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| The number one goal of our organization is to raise awareness. The reason we have a "fear driven" educational policy is because we are afraid. Afraid our children will not do well in life and succeed and get a good job and get ahead. So we start early; are they learning to read on time, are they writing as well as the other children in their class? We start worrying when we should be letting them learn at their own pace. It is not easy to let go of the fear that keeps us pushing our children and inadvertently transferring our anxiety to them. But we are running the risk of deadening our children's natural love of learning, and damaging our children's self image with all our fears. We believe the fear of our childrens failure is so great that only the understanding that pushing them, can actually lessen their chances of succeeding as adults, will allow the fear to begin letting go of parents hearts. This is what raising public awareness is about. Getting this message out. We also are involved in encouraging the activities that will help to round out our children's education; to encourage their creativity, and encourage their reading of children's literature that will lift them up and enrich them. We have team of volunteers that are working with Metro East Community Media in Oregon to produce programming and PSAs (Public Service Announcements) for this purpose: Education without Fear (which will be a talk show format) due out this fall Don't tell Mom to take you to the movie, ask her to get you the book! drawing young people to classics like the Narnia series with a powerful dramatic reading from a 10 year old- - weekly -this began at the end of June and will be up to episode 6 on Aug. 1st -Part of The Magicans Nephew The Value of Drawing (PSA) Storydance- Choreography by the children (PSA) These programs are broadcast on cable channels 11 and 21 and then uploaded to the world wide web. Storydance started in 2008 as a local hands on project; with a focus of giving school age children 6-14 the chance to make up their own dances and choreography to dramatic classical music. It started when we became aware that most ballet dance classes were about learning steps and the opportunity to be creative with it was gone by about age 7. The more resources we have the more effective we can be... Donate now |
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| The number one goal of our organization is to raise awareness. The reason we have a "fear driven" educational policy is because we are afraid. Afraid our children will not do well in life and succeed and get a good job and get ahead. So we start early; are they learning to read on time, are they writing as well as the other children in their class? We start worrying when we should be letting them learn at their own pace. It is not easy to let go of the fear that keeps us pushing our children and inadvertently transferring our anxiety to them. But we are running the risk of deadening our children's natural love of learning, and damaging our children's self image with all our fears. We believe the fear of our childrens failure is so great that only the understanding that pushing them, can actually lessen their chances of succeeding as adults, will allow the fear to begin letting go of parents hearts. This is what raising public awareness is about. Getting this message out. We also are involved in encouraging the activities that will help to round out our children's education; to encourage their creativity, and encourage their reading of children's literature that will lift them up and enrich them. We have team of volunteers that are working with Metro East Community Media in Oregon to produce programming and PSAs (Public Service Announcements) for this purpose: Education without Fear (which will be a talk show format) due out this fall Don't tell Mom to take you to the movie, ask her to get you the book! drawing young people to classics like the Narnia series with a powerful dramatic reading from a 10 year old- - weekly -this began at the end of June and will be up to episode 6 on Aug. 1st -Part of The Magicans Nephew The Value of Drawing (PSA) Storydance- Choreography by the children (PSA) These programs are broadcast on cable channels 11 and 21 and the uploaded to the world wide web. Storydance started in 2008 as a local hands on project; with a focus of giving school age children 6-14 the chance to make up their own dances and choreography to dramatic classical music. It started when we became aware that most ballet dance classes were about learning steps and the opportunity to be creative with it was gone by about age 7. The more resources we have the more effective we can be... Donate now |