The Right Side of Normal: Understanding and Honoring the Natural Learning Path for Right-Brained Children - Softcover

Gaddis, Cindy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1621417662 ISBN 13: 9781621417668

Publisher: Booklocker.com, 2012

Synopsis

Does your child have a highly developed imagination and spend hours doing one or more of the following:  computers/video games, building/electronics, art/photography, fashion/sewing, theater/showmanship, puzzles/mazes, cooking/ gardening, or music/dance? Yet, does your child struggle with math facts, learning to read, or spelling, or is labeled with ADHD, dyslexia, auditory processing disorder, gifted, or Asperger's? Do people consider your child smart, but lazy, living below his potential, or she resists your teaching methods? You may have a right-brained learner.

Schools use a scope and sequence that favors the strengths and gifts of a left-brained dominant person. Because most of us were schooled in these left-brained dominant schools, we learned to value left-brained traits, too.  If we have right-brained children, though, we'll soon notice they do things differently.  These are intelligent, creative, and inquisitive children who often seem to flounder in school. They resist or perform poorly because we are not teaching in the way they learn. We use left-brained teaching methods on a right-brained child. The good news and hope within this book is that there exists a valid and strengths-based educational approach best suited for right-brained learners, and, with it, they flourish and thrive.

About this title

About the Author

Cindy Gaddis is a 20-year homeschooling veteran and mother of seven right-brained children. A popular workshop leader and blogger, Cindy has helped thousands of desperate parents who have experienced life-changing improvements as they applied her Right Side of Normal methods.

From the Back Cover

Discover:
· why early learning is not always better
· why the right resource at the right time brings success
· how to implement an optimal scope and sequence for right-brained learners
· how to create a strengths-based learning environment

For parents and educators who want to break free from the "broken child" mentality, Cindy Gaddis offers a bold vision for living and learning joyfully with right-brained, creative children.

There's an epidemic of diagnosing learning disabilities today. Home educator Cindy Gaddis believes it signals a mismatch between the learning needs of right-brained children and the educational environment in most schools.

"Creative learners have amazing strengths that emerge when they are placed in an appropriate setting," says Gaddis. Too many children are shamed for the very traits that define who they are. This book helps parents and teachers stop trying to fit right-brained learners into a left-brained mold, and instead create space for them to flourish.

Gaddis offers parent-proven models and concrete suggestions. Combined with a solid review of experts in the field of creative, right-brained learners, she provides a range of helpful tools for frustrated parents and teachers.

Edition details

• Publisher: Booklocker.com
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1621417662
• ISBN 13: 9781621417668
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 506