.com/what-is-reflective-listening/

https://www.skillsyouneed.com/ips/reflecting.html

Transactional Analysis:

https://www.goodtherapy.org/learn-about-therapy/types/transactional-analysis

https://ericberne.com/transactional-analysis/

How do you know if your child’s brain is ready for what you are teaching? Knowing your child’s cognitive development stage will enable you to introduce concepts when your child is ready to comprehend them. Understanding Piaget’s developmental stages and how to use this information to determine your child’s learning readiness is essential information for a teacher. In today’s podcast, we show you how to access your child’s learning readiness along with a discussion about learning styles.

Piaget stages of development:

https://www.simplypsychology.org/sensorimotor.html

https://www.verywellmind.com/sensorimotor-stage-of-cognitive-development-2795462

https://www.simplypsychology.org/preoperational.html

https://www.verywellmind.com/preoperational-stage-of-cognitive-development-2795461

https://www.verywellmind.com/concrete-operational-stage-of-cognitive-development-2795458

https://www.simplypsychology.org/concrete-operational.html

https://www.simplypsychology.org/concrete-operational.html

https://www.verywellmind.com/formal-operational-stage-of-cognitive-development-2795459

https://www.simplypsychology.org/formal-operational.html

Reading Readiness:

https://5sensesll.com/2018/10/identifying-10-signs-of-reading-readiness/

Learning Styles:

https://www.evelynlearning.com/introduction-to-learningstyles/

Cloze Test:

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/cloze-test-reading-comprehension/

Knowing the personality style of your children and yourself will enable you to be a more effective communicator and help you to create the perfect learning environment for each of your children. In this episode, you will learn about the True Colors personality test and how to use the testing results to enhance your art of teaching. Your children may be quite different from you in personality style. It is important to recognize uniqueness and instruct with your children’s style in mind.

Learning Tips for Personality Types Color Types Keirsey Temperament Sorter Myers-Briggs Type Indicator True Colors Personality Test Personality Academy

In this episode you will learn how to use a nibbler activity to determine the strength of your child’s empathetic skills. The hosts will discuss different strategies to help develop a strong sense of empathy in your child.  Empathetic people are more likely to build strong relationships and are often in leadership roles because they value and respect others.

Mirroring emotions

https://islaahwellness.com/types-of-mirroring-behavior-in-children/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1053811907009548

Nibbler Activities are fun, interactive games that you play with your child while you carefully observe their skills and character traits.  You can learn where your child excels and where some strength building will be helpful.  In this episode, the hosts will show how to use a nibbler activity to identify a skill that needs improvement.  The skill of problem solving is examined and several strategies for building this skill are discussed.

https://www.splashlearn.com/blog/problem-solving-activities-for-kids/

https://www.findapsychologist.org/8-steps-to-help-your-child-learn-problem-solving-skills-by-dr-jennifer-wendt/

Nancy Piercy and Sue Nothstine, authors, and veteran teachers, introduce themselves and present an overview of their new podcast, Homeschool Tacklecast. Nancy and Sue think that it is important that homeschool educators know their children as learners so they can teach the way every child learns best, as defined by the data from the learning profile.

Each episode of the podcast will explain how an educator can create and add new information to an individual learning profile for each of their children. The hosts then discuss strategies to implement the profile. The overview includes brief discussions about learning styles and readiness; the importance of knowing each child’s personality; and fun activities, referred to as nibblers, that provide invaluable information about a child’s character traits and skills. 

Reading Readiness

https://thekindergartenconnection.com/14-things-you-should-know-about-reading-readiness/

Piaget

https://www.simplypsychology.org/piaget.html

Mindset

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5836039/

https://www.mindsetworks.com/science/

Colors

https://realcolors.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/01/RC_Reliability-Validity.pdf

https://realcolors.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/01/RC_Reliability-Validity.pdf

Learning Styles

https://www.structural-learning.com/post/learning-styles   

Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)

https://www.myersbriggs.org/my-mbti-personality-type/myers-briggs-overview/