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Dr. James Young
Purpose of the podcast is to bring information to parents about the changing world children are living in. To help them to understand the importance of the first five years of development.
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We want to welcome you back to Chats with Baba in 2022! There are lots of phenomenal plans in the making. Listen today for an update of what's to come and how to continue education for ALL of our kids.
Continue the mathematical map in the minds of your youth, especially during the holidays. What can you utilize just in the home during this season? Learn the importance of Order, Sequence, and Consistency today!
As a piece of Dr. Young's newsletter and podcast, he shares a beautiful poem about young Black Children. This episode will focus on words of affirmation, teaching math to young children, and we will continue to go slow as it is important for all ages to remember these lessons.
To prepare your children, and continue their education over the holiday season, you might be surprised at the number of skills that you can not only develop, but enhance. Listen for examples, awareness, and inspiration!
Today we learn the importance of and How to compare and learn mathematical terminology. This is also an opportunity to learn how to NOT compare your our skills to others or instilling the fear of knowledge into our children. Terminology and concepts help classify and organize our train of thought for the foundation of math.
Math is all around young children everyday. Keep math in the forefront, in the substantial. With AI become more and more a reality in our world, math skills and concepts should transition from the abstract to the application and functional.
Almost everything in your environment can be related to math. Part of our job is to expose our children to exploration, patterns, shapes in the real world, etc. By continuously playing and engaging, you will notice the effect that it's having on them.
Children will begin to put together things that make sense, with the right, early guidance. Mental pictures and associations will become internalized, and Dr. Young shows us how to do this, the impact it has on our children, and how to set up these 21st Century kids for success with the critical resources that are at our fingertips.
It is important to remember that if the foundations and basics aren't taught at home, teachers are then responsible for not teaching new information, but catching up our young ones to wear they should be - grade level wise. Listen today to find out how we can set up our children and teachers for success.
More often than not, it is the barriers in our own minds that prevent us from succeeding. Which we can see in our children, and it's important not to impose OUR OWN barriers on them. Explore how to break those barriers and set up your children with strong foundations.
Now that we know WHY our children should start simple mathematics early, let's find out HOW. First we examine our own relationship with math before we teach to our kids.
What should our children know to start our mathematic education early? The fear we instill in our children can hinder that, and the future learning - so start simple, start slow, but start now. Experiences, opportunities and exposure!
Let's discuss our youngest children's capacity for language, the trust that we instill and gain, and the bond that gets created.
How do we protect our children during these times? What do we need to be aware of and what's the future impact? Let's set up our children for success and how to take care of them in the process.
We exploring more benefits of early literacy. There is joy and excitement while reading with your children, and boring or demanding is often an immediate turn off and disagreement to be had with our young ones. Join us next week for foundations in mathematics.
We get a personal moment from Dr. Young today as he discusses his daughter's best friend's medical update. We continue to grasp the laying of foundation and perseverance when it comes to everyday life and the skills our children will need to grow up successful.
What are some of the best books to read to/with your children? What is the impacting of reading, or not reading, with our children? Who are some of the role models we should introduce to our young ones? Explore with Dr. Young the possibilities and inner workings of expanding children's minds and knowledge base.
The What, How and Why... Critical thinking is more important than ever, so when our children ask these questions and their own answers, we as their community need to stimulate their train of thoughts.
What makes one successful? What three qualities do you think parents utilize when bringing out the best in our children? How do we apply those qualities? And what difference does it make, long term?
How do we go about educating our children at home? What can we learn from the different rooms in our house? Explore our options with Dr. Young today!
How do we prepare our children for the future? What are their rights? And how to we, as parents, neighbors, educators, support the dreams of the young children in our community?
Whether it's emotional, physical, or mental, let's take a look at how we can connect and engage with our children. What family traditions do you want to instill? What behaviors do we want to develop? What atmosphere will be created?
Dr. Young addresses the kinds of summer activities that you can engage children in that will enable them to stay on task and have fun in between school years, especially with the way the pandemic is currently impacting our educational system.
How much learning has been lost? What's the impact on children's education? And what do we do about this? What are our concerns as parents, teachers, and citizens?
Dr. Young shares with us today some of the importance of being a good parent, how to do so, and celebrates Juneteenth and Father's Day. Recorded June 10th.
Dr. Young discuss how to assure our children of feeling good about themselves, taking pride in who they are. We look at affirming our children in a world, and a nation, that is multicultural.
What kind of preparation goes into your young children's habits of the mind? What's the preparation for a child's success? Find out more at drjamesyoung.com. If you'd like to be included in the newsletters, visit the Contact Us page
Former student of Dr. Young's, Yvette Manns is a proud graduate of an HBCU. She earned her degree in Early Childhood Education from Clark Atlanta University. Yvette enjoys her work as an educator, traveling, reading and spending time with her family and friends in Atlanta, Georgia.
Find out the keys to transition the pipeline to prison and turn it into the pipeline to college. Expanding the child's mind is one of the most important endeavors.
When it comes to enthusiasm and picking role models, it's up to you and your child to set the standards and expectations of education in the household.
From fear of learning, there is an emotional, physical, and memorable fear that lingers throughout higher education. So, how do we overcome our educational fears?
The importance of these characteristics of parenting can determine the success of your child. You are the first element of child development.
Whether it's organic or planned, learn how to take "ordinary things" with your children and find teachable moments to bond over.
With school coming to a close, what is most important for parents and teachers to focus on? Continue the play and be in discovery of your child's genius.
Dr. Young's take on the Atlanta Journal Constitution's article in the paper regarding the Literacy Crisis and how to fill the gap.
Children are young scientists - learning the what and why - and your role as a parent is to cultivate and stimulate their minds as they go through that process.
With a child's foundation - paying attention, listening, following directions, and starting and finishing a task - where do YOUR time and patience come in? What are the keys for a successful childhood?
Let's explore Education, Experience, Exposure, Enrichment, Entrepreneurship, Empowerment, Examination and how to connect the dots that impact the quality of children's lives.
Mentioned on today's podcast: the conversations around "Who Are You?", the book Know Thyself by Na'im Akbar, and Routines to help your child develop - 1. Pay attention, 2. Learn to listen, 3. Follow directions, 4. Start and Complete a task.
The development of intelligence is directly connected to the quality of experiences in life. Listen, enjoy, and share.
In Dr. Young's first podcast episode, find out some of the important attributes of the natural genius children possess, and how to unlock them in the early years of their development.