Term's End Baby Care Committee Report

"Helping build babies brains is the most important job parents have: thankfully, it is also the most pleasureable, because the brain is literally constructed with loving interactions.  Leaving babies to cope with stressful situations alone won't toughen them up or teach them to be independent.  Infants' brains are exquiaitely designed to develop under the guidanceo f an adult brain: all of their senses need to be anchored to this brain.  Keeping this anchor steady allows your baby's brain to forge the pathways needed to become a happy, loving, and resilient adult."
 p. 64, HELPING BABY SLEEP...the science and practice of gentle bedtime parenting, by Gethin and Macgregor.



Our shared Book Application Collaborative this term conducted internships with Global Parent homes based on the research gathered by Gethin and Macgregor in HELPING BABY SLEEP...the science and practice of gentle bedtime parenting.

 Our high school programming is unique at this point in the global sphere.  Eduardo's Contribution of Great Merit promises to expedite the marketing and adoption of  illuminary curriculum and illustrious pedagogy by playing them forward electronically in a multitude of networking ways over the next five years.  Our world peace deserves this catalyst.  


Our mentors, professors, give us direct and simulated exposure to families who practice ways that match the research in attachment security and healthy brain development.  We gain worldly experience through playing our learning forward with diverse families throughout New York City.  In every borough, here we are!

Our internships give us opportunities to support and educate families who normally don't find the time or know-how on their own to connect all the dots published by research communities.  Their schedules or backgrounds have limited them to accept only the highly commercialized and unfortunately popularized "sleep training"of old.  Parents, however,  once updated and "demythed" become truly grateful to have help in switching gears.  They express that sleep "training" really went against their natural grain as parents attuned to their vulnerable infants. They are happy to once again pay attention to their intuitive sense that letting babies just cry it out -sometimes for hours- made no sense and was indeed painful as well for parents otherwise attuned to their babies' frightful wails of anxious suffering.

Our internship families thus selected the paragraph above as the most convincing to share with new parents and parents to be over the next six months in their neighborhoods and clinics (This is the commitment they make to recieve internships support in their homes for a semester ... they promise to play the good forward where they live, work, and participate in services throughout neighborhoods!).

Reason for outside rules ... as told by Laura Ingalls Wilder

    "The fact was that Almanzo was nineteen years old.  But that was a secret because he had taken a homestead claim, and according to the law a man must be twenty-one years old to do that.  Almanzo did not consider that he was breaking the law and he knew he was not cheating the government.  Still, anyone who knew that he was nineteen years old could take his claim away from him.
     Almanzo looked at it this way: the Government wanted this land settled; Uncle Sam would give a farm to any man who had the nerve and muscle to come out here and break the sod and stick to the job until it was done.  But the politicians far away in Washington did not know the settlers so they must make rules to regulate them and one rule was that a homesteader must be twenty-one years old.
     None of the rules worked as they were intended to.  Almanzo knew that men were making good wages by filing claims that fitted all the legal rules and then handing over the land to rich men who paid their wages.  Everywhere, men where stealing the land and doing it all according to the rules. "
(The Long Winter, p. 99)

While we voice an intention (settle the land ... raise test scores), we may inadvertently leave lots of room  for squatters, birds of prey, insects and rodents to take up "residence."  Unless we follow through, follow up with persistent, sequential efforts that exercise our power of imagination,  our dreamship  may simply serve as a vacant structure, remaining hollow and ill-defined, or unpredictably super-charged and chaotic.   

To fulfill our dreams once named we do well to further exercise our willpower to revisit and revise and reorganize according to our current inspiration and good judgment.  We do well to take the time needed to allow wisdom within to make right choices ...  deftly detailing, comprehensively crafting, accurately articulating the nature of that which we intend.  

The more fully we practice detecting and articulating these authentic qualities, the more "real" our "dreamship" becomes.  Ultimately, its tangible presence invites us to assume our captaincy ... smell the salty air, board this magnificent vessel, assemble our crew, prepare to leave port and set sail for the journey of our lives! Only when we activate and sustain exercise of  our powers -will, order, wisdom, insight, judgment, enthusiasm (six to begin building with this week).

(How Dreams Really Do Come True, by Harmony Brook @Palladio High -Tenthyear).

Release Techniques for Interns guiding "Barometer" Kids

When we work with "barometer" youth (or adults), Release Techniques (Palladio NLP Resource Center) are essential -not only to have in our toolbox, but to know when and which one to select.  


In order to regulate our emotions and generate harmonious emotions, we need ways of bypassing discordant energies generated in our environment. Barometer kids (and sometimes not-yet-matured adults) vary according to labile emotions -not yet regulatable on a consistent basis). We expect babies and young children to display variability according to internal and external "weather." With guidance and "ZONE" support to meet developmentally expected milestones, we can expect kids to progressively learn to regulate their emotions and performance. However, when we underprepare our kids to meet developmental milestones (and the same applies to historically underprepared adults) they lag behind. We can know this because they display behavior and beliefs that we generally expect of younger individuals.


Under these circumstances, we who guide their on-going development, need both internal supports and external resources. Thus support groups, councils, meditation, and NLP strategies support us! Only when we use them...and use them without delay.


In a NY Minute,
Raj Sinha
Reporting from The Head Pallace @ Palladio

Weasel Words ... Beware!

One of our missions at Palladio is manifesting opportunities for parents, teachers, and students to master the Power of Twelve.  We call ourselves to Walk the High Road at all times and under all circumstances. Integrating our twelve powers into our thinking (past, current, future), words (past and current and future), and actions is our community commitment!  No matter what someone else may be thinking, saying, or behaving -regardless of the situation, our emotional state, past history, or feeling under attack- we call ourselves to Walk the High Road.

With this challenging commitment  in mind we may often find ourselves confused, scared, tentative, or simply wishing to align ourselves with something much larger that will 'back us up.'  In such moments -or hours- we may be tempted to use Weasel Words (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_weasel_words#Unsupported_attributions).

Instead of succumbing to these ordinary human tactics, pause.  Inhale. (Remember what you learned in your NLP classes.) Ground inwardly to a greater sense of being, of peace, of harmony with all that is.  If we are unable to immediately return to this Center of All Good, then we can remove ourselves from the situation.  It is better to remove oneself temporarily, than remain in a situation that is beyond our current capacity to  practice principles.  During such times, it is more appropriate to seek instructional support that expands our zone of proximal development (See www.teachersinourcities.blogspot.com).

Simply and harmoniously, we excuse ourselves.  Refer to our participation contract , Speech and Dialogue, Section: Compassionate Alternatives.  Select one, e.g."I'm sorry ...I just can't do this now.  I'll get back to you in the future." 


Then ... become like an apparition!  Remember Buddha, Saints, Prophets and Yogis apparate when the time calls for apparation.  Aspiring along this same path, we can practice at our current  level of ability.  With compassion and a plan for future reconnection, we can remove ourselves temporarily.  Why remain where the nexus of energy cannot yet sponsor safe harbor, nor sustain emergence of  greater good? (If you come up with a truly good reason for staying where pervasive fear and/or active hate prevail, please email either of us immediately.  Don't hesitate!)

In the future, we can ask for a redo (Mary Mannin Morrissey) when all concerned are ready and prepared to think, speak, and behave in ways agreed to contribute to the greater good.  Remain mindful of the guidelines:

1. don't  harbor thoughts and words that engage character assassination (inwardly or outwardly).  Sustain instead a positve image of the other, of what good joining might look like-sound like-feel like.  Envision the good that can emerge through active practice of the principles.
2. refrain from borrowing from humankind's 'wealthy-but-unhealthy' supply of weasel words (we tend to hide behind). Sustain instead openness to using simple, unambiguous, unequivocating words.   Stimulate the NLP Pattern for Authentic Communication (PAC).  From this state of being, we become ready to use words that promote authentic communication from our end.  PAC decreases opporunity for misinterpretation, and increases the likelihood our words will be remembered accurately (vs. interpreted with subsequent memory storage of the intervening  intepretation). (See Memory Research http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090910114136.htm

(Collaborative Essay by Professor Rene Renard and Reverend Vanessa Holiday,  excerpt from ... Speech and Dialogue Strategies,  Strongly Update: Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 36 - 64.)

Blogging...the new gallactic jogging (by word of mouth)

Raj set the stage tonight for mobile blogging ... let's do it!
Send a thread
From your head
to the Milky Way instead...
Where we pick it up 
And Kick it up
A notch or so
... Brain Bread
unh huh ...unh huh... unh huh ... brain babies

Hydroponics Research and The Greenhouse Effect

All Call: High school students who do not yet have a service project are invited to complete applications for our new Contribution of Great Merit - The Hyroponic Greenhouse!

Please download your application from Professor BonTempo's website, Health & Nutrition Council Advisor for all campuses.

Remember you need three references from Delecorte Plaza Campus and three  from your years at Upper Armory Academy!  Global Parents, Classroom Teachers, Council and Consortium representatives are the appropriate sources.  Those who have more recently joined us must consult their Personal Council Director for an alternative route.