Nurturing Environment
A nurturing environment is critical to children’s lives. It provides the ‘frame’ to assemble daily learning. Children learn better in safe environments because they are not intimidated or bullied. Therefore it’s easier to be a risk-taker when learning, to venture a guess, to go out of their comfort zone. Healthy, well nourished children raised in loving homes provide a strong ‘frame’ in which teachers and parents can help them build their reading puzzle. A nurturing environment is key to children’s overall development.
Even Before Birth
However, the ‘frame’ of the reading puzzle starts taking shape way before the child gets to daycare/school. Epigeneticist Dr. Bruce Lipton in The Honeymoom Effect explains how babies in utero experience the same emotions and physiology as the mother because they are bathed in the same blood chemistry as the mother. So whatever emotion the mother is feeling so will the baby feel it.
He quotes from Tomorrow’s Baby: The Art and Science of Parenting from Conception through Infancy by Dr. Thomas Verney & Pamela Weintraub, (2002),29 that “Awake or asleep,…[unborn children] are constantly tuned in to their mother’s every action, thought, and feeling. From the moment of conception, the experience in the womb shapes the brain and lays the groundwork for personality, emotional temperament, and the power of higher thought”. By the time the child is born he/she is already programmed by these experiences. Therefore the nurturing environment starts in the womb.
Good Vibrations
Hence the reason why people play certain types of classical music ( known as the Mozart effect) to fetuses. The high vibrations of the music, permeating the water around and in the baby’s body, provide a healthy environment for the fetus, by counterbalancing any emotion being experienced by mom. From the womb through the first year of life infants’ brains operate at the slowest brain-wave frequency, they sleep a lot. From 2 to 6 years of age the brain-wave frequency is a vibrational frequency associated with children’s great imaginations which they show through their play, where imagination and reality become blurred in their minds.
Dr. Lipton explains that at this stage ‘information can be directly downloaded into the subconscious mind,[and]…this is a highly programmable theta (wave) state ,children record vast amounts of information they need to survive in their environment, but they do not have the capacity to consciously evaluate the information, while it’s being downloaded”.(The Honeymoom Effect, (2013),81-82. How crucial that parents and teachers know this!
Low Vibrations and Conditioning
The negative, low vibration behaviours of adults program children’s subconscious minds. Yet adults probably have no idea how these beliefs will later on reflect in the children’s lives. I think as parents we have all been there in anger and frustration and with good intentions. Foremost in our minds was what was best for the children.
We did the best we could with what we knew at the time. I’ve apologized to my children, probably not enough. I have a second chance to model appropriate behavior with my grandchildren. Now I know a little more than I knew then. That’s part of my personal growth. I believe that when anyone expands in their knowledge, behaviour and spiritual journey, we all benefit such is the universal connection.
Therefore, the importance of conscious parenting by modeling positive behavior can do wonders for learning survival skills, so children can survive in their environment instead of being dragged down by it. Children learn by observation of the world around them. We must be careful of what they are observing.
With Love and Gratitude
Alda
Source:
Bruce Lipton, PhD, The Honeymoon Effect, 2013