The Parenting in Childhood Chapter focuses on 5-year-olds and 6-year-olds, when children start attending school and become influenced by teachers, coaches, and friends. The research and more than 45 age-specific activities provided will show you how to help your child develop to his/her full potential.
It answers important questions like:
What is the birth order affect?
What are the different functions of the right and left brain, and how can you develop them?
How can you give your child a healthy attitude toward earning grades at school?
Are IQ test scores the a final judgment of your child’s ability?
What emotions are appropriate for children this age?
How do your child’s flight, fight, or freeze instincts affect how you discipline him?
What is your child’s level of moral understanding?
What is the effect of violence on TV and in video games on your child’s behavior?
Get the answers to these questions and more, plus dozens of activities to help your child advance in all 4 Dimensions: The Physical, Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual. It the Instruction Manual you didn't get with your child!
Tim McCarthy has a Master’s Degree in Education and a Grandmaster rank in the martial arts. He has combined his years of experience as a classroom teacher and administrator (in both public and private schools) with even more years of experience teaching and developing martial arts programs to create a simple plan for the education of children. He has spent years researching developmental child psychology, chosen the best studies, and distilled them into simple, understandable language. He then drew on his vast knowledge of activities that help children become stronger physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually, and arranged them according to the capabilities of children at each age.
His unique perspective combining Eastern and Western educational philosophy creates a powerful road map for raising balanced children in an increasingly unbalanced world.