Here is a list of strategies and phrases by Renee Jain that may be used to calm down and work with a young child who is experiencing anxiety. This is very helpful for classroom teachers as well as parents with young children:
Right from when they are born, babies begin to observe the expressions and behaviors around them and start to match their neural maps to these observations. As early childhood educators have consistently maintained, much of what young children learn in school or at home is from watching the adults in their lives. So we need to constantly ask ourselves this question - are we modeling for our children the behaviors we do want them to practice? Are we their "social compass"?
Read the following article by Susan Pinker for more on this:
Delhi University in India's capital city has been embroiled in a series of mismanaged educational reforms over the past few years - from moving from a three-year undergraduate degree program to a four-year undergraduate degree program (FYUP), to the now latest Choice Based Credit System (CBCS). It is interesting to compare these to current trends in education in the US:
"Every parent seeks the “best” preschool for their child; but the truth is that there isn’t any one best school.The “best” school is the one that works most for you and your child.
There are, however, some basic markers that do characterize a quality preschool. Here's what you should look for when investigating preschool options... "
Read more at:
https://www.noodle.com/articles/questions-to-ask-when-considering-preschool
Remembering Langston Hughes on his 113th Birth Anniversary with a couple of my favorites:
Dreams
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.
Mother To Son
Well, son, I’ll tell you:
Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
It’s had tacks in it,
And splinters,
And boards torn up,
And places with no carpet on the floor—
Bare.
But all the time
I’se been a-climbin’ on,
And reachin’ landin’s,
And turnin’ corners,
And sometimes goin’ in the dark
Where there ain’t been no light.
So boy, don’t you turn back.
Don’t you set down on the steps
’Cause you finds it’s kinder hard.
Don’t you fall now—
For I’se still goin’, honey,
I’se still climbin’,
And life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.