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There’s an old saying that a child learns to read until 3rd grade, then reads to learn from 4th grade on. For kids who have difficulty reading in the first place, expecting them now to comprehend what they read, makes reading especially difficult. Not surprisingly, they begin to hate school.
According to the Annie E. Casey Foundation, in 2007, 30% of Washington’s 4th graders failed to meet the requirements for “basic” reading levels. That’s essentially every one in three kids. Wouldn’t it be great if we could identify kids at risk for reading difficulties before a problem occurred? The good news is, we can.
An increasing body of research indicates that phonological and phonemic awareness — hearing, identifying, and manipulating sounds — are very important in learning to read. So, a child who is four or five years old and who is having difficulty recognizing or making rhymes or who cannot clap out the syllables in his name is waving some major red flags in our direction. Preschool and kindergarten teachers are becoming very savvy about noting where their students are having difficulty; maintaining constant and open communication with them is one of the best ways of assessing how your child is doing. Additionally, you can play games such as these with your preschooler to generally gauge where his or her phonological awareness skills lie:
- Play clapping games while you sing familiar songs. A child with good phonological awareness skills will be able to clap once for each word, or after you model it, each syllable.
- Make up silly lists of items that start with a certain sound and ask your child to add an item with the same sound: “On our vacation, we need to take books, bikes, butter, and bananas; what else should we take that starts with a “buh” sound?”
- Play the game, “One of these things is not like the other;” group together objects or pictures that either have the same initial sound or rhyme, except for one, and see if your preschooler can identify the odd man out.
If after playing some of these games, or if after communicating with your preschooler’s teacher, you have concerns that your child is having difficulty with some of these pre-reading skills, then you can arrange for a more formal evaluation to be conducted by a reading specialist and begin intervention with an experienced tutor or therapist. Parents who can recognize the red flags their children are raising and can make arrangements for the necessary intervention are taking huge steps to helping their children gain the skills they need to be good readers – skills they will keep for life.
In today’s world of commuting our kids to sports, music lessons, and other enrichment activities, the question of whether to hire a tutor has implications not just for the child in question, but the whole family. Hiring a professional to help your child catch up in school is an investment of money and time, so the decision to hire someone to be a math tutor or reading tutor should not be made lightly. At the same time, however, hiring a tutor can truly be the saving grace for a child who truly is struggling.
What factors should be taken into account if you’re deciding if your child needs a tutor? The following questions should help you decide:
- Is your child working really hard, but still receiving poor grades?
- Is she still working to master the fundamentals of a subject that is moving on to more advanced work? For example, many new 4th graders struggle with the higher reading expectations made of them, because they are, in effect, still learning to read. Similarly, more advanced math is not going to make much sense to a child who is still struggling with basic equations.
- Are the child’s teachers expressing concern about grades, class participation, incomplete homework, or test performance?
- Is your child expressing frustration with a particular subject, telling you she’s “not good at” a subject, or showing negative or disruptive behaviors in a particular class? Negative or disruptive behaviors often result because the child does not understand what is going on in the class and doesn’t feel comfortable asking for help.
- Does your child suffer extreme test anxiety?
“Yes” answers to any of these questions serve as a warning flag that your child is struggling to a degree that bringing in a tutor is not just helpful, but necessary.
There is a significant difference between novelty essential oils that may simply smell good and those that are therapeutic-grade.
Independent laboratory testing proves that Young Living essential oils meet and often exceed industry requirements (AFNOR / ISO). As stewards of nature’s plant remedies we maintain a higher internal standard than the industry standard requirements. This standard is known as “therapeutic-grade.”
In order to achieve therapeutic-grade classification, each essential oil must achieve the designation naturally, without excess manipulation and refinement, and meet specific criteria in four key areas: Plants, Preparation, Purity, and Potency.
This is just one way in which Young Living is in the forefront of the essential oil industry, we have been and will continue setting the standard. Others have said, “Young Living has been very instrumental in creating the standards by which the industry can go on.” I can only imagine the quality we’d be stuck with if it weren’t for Young Living.
Young Living devised the classification, therapeutic-grade, due to the lax and quite often abused and under-deserved titles of “pure” and “all-natural” that lesser quality essential oil companies are assigning their novelty products which contain little if any therapeutic benefit.
Did you know?
That I or anyone can go into a lab and create a scented liquid using all-synthetic chemicals and label the finished product a “pure essential oil”? Thats because there is no regulation on essential oils. Anyone can make a scent from any material an call it an essential oil.
What does that mean to the consumer?
Quite simply, buyer beware!
Any essential oil in the world that is the same quality as Young Living WILL cost the same as a Young Living essential oil. Being that only about 2% of the essential oil produced in the world is of this higher quality it is difficult to obtain the “real deal.”
I personally would never diffuse, apply topically, or take internally any of the essential oils sold on the market that didn’t come from Young Living. The reason I feel so strongly about this is because I don’t know of any company, other than Young Living, that doesn’t tinker with their essential oils to extend them in one form or another.
That also means that no one should use an essential oil the same way you would use a Young Living oil. These essential oils are far more than aromatic and are quite powerful. A lesser quality essential oil can mean disastrous results.
Where can you find Young Living Essential Oils?
One place is through my website: TheVeryEssence.com
To buy Young Living essential oils each customer has a “sponsor” - the role of the sponsor is to assist the customer in how to use their essential oils properly. Yes, there is a learning curve, it’s fun and easy when you have good materials to work from and someone guiding you.
I see myself as someone who is helping people in today’s world “regain” a lot of the wisdom that has been lost over recent decades. We evolved with plants and essential oils. Essential oils were used even before ancient man used dried herbs for healing. Novelty and adulterated aromatherapy products these are NOT!
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