The Edinburgh Teaching Clock

 
I was asked last week about a Teaching Clock for an 8 year old and was delighted to point them in the direction of my very own Edinburgh Teaching Clock: http://edinburghtechniques.co.uk/

The Clock Face, plus the 10 East Steps are simplicity itself and can be downloaded from our website. The Face is attached to a normal Kitchen Clock and the young student learns the basics within 15 minutes and completely within 3 or 4 days at which point you can remove the Teaching Face from your clock.

Needless to say the aforementioned 8 year old can now tell the time. That's Wholebrain Learning for you.

Poor Reading Skills

I see there is more fear and alarm about the number of Primary Students entering High School with poor Reading Skills and often poor Basic Skills generally.

The current crop of CONQUER eBooks being published by North Highland Press in Amazon, Smashwords and other eBook sites cover these Basic Skills. Conquer Reading Out Loud allows students to lose the fear of being asked to read out in class by teaching them how to read.

Like all of the Conquer Techniques it's simplicity itself and is based on how we learned to speak. The reason deaf people can't speak properly is because they never get the chance to hear themselves read properly. Reading involves matching sounds to symbols (words). The brain lays down the pattern of how words/part of words sound but until the reader hears himself read properly patterns are not laid down.

The eBook explains it all simply and shows you how.

Bed Wetting and the Magic Garden

 
Nothing annoys me more than reading about the multitude of bells and whistles and rubber pants to combat bed wetting. As a former champion bed wetter myself.....I did say former.....I have first hand knowledge of the power of anxiety and the role it plays in bed wetting. As part of my post graduate Psychotherapy course I came across a technique called the Magic Garden which I adapted for my young clients with dyslexia and/or learning difficulties. Quickly realising the part anxiety plays in disrupting the learning process I adapted the Magic Garden for the under 12s and the Sound of Calm hypnosis technique (now The Study Relaxer) for the over 12s.

I soon had parents joyously telling me their son had stopped bedwetting since playing the Magic Garden (it's usually boys) and that all children with nightmares and even sleepwalking were improving rapidly as their anxiety was calmed.

So parents, if your child wets the bed, it's not because they have a 'weak bladder' nor is it because they 'drink too much late at night'. They are anxious and they need psychotherapeutic intervention or TIME to grow out of it if you prefer (I know which they would prefer). A week to 10 days of playing the Magic Garden story (15 minutes) will cure their bedwetting and vastly reduce their nightmares and any sleepwalking.

The site is: www.edinburghtechniques.co.uk

TeT eBooks now on Amazon and Smashwords

 
Smaller, sharper versions of the Edinburgh Techniques are being written as we speak, the first of which, CONQUER SPELLING, appeared on Amazon yesterday, March 13th and on Smashwords today, Wednesday 14th. Amazon is specialising in the Kindle market whereas Smashwords has the techniques in various forms.

The eBook differs not only in size but also is colourless and without pictures and jokes, it's more parent/teacher orientated whereas the original techniques are more child centred. The price is much cheaper too £2.58 and $2.99

Hypnosis via Skype

 
I finished my work with my 14 year old from North Carolina on Feb 29th. I used the Study Relaxer Technique with him which he found was effortless.  He was a very good subject and felt he definitely benefited from the technique. He'll now burn the technique he has already bought and downloaded from the Edinburgh Techniques' site onto a disc and play it whenever he has an exam or class tests or indeed if he ever has any unexpected upset.

As for me I can't wait to work with my next student via Skype.

Kids and Exercise

 
Just a quick word on an article I read today. It said we must get kids to exercise more. When I was a kid the idea of us having to exercise was a nonsense. We were never in. We ran about from morning till night.
But then we weren't ferried back and forwards to school or the mall or where ever before plonking ourselves in front of computer games or TV for the rest of the night.
Stop driving your kids everywhere, let them get the bus. Much more enjoyable for them with more chance of increasing their social skills and even understanding of themselves as they become more independent. In fact, isn't that our job? Making kids Independent of us?

TEACHING VIA SKYPE

 
 Last week I had a 90 minute session with a young student and his mum from North Carolina. They had bought a couple of my techniques, the Internal Eyescan and Study Relaxer from the website and I was going through the techniques with them and doing a general counselling session with both. 

Another session is planned for later this month. I must say I love the concept of being able to work with people thousands of miles away using a free medium like Skype, free if both parties have Skype that is.

This particular 14 year old is a typical right brain boy, very smart but very sensitive, doesn't take criticism too well because he has no idea of his real potential. But  after 90 minutes talking to me and reading articles of mine on Intelligence he is beginning to understand that his problems are mechanical rather than intellectual.

This will have a tremendous affect on his confidence and self esteem which in turn will benefit his entire life especially academic life. No doubt more Skype work will follow as the year wears on.

I should add this young man is one of tens of thousands in America who are being home schooled (mainly in school groups in this case).