Nanny Poppins

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Teachers and parents!!!

09/12/2023

And they wonder why many kids are unable to sit still and want to focus on academics from 4 years old. Kids need to be outside learning about the world!

29/10/2023

🙌 and they wonder why the kids are off the walls

25/09/2023

29/08/2023

22/08/2023

Teach agency.
Teach how to disagree respectfully.

01/08/2023

Being fair is not the same as being equal.

Children are actually very good at understanding other children’s needs. Once established it’s just accepted the majority of the time. Many times I’ve had open discussions with my class about ‘that works for them’, ‘it’s a distraction for you…let’s find something else.’ Or ‘they need longer to complete this’.
Children understand more than they are often given credit for. Don’t use them as an excuse to not put in the correct scaffolding to help all children succeed.
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20/07/2023

Brill idea for those kids/ adults that need constant stimulation or screen access

Here’s a tiny little “this is working for our family right now so maybe it will for someone else too”:

Our only form of screen time for our kids right now is TV shows and movies. We usually stick to preschool shows, Pixar/Disney movies, and YouTube videos about how things work or “behind the scenes” of stuff or plumbing being installed or windmills being built or things like that.

Both my kids really like to have *something* on the screen at all times, even just the screensaver that the TV puts on if a show is paused for too long.

Lately I’ve been putting on a “rainy/thunderstorm” or “cozy scene” type of video. They’re usually like 8-24 hours long and absolutely nothing happens; it’s an image of a flickering fireplace, a rainy window, a distant thundercloud with lightning, etc. i don’t even think most of them are “real” as in have been videoed but rather are computer-generated.

They’re very soothing. I like having the rainy or fireplace white noise in the background. My kids run around and play, occasionally stopping to stare or zone out looking at the flickering fireplace or the running rivulets of rain or whatever — doing what their brain wants to use a screen to briefly regulate for, to zone out and feel soothed and feel visually involved and all of that. But there’s no plot or anything happening to “hook” them into watching any longer than that.

It also seems like it keeps the noise volume down a notch or two, anecdotally speaking. I wonder if this might be because in moments where they are not making noise, the remaining noise is not utter silence — which can feel threatening — but rather, a soothing white noise. So, they don’t feel like they need to drown out the silence with the sounds they make.

Also, we’ve gotten to talk a lot about various new vocabulary things, like talking about the fireplace, candle, throw pillows, the woods outside the window in this particular picture, and the whole concept of “cozy spaces”. My daughter told me what kind of couches she likes best. :)

[Image description: a photo of a TV mounted on top of a dresser. The TV is showing a YouTube video of a cozy scene with a fireplace crackling, a lit candle on the coffee table, and a cozy oversized comfy chair in the corner, while rain pours outside in grey woods out large windows. Random debris are scattered on the floor in real life because my housekeeping skills are not high. End description.]

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