Being a right brain thinker comes with a lot of ideas and mental “noise” that can prevent our kids from getting things done both at home and at school. We need to teach them to quiet their minds and keep things organized both internally and externally in order for them to complete those tasks and feel a sense of calm.
Now that you’ve read in depth about what each side of the brain does well and taken the quiz to figure out which side of the brain is driving your child, let me give you a reference guide to help you keep their strengths in mind in your daily lives.
Join me as I explain describe what it REALLY means to be right brain dominant and how that affects kids in school.
As 2019 comes to an end, I have compiled a list of our most important posts of the year. Our visual, right-brain thinkers have amazing talents and adapting the way we talk to them and reinforce their learning can make such a difference in their self esteem and success in life.
When faced with an extended period of time off school, it’s exciting to be free from schedules and homework. Fear strikes when you realize no school means no routines and nothing for the kids to do all day. But have no fear! There are ways to make your time off fun, maybe even fruitful. You could even get a bit of mom time in!
No matter how hard we try, our kids always seem to have too much stuff. And as the holidays approach, the reality of how much more stuff is going to creep into the house can seem overwhelming.
Where are the pencils? Why is it that whenever I want a pencil, I can’t find one? This is one of my pet peeves. I want to write a note, draw with a kid or mark on my calendar (yes, I still use a paper calendar). But never can find a pencil when I want one. And it’s my own house!
Kids have an easier time communicating their ideas using pictures and visual kids think in images… lucky for us, drawings are the best story starters! If you need an activity to encourage the love of writing, this story paper package is going to help.
Cooking with our kids is a great way to spend time together, while involved in purposeful activity. But there’s much more that happens when we invite our kids to engage in the kitchen.
Rote memorization and recitation are just not the way visual thinkers learn new concepts. So, we have to come up with more creative, visual, hands-on techniques to achieve great results.
