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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 …
Balancing Your Child’s Screen Time During Covid
First published on Parentology – Parenting in the Digital Age Managing your child’s screen time during COVID-19 has become more challenging than ever. As the …
Discover your child’s (and your) unique flavor of intelligence! The author, Carmen Gamper, reads from the Flow Discovery Journal
For children ages 5 to 105: “Hello you! There are 7 billion people on planet earth. You are one of them, and there is no …
Let children find their flow state of optimal learning
Have you noticed your child focusing so intensely on their activity that they forget about time and can’t hear you call them? They might be …
Benefits of Flow Activity Stations at Home
A flow activity station is a place where children and/or grown-ups can spend an extended period of time with an activity they love. Home flow …
A Master Needs a Dojo: Children Need Places Prepared for Flow States
A dojo is a prepared environment, a training hall, for martial arts practitioners—created with the explicit purpose for them to be in the zone, which …
Thriving during Transitions from Your Child’s Flow State to What is Next
The intensely positive emotions that come with being in complete command of one’s actions, and the pure joy of being in a flow state, may …
Parenting Insight: They don’t always need me
Book Excerpt by Flow to Learn contributor Susanne Stover, flow-friendly parenting expert and Oregon-based mother of two marvelous young masters of flow: I deeply love …