Tarlac Redemption Christian School Inc.

"What do you do if you don't punish for bad behavior?" We teach, reinforce, and practice what they could or should have done differently. Sometimes we do a do-over right in the moment. Sometimes we role play later when everyone is calm. Sometimes we problem-solve to repair a fractured relationship. Sometimes we have a family meeting to reset and start over. But whatever we do, it is restorative and redemptive, not retributive.

Our kids are listening.

They hear you talk about what you really think about their school teacher.

They know what you say about their aunt when you leave the family gathering.

They know what you think about someone who looks or acts differently because they heard the way you giggled or sneered about that person in the grocery store.

You can read all the books on kindness to them. You can talk their ear off on the value of kindness. But when they hear you judge and shame, gossip or ridicule, you’re normalizing it for them. You are teaching them that it is OK.

Kids don’t learn how to tease or bully in a vacuum. Gossip, disrespect or cruelty don’t come naturally. They are learned behaviors. And many of them learn it in their very own home.

Because our kids are listening.

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What helps your child after school?

from Perth Children's Occupational Therapy
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With summer around the corner, it’s a good time to remember we don’t need to entertain our kids.
We are a society afraid of boredom. We are addicted to entertainment and the stimulation of certain neuro centers in the brain. We are losing the ability to just be.
Studies have shown that boredom stimulates problem solving areas of our brains that cannot be accessed in any other way. Boredom begets creativity and new thought pathways.
When we deny our children their God-given right to boredom, we are restricting their development.
Do you remember the hours you spent in boredom as a child? We would daydream in the waiting room, stare at the dust motes dancing in the sunlight, invent new games, draw, read, create, research. We were building important neuro pathways. Did we whine to our parents that we were bored? Of course! But we quickly learned that this would only lead to chores or being forced outside regardless of temperature or weather.
When we had a question, there was no Google. We had to ask another person, look it up in a book, or, gasp, ruminate on it until we found the answer within our own brains. We developed common sense and logic, because we were experiencing the world firsthand and engaging our problem solving.
So, don’t be afraid of boredom! Every generation before this one has had to learn to live with it. And they have benefited because of it.
Give your children the gift of boredom.

🖼: In Hard Luck by John G. Brown 1904

May 28 of each year is a special non-working holiday in the entire province of Tarlac, in observance of its Foundation Day to be designated as “Araw ng Lalawigang Tarlak”.

- Proclamation No.109, series of 1999

FULL TEXT: https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/1999/05/10/proclamation-no-109-s-1999/