Home Schooling Conference Shows its Stuff

Dynamic teaching and learning for all ages and learning styles

HENA, Home Education Network of Arizona is sponsoring a statewide conference on March 7th, for families involved or interested in home schooling. Examine the slate of speakers and topics. See how tuned people are to active learning. I am so disappointed I will have to miss this wonderful experience but applaud people for searching for the most effective practices that excite vibrant living and learning.

Tuna and Eggs Maintain the Brain

Get enough Vitamin B12 to help maintain the size and function of your brain

As an aging Vegan in large part, I am concerned about my diet’s impact on my brain as I am sure many other post baby boomers are. One of my favorite wellness websites RealAge.com featured a timely article related to diet and maintaining the size of the brain with Vitamin B12.

International Wellness Coordinators’ Conference

Interested in employee wellness and the bottom line health care costs?

If you are a Wellness Coordinator, Wellness Director, Benefits Manager, HR Director, Industry Market Leader or related profession that addresses employee wellness, be sure to attend this conference in Scottsdale, Arizona from March 11 to 13th. I am thrilled to be involved, conducting an entertaining, evening Wellness Celebration. Hope to see you there!

Jeff Haebig

Parenting Tools for Tough Kids

Discover new, effective ways to help difficult children

ToolBoxParent.com offers wholesome ways to manage troubled children. Dozens of free articles and links focus on… Positive Parenting, Creative Anger Management Techniques, Meds and Alternatives, Vitamins and Supplements, Links to Helpful Organizations, Activities for Bored Kids, Sleep Problems, and so much more!Developed by a super-team Deb and Nate Fjeld and author Jodee Kulp, http://www.betterendings.org/ this new website is another example of benevolence – passionate people sharing life-enhancing Tools and Tips with others in need.

Stopping ADHD Naturally

STNR Reflex may cause ADHD symptoms -- Integrating STNR is one non-drug solution

Symmetrical Tonic Neck Reflex may be the root cause of Learning Disabilities and misdiagnosed as ADHD. Read the passages in the book Stopping ADHD by Nancy E. O’Dell, Ph.D. and Patricia A. Cook, Ph.D. describing the STNR reflex. It shows why many students are having such difficulty sitting still and focusing. Natural exercises from the Miriam Bender Achievement Center are used to mature this primitive STNR reflex. It’s another example of using a body brain enhancing non-drug approach to solving ADHD and other learning challenges.

Myomancy.com examines the Stopping ADHD book and comments on its validity.

ADHD – Medicate? Remediate?

Focus on root causes -- then use body-brain exercises to resolve problems

Rather than treating ADHD symptoms, neurodevelopmental specialists like Toni Hager, http://www.kidscanlearn.net/kids.htm identify, address and remedy parts of the sensory motor system causing the learning and behavioral problems. The body/brain strengthens itself using specific exercises that mature the visual, auditory, tactile, motor, vestibular, cerebellar or other systems causing the challenges.