Do you ever feel like your child’s learning problems are a mystery? It might surprise you to learn that the source of the problem could be toxins in your food and environment.
Literacy activities like reading, writing, and spelling, require more attention, brainpower, and focus for children with dyslexia. Usually, reading is difficult for them. Everything they have to do all day is profoundly challenging.
Children learn and develop at their own pace.
To facilitate a child’s learning success, parents must look beyond academics.
Attention is the starting point of learning and essential to the formation of memory.
Attention is the most important factor in learning and intellectual progress.
Did you know that proper nutrition affects the health of children’s eyes?
In the past 30 years, childhood obesity has more than doubled in children, and quadrupled in adolescents.
Today, nearly one-third of our children are obese…and that number is growing.
“Within your student’s brain, a biochemical process of learning is occurring, that parallels the classroom experience. Making connections, finding meaning, and solving problems are learning tasks that require lightning-fast electrical impulses between areas of the brain.”
~ Philippa Norman MD, MPH
In her article, Dr. Philippa Norman talks about how nutrition and hydration boost learning thus equipping the brain for academic success.
While walking through the school cafeteria today, I stopped to chat with a second grader. Playfully, I pretended to take away her fruit bowl.
“You can have it… I don’t like fruit,” she gladly told me.