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Character education program comes to Proctors

10 March 2010

For parents and teachers looking to introduce character education to children, Proctors in Schenectady is offering the program Stories that Dance, an initiative that teaches tolerance through child-performed anecdotes about topics such as bullying, diversity, peer pressure, etc. The 7 p.m. March 25 performance of Stories that Dance at Proctors is the culmination of collaborative efforts among Proctors, the Northeast Ballet Company in residence at Proctors and students from three school classrooms. Together, they bring to life the imaginative stories of Capital Region youth and transform them into a full-scale production on the Mainstage at Proctors. On average 75 to 100 students from grades 2 through 5 get to explore life from the perspective of the director’s chair. Each class learns all the elements that turn their story into a dance: from scripting a story of their own imaging, character development, choreography, music selection, lighting design, sequencing, as well as costume design, marketing and more. Proctors and Northeast Ballet Company developed the Stories that Dance program to combat the declining literacy rate in children, boost creativity, confidence and problem solving skills. The creative writing portion of the dance literacy project will directly relate to curriculum in English and ignite the wild imaginations of students. Through the process of creating a story and recreating it as a dance, students will learn about setting, character, conflict and resolution

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Goldie Hawn to visit region on behalf of educational foundation

10 March 2010

Image via Wikipedia Goldie Hawn, whose The Hawn Foundation works to promote education of children, will speak at a luncheon at Glen Sanders Mansion at noon April 1 about her foundation’s partnership with Capital Lyceum and Brown School. Hawn will later host a cocktail party from 5 to 7 p.m. at Angelo’s 677 Prime in Albany. All funds raised will support the nonprofit educational work of The Hawn Foundation, Capital Lyceum and Brown School. The luncheon is open to the public and a select number of tickets are available to the VIP cocktail party. Tickets to the luncheon are $50 dollars and tickets to the VIP cocktail party are $100 dollars. To purchase tickets, visit http://www.capitallyceum.org or http://www.brownschool.org. The theme of the luncheon is Innovation in Education. The Hawn Foundation’s MindUP™ program equips children with the social and emotional skills they need to live happier, successful lives. A video of Hawn talking about the program is here . Capital Lyceum Executive Director Dr. Marc Meyer has been working with the Hawn Foundation on developing its MindUP™ program for nearly a decade and brought it to Brown School about four years ago with the help of Patti Vitale, acting head of Brown School and a MindUP™ consultant. The program is now well established at the N-8 school. Capital Lyceum is a new independent high school located in Schenectady serving young people from throughout the Capital Region. It will serve as the Northeast Regional Training Center for the Hawn Foundation and MindUp program. The school will provide a 7 to 1 student-to-faculty ratio, and will use the latest in digital and computer technology to provide a truly innovative new choice for secondary education in the Capital Region.

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Are baby slings dangerous things?

10 March 2010

According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, which is expected to issue a sling-related warning this week , there’s a need to be cautious. The Associated Press article says some experts have concluded they’re a suffocation risk. I know many of you are/were sling-users? Were you ever concerned? Did any of you not use slings because you were worried?

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Children Decongestant – Nature’s solution

10 March 2010

Children Decongestant - They need not be sticky, uncomfortable and cold. They need be hot, wet and messy. In fact they need not be some sort of sprays to stick into their nostrils, or some liquid they have to take. Here are some of methods you can use to help them out. 1. A mixture of Euchalyptus and Peppermint Oil. You need to add these to a base oil like grapeseed or sweet almond oil. Rub some onto their chest area and behind their neck. If their nose is blocked, apply some on the nostril area as well. This will keep them comfortable for the night 2. If they feel uncomfortable with these essentials oil (children can be very difficult especially when they are sick), you can also burn pure oil in their bedroom (use the correct utensils of course) 3. Prop up their pillow will help them with the congestions as well. Actually, although these are simple, they are very effective. For More Teaching Parenting Skills

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Give your kid a credit card at 16?

10 March 2010

Image via Wikipedia According to the expert in this “Good Morning America” story , it’s best to give a child a credit card at 16, when you still have primary control over their spending, rather than waiting until they’re 18 and perhaps out of your sight at college. Meanwhile, and ABC News poll found that more than 70 percent of parents are opposed to giving their kids a credit card until they turn 18. I’m leaning toward 18 myself. You?

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Youth sports: Look at equipment, go for less could be my new policy

10 March 2010

from Triangle SportsPlex My son is playing his first season of ice hockey. This, I’ve decided, may be a mistake. It’s not that he’s not having fun. He is. Or that he isn’t learning a lot or getting a great workout. He is. And he’s got a great coach and teammates he likes, and ice hockey games go on, no matter the weather outside. So that is all good. My problem is with the stuff. Hockey requires what seems to the newbie (that’s me) a ridiculous amount of stuff. Hockey requires more equipment than just about any other sport — and to a non-Hockey-knowing Mom pressed sometimes into equipment manager role, this is a bit dicey. Consider what must be packed for every practice and every game: Helmet with full-face guard, shoulder, elbow and shin pads, gloves, padded shorts, ice skates (of course) and a hockey stick. Plus, jersey, hockey stockings, socks, mouth guard and certain required undergarments. Oh, and a special water bottle with a pointy spout, so you can drink with that cage-like helmet on your head. It probably goes without saying that all this equipment does not fit in any normal-sized duffel bag. So hockey players have ginormous special bags — bags so big and unwieldy you could not board an airplane with them without paying some extra, ginormous, over-sized-bag fee. Little kids cannot even get these bags from parking lot to ice rink without a fair amount of parental help. Hockey bags makes my son’s baseball bag look slim and dainty. So I am questioning stuff-heavy hockey, though maybe in time it will seem second nature, and I won’t find myself doing this mental checklist before we leave the house (2 gloves? Check. 2 elbow pads? Check. Helmet? Check). And at least my son isn’t a goalie, which looks to require a whole bunch more stuff. Still I am happy my daughter is playing soccer this spring because that’s just shin guards and a pair of cleats. And I was intrigued when she said she want to be on a swim team this summer — swimsuit, goggles, towel, right? But then my husband said, Don’t swim teams practice at like 5 a.m.? Okay, a heavy bag doesn’t seem so bad.

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Character education program comes to Proctors

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Goldie Hawn to visit region on behalf of educational foundation

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Youth sports: Look at equipment, go for less could be my new policy

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