Strengthen your child’s flow state ~ the optimal way of learning
Have you seen your child focus so deeply that they lose themselves in a task? When did you last lose track of time because you were having so much fun? This focused, fulfilling state –called flow in psychology– naturally occurs in children and adults during play, movement, and hands-on activities they love. In flow, we feel alive, we are authentically interested and deeply absorbed –and this is how we learn best and achieve more!
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Flow to Learn: A 52-Week Parent’s Guide to Recognize and Support Your Child’s Flow State – the Optimal Condition for Learning
Published in March 2020, 342 pages
Flow To Learn takes parents and child caretakers on a year-long transformative journey to increasingly foster the flow state of optimal learning at home and in learning centers. The short weekly chapters help parents see their child from the perspective of a child-based educator, and inspire conversations on how you can offer children activities off the screen and beyond traditional curricula.
An illustrated guide divided into 52 weeks, Flow to Learn accompanies readers through the year with practical suggestions, inspiration, and compassionate insights that make home education easier for everyone. Tip: Read it together as a couple or caregiver team and discuss each chapter week by week; it will take 10 minutes a week, and together you will go on a transformative journey into more flow.
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Flow Discovery Journal:
Daily Questions to Spark Your Beginner's Mind
Children ages 5 to 105: Bye-bye boredom. Hello Flow Discovery Journal! Get your pencils ready to discover puzzles, crafting activities, math tricks, drawing exercises, language games, and many spunky questions to discover more about yourself and the world around you. {Click to listen to the introduction read by Carmen.}
The Flow Discovery Journal is a 60-day writing journal, activity and coloring book. Answering the daily questions encourages children and grownups to explore their surroundings, discover their original thoughts, their unique flavor of intelligence, and experience the flow state of optimal learning away from screens. Parents, co-parents, grandparents, and all childcare givers, get to know each other better and build deeper connections with children while engaging with the fun explorations offered each day.
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Articles, Insights, & Inspiration
Freedom within Structure: Safely fostering child-directed activity and movement
[From: Week 29 of Flow to Learn: A Parent’s Guide to Recognize and Support Your Child’s Flow State] The more freedom we allow, the more …
How to Lovingly Nurture Your Child’s Independence
Whether parents work from home or outside the home, the time they can spend with their child is often limited and it will help if …
Enjoy Being Your Child’s First Teacher and Learning Companion
Mothers, fathers, or primary caregivers play an important role as a child’s first teacher. Parents teach their children how to eat with a fork and …
Modeling Behavior is the Best Teacher: Respect Must Be Mutual
First published with audio version on InnerSelf.com Children aren’t born with social skills. Children don’t need to learn how to learn but they do need guidance in …
How to Recognize Your Child’s Flow State of Optimal Learning
When children are supported to explore on their own through hands-on play, they enter a state of flow. Psychologists describe flow as “optimal experience,” and …
The Healing Power of Imaginative Play
{Please visit Innerself.com for the audio version of this article} Just as adults benefit from talking about their challenges with friends or a therapist, many …
Flow to Learn
A 52-Week Parent's Guide to Recognize & Support
Your Child's Flow State
Flow to Learn supports parents with elements from child development, psychology, and innovative child-centered education to bring the joy, fun, wisdom, and inspiration of learning in flow into homes. Explore the 52 chapters to enrich every week of the year:
✩ Create activity stations to free up your time while strengthening your child’s intelligence and mental health
✩ Discover your child’s vibrant inner world, and support them through the ups and downs of childhood
✩ Get encouraged by the authentic insights from a mother who practices the flow-parenting approach with her family
✩ See children as guides to your own flow state
“Flow to Learn is a beautifully-written and well-researched resource for children and parents. We’ve found it incredibly helpful as we navigate the joys and challenges of having our two-and-a-half-year-old son home with us (all the time right now, due to the shelter-in-place order).”
—Dr Joel Cabrita (History, Stanford University)
The Author
Carmen Viktoria Gamper is an advisor and speaker for innovative child-centered education, and proud author of Flow To Learn. Carmen became an expert on childhood flow states by supporting and witnessing hundreds of children learning on their own terms in the carefully prepared, hands-on learning environments of innovative summer camps and schools.
As founder of New Learning Culture (NLC) Consulting, Carmen advises preschools and grade schools on how to prepare effective, flow-rich learning environments. She assists educators in setting the tone for learning in their child-led classrooms, so children can playfully yet assuredly acquire intellectual, academic, practical, and creative skills at their own pace.
For Flow To Learn, Carmen consulted with Susanne Stover, writer, editor, and mother of two marvelous young masters of flow. Susanne’s insights further support parents in practicing flow-friendly education at home. Sybille Kramer created the delightful drawings in the book.
