Showing posts with label vocabulary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vocabulary. Show all posts

Saturday, February 25, 2017

Vocabulary and spelling development is no different than learning an instrument.

“ The findings for the subarea of the study reveal that the observational research indicates that less than 3% of classroom time is devoted to vocabulary development. Surveys of teachers disagree with this finding giving much higher percentages for word meaning development, Teachers say they use a limited variety of methods whereas the reading texts describe a wide variety of both direct and context methods. Many reading investigators believe that there is a lack of classroom attention to systemic vocabulary development “ ( p. 10 )
A historical examination of vocabulary development in the schools,
1900-1985 Matsuda, Lynn Goodwin, Ed. D. University of Hawaii, 1987

This is an important understanding in relation to what is happening in our schools and why there are opinions and contradictions in relation to vocabulary development. Having taught in a school, it was understood that teaching vocabulary is very difficult, and  why there is little time spent on vocabulary. There are weekly spelling tests, yet this practice is more for the student to do by themselves, as teachers must move through a set curriculum. For this reason, there is a focus on defining words using the text, as this is a valuable skill,  although it is not systemic vocabulary development. Teachers cannot be this systemic development, nor are they meant to be as the very design of public schools.

If I look at taking music lessons, what happens is one goes and has the lesson, and one may go and perform in an orchestra or music group. The lesson and the group interaction is not a time for the small details to be worked out by the self. They offer opportunities for insight, yes.  Thus, it is true that we learn from interaction and from lessons, yet that space is not the necessary individual practice that builds mastery on the small scale. It cannot be, by design.  

It is a situation where the classroom time is the lesson and the group interaction, yet it is not that practice done by the self, that is ALSO necessary. Learning language, words and spelling, must also have that careful practice, by the self, alone, building greater recognition of words, and speaking them; spelling them out, sounding them, knowing the parts, and defining them. It is the same as having music lessons. One must interact with the whole, use the whole to expand understanding AND also do that careful self directed and detailed practice. The benefit of this necessary practice is really knowing something, it is that wonderful and necessary discipline of integrating something so that self can generate with confidence. 

Overall, the above quote is correct that teachers do not do that systemic practice, because by design, they cannot. They also teach to use the text, and they model words, but they ultimately cannot go home with the student and be the necessary individual practice that leads to real mastery. 

Teachers, parents and administrators, must realize the practical nature of this. Our bodies are just like an instrument. We have lessons and we have group interactions. The practices of the group is actually being what it can be and do. Overall, nothing can replace that individual careful practice of integration. Children, or adults that have not walked this, must practice sounding the words, generating them without copying, spelling the words and placing the words into living contexts. When one practices the individual  discipline of moving with an instrument, momentum builds and one is able to process more with greater ease. Working with words is really no different. 

There are tools that organize and automate this practice for the child. What is awesome about this, is that this gives the child the sense that they are doing this themselves. How empowering would this be for a child to realize they can learn and develop with practice? What greater lesson can we give to a child?

Overall, it is important to realize the benefit and limitations of a public school. How we learn an instrument ( or a physical discipline)  is a cool analogy in relation to developing the skill of effective communication. 

If you are interested in such a tool send me a note! 

In my next blog, I will talk about vocal and focal distractions, and how within that necessary individual practice, learning the word by itself, mastering the sound and the spelling, how important it is to build a definition that is directly related to one’s living environment. 


Thank you for reading. 


Friday, April 1, 2016

Why is vocabulary development a key to self responsibility?

Blame has an inverse relationship to accountability.

We begin with the abc’s and end with the SAT. This parameter is to learn all language and communication skills, because humans use language to communicate and share perspective, which is measure. It is all really a math, as inherent in the statement ‘ blame has an inverse relationship to accountability’  reveals. Our coping mechanism behaviors are a form of protection in relation to having defined ourselves as a measure of lack. Often they manifest as blame, self aggrandizement or self justification. In the end, all are blame, because they are not problem solving.

It is understood that we can build neurons throughout our lives. It is understood that perfect practice makes perfect, hence, what does an imperfect practice? Do we inform ourselves as the measure of what we believe just as we inform ourselves as that perfect practice that leads to a greater degree of self responsibility? Are the accompanying thoughts of lack , as mindfulness reveals, simply the reflection of what we have informed ourselves as in measure? Can an  imperfect practice become what is practiced or automated and would it manifest as a behavior of resisting change because it is caught in a self perpetuating measure of belief that is not what gives a sustainable self responsibility?

The research in education makes this very clear as well. When our foundations, as those foundational years in childhood, are lacking in effective vocabulary, which is exposure to varied measure, our ability to process information is slower.  The inverse of this is, the greater one’s ability to process information is determined on the words we know effectively. The children who lack this development tend to be left behind, and those who have a large vocabulary, tend to become bored.  

And yet, again, all children, at least the majority, learn to crawl and to walk, they are not born with religion or classism, they are born absorbing their world around them. When that world lacks  an effective vocabulary, the children have less self response ability and  more stress in abstracting information in a school.  Those who lack the kind of inner structure that the more effective vocabulary in other children impart,  end up comparing their lack to others, and develop coping behaviors to enable them to fit into the system. Coping mechanisms only distracts from a real development because it occupies the focus of the child. Do these children reach their full potential? No, they spend their lives accepting a lack. Meanwhile the ends to the mean is always right in front of us.

Our children have a natural learning ability, and they require a stable structural development to be self responsible in this world. Such a development would benefit everyone in the society. 

It is right there in front of us, that a sound mind is structured through words, through an effective vocabulary. It is right in front of us that a perfect practice in being able to spell all the vocabulary from kindergarten to grade 12 would impart a self empowering inner structure and that the outcome would allow the child to reach their full potential. This would benefit the community. This understanding would empower parents to become responsible for the development of their child, so that when the child went to school, they could develop self esteem in processing information. What kind of home life would this create? A home with the stress of raising a child removed!

Once a child can practice a perfect practice, in a steady and consistent manner, their spelling of words, recognizing patterns in words, would enable them to step out of a fear of processing information based on an idea of lack in relation to this, and allow the child to focus more on defining the words, because a fear of the picture as the words, would no longer exist.  And, because this simple understanding has not been understood, technology can be a stable point in a world where we adults have somehow missed this point and are caught in the consequences of not understanding this in thought and word and deed.


A child who lacks self respect has  a hard time looking another in the eyes. A child who lacks structure, has a hard time being self disciplined. A child who lacks the ability to spell words, has a hard time processing information. A child who defines themselves as the lack, hides from the world, and will tend more towards drugs and alcohol, as this is an escape from the stress of a mind in chaos. 

We humans are social beings, we love to participate. Any middle school teacher can see that all the behaviors in middle school have an underlying voice, and that is an immense desire to participate. Why?  Because it is fun to participate! Learning is fun! Self definitions of lack, accumulating in a measure  that is a behavior of resistance causing consequences of limitation in relation to being socially engaged, is not fun. This is an unhappy child.

If our children learned their words, the SAT would be easy, as it should be. The behaviors of such a child, would be a child with the structural means, because humans use language - which is words- to be self accountable. Being self accountable is being self responsible, the opposite of blame. Instead the behavior would be a sound character who solves problems. Such a child would have a dynamic mind, and a synergistic thinking that no longer moved in limited associative thinking.  

What automated the child would be a clear thinking, that could self monitor and at the same time see directly others in their world. I would call this a quantum thinking or seeing. Instead of a limited behavior of self defense in fear of being considered less, a child could be open and realize themselves within and the world without. This is a child comfortable with the world, one willing to participate in life.  This is building  the means towards behaviors of self esteem and self confidence. This is a child raising their hand and participating! Is this not what we want for all of our children, and would this not benefit each of us. Who would not want to give this to a child?

It is a math, and it is simple, and it is right there in front of us. Somehow, we have allowed friction and conflict in arguing over the means to the end, losing sight of the whole mechanism. We argue over small steps/means in a natural process within that parameter of learning our abc’s and becoming effective communicators in adulthood.  This is a loss in a natural spatial ability inherent in children.

We can, with technology, rebuild our minds, rebuild our neurological networks, with words. We can effectively know our words so well that we can choose and be whatever we want. We then can restore a natural quantum ability to self monitor and assess the world around us, so we direct ourselves without fear, and face all situations coming up with new ways of doing things that is what is natural to each of us, and what makes each of us so unique and special. We all want to participate in our society, it is our real and natural state. 

In this age of information, it is necessary that our children are exposed to a broad vocabulary, learn to spell their words well, and have the means for a perfect and consistent practice within this. Because our schools by design cannot do this, and parents are too busy to do this,  we can use technology to become the means to achieve this. What is so special about this, is that it self empowers the child! They can do this themselves given a tool that monitors this development, allowing that child that needs a greater degree of practice the necessary practice and that child that has some negative emotional associations the chance to move beyond such negative definitions because they can build a clean and clear neurological framework in relation to words. Technology is stable and consistent. It is the perfect means to give a perfect and consistent practice!

If interested in experiencing what I am sharing, please leave a note, and sign up for a presentation.  I am a parent who has raised two children, I have worked with children and parents in relation to what I speak about, and I realized, through teaching violin, that when the structure was set, when the practice was “ perfect” , the essence of the child would burst forth and begin to fly. This ability is inherent in all of us, it is who and what we are as life. 


Thank You for reading, very much appreciated!  And, sign up! After all, it is through real time sharing that we expand our awareness.  Time to transform blame into accountability, as this is our real potential in expression!




Monday, March 21, 2016

Does it begin with spelling our words?

In working one on one with children, the importance of being able to spell and speak words relates to the processing ability of the child. 

If a student or child lacks the ability to spell words, of which speaking is an indicator of, then we can ask ourselves if our children really know their words. If they cannot generate them, speak them, spell them then how can they construct their potential? How can they see the detail of the specific and the overall view of the general, as men naturally categorize and oder. We begin doing this the day we are born. We learn to crawl and walk; we order the space around us, we imitate the words of our parents- the measure the words convey, the values the parents convey.  This is how absorbent we are. Other species have this same ability, they imitate and absorb. This is the point of opportunity too. Without opportunity, we cannot build the means to express our real potential.

Humanity is also by nature, social. This makes sense in the nature of a natural ability to learn. It is when we interact with other people, and things and animals that we learn. we learn when we are exposed to the physical reality. We learn when we have the opportunity to speak our perceptions, as this is a way to build perspective through hearing the insights of others. Thus, when we cannot spell our words, we get caught up in the lack of this ability. When we practice this lack, we become what we practice, hence we come to define ourselves as an experience of lack. Yet, the means of development within becoming what we practice, makes it very clear that the solution is to realize what we have practiced and to practice a more perfect form, or imitate a more perfect form. 

We can start through a perfect practice, as the words we know. The words we know so well, we no longer have to think about the spelling, and can use the word as a placeholder of information, to form a well ordered and perfect mind to reference our experience with the world around us, that is in constant change. This is how a person can become what a well informed man does so well, face the unexpected with immediate solutions. It is all a math that can be learned by anyone, because a human can absorb great detail when given the opportunity.

Because people use language, words are the perfect tool to organize information. It would not matter if one becomes a painter, or a carpenter, each person on this earth can also learn the means of human communication and use this to order whatever skill they are inclined to develop. After all, one can master a skill, yet if it cannot be communicated, that person cannot be heard and that skill is hard to share with others to allow the awareness and development of such a skill, to reach the perspectives of those who have not had the means to reach such levels of skill. Sharing is a way to process measure making the next person reach a skill level in a shorter amount of time.

If we understand that a seed is information, then the community of men can develop the ability to process by seeding perfect information, so that the next generation reaches greater levels of development, thereby increasing the awareness of each man on earth. Within this, we can understand how evolution moves, and ensure that our children reach greater levels of capacity. It is a lot similar to computers, and how men have managed to minimize mechanical processes into smaller and smaller measures, to give all the means of access to information. Within this, if we know our words, and can spell, we can hold information and assess that information and then apply the practice of that information with ease, building living situations where the community realizes the value of this, and interacts in respect of how this works, understanding that each of us are responsible to become the potential inherent in the structure of how all this works. In this, there is no need to have someone validate this, it is here, hidden in plain sight.

The research in education reveals that success has a relationship to words. Words are spells, they are placeholders of information. The measure of the word must be pure in relation to the information the word conveys. Then when we speak, we speak in tune, in clarity, in precision. When we generalize, we see a perspective about something. Thus, words allow us to generalize and allow us to share the perspective of the details. If we allow the generalizations about reality to become a truth that fits all, we are in effect becoming superstitious.  One way to realize this, is to look at one’s social circles, where one may have a friend who is of another race. One realizes that that friend is hard working, industrious and desires to be responsible. And yet, with information touted in media, a different measure of value can be imparted about that persons original culture or race. Then, the general story is not equal to the personal story. We then justify, believing that what we know is the exception to the rule. This is two contrasting in-forms. It begs the question as to where the practical experience is not in sync with the perspective about a distant experience.
This means that one cannot accept information without investigation. To investigate, we must be able to spell, to assess information and relate its values to practical reality, to understand the disconnect between contrasting information as indirect experiences and direct experiences. When we know our words, and use them to form reflections about information, we can use a natural ability to quantify information and reorder it, while at the same time, realizing the practical in plain sight. This is how words can be an incredible tool to order information, creating placeholders that are stable, and that we can hold to pan-in and pan-out to quantify many aspects and form a more perfect action that cares for what we all enjoy, participating in society, which means participating in life.

Because of the consequence of an imperfect practice, having forgotten in our busy lives how this all works, we can use technology to automate spelling skills development, to ensure that we can spell all those words research in education reveals leads to success. Few parents have the time to walk the practice that requires a little bit of time every day, in their busy lives, and few school systems, that are required within a limited time frame to impart information, have the time to make sure that body of students know each word so well they then can use their space and time to generate meaning. After all, wouldn’t more time spent generating meaning, educe the practice of relating to processing in spatial reality? Would knowing our words in a clean and clear way, allow a natural ability in each and every one of us to quantify space AND time ( as memory) and build an interactive society that realized the potential of each fit perfectly into the orchestra that is what life is? 

Hence, we can automate learning to spell our words, integrating them as placeholders of information to build a natural ability to process information. Such a tool would remove the stress many parents feel in making sure their children are well educated.  After all, only  a parent spends the most time with the child, and can be right there, with the help of technology, to realize the importance of an effective vocabulary. The joys of the expression in a child when they realize they can learn anything because they no longer are caught in a lack of being able to communicate, is a child with self confidence and self esteem. A child who can go out into the world and process information no longer fears participating in life. A child that can process information, with ease, and without fear, can earn a good living, being there for the parents as the parents were there for them. 

If you are a parent or a school and are interested in spelling skills development that is cost effective and self empowering for the child, leave me a note.
Thank you for reading, very much appreciated.


In the next few blogs I am going to describe behaviors that reflect the consequence of not knowing our words.


Friday, November 6, 2015

Techno Colored Imagination to Micro Managed School Environments.


We have our children grow up with fantasy, as all the images of fantastic events and places. The fairy tales the precursors of what is lighted up in the use of lights as the media that in turn lights up in our minds. In this, the child develops an imagination without any real practical application. That imaginative world is something separate from practical living, from the earth.

And then, in contrast to this imagination constantly built, a child must enter a school and sit in a micro managed environment, where information is metered out in slow measure, where the natural inclination of a human, as what we do best, is to come up with new ways of doing things. This, by design, shuts down what a man, a child can do by nature, which is to be able to take in information and understand the form of it and not fear to change it in ways that make all of our lives function in more fluid ways. This is the manner of eliminating what is natural because a few have been allowed to monopolize in self interest having some measure of practical ability to manifest a dream that is in itself a separation from respecting real living as doing, as including the physical world, because the real magic is in doing things within all of reality, of which the physical reality is an equal part of and as. An act of self interest is to lie by omission as in how we are separated, which is to not tell the whole story, and to use story to build a separation. Nothing is good or bad, it is how one aspect can be inflated without balance into the whole. Some call this mis-information, or bullying one’s belief, or ego. This is how a monopoly can over time control, and need to control as each part is not in self honesty with reality.

In the stead of this imagination made larger than the practice of living, we become a cognitive dissonance of holding onto very limited forms because our natural ability to investigate and understand and create new things is all used up in a narrow focus of imagination ONLY. Here, the imagery is all formed, easy to manipulate and dream with, and something that is never really satisfying, because we have not created it, yet we have accepted it. We then lose the satisfaction of real doing. And we are able to be manipulated, where we take a job firing drones from remote locations, not having any exposure to what that really means for the life that is us in another life, on the ground.

Naturally, the behavior of a child in a school is going to be one of frustration. And because our media has become larger than life, in our daily lives, the effects of this are compounding, which is a compounding of attention deficits. And, because what information we allow ourselves to be exposed to, informs our self direction, we come to automate the information we allow to inform us. We all understand that to learn to play an instrument, we must walk the measure, in detail, until it is physically integrated - like learning to drive a car- so we do not have to think about it. Then we can expand and work with this information and change it, because we can take in new measure, and flow with what is here, respecting all things. The converse of this, as the means of mis-information, is to use this innate developmental means to program with information that lacks specifics that would eliminate mis-takes that are consequential in reaching our full potential.

I ask the question here; how can we, with the present measure presented in media - and the abrupt change into a classroom where information is processed without question and without context and done so very slowly - expect our children to self realize  and/ or retain, their own natural ability to understand and realize the real value is in doing? An this from a starting point of creating things that would improve all our lives in developing what is an innate ability to assess and consider the practice of living in a physical reality?

There was this article out this week, where a teacher of many years, after having her own child, realizes that she cannot send her child to a public school, because she cannot allow her child to become what she has experienced in a public school. 




It is not that children coming together to investigate forms is a bad, it is not that an adult guiding this is a bad. It is not that television is a bad, it is what is impulsed within the ‘ tele-vision’ that must be carefully placed in ways that are best for all. The social forms are not to reject, they are to change in ways that realize the value is living, which is a value of doing in ways that respect all things, everything- the physical world around us and the ability of our mental imaginations to assess information from many sides, to ensure that what steps we take in this world cause no harm- which is to consider all things. And, we need one another to do this, as each person has a perspective that no other can have. The real superman, is the whole allowing the strength that is unique in each part coming forward. The full potential of each part needs the whole to manifest. It is that our potential is the sum of all parts!

Hence, each child must build a sound mind. As men, we order the smallest bits of information through words, as a word can sound multiple levels or dimensions of things in expeditious ways, more than a picture can. In many ways, a picture is composed of the smallest movements, as a sound that is a word. And, we are so in separation from this, we have forgotten this. The way back is to order ourselves as this small measure, which is knowing our words in clean and clear ways. When we say ‘ cup ‘ for example we mean a cup, realizing that a cup can come in many forms, yet remains the same basic form.

If a parent calls one cup more than another, projecting a value onto a cup, wanting to impulse a cultural value to hold onto what is really data, as a comfort that defines a personality, an imaginative past value, then our children become confused, because a cup is no longer a cup. And we wonder why our children have developed attention disorders, they are processing associative lines of cultural/national/historical values, inferencing values, a huge form of data that separates that child from reality. That cup, based on one’s cultural past, for example, was developed because of the regional clay, and the regional colors available, nothing else. This information has a value, because it shows what is understood within a region, yet is not something to define us. It is to remember the practical measure.

Hence, the physical world must in all ways be considered because it is the automation of information. That information must be assessed in every moment because it reveals what works and does no harm. What is in our imaginations is just this, an image, a picture in our heads, that is composed of information. When the end product as a form is believed to be more than the physical, it is following an idol before life information. In order to do, to live, one must become equal, or respect, and understand in detail, the actual physical world that is information showing what works and what does not. Being aware of the physical world allows self to become equal to life in formation, equal to what a past has built that forms the means of expression, which is the physical. And we understand that what information becomes our exposure, is what we program ourselves to become. This reveals the means to the end of building a sound mind that is able to be grounded in the practice of living on a physical planet.

This is why a child is not born with language, or culture, or religion, because they are born as sensing the physical world and learning to move with and as it, as this is how we learn to crawl and to walk, eventually accumulating enough experience as movement, to realize that each small movement has a name, a sound, a measure that men use to communicate with and as. If one movement is uncertain, or not balanced out in respect of real living, then that accumulates and causes a cognitive dissonance, building an inner emotional body that inhibits  because the automation of it does not fit into real living and has the consequence of separating the child from what is natural, an ability to assess the physical and practice what moves them in living to their utmost potential- thereby realizing the sum of all parts is how each part realizes itself as life information, which is real creation.

Because our bodies build through neurological development, we can rebuild what is a cog in the wheel, as our mind consciousness. We can use technology to rebuild this, as each man is generating a measure that is not what allows direct seeing of life information as the physical world in which we actually live.  Our neurological development is change in action, it can remeasure to build a cognition that can assess information with ease, and, at the same time - just like driving a car- assess the outer world, ensuring that consequences of action lead to no harm and respect others.

The fairy tale, the child’s tale of Humpty Dumpty states this scenario, that no one can rebuild what has scattered self from being self responsible, and hence be present in reality but self. No school can do this, no hospital, no one, only that presence inside one’s self, that presence that learned to crawl and to walk and talk, before a cognition of limited - yet not all bad - information informed subconscious mind and was accepted and then followed to direct the presence as that child that learned to crawl without any text book micro-managing this movement.

There is great joy in being self responsible. That joy is a natural state of being, one that self must take back through a process of deconstructing what has been accepted as a truth, and reconstructed in practical measure, of which the words we know effectively, can be the means to remeasure our inner structure to be in equal focus to this place we spend our lives living, the physical world.




Wednesday, July 1, 2015

Depth Perception and Reading, Where is our natural spatial ability?

Depth Perception and Reading.


One of things I notice as I interact with others, is a lack of depth perception. By this I mean the ability to back up a car, or to order objects in a space- such as household organization.

Where are we if we cannot slow down and take the time to see the space around us and order, or, move ourselves within it? Are we lost in these behaviors of a lack of depth perception?

I watched this video of a child, a very young child, climbing a rock wall. This child moves with a fluidity and continuousness  Obviously, this ability is a natural ability, we are born with this. What happens?

I remember asking about this when I was back in university completing my degree in Reading. Eventually, the professors, told me that they did not know how to do this, and that this was too difficult. How can something be difficult if it is what is natural? Our ability to focus here, being aware of the space of here is a natural ability. 

We all understand that advertising has become a constant within our environment. And we understand that what is being the measure, because it is a measure of something, means that we understand that we become the measure of the world around us. If we are constantly watching the measure imposed around us, we become this. Is what is the information given, in our schools, in our media grounding us, meaning, retaining this natural ability to be aware of the space and the time around us? No. Were it, then we would retain this fluid ability to sense the space around us that is a natural ability. Our ability to sense the space around us is a natural ability. This natural ability is then lost and it is because we have allowed a measure to be of knowledge and information in separation from practical beingness here. We are all the cause of our own separation because we accepted and allowed an abdication of our own ability to perceive the very space around us.

If we lose this ability what would happen? We become uncertain because we have nothing to ground us. That machine that senses the space is all of us, as our physical bodies. We deny one part, as this physical body, and we become, through spaced repetition, being in our abstraction making selves as our thinking only, then we lose our grounding, and we lose our ability to perceive the depths , meaning the very space around us.

We can no longer climb that rock wall, and instead, in our ignoring of remaining in inclusion of the very space around us, we, from the distance of our separation,  are astounded at this ability in others- all the while this is our natural ability, it was/is our starting point. 

This begs the question: What are all the so-called dis-eases in our children? Where has this natural ease gone? Is this natural ability placed in a box as thinking only, where there is no real footing to place our feet? Is it here that we lose our natural spatial ability to back up that car, or to organize that space in our homes? The answer is yes.


One must rebuild and reground. This which we are already doing in the very measure of our so-called interventions. These interventions, though a good, are too slow. We need tools to reground ourselves as our measure within. Technology can be a good for this because it is never emotional ( in value judgments as thinking only), it is grounded here. It can be used to remeasure our within, to focus us on the parts, to rebuild our attention to detail, removing all the uncertainty we have memorized in the course of our separation that is what inhibits our natural ability to sense the space and direct ourselves in practical ways that enable us to climb a rock wall at a very young age. This is why words are so important, because they order the very measure of ourselves.  One must want this, want to return to our natural state of being. It means giving up everything to gain everything. What would you choose?



Monday, May 4, 2015

The measure of our understanding; What comes to direct us. What is Mindfulness and ABA.

The measure of our understanding; what comes to direct us.

When I practice a piece on the violin, I just practice the measure of all the notes, the duration, the intensity, the attack as the percussive quality of the note, and the volume in space and time. I form that shape as sound. I must repeat this sense of the form to fine tune this so that the form is clear in space and time, here. If I practice, as myself repeating the sense of the form and what it means to create that form, with any emotional experience, I practice, as in repeat that emotional experience into the memory as an under-standing of what I am being. This will come up every time I come to that point of play of that practiced form. I will have to experience that. In one way, it is cool, because I can see what I allow as the focus of me and correct it. Yet, this means that I have to go back and practice that correction. In the end, my focus has to be present as what I practice, as what I repeat that becomes my measure within, in order for me to be flexible and clear. This focus, must be without emotional values, which is to say without judgement, and this can be realized because a lack of ease signifies a lack of focus- a kind of focus that rapidly takes in a form, which is to say to be the taking in of information. I become what I practice, because what I repeat becomes my experience and it becomes what directs me. If it is not sound, or limited information overall, I become the directive as this.
What I repeat, is what I become. If I repeat televised measures and meters of reality, then I become this. I may realize this, and still, that measure and meter is there and I must sort through this, which takes my attention, and I am then busy within sorting out what is an information that does not fit into a moment’s need for practical application.
If I am in a classroom for many years, during my childhood, I become the measure of what is placed before me. I have to ask myself if that measure is able to inform me into an understanding that develops a memory that allows me to direct myself in efficient and productive ways when I become an adult and enter the world for myself where I make decisions?
Could it be that the information presented in that room I spent in my childhood, be of a limited nature? Was I exposed to practicing understanding many dimensions of this physical reality that I move within as an adult? Was the information slowed down in ways that end up limiting my experience? If I look at the design of this overall, is it hard to understand the measure of this as the parts not being ‘ bad’ but being limiting because the information was metered out in a slowed down measure to not only acclimate me to moving slower than my innate capacity to absorb as with which I was born, and to also inform me with a measure that causes miss-takes through lack of understanding as a lack of direct seeing, that cause consequences that I spend much of my life correcting thereby losing time to order my adult life into an efficient living experience?
If I become what is placed before me, as a form that I repeat until understood, this becomes the blue print of my inner understanding, and this becomes the information I direct myself as. If I repeat a form, such as being in constant comparison based on ideas of beauty, then I become this directive and I miss the total understanding of practical reality. I miss so much order in color and form and capacity and end up having to correct this over time, realizing my mis-take that is a lack of respect for so many qualities in existence. I have lived as a judgement and not as a practical respect for the means of my being, which is a physical reality that I use to reach success as an adult because this is what I work with.
I understand why the elite will spend so much money and time exposing  their children to travel, to other languages and cultures, to activities such as music lessons and individual self development practices, such a karate, or surfing or tutors that walk the structures of geometry- for example. All of this is exposure to direct real life formations, that expand understanding and awareness, forming an awareness of many parts interacting in real time. And this, allows an informed awareness that gives a more focused and capable directive capacity. That absorbent mind, so obvious in the child, formed so completely as to build with interventions that are directives as an exposure to all manner of measured and metered space, the child  then moves in ways that have few con-sequences of lack that cause the accumulation of having to back track and repeat, which is practice, what would not cause consequences that disrupt efficient and well-informed action.
When we are exposed to things, we learn the names of the parts and the whole, the layers of understanding how mechanisms work in an ordered way. With this understanding, we are informed and when we make decisions, they have little consequence. What is it that orders this within? Could it be the names of the measure, as the length and duration and quality of things with which we interact, as directives, within this world?
What happens when mis-information accumulates over time, as what our genes are from our parents? What happens when our generations of measure are imprinted as our informed selves, and passed down, like a residual map, via our behaviors that are then the measure presented to our children, that then become the child, in tandem with a social construct as our school systems that meter out measure in extended forms to try and fit all learning/absorbing states in many different children from many different backgrounds?  And if we are all products of this, can we each imagine trying to order this if we slow down and imagine what it would mean if we had 15 to 25 or more, of such informed beings in front of us that we had to teach a measure of something? Could we do this ourselves? We cannot, such can only be informed one on one, and/or taken out into the world, as the elite do, and exposed to real life measure, realizing that overall our inner memories as our informed experiences from our past ; the measure of our exposure that is a past, and not what is present here in the real living moment. 
Who has the means to give this one on one directive? The parent. 
Research in education makes it very clear, that the more words one has been informed as, will determine ones ability to direct in this world. These words must be clear in meaning, uncluttered with emotional values, and referenced with practical reality. Then is the character informed in structured and clear ways. This is an adult who can communicate and interact, order and focus, be present and effective in creating a life that understands that it can learn, that the freedom to choose means being structured as being well informed, and that this leads to success.
Thomas Jefferson said that when we give up our freedom, which is our self responsibility capacity, to have security, we end up with neither. As parents we have to ask ourselves as people, if we are willing to realize how we work and how we can self empower ourselves to inform our children into effective adults capable of making decisions that build self trust, leading to self esteem, and self confidence within the simple understanding that we are the words we know, as this exposes the measure of our understanding. The means to this end are here. You decide. 


Thank You for reading, much appreciated.


Monday, April 6, 2015

Attention Deficits and Developmental Delays Mirror the Absence of our Presence. A Structural Lack?

Our children become what is placed within them. So. I ask, is the information that is flowing through our media clean information? Is the measure of it what leads to clear direction in practical reality? No, not by any means is it clear, not by any means does it show what living reality means.
We send our children, some of us, to universities to study information in a box, which is selective information.  In critical literacy, we understand that where information comes from, who the generator of the information is, reveals why the information is formed. In this respect,  we can realize the point of a school system that begins at a young age and continues into adulthood in separation from practical physical reality. This is a way to eliminate competition, which is why this model’s inception began with mass production. Mass production is not bad, but when the value as money is allowed to be sequestered into singular points and does not flow evenly, then this must be hidden behind many justifications that can only be deciphered when the pieces of the justification are understood in clear ways. The best way to hide what is right in front of someone is to cloud it with information that is a game of value judgements, and then to teach those value judgements. This is done using parts and leaving out much of the practical detail within the basics. This is to say that the chaos is of limitation, a lie by omission that uses comparisons in subsequently impulsed information that lacks details. And like the ability in feral children, who reveal the absorbent ability of humans when placed in environments, we absorb  the measure of what is presented to us. This means that we become the measure of the detail given, that we are exposed to, that we are directed to look at, and this becomes what directs us. Thus, the information within our experience becomes what directs us. We become our experiential map as our past.
Having been a parent, I remember being concerned with whom my children associated with. I preferred that my children associated with children who had a larger vocabulary and more exposure to reality. These children usually were more verbal, and more able to participate in things and follow through. They were more willing to admit mis-takes and stand up and continue. They had less reactive behaviors. One example is a boy who would walk away from a simple backyard sport activity. he would quit in the middle of the game too often, when he felt he was not leading. This was disruptive not only within the game, but also because the support offered to keep the child in the game was one that demanded attention on that child that quit. I noticed a pattern in this, and noticed that children at that age were often willing to coax such a child our of their fear of loss. Children also, will attempt to help such behavior, but they also will get to a point where they recognize a pattern and recognize that attempts of support have been made and not taken, and eventually return to, as in this example, playing the game. When the same behaviors come up, they simply stop asking. Someone can come along at this point and think the children mean, but in effect, that child has been supported in so many ways, and simply refused to change. It gets to the point where remaining with the child and their unwillingness to change their emotional patterns means the child will be left on their own to sort out their limitations. It is to let this happen to some degree, because the child has to realize why they are standing on the side. Unfortunately, in our system time not spent doing , is time lost. Such a child is already impulsed with beliefs that are determining behavior. The child I speak of today, is a young adult now, and yes, he moves in very slow ways within finding a place in society to be a responsible adult. 
This child on some level had an idea about how he should be. He had an idea about how his actions defined what he was. When the idea of what he was, was not playing out, as in how he was scoring in a game, he quit to hide a loss as an idea in his mind. His value of himself was based on winning points. He had no connection to simply playing the sport, being present and taking in the measure of the physical practical world around him. Already he was impulsed with a limited measure of reality and when that within did not match the without he hid in quitting. This hurt him more than anyone else. Also, I would watch his father support his backing out, justifying it. I knew that the father was also very worried about his son making a decision to live with the mother, which meant the father would have to pay child support. So, this layered value system determining actions followed an agenda, a map of belief, that was not one equal to the practice of becoming equal to the measure of reality. In reality, practicing the measure of the movement of a ball and the interaction with the bodies of the other players, is a natural consequence to living, one that comes after learning to crawl and to walk and to talk, it is learning to move what has been learned, to move in ever greater circles of awareness, a really cool thing, and one that will have mis-steps where one falls down because this is the process inherent in the machine of learning to exist in reality. Somehow we have all allowed values to impose on this process and limit through forgetting practical living for ideas and beliefs that come to define us, and have been made larger than practical reality. The outcomes are what we have existing in our children. Our modern dis-eases of lack of attention, in some children compounded to such a degree that they are autistic. Thus our autistic children are showing us the degree of our separation from the practice of actual living.
I was working with a family that had an autistic child. During the meeting, at the beginning of the meeting, a phone call from a daughter interrupted the meeting. The daughter had a problem with her car. The mother, became so engrossed in the daughter’s problem that the meeting ended before it even started.  The problem with the car, I later found out was not really a big problem, what was big was the reaction to the problem. This reaction occupied the behaviors of the mother and eventually the autistic son joined in. Both the mother and the son ended up pacing around in the kitchen consumed with the car problem. This lasted for about 40 minutes. In the end the solution to the car problem was a simple one, one thate just took some waiting for help. It did not need to endless conversation about possible outcomes and “ what if” scenarios. The frenzy generated of fear took the body of the autistic child and the mother and turned them into cycling bodies in a kitchen. If this is what is impulsed as the measure of experience in a child, they become this, and every movement in time and space becomes a relationship  to that measure of belief consuming the beingness of the presence of the person and they then have this behavior in all their actions, and the consequences of this slow down the real development and are hard to change once imbedded because what we practice is what we become. What we practice becomes our habits.
In both cases, emotional values as beliefs were being practiced, which means lived again and again, until they became habits that defined the personality of this child. These emotional practices became the definition of the child. They DEFINED the behavior, they regulated the behavior. The measure of them could be revealed in the behavior. If this emotional value as idea, as belief rejected practical movement as that same movement of learning to crawl that was done in the majority of children before any personality emerged, then the ability to measure practical reality existed as a natural state of being before the ensuing beliefs of value judgements came to limit the behaviors of the child that then lead to personalities that moved very very slowly in bringing themselves back into the practice of actual living in practical self directive ways.
When we react to this, it is because we fear this defining us. we fear these that are in actuality ‘ limited measure of reality within that is instead filled up with value judgements made larger than life.” We fear this defining us, or consuming us, or not supporting our own personalities. We all understand this, we all see this, yet we are as consumed with this within ourselves that rarely do we have an insight into the depths of this overall in our every day lives.  This  has compounded over time, especially with the advent of sending children to schools that are boxes imparting knowledge and information only, and a media that impulses values through imagery and information that we all know is questionable. We have forgotten that what we accept comes to define who we are.
This is why it is so important to build the character of the child to have a clear mind, to have a clear information map within them. This is why some children have more confidence and self esteem that is visibly and measurably evident in their behaviors, because they have had more of a sound mind construction. And it is something that is constructed, were it not then private schools would not exist, nor would tutors and summer camps etc.
What are the indicators in all the research that look at measure and realize what is the signature of a sound mind which is a more sound character?
It is the amount of units of measure, as what focuses us and directs us, as the words we know, and I  mean more than knowing a singular set of words from one profession because one can learn vocabulary within a profession and have no other relationships to words and thus relate everything to that one profession believing that the answer is within their set of words. This is a misnomer, because everything is interconnected and the focus back into the practice of reality means focusing on practical things which ironically is what interventions are and do, they are the practice of focusing a inner measure that is in separation from an outer world. 
Overall, this is why the process of building a sound mind in a child is so important. And this is why vocabulary is the key. If a parent slows down and directs the child with patience explaining how things in the practice or real living work, using the correct words without adding emotional values is so important.
This is why an aid that bypasses the experimental memory that is the measure of the child, building the personality, can help in the building of the character of the child, or correcting the personalities that are a measure that is pulling the child away from participating in ways that provide development and opportunity for the child. In understanding that we become the measure  of our experience, and that the language we use can be impulsed with emotional values that consume the attention and distract practical movement,  we can use this understanding to rebuild the cognitive/experiential map of our children to refocus them into a practical measure that can build a character that can withstand the test of time as the practice of actual living. This brings the presence of the child into reality. This then would build confidence and self esteem, which is creating an asset that brings a sense of pride to the parent. This is reprogramming what has been generated in the last hundred years in the design of our public schools and our ubiquitous media to regenerate the absorbent ability of our children into seeing the parts and the whole of reality so that the child becomes a character with a sound mind,  a character that can think critically and take the clear parts and become creative with them, which is a child who can solve problems and improve not only our lives but the world in total. 
Techno Tutor is the means to do this in our busy world, where each and everyone of us has become separated from the practice of practical living the separation from which occurred slowly over time to the point where we are standing in a forest and can no longer see the trees.  Our attention deficit disorders and developmental delays are showing us the degree of our separation, and the answer is to rebuild the experiential measure through vocabulary because this focuses without and structures within. If you could be self empowered to do this for your child, and give this understanding to the child and allow the child to become self empowered themselves within this, would that not be the greatest gift anyone could give to their children, because is this not what you would have wanted for yourself? And, is this something you can also give to yourself?

The solution is here, and it is Techno Tutor.


Wednesday, February 18, 2015

How a Value Judgement can Lead to a Narrow Focus, Stagnating Conceptual Ability.

Today I am going to talk about an experience I had with a young girl I taught. This girl came from a stable home, her clothes were in order, her presentation always clean, her work done. She responded in the classroom with capacity, but it was slow. She often was silent in her behavior, listening more than participating.
During a parent teacher conference I met and listened to the mother of this child speak. The whole time the mother did not speak about her daughter and instead actually tried to pick up the male teacher present. This woman obviously was stable with a job and a home, as her daughter came to school clean and tidy in her appearance   This mother was obsessed with a societal idea that she needed a man, this being revealed in her attentions as what she focused on which was her sense of being alone, and her desire to date the male teacher present.
One time, when I had the opportunity to work with the daughter of this woman, I found myself perplexed, because the child would stare at me, eyes wide, and to me, seem to not be able to take the information I was giving to her directly and apply this into some kind of reciprocal response. She merely listened as though what I was saying was something new that she had never thought of and thus she needed time to integrate. What I did not realize, and also, remember seeing with my own children, is that when the eyes of a child are wide open, and the mouth is open, they are absorbing their world, taking in the form as all the movements that build a structural understanding of the design of their world around them..
This girl was taking in what I was explaining, and she was doing it at a slower pace then I expected and that I felt I had the allotted time to accomplish.
In getting to know her mother, and the focus the mother was so possessed with, that was not a “ bad” thing as we all want relationship, I realized that this girl had little in the way of being substantiated, meaning little in the way of having someone really look at her and explain things. This was apparent in the eyes becoming wide and the mouth being open. At her age, within this context, some manner of story structure should have had enough of a grasp of story that this behavior of reconstruction would happen at a somewhat faster pace.
If this child, that was cared for in the most basic ways, was being cared for to substantiate the mother’s desire ONLY, again not a “ bad: but when the directive, other points of development were being placed on the side, and that child was being substantiated in relation to the parent’s desires, which means the details of existence were not being related to the child, and she was behind in her ability to understand.
If we come to allow an idea to define us, we become a very narrow focus. Looking at ideas is not a bad thing, nor is narrowing our focus. When we become a directive as this, such as the belief that a woman must have a relationship,  the “ small things of existence” are placed on the side, and the detail of practical living and what this means in structure is shadowed by the desire and need being made larger than all the other aspects of living.

It reminds me of a story told by a Canadian Politician. A woman came up to the politician and said she had worked in a church for 30 years, putting together Christmas baskets for those in need. She realized one day that giving the families in need the money directly would self empower those in need and allow them to go out and purchase their own Christmas dinner wants.  This woman went back to her church group and made the suggestion to give the money used for the baskets directly to the families. The response of the church group was that they would lose what made them feel good, which was this charitable act of giving something to the families.

In this example, we have a self definition coming before what would empower a person to self discover and take direction themselves. This is the mother of this child, so obsessed with an idea, that everything is in the order of this. That child, had little in the way of any real self direction, and she had the behaviors to match, because her world was driven by how the mother defined herself; as the single mom, in need of a partner.  The mother defined herself as her perceived lack, and could not step out of her self definition. I ask myself, is she the product of that which she exhibits as behavior, and is she passing down the sins of the fathers onto her daughter? Is the lack of movement, conceptually in her daughter the result of all attention in her space being focused on a self definition before practical reality - and within this that there was some awareness in reality as was evident that this child was orderly in many ways, yet had little in the way and structure of things outside of an emotional obsession in the mother? Did the speed at which she processed work/language reveal her cognition- meaning her depth perception, her understanding, the ability to generate understanding, and her respons-ibility? Was all what language she did have, bound with an impulsed value to what words she had learned as this was the directive as the self definition of the parent?

This is like the unsubstantiated passing on in-substantiation! By this, I mean the amount of substance as self being in awareness of the practical world and the information of this world and how this information in practical terms moves.

We can realize, that via our media, having an  ideological romantic relationship is a huge impulsed value at the ignorance of other aspects of life. Unfortunately, we learn this when reality hits, and the romance no longer can sustain itself as the bills must be paid, and the home cared for. This value is a value, but at the expense of other values, an idol as an idea is formed and that comes to define us, at the expense of those around us and the world in which we live. It is like a measure learned as the structure within that is warped and missing reality. In essence, on the side here, our media uses this, as we have allowed a system of wealth accumulation, which is a system of competition, based on ideas in self definitions more than in what we really are practically.

The presence of value impulsing in our media, that is everywhere, and a cheap form of entertainment as other entertainments have been allowed to be costly, must exist in such a constant way, because this is how great our ability to take in form exists as what we are as human beings. The media as what we allow to flow through it, and the economic structures we allow that determine access to opportunity, are in essence a system of great suppression. Why would this be? because that is how great the ability of men is, when allowed to interact with all substance of this practical world. Yet, where did this begin? Within each of us? Can we clean up our words and ground ourselves into the practical and thereby opening the way to substantiating relationships?

As I have described in the story of this child in a public school, we can see how an obsession based on a self defining value that is not necessarily a bad value and that can come to limit exposure into a narrow focus that suppresses through consuming the attention of that human being who is so very very capable of living and placing their presence here, enjoying all things, through interacting and building understanding of how all things work in tandem on this earth.

Here I ask? Can we rebuild our cognition to bring our focus back into becoming functional human beings here on earth?  Can we structure the within cognition into focusing ourselves and our children here, realizing so many are living within a veil composed of self definitions based on value judgements that separate us from our real capacity? 

Since men communicate with words, and words can focus us towards the details of practical reality, and build structure within to see directly without, thereby building a superior memory, would a technological tool that never gets tired, has no judgements be the means to help us help ourselves to ground ourselves back into actual living? And would this not enable us to speak clearly, direct ourselves as our true expression and thereby bring us into relationships that are best for us, and as such best for all?

What would a tool that builds substantive focus for the parent and the child give? Would it give the character of what it means to live a life of awareness and the ability to respond beyond ideas that are not “ bad” but simply limited?

We decide, the means to do this are available, to self empower the innate learning ability of each of us, to ground ourselves into being present and living a full life.  Abracadabra, we are the words we know.




Sunday, February 15, 2015

Learning ability and space and time in the classroom.

I am going to use analogy to describe what happens in a class room, to slow down and look at the minutes and the child in this space.
Knowledge and information is like water dripping, and the child in the room is like the glass filling up with the water, 
The children in a classroom, and my experience is with the fourth grade in this analogy, they so want to participate, their eyes are glued to the front.  I mean remember how persistently your child learned to crawl, to walk and to talk. That drive, even having fallen down and perhaps bumped into something that surprised the child, remains. No matter, they keep going. Again,  that same drive remains, that child does want to belong and interact with what is happening in a school, in their environment. Resistance to what is happening means in so many ways that they do not have the words to respond. Remember having a moment when you did not have the words, did not have the means as the units to describe and as such answer and participate in clear and flowing ways within a discussion, be it in a class or among colleagues or friends? Did you want to hide your embarrassment? And as we hold memories, is this memory what remains, a memory of default - so to speak? Is this the lack of units to structure understanding as words that is missing? Has this lack of direction become words of self doubt that leads to actions that lead to habits that  lead to your character? By the time a child enters high school, do we see these behaviors in children of lack as resistance and acting out simply because their memories are of lack, as they did not have the words, the structure , the units showing experience, to build understanding and have the means of expression to answer and/or even to reflect on information and not only question but also find solutions that broaden what is understood by men, to move this into more creative uses of what men collectively understand?
So, that child in that room, is the glass, and the information is “ dripping in” and the child naturally is moved to expand, to take in understanding, just as they learned to walk. Now, if that child already has a lack in structure, in words, to organize that information, will that child be able to take in that water that is knowledge and information? Or, if there is a lack, will what exists in that glass, begin to steam up and cloud the process of building understanding?
So, now the bell rings, and no matter where that child is in perhaps clearing or ordering  something as the knowledge and information being presented there was a mis-understanding. And yet,  the child is in the natural process of making order out of what is being said,  the time constraint  is not allowing the time for that glass to fill itself up with a clear understanding,  the child loses that time to do so, because the regiment of the space and time in a school, is not moving at the speed of building - so to speak- that that child is really busy doing at the speed at which an existent inner structure - as the words known- moves as that child’s structural ability to learn at their speed because of their inner structure, which reveals conceptual development.
Does our public school, or any school, have an adult that is right there to see how that child is doing in their understanding? No. Teachers will and do do this, but obviously , they cannot possibly be there making sure that child understands enough to feel secure in their understanding. And this is why, one on one teaching is so effective. but as we know, the labor for this is unachievable for most people.
So, often we think it is the concept, which it is,  but if the units that build the thought, that describe the concept, as the words, are not integrated enough, then that concept being taught will be very difficult to understand, difficult to be accepted  into the vessel of the child. The outcome is either  merky and cloudy and/or reactive as an insecurity that builds behaviors of reaction that are like steamy water - so to speak.
Is this what we want for our children, those children who become adults that drive and direct the order of our worlds?
Our children are us in another life. If we as parents, do not  make sure that the foundation of our children is like pure and clear and pristine water, that is a memory built of structural clarity, of which words are the perfect structural units for and as, are we giving as we would have wanted to receive? 
Building a sound structure in a child is done as the words we know, our research makes this clear. This is what we all would have wanted, and realize as we mature into adults. If we do not know the words, we cannot communicate, order and reorder, which is being constructively critical and creative within our existence. If parents begin to understand this, and realize that there are tools to build such a structured and sound mind, empowering the parents, and thus the teachers and  our society, improving the community at large, thus, using technology, to build a sound mind, is a gift, it is taking what has been developed by men and using it is ways that improve our lives. The means are here,  as we all want what is best and that is realizing we have the capacity to become responsible for our children and ourselves. We understand that words build our thoughts, drive our actions, become our habits, create our characters. What do you want for your child? Stability? Capability? Effective relationships? We must ask ourselves by slowing down and seeing beyond our own memories that are steamy from lack of understanding.


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Friday, December 19, 2014

An innate common sense in children.

I am looking at how a child takes in every measure of their world, and what this capacity means overall. This means that every single movement a child encounters, even the movement of every single muscle in an adult, must be taken in as the very innate common sense of that child. And, this means that the child will imitate and follow that which is presented. We see this in how our children end up looking like parents.
I remember when my children were in kindergarten. My one son had taken to scrunching up his nose as a response to adults. I asked the kindergarten teacher why my son was doing this, suddenly, seemingly all the time. She looked at me and said, “ because you do it.”
I knew she was correct. I did not want to admit this, but she was correct. And, here, I can think of people I would not dare say this to. And, why? Because there are people who would not want to admit that the child was - as is the nature of that common sense in a child, that which takes in the world - a copy of the very measure of the adults and actions they experience in this world. If I look at this capacity, it is an incredible capacity. It has incredible potential.
It also can lead to detrimental learned reactions that end up limiting the child, and that take time to correct, slowing down that innate potential of the child.  What space and time is lost in the development of the child when anxiety is learned instead of self direction? What are the effects of impatience on a child? What are the effects of parents who have forgotten what is means to walk a process of learning something, of parents who assume a child should just know something because when we know something we tend to no longer remember that time when we did not know something?
I have sat with parents that stand over a child when a child is beginning to read, and acted as though that child should know the words better than they do, not realizing that the child must be allowed to discover the words and the sounds and the constructions of the words. When I see a parent becoming impatient, and the child more and more anxious, I see a disconnect from reality. And, it is not the skill of reading that is the measure of the space being modeled, it is the anxiety of the parent and the child taking this in. How can a child, move as this anxious measure and be the process of self discovery and development on their own within word recognition development?  It is like putting a spoke in a spinning  wheel. And, is this movement the measure of self esteem and self confidence?  It is not.
Also, if we look at the time frame in our schools, there is not enough time in  a class of 20 or so students to allow this either! And, I have been in special needs rooms. In a fifty or so minute period a text must be gotten through, so the words often end up being “ expedited” by the aid, which means the child, who may need a long period of time at this point, to really begin to process the language on their own, has never really been given the opportunity to process through in a self directive way! And how many parents of such children have the patience? We tend to think of the Helen Keller story as an amazing feat, but in essence what really happened is someone took the time, and had the patience to not only walk the process of reading, but also walk the process of correcting destructive behaviors. How many have the time to do this in our world? How can our public schools do this given their time frame and set general curriculum? They simply do not have the time, so we cannot blame them. Now, we can see why some parents pay others to do this, because they understand that learning is a process, one that works when the child is allowed the time and space to process through the steps of learning where that child is self directive.
That child who has been in the experience of impatience, becomes that experience. And this ends up slowing them down, limiting what could be a constructive common sense building. If a child has disruptions in processing words, it shows in their behavior while reading. It is blatant and obvious in every movement of their body and in the flow of the words, or lack thereof.  The real question here I relate to my musical training.
If I could sight read and process notes at a very fast speed by the time I was seventeen, then this reveals the capacity of a human being, when given the opportunity, to learn to process symbols into a cohesive form as a musical piece. This was the experience and the measure and the time taken to do so. Why, is this not the same with our ability to process language? Words are not different, they are a symbol representing a thing, or a movement , or a sequence of events, or a subtle quality, nothing that cannot be understood by a child, a child that has an incredible ability to take in even the “ bad,” the limiting, and the good. There is no reason, no justification for a child to not be able to process words with ease. None.
The technology is here to clean this up.
It is Techno Tutor.
For parents who seek a solution, who realize they do not have the time, and need some help. This is Techno Tutor.

Abracadabra- we are the measure of our words. Words are reciprocal tools, they structure within and they focus without. Techno Tutor ensures that the foundation of the child is sound.