Bright Horizons | Answering Your Child’s Toughest Questions
Children are naturally curious about how the world works, which means they ask a lot of questions. Some questions are easier to answer than others, and there’s no one right way to respond. Consider your child’s temperament and developmental level, as well as your family’s values on a given topic.
Below are a few general suggestions for tackling those tricky questions that make every parent squirm:
Ask clarifying questions to understand exactly what your child is asking.
Offer a simple, straightforward answers.
Be honest—it’s okay to admit you feel uncomfortable or don’t know exactly how to respond.
Be available for follow-up.
Kids’ Questions about Anatomy and Sex
Questions about anatomy and sex can be a challenge, depending on the age of your children and your comfort level with discussing these topics.
Q: “Why doesn’t my sister’s/brother’s body look like mine?”
A: Most child educators and safety experts agree it’s a good idea to use the correct terms for body parts when you explain to your child about differences in body parts. Especially when your children are young, you can explain “private parts” and what body privacy means: that nobody else should touch them. This is also a good time to let your child know that they should come to you or another trusted adult if anyone does try to touch their bodies.
Q: “Where do babies come from? How did the baby get in your belly?”
A: In a perfect world, talking about sex with our children would be just another topic, like hygiene, math, or sports. We don’t live in a perfect world, however, so conversations about sex can cause a lot of discomfort and anxiety—mostly for the parents. Take a deep breath, and follow these simple tips.
Ask your child “What do you think?” before answering questions to get a better sense of what is really being asked and what’s likely to be understood. It always helps to understand your child’s questions and current thinking before trying to educate them.
Tell the truth. If you make up a story about storks or fairies, it will only cause confusion and mistrust later on.
Avoid too much detail and keep answers short and simple. If your child is not satisfied with your answers, more questions will follow.
Make conversations matter-of-fact. When discussing body functions and sex your child, treat the conversations as you would any other important topic—calmly, and matter-of-factly. Children are perceptive, and they will be able to tell if you’re uncomfortable.
Be available. One of the best rules of parenting is to spend relaxed time together and have lots of conversations. Let your child know in words and actions that you are available to offer information and answer questions about sex or anything else.
Defer when appropriate. If a question about sex comes up in the doctor’s office or in the line at the bank, don’t be afraid to say, “What a good question! Let’s talk about that at home later.” Then, bring it up again at home so your child knows you aren’t avoiding the conversation.
How to Answer Kids’ Philosophical Questions
In some ways, philosophical questions are harder to answer because they’re about existential, abstract, or unknowable topics. For example:
What is God?
Why do we die? What happens to us when we die? Are you going to die?
If I’m not allowed to hurt my friends, why is it okay to kill a chicken to eat it?
What is a war? Am I safe? Will I be attacked?
Why do some people not have homes?
At the heart of most of these questions are the underlying questions, “Am I safe? Is the world safe?” Your background and values will determine how you answer these questions for yourself and your child, but what if you’re not sure of the answer?
Reflect and open the discussion. Some parents may feel uncomfortable and want to either change the subject or brush the question off with a dismissive remark like: “Never mind. That’s a grown-up question.” Other parents use these tough questions as an opportunity to examine their own beliefs and, depending on the age of their children, discuss these issues as a family. Like with questions about sex, it can be helpful to ask our child, “What do you think?” Not only will it send the message that these thoughts and questions matter, it will signal you are open to discussion.
Research and collaborate. There are endless books that cover “what do we believe?” questions. Explore the parenting section of your library or bookstore or consult like-minded parents. If you are a religious or spiritual person, you may also want to consult with your spiritual community to find information aimed at answering children’s questions about religion and the afterlife.
Offer comfort and reassurance. Consider why your child is asking the question. Is it in pursuit of information, comfort, understanding—or all three? Has there been frightening news coverage or has a friend experienced a loss? Children generally want to know 1) why a situation has occurred, 2) what is being done to help or comfort those involved, and 3) how it might affect them. It’s okay to acknowledge that life can be unpredictable and confusing, but try to end on a comforting, solutions-oriented note. For example: “People become homeless for a lot of different reasons, such as because they’re sick or they lost their job. We donate to the homeless shelter, and we keep money in an emergency fund to help keep our family safe.”
Those tough questions your children ask can give you insight into their fears, challenges, and developmental understanding. They can also spark great conversations that build trust. Don’t worry about getting every answer right. You can revisit a topic more than once.
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7 Incredible Benefits of Asking Your Child Great Questions • Emerge Counseling Ministries
The late American radio and television personality, Art Linkletter, captured the hearts of millions of Americans 40 years ago when he tried something on television that no one else was doing — asking children questions. He carved out a niche for himself and drew upon his audience’s fascination by giving children the microphone for a change while the adults sat back…and listened. Bill Cosby followed suit on his similar television shows. Linkletter, sort of the “Oprah” of his generation, summed up his motivation for quizzing kids in his book, Kids Say the Darndest Things!: “There’s a vast gulf between the world of children and our own. And every time we bridge that gulf — even if it’s only for a moment — we recapture some of the freshness and spontaneity that make life worth living.”
Questions are one of the most effective, and perhaps underused, tools found in a parent’s toolbox today. Just five minutes of expressing interest in your child will do more to build your relationship with them than five months of trying to get them interested in you. If you’re like me, however, you find it easy to get stuck in the gear of telling your kids what they should do — telling them how they should do it and when they should — instead of taking the time to ask them meaningful questions. To most of us, it seems parenting means telling, not asking. Despite that tendency, I’m finding I cannot force wisdom upon a child; rather, it is something that must often be drawn out.
Just five minutes of expressing interest in your child will do more to build your relationship with them than five months of trying to get them interested in you.
Without a doubt, parenting does involve imparting. You cannot visit the parenting passages of Deuteronomy 6 or Ephesians 6 without catching the action verbs of child-rearing, such as “impressing,” “loving,” “training,” encouraging, and “comforting.” However, much of parenting could be better described as, not merely imparting, but drawing — drawing out from within the heart of your child. Questions alone do that best! A great question draws upon openness, honesty, cooperation, and friendship. King Solomon put it this way: “The purposes of a man’s heart are deep waters, but a man of understanding draws them out” (Prov. 20:5; emphasis mine).
Ambassadors use questions to build bridges of diplomacy between countries oceans apart. Teachers use questions to build bridges of learning to their students. Husbands, to build intimacy with their wives. Managers, to cultivate teamwork and productivity among employees. The wise parent will use questions to bridge the generation divide with their child, whether en route to the nursery school or on the way home from a high school soccer game.
Questions are invitations. As clearly as an invitation opens the door of your house to a friend to attend a birthday party, bridal shower, or backyard barbecue, questions invite people in. They construct an atmosphere of interest that draws upon the hidden resources and needs of the soul.
7 Incredible Benefits
There are at least seven reasons why a parent should always have a ready supply of strategic questions to ask their children:
1. ASKING GREAT QUESTIONS SHOWS YOUR CHILD THAT YOU ARE GENUINELY INTERESTED IN THEM. It is never enough for a parent to merely say “I love you” or “I really do care about you.” Taking a few moments to consider just what your son or daughter needs to talk about is a great way to practically love them. When a parent cares enough to think through and, with a well-suited question, patiently tap whatever may interest or concern their child, they open more than a conversation, they may open a soul.
2. ASKING GREAT QUESTIONS ASSURES YOUR CHILD THAT YOU REALLY CARE ABOUT WHAT THEY THINK AND HOW THEY FEEL. We tend to trust people who are tuned in enough to our needs to be concerned about them and who respect us enough to hold those sacred trusts in confidence. Parents have an unparalleled opportunity to do both. I’ve found that questions strategically aimed at real needs and feelings within my children are virtually impossible for them to ignore; they are irresistible. Once their interest is tapped, they almost have to respond.
3. ASKING GREAT QUESTIONS CULTIVATES YOUR CHILD’S OWN SOCIAL SKILLS BY MODELING. Every child, teenager, and adult for that matter is ill-prepared to face any social activity or responsibility in life if they are not equipped with a supply of great questions. This is especially true is our technology-saturated culture. Parents who ask their children great questions not only strengthen their own parenting influence, they strengthen the relationship skills of their kids. Learning how to ask great questions is something that everyone can learn to do. This experience alone can save children of all ages from needless days, if not months and years, of uncertainty, loneliness, and insecurity in social settings.
4. ASKING GREAT QUESTIONS ALLOWS YOU TO EXAMINE JUST HOW MUCH OF YOUR TEACHING AND TRAINING AS A PARENT IS TAKING ROOT WITHIN YOUR CHILD. We can spend so much time “pouring into” our children’s lives; it makes sense to take some time to see if they’re actually embracing any of it and in what ways.
5. ASKING GREAT QUESTIONS ALLOWS YOU AS A PARENT TO BRING FOCUS TO YOUR TOGETHER TIME WITH YOUR CHILD, RATHER THAN WASTING THAT PRECIOUS TIME. I find that just as important as securing significant blocks of quality time with my kids, is making sure I seize the spontaneous moments here and there with them that tend to fill up a day. These bits of time can add up quickly. It helps me to think of them as the “teachable moments” or pockets of together time when I am available and they are hungry to interact. These include…the ride to school in the morning, the last-minute trip to the grocery store, standing in line at a check-out stand, half-time at a football game, tucking them into bed at night, etc.
6. ASKING GREAT QUESTIONS GREATLY ASSISTS YOU AS A PARENT IN ACCURATELY DISCERNING THE REAL EMOTIONAL AND SPIRITUAL NEEDS OF YOUR CHILD. It is risky, and probably presumptuous on my part, to assume that I know what my child’s greatest needs are today, as opposed to yesterday or a month ago without asking them questions. Great questions help a parent get a fresh sense of what is going on in their child’s life, their interests, their doubts, their fears, their dreams, and what’s on their minds.
7. ASKING GREAT QUESTIONS CULTIVATES CLOSENESS & CONNECTEDNESS BETWEEN A PARENT AND CHILD. Considerate questions not only draw insights from within a child, they draw a child himself closer to his parent. They slow us down in our much-too-busy lifestyles and build bridges of interest that often turn to feelings of closeness and authentic connection.
Take time today to ask your child a great question.
5 Strategies For Answering Kids’ (Super) Tough Questions : NPR
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I know she died, but when is Grandma coming back?
Why is your skin darker than Mommy’s?
Why do we live here but Daddy doesn’t?
Are you the tooth fairy?
Anyone with kids in their life knows what it’s like to be surprised by a tough question. It can come at any time, often when you least expect it: at breakfast, at bedtime or from the back seat.
We’re parents ourselves, and it’s these questions — and the awkward, knee-buckling panic they induce — that led us to create a new series of parenting guides for NPR’s Life Kit, a family of podcasts dedicated to making your life just a little bit easier.
Life Kit’s podcast, Parenting: Difficult Conversations, with help from Sesame Workshop, is full of research-tested strategies to help you navigate conversations about death, race and other tricky topics. Best of all, we get help from Sesame Workshop’s in-house child development experts. They’re the folks who review every word that comes out of a Muppet’s mouth to make sure it’s as helpful as possible for kids. This year, Sesame Street celebrates its 50th season, so you know they know what they’re doing.
Parents, grandparents, teachers and caregivers are busy. We get it. So we decided to distill some of what we’ve learned so far, no matter the kind of question that comes your way.
1. When you get a tough question, listen for what the child is really asking.
Don’t rush to answer. Pause and ask for clarification. This does a few things. First, it buys you time to choose your words carefully. It also stops you from answering the wrong question.
Parenting: Difficult Conversations
Is It OK To Lie About Santa And The Tooth Fairy?
Rosemarie Truglio, a developmental psychologist and Sesame Workshop’s senior vice president of education and research, says when her son, Lucas, was 8, he came home from school and asked, “Is Santa real?”
She answered with a simple question back to him: “Why are you asking?”
“They may not actually be asking what you think they’re asking,” Truglio says. “You may be about to give them too much information that they don’t want and they’re not ready for. Pause before you respond, and make sure you’re really answering the question with the just-right amount of information that they can handle at the moment.”
It turns out that Lucas was doubting Santa Claus because other kids at school had voiced their skepticism, but, Truglio says, he was looking for reassurance. And thanks to her quick thinking, that’s just what he got.
We’ll underline this point with a quick joke that has made the rounds of the Internet:
“Where does poo come from?” a little boy asks.
“Well, son,” his father says, “food passes down the esophagus by peristalsis. It enters the stomach, where digestive enzymes induce a probiotic reaction in the alimentary canal. This contracts the protein before waste enters the colon. Water is absorbed, whereupon it enters the rectum finally to emerge as poo.”
“Wow,” the boy says. “So where does Tigger come from?”
2. Give them facts, but at a pace they can manage.
Whether you’re breaking news about the death of a loved one, a job loss or a serious illness, it’s important to understand that children process information a little bit at a time. That means you should be prepared to revisit the topic, perhaps many times.
Parenting: Difficult Conversations
Death: Talking With Kids About The End
A hospice worker who specialized in talking with children about death gave Truglio this advice: Children take in information the same way they eat an apple. Instead of crunching through the whole fruit in one sitting, they nibble, take breaks, then circle back.
Dave Anderson, director of programs at the Child Mind Institute, a national children’s mental health nonprofit, says sometimes we have to adjust our expectations when delivering heavy news. “A young child moves on fairly quickly.”
Anderson recalls one couple who fretted over telling their son about his diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. “They were worried he would feel the weight of the stigma.” Instead, his response was more like, “OK. Where are we going for dinner?”
This goes for not-so-tough topics too. Once, I (Anya) was talking with my then-6-year-old daughter about seasons and why it’s colder in the winter. I may have been monologuing a bit. My daughter spoke up: “Mama, it’s kind of weird to have an answer without a question.”
3. “That’s a great question. Let’s find out more together.”
This is a good response to have up your sleeve for complex issues: science, history, race, gender, politics, scary incidents in the news or any time a question catches you off guard.
Parenting: Difficult Conversations
Talking Race With Young Children
“We can say, ‘Let’s explore this together, because that question is really a big one,’ ” says Jeanette Betancourt, senior vice president for U.S. social impact at Sesame Workshop. ” ‘Let’s go to the library and let’s look at some books. Let’s search for maybe some films or movies or get recommendations from our teachers or librarians.’ Because not everything has to be in the moment.”
Maybe you don’t like the way you initially answered your child’s question. Don’t worry. You can also go back and ask for a do-over: “I am thinking more about what you asked, and I’d like us to find out more of the answer together.”
This approach gets you off the hook — so you don’t feel like you’re making something up that you might regret later. “We often feel that, as parents, we always have to have the answer in the moment,” says Betancourt. “And the thing is, we don’t. And that’s OK. We’re still good parents. ”
4. Reassure them that they are safe and loved.
Often when kids grapple with a scary or uncertain subject, their questions will have one fundamental motivation: What’s going to happen to me? Will I be safe? Will I be taken care of? Those are the questions you need to answer, even if they aren’t being asked explicitly.
If it’s a school shooting in the news, they want to know whether their own school is safe. You can talk about everything that adults are doing to keep them safe.
If it’s a divorce, they need to hear that both parents still love them and that the split is not their fault. In addition, “both parents talking about consistency and routines would be very helpful,” says Sesame’s Betancourt.
If it’s the death of a loved one, says Truglio, “make sure they know that there are many people in their lives who are like family. So you will always be cared for.”
5. Take care of yourself, and don’t be afraid to share your emotions.
We adults need to have our own support system — and time — when we deal with hard things.
“Without taking care of ourselves, it’s very difficult to help our children,” says Betancourt.
For example, if your family has to attend a funeral, you can ask a good friend or extended family member to help shepherd your children, in case they need a moment away from the service or in case you, the bereaved, need a moment to yourself.
But that doesn’t mean we grown-ups have to “wall ourselves off in our grief” or other feelings, Truglio says. Her mother died several years ago, and she says she still experiences moments of grief. Recently, she says, she cried in front of her son and didn’t hesitate to explain, “I’m sad because I miss Grandma.”
That simple statement is really helpful for kids, says Anderson of the Child Mind Institute. “We don’t tell parents to suppress emotions. If a parent is feeling emotional, it is actually great for their own child’s emotional functioning for a parent to label and self-disclose. “
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How to answer uncomfortable questions of a child
“Mom, where did I come from?”, “Why are boys and girls different?”, “Why is this uncle like that?”, “What do you have there?” and a million more “What?” “Why?” and why?” we hear every day from our growing children. We answer some questions with ease, while others simply drive us into a dead end, forcing us to blush and breathe heavily.
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From this article you will learn how to competently answer the most tricky questions of children without embarrassment and stress.
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But before we go through the most “uncomfortable” questions, let’s talk about some rules so that next time you don’t get confused, but know what to answer.
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Take a pen and notepad just in case.
5 main rules for answering your child’s uncomfortable questions!
Do not lie
Yes, yes, even if the question is very “uncomfortable”. If a child asks you where he came from, don’t say that you bought him in a store or that a stork brought him. Don’t lose confidence.
Do not give details
Tell the truth without giving details. You can tell a child that he came from the mother’s tummy, but not explain how he got there. Everything has its time.
If you don’t know what to answer, say so
“I don’t know how to answer your question right now. Let’s think together or look for the answer in books or on the Internet.
Do not laugh at the child’s questions
No matter how ridiculous they may seem to you The child learns the world and what he asks is really important to him. Respect his interest and always try to respond.
Be careful and dig deeper
There are questions that hide something more than just curiosity. For example: “Mom, why did you give birth to me?”. Such a question may signal that the child is scared or lacks your attention.
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Therefore, be careful not to miss anything and help in time.
Examples of answers to “uncomfortable” questions
1. Where did I come from?
Age: from 3 years old
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What to answer: You appeared / appeared from my tummy. At first you were small and swam there like a fish. Then you grew up, your stomach felt cramped, and you got out of there.
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For older children, the fertilization process can be explained in more detail. For example, take a book by Don Voorhees “All About It – Quickly and Tastefully” and read together.
2. Why are boys and girls different?
Age: 2 – 4 years old.
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What to answer: This is how nature works. Humans and animals have differences in order to have children when they become adults. But also boys and girls have a lot in common. Let’s think about what we have in common? (or what do you have in common with your dad/mom/brother/sister?)
3. Mom, are you going to die? Will I die too?
Age: 3 – 4 years old.
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What to answer: Yes. All living beings have their own time: plants, animals, people. That’s how nature works. But first we live a long and interesting life. At first we are all small, like you. Then we grow up, study at school, then at the university. And when we become adults, we have a family and children.
You will live a very long and happy life. Do not think about anything and enjoy life.
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Most importantly, stay calm during this conversation. After all, the child feels you and reads your inner state. If you are calm when discussing such topics, then the child will not be afraid of anything.
4. Why is this person like this?
Age: from 3 to 4 years old.
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A child begins to ask such questions when he sees people who are somehow different from him and his parents. At the same time, he can still point his finger and ask loudly so that you answer him as soon as possible.
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What to answer: All people are different. Our appearance is shaped by family genetics and other life circumstances. This person is like this because (find a more accessible explanation so that the child can understand).
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In life you will meet different people, but differences do not mean bad, each of us has our own characteristics and so do you.
5. Why don’t you love my grandmother?
Age: from 4 years old
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A child can ask a similar question if he notices your negative relationship with your mother-in-law or mother-in-law. In this case, do not lie and explain everything honestly.
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What to answer: Adults sometimes swear because their opinions do not agree. Grandma and I don’t get along because (your reason) but that doesn’t affect how grandma treats you. Your grandmother is a good person and loves you very much.
6. Mom, do I want to too? Why can’t I?
Age: from 3 to 4 years old.
This question is about what you or others do that a child should not do. For example, you smoke. The child says: “Mom or dad, what are you doing? I want to try too!” Here it is very important to correctly explain to the child why he is not allowed and why you do not want him to do the same.
What to answer: I smoke. This is a bad habit that I’m trying to get rid of, but I can’t yet. I know it’s bad for my health, so I don’t want you to follow me and hurt yourself. Look what happens to the lungs of a person who smokes (show the picture) – you shouldn’t even try. I do everything to get rid of this habit.
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Do not be lazy and try to talk to the child so that he realizes that smoking is really bad and you should not do it.
7. Why am I like this / like this … ?
Age: This question can be asked by a child of any age who goes to kindergarten or school.
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Most often these are questions about their appearance, speech and features. And they arise in cases where other children focus on this.
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What to answer: You are the way nature made you. You are unique, like every person. We are all different and each has its own characteristics, but this is not good and not bad. It just has to be. Everyone will have their own opinion about your appearance and this is also normal. Just like you can like someone and someone not.
8. Why don’t we live in the same big house as our neighbors?
Age: from 4 years old
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Answer: We don’t need such a big house yet. When you have a brother or sister, we will think about moving, but for now we have enough space here.
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Do not tell your child about the lack of funds and do not load the little brain with adult problems. Grow up and understand everything. But at the same time, memorize such questions to teach your child financial literacy.
9. Why do you and dad fight?
Age: from 3 years old
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What to answer: It happens when people talk, they disagree with each other and start arguing. It happens to me and my dad too. But even if we quarrel, we still make up later, because we love each other and you.
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In such situations, it is important to let the child know that he is not to blame and is not the cause of your quarrel.
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Always listen carefully to your children, be sincere with them and always answer their questions. Even if you have had some negative experience in your life related to this or that issue, learn to answer in a timely manner – calmly, honestly and competently. And then your child will always turn to you for advice, and will not seek outside help.
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Read also:
How not to become your child’s enemy!
No time to play with a child: how to get rid of guilt?
What do teenagers want today? Interview with student Kidskey
The results of the contest “Actual issues of ensuring and protecting the rights of the child” have been summed up / News / Press-center / Menu / Altai branch of the RANEPA
the work of students (cadets, listeners) of educational institutions of higher education “Actual issues of ensuring and protecting the rights of the child”, dedicated to the World Children’s Day. The competition was held jointly with the Commissioner for Children’s Rights in the Altai Territory with the support of the Garant Information Center. The experts of the competition were Olga Kazantseva Commissioner for Children’s Rights in the Altai Territory, Ph. D.; Antonina Sorokina , Head of the Department of Theoretical-Historical and State-Legal Disciplines of the Altai Branch of the RANEPA, Candidate of Law, Associate Professor; Rustam Galiev , Associate Professor of the Department of Theoretical-Historical and State-Legal Disciplines of the Altai Branch of the RANEPA, Candidate of Law, Associate Professor; Elena Titova , Associate Professor of the Department of Theoretical-Historical and State-Legal Disciplines of the Altai Branch of the RANEPA, Ph.D.
In 2021, representatives of educational organizations from Moscow, Yekaterinburg and Barnaul took part in the competition.
Works on the subject of research were grouped into nominations and evaluated by each expert according to the specified criteria, among them: relevance of the topic; scientific novelty of the work; use of empirical data and their interpretation; degree of solution of the goals and objectives set by the author; creativity, originality of methods and methods used in the research.
According to the total points of assessments, the places were distributed as follows:
In the nomination “Modern problems of protecting the rights of the child in telecommunication networks”:
Barnaul;
2nd place – Ekaterina Zhalybina, 3rd year student of the Law Institute of Altai State University, Barnaul;
3rd place – Sofia Kovalenko, 3rd year student of the Law Institute of Altai State University, Barnaul.
In the nomination “Foreign experience in ensuring and protecting the rights of the child”:
1st place – Anastasia Shapoval, 2nd year student of the Altai branch of the RANEPA under the President of the Russian Federation, Barnaul;
2nd place – Elena Mogilevtseva, student of the 5th year of the Barnaul Law Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, Barnaul.
In the nomination “Actual issues of ensuring and protecting the rights of the child in the Russian Federation”:
1st place – Alena Likhova, 4th year cadet of the Barnaul Law Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, Barnaul;
2nd place – Daria Marishina, 2nd year cadet of the Barnaul Law Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, Barnaul;
3rd place – Natalya Brusentseva, 2nd year student of the Altai branch of the RANEPA under the President of the Russian Federation, Barnaul.
In the nomination “Problems of realizing the child’s right to a family”:
1st place – Anastasia Kolomeets, 3rd year student of the Law Institute of Altai State University, Barnaul;
2nd place – Ekaterina Korendyasova, 3rd year student of the Altai branch of the RANEPA under the President of the Russian Federation, Barnaul.
In the nomination “Current issues of international protection of the rights of the child”:
1st place – Gagik Dalakyan, 4th year student of the Faculty of Law after. MM. Speran Institute of Law and National Security, RANEPA under the President of the Russian Federation, Moscow;
2nd place – Artyom Kondratiev, 3rd year student of the Law Institute of Altai State University, Barnaul;
3rd place – Alena Raikova, 3rd year student of the Law Institute of Altai State University, Barnaul.
In the nomination “Ensuring and protecting the rights of children with disabilities”:
1st place – Daria Degtereva, 2nd year cadet of the Barnaul Law Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, Barnaul.
In the nomination “Ensuring and protecting the rights of the child by law enforcement agencies”:
1st place – Valeria Dmitrievna Petrovskikh, 2nd year cadet of the Ural Law Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, Yekaterinburg.
In the nomination “Actual issues of ensuring and protecting the property rights of the child”:
1st place – Anna Agababyan, 5th year student of the Barnaul Law Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, Barnaul;
2nd place – Nikita Drozdov, 3rd year student of the Law Institute of Altai State University, Barnaul.
The winners will receive diplomas, and the rest – certificates for participation.
It was very difficult for the Competition Committee to sum up the results, and not because there were more works in comparison with previous years, but because they all represent the results of a study on very topical issues of protecting children’s rights. The contest participants analyzed domestic and foreign experience in regulating and protecting children’s rights, international legal standards for the implementation of the status of minors. Many works were distinguished by a non-trivial approach to solving problems, a deep analysis of the relationship between the principles of regulation and the norms that implement them, and a large amount of studied empirical material. The competition was attended by students in the areas of training jurisprudence and law enforcement at undergraduate and specialist levels of all years of study, from the first to the fifth, which indicates an unconditional interest in the issues under study. I would like to thank all the participants and supervisors for the work done and wish them further scientific achievements.
Antonina Sorokina
Head of the Department of Theoretical-Historical and State-Legal Disciplines of the Altai Branch of the RANEPA
SPbSPMU expert answered parents’ questions
A child throws tantrums in a public place: what to do? The Parents. ru portal is answered by Maria Korgozha, Candidate of Psychological Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Clinical Psychology at St. Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University.
Question from a reader: “Going to the store or the park with my son turns into a theatrical performance. but how a baby can start lying on the floor, calling names and stamping their feet. I don’t know how to react correctly. Usually my nerves can’t stand it, and I buy him what he needs. I know that it’s wrong, but I don’t see another option to calm down. ”
— The question is quite complex and depends on the individual characteristics of the family environment in which the child is brought up. The behavior of the child and the parent requires detailed consideration.
In the overwhelming majority of cases, the reasons for such behavior are the inconsistent educational position of the parent. At 4 years old, a child is already well able to manipulate, if this gives him the opportunity to get the desired result. This happens if the unambiguous principle “What is “yes” and what is “no” is violated in the family. That is, if in the family the word “no” does not mean an unequivocal refusal and after 5 minutes can be transformed into “yes”, the child learns: if he throws a tantrum, screams louder, stomps his feet, then he will achieve what he wants.
At this age, the baby does not yet feel ashamed of his behavior, as adults expect him to, he just wants to get a toy and uses those means that work effectively. Therefore, the problem needs to be solved comprehensively and it will not be possible to do it quickly, because such behavior in a child has been formed over a long time.
What should parents do?
First, see if the child demonstrates this behavior with all family members. If the baby manipulates only the mother, then she can observe the behavior of the child with her relatives and correct her actions by analogy. If a child is equally persistent with all households, then this indicates a system of rules within the whole family that do not work. This is a more difficult option.
The next step is to analyze the child’s behavior and his interaction with his mother in daily household activities. See in what other situations the child does not follow the instructions of the parents. For example, when a mother asks her baby to put away toys at the end of the day. They agreed on this in advance, before going to bed, my mother reminded her of her request. The child does not want to collect toys. If the mother cleans the room herself, then a dysfunctional failure occurs – the parent himself violates his own rules. This means that the child does not need to comply with the agreement. That is, the question is not only in the behavior of the child in public. The situation will have to be systematically changed in all areas of everyday life.
In order to minimize the possibility of hysterical reactions in the store, it is important to discuss with the baby a plan of action – what awaits him in the near future. Discuss that we will go for a walk, go to the store and return home. We need to discuss why we are going to the store, what products we need to buy to prepare dinner. If you plan to buy a toy, then it is important to agree before going to the store that we are going to the store for a specific toy and only for it. Let the child decide which one toy he wants and is ready to receive. And after this contract is concluded, in no case do not buy more than discussed. It is important that both partners fulfill the contract. If the child fulfilled all the agreements, be sure to praise him. Emotionally support by saying that he did well, showed himself to be independent and responsible, and also express his joy, as a parent, that they managed to do everything the way they planned together.
If it has not worked yet and a tantrum has occurred, do not leave the child to lie on the floor, leave, hide or ignore. It is necessary to protect him from injuries, let him express his emotions and say in a calm voice: “I see that you are upset, I understand that you really want this machine, but we agreed that we would only buy potatoes and milk. I’ll wait until you calm down, we’ll take the milk and potatoes and go home. Your toys and your cars are waiting for you at home. You can play with them as soon as we get home.”
That is, it is important to indicate what is happening with the child and the parent and show ways to get out of the situation. Pulling the baby, distracting attention is not worth it. The situation is significant, serious, emotionally charged – it must be resolved here and now.
If in the early stages the parent realizes that he is breaking his own rules because he can’t stand his nerves, you can practice on simpler situations that will not potentially cause a tantrum. While working out new skills, you can limit trips to the store.
Manipulation ends only when it is clearly and unequivocally ineffective.
If a child suddenly throws a tantrum, behaves unconstructively, you need to understand that parents are not omnipotent and the reaction of passersby may be disapproving.
We talked to experts and scoured the web to come up with this curated list of unique Hawaiian names for boys and girls and names that are gender neutral, too.
Many Hawaiian names sound almost like lullabies: They have beautiful cadence and flow, rolling off the tongue in a melody of vowels and syllables. In addition to their sweet sounds, Hawaiian names also carry powerful depth and meaning.
“Naming children, places and objects is important since a name carries mana [the spiritual energy of power], along with the hopes and dreams of family members,” explains David J. Wallace — better known by the honorific Kahu Dave — who is a native Hawaiian healer and author. “Names can serve as protection from evil or illness, and remind us of who we are and our purpose in life. ”
The meaning behind Hawaiian baby names
Most Hawaiian names, Kahu Dave explains, describe things in the natural world. “These metaphors have multiple meanings, known as kauna, that can change over time, revealing themselves at different stages of a person’s life,” he says.
Elements of nature are frequently used in Hawaiian baby names include ocean (Kai), heaven (Lani), mountains (Mauna/Pu’u), water (Kawai) and many more.
“Each element or combination of elements will create a story and new meanings to the new word,” he says. “For example, by pairing Kawai (water) with Lani (heaven) we create the name Kawailani.”
Kahu Dave explains that Hawaiian names carry the hopes and dreams of parents and ancestors. “It tells a story, like a hula, with its imagery and hidden meanings that change over time,” he says. “Since there is so much meaning to a Hawaiian name, being able to share the story behind your name helps you connect to your ancestors as you prepare yourself for the future. ”
Cultural sensitivity and Hawaiian baby names
For all the transporting beauty and symbolism behind Hawaiian names, do be mindful of sensitivities if you choose to give your baby any name outside of your own culture.
“Name appropriation is a form of cultural appropriation and is something for white parents to consider when naming their children,” notes Jennifer Moss, the founder and CEO of BabyNames.com and one of the country’s foremost baby name experts.
“It is considered offensive for Caucasian parents to use baby names from cultures that were oppressed, slaughtered or exploited by white people, which includes indigenous Hawaiians,” she says. “It’s especially egregious to use names of royalty, tribes or revered persons in a particular culture.”
If non-Hawaiians want an inoffensive Hawaiian-sounding name, the best, most respectful option is to use names created from western names, Kahu Dave explains. (See examples of these in our list below.)
To help inspire your Hawaiian baby name search, we sourced ideas from our experts, as well as scoured baby names websites to come up with our own curated list of 51 beautiful and unique Hawaiian baby names.
Hawaiian baby names created from western names
Kawika (kah-WEE-kah) is a Hawaiian form of David. David is an English name derived from the Old Hebrew name “Dodaveha,” which means “beloved of Yahweh.”
Keoki (kee-OH-kee) is a Hawaiian form of George. It means “alive.”
Kaniela (KaaN-iyEHL-AH) is a unisex Hawaiian version of name Daniel or Daniela. It means “only god is my judge.”
Kiana (key-AN-ah) is the Hawaiian version of Danianne or Diana. It means “divine.”
Mele (MEH-leh) is the Hawaiian equivalent of Maria or Mary, which comes from the Hebrew name Miryam. Multiple meanings exist, including “wished for child” or “rebellious.”
Mikaela (mah-KAY-lə) is the Hawaiian version of the Hebrew name Michelle, meaning “who resembles God.”
Peni (PEH-nee) is a Hawaiian derivative of Ben.
Popular and trending Hawaiian baby names
Kai (KY) is a unisex name (currently more popular for boys) meaning sea. Famous Kais include actor Kai Owen and surfer Kai Lenny. It currently stands ranks as 93rd most popular name in the U.S., according to the Social Security Administration.
Kaia (KI-uh) is a Hawaiian girl’s name that means “sea.” It currently ranks as the 302nd most popular U.S. name, shared by celebs like Cindy Crawford’s daughter Kaia Gerber.
Kaimana (KIE-mah-nah) is a unisex name (more popular for boys) meaning “power of the sea.” In recent years, it has ranked among the top 100 most popular boy’s names in the state. (It’s also the name of a beach in Honolulu.)
Kanye (CON-yah) — same spelling as the rapper Kanye West — is a Hawaiian boys’ name meaning “free.” The name Kanye was most popular in 2004.
Keanu (kay-AH-noo) means “cool breeze over the mountains.” (This name has fallen within the top 1,000 American baby names for decades, and peaked in 2020 — the year Keanu Reeves started filming “The Matrix 4.”)
Moana (MOH-ah-na) means ocean or sea. It peaked around the 1,500th most popular name in 2017, the year after the release of the Disney movie about the intrepid daughter of a village chief who becomes one herself.
Hawaiian names for girls
Iolana (ee-oh-lahn-ah) means “soaring like a hawk.”
Leilani (LAY-la-knee) is a traditional Hawaiian name meaning “heavenly flower.”
Kaena (KAY-ah-na) means “praised” and is also the name of the westernmost point of the island of Oahu.
Kakalina (kah-ka-LEE-nah) comes from the name Katherine. It means “chaste and pure.”
Kamaka (kah-MAH-kah) is a unisex name (more commonly given to girls) meaning “child” or “eyes.” It’s also the name of an island in French Polynesia.
Kulani (koo-LAH-nee) means “rising towards heaven.”
Halia (ha-LEE-a) means “remembrance of a loved one.”
Leimomi (LAY-moh-mee) means “daughter of pearls.”
Malana (Mah-LAY-na) comes from the Polynesian and means “calming, relaxing. ”
Mahaelani (mah-heh-LAH-nee) means “dive mist.”
Makana (mah-KAH-nah) means “gift” or “gift from god.”
Noelani (noeh-LAH-nee) means “heavenly mist.” It comes from the name Noel, which is Latin for “born on Christmas.”
Ona (OH-nuh) means “sweetness.”
Waiola (WIE-oh-lah) is a Hawaiian version of Viola, from Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, meaning “violet flower.”
Hawaiian names for boys
Akamu (UH-ku-mah) means “of the earth.”
Akoni (ah-KOW-Niy) is frequently used in Hawaii, but it comes from Latin. It’s a variant form of the English name Anthony.
Ekewaka (eh-keh-WAH-kah) means “protector or guardian of riches or wealth.”
Kaipo (KAI-po) is a unisex name (more popular for boys) that means “sweetheart.” Kaepo, Kapo and Kaypo are all variations.
Kale (k-ALE) is pronounced just like the vegetable. It means “man. ”
Keon (KEY-on) comes from the Hebrew word for John. It means “God is gracious.”
Liko (LEE-co) means “bud,” like the burgeoning flower.
Nohea (NOH-eh-ah) is a commonly given name meaning “lovely” or “handsome.”
Ori (OR-ee) means “my light.”
Tua (TOO-ah) is a Polynesian name meaning “behind or at the back.”
Uluwehi (oo-loo-WEH-hee) conjures lushness and earthiness, meaning “flourishing plants.”
Unisex Hawaiian names
Akela (ah-KEH-lah) is the Hawaiian version of Adela and Asher. It means “graceful and noble.”
Aloha (ah-LO-hah), the one word that evokes Hawaii above all others, is a unisex name meaning “loving or kindhearted.”
Kahula (kah-HOO-lah) is an older name that means “dancing.”
Kalua (kah-LOO-ah) could be an ideal pick for a second baby’s name — since the name translates to “the second child. ”
Kawai (kah-WIE) means “coming from water.”
Keao (keh-AH-oh) means “the light of day.”
Lanakila (lah-nah-KEE-lah) means “victory.”
Leialoha (LAY-ah-loh-hah) means “darling child.”
Lilo (LEE-low), the name of the main character in Disney’s popular “Lilo & Stitch” movie, means “one who is generous.”
Lono (LOH-noh) comes from the name of the Hawaiian god of agriculture and rainfall.
Makani (mah-KAH-nee) is a traditional Hawaiian name meaning “wind.”
Moani (moh-AH-nee) is a unisex name (currently more popular for girls) meaning “breezes of scent.”
Ulani (uw-LAW-Niy) means “cheerful.”
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TRADITIONAL WAYS OF KNOWING: Words of Rain
Listen to The Water Fall
Native plants gather water in Waikamoi forest, known as the heart of Maui.
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Listen to the water fall on the ʻāmaʻumaʻu fern (Sadleria cyatheoides), ohelo (Vaccinium sp.), hāpu̒u – Hawaiian tree fern (Cibotium glaucum), and Pilo (Coprosma stephanocarpa).
Waikamoi Forest — Native Plants Gather Water
Hawaiian Words of Rain
The Hawaiians were intimately aware of the importance of fresh water, and of rain, to their lives. In fact, the words for water and wealth have the same root:
Wai is the Hawaiian word for fresh water.
Waiwai is the Hawaiian word for wealth.
There are hundreds, and maybe even thousands, of Hawaiian words for rain. Here we share some of the information collected in Hānau Ka Ua by Collette Leimomi Akana with Kiele Gonale*.
Hawaiian words for rain describe:
Rain in specific places (nāulu is a sudden shower, asscoeated with Kawaihae, Hawaiʻi, Niʻihau, and other areas).
Types of rain (nahua is a hard, cold, pelting, stinging rain; there are also names for misty, cold, white, heavy, warm rains, etc. ).
Characteristics of rain (Ua kualau rain that comes from the sea; there also names for rain along cliffs, sneaking by, duration, scent, etc.).
Seasonal rain signals (for example, the ʻuala farmer counts the kuāu showers to know when to plant, Hānau Ka Ua, p. xvi).
Figurative meanings of rain (like Kanilehua, the name for a chattering rain, which refers to birds in lehua trees and can also be used to mean gossiping).
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Puʻupuʻua i luna ke ʻawa a ka Nāulu Huahuaʻi nā huawai a ka ua i ka lani Swollen above is the cold rain of the Nāulu The water gourds with rain from the heavens gush forth – Hānau Ka Ua, p. 198 #43.
Rain of Kauaʻi
The Hawaiians had many terms to describe the misty rains and clouds that settle over mountains. A few examples are listed below.
Lilinoe is the Hawaiian word for the fine mist that covers mountains and cliffs on Hawaiʻi and Maui (Figs. 1 and 2 show examples of mist that might be called Lilinoe). Lilinoe is also the name of a goddess of mists.
Ua Noe is a light rain and mist that clings to the plains (East Maui). Noe mist is lighter than the uhiwai but heavier than ʻohu, ʻehu, and ʻehuehu fog.
ʻOhu is fog, smoke, a light cloud on a mountain.
ʻAwa rainis a fine mountain rain.
ʻO ka uahi noe lehua ē
ʻO ke ʻAwa nui i ka mauna
The vapor that mists the lehua blossoms
The thick ʻAwa fog of the mountain
(Hānau Ka Ua, p. 15)
ʻAwaʻawa rain is like ʻawa. It is cold and bitter smoke (may be acidic) of the mountains (associated with Pele) that smothers the cliff and is inhaled. ʻAwaʻawa is also used as a descriptive term for grief.
* Much of the information for this section was learned from Hānau Ka Ua by Collette Leimomi Akana with Kiele Gonale (Fig. 3). It is an amazing resource for learning more about Hawaiian rain names, place, and culture.
Hawaiian Weather Vocabulary:
ʻAwa: a fine mountain rain
ʻAwaʻawa: like ʻawa. It is cold and bitter smoke (may be acidic) of the mountains (associated with Pele) that smothers the cliff and is inhaled; also used as a descriptive term for grief.
Ho‘oilo: the wet season
Kanilehua: a chattering rain; gossip
Kau: summer
Kuāu: a shower; rain without wind extending over a small area
Lilinoe: the fine mist that covers mountains and cliffs on Hawaiʻi and Maui; the name of a goddess of mists
Makai: ocean side, or an area located next to an ocean
Mauka: mountains, or an area located next to the mountains
Nahua: is a hard, cold, pelting, stinging rain
Nāulu: a sudden shower
ʻOhu: fog, smoke, a light cloud on a mountain
Ua kualau: rain that comes from the sea
Ua Noe: a light rain and mist that clings to the plains (East Maui).
Wai: fresh water.
Waiwai: wealth.
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Hawaiʻi Magazine: Hawaiians have more than 200 words for rain
AMONG WATER AND FIRE. Enchanted Hawaii
AMONG WATER AND FIRE
I wonder what is the best route to get to Hawaii? I came here from three sides: from the west – from Micronesia, from the south – from Polynesia, from where their first inhabitants came to the islands, and, finally, from the east – from the USA, the country to which these, as they say, “the most beautiful in the island world.
After a long flight over the waters of the vast ocean, I ended up on Hawaiian soil. However, the plane landed not in Honolulu, the capital of the archipelago, but in Hilo, a port town on the easternmost island of the archipelago and closest to the United States, which is also called Hawaii.
In Hawaiian, hilo means “half moon”. The name of the town corresponds to the layout. Hilo is located like a crescent in an amazingly beautiful bay, where two rivers with similar names flow – Vailuku and Vailua.
Water is everywhere in Hilo, a lot of water, because almost every night heavy rains flood the town. On one side of the embankment there are rocks (the famous “Rainbow Falls” crash against them), on the other – the pier, which ends the main street and the park, descending to the bay and named after the Queen of Hawaii, Liliuokalani. The waves of the Great Ocean, for some reason called the Pacific, beat menacingly against it.
In the very first hours of my stay in Hawaii, I realized that these islands are the property of the ocean; having once risen from its waters, they can easily be reabsorbed by it.
I wonder how in fact – not according to the peculiar Hawaiian mythology, but according to geological data – this magnificent archipelago arose?
Approximately twenty-five million years ago, in the depths of the ocean, reaching six thousand meters near the Hawaiian Islands, hot lava began to erupt from cracks in the ocean floor. Dozens of underwater volcanoes gradually formed, stretching from the northwest to the southeast for a distance of many hundreds of kilometers. Fire and water led a truly titanic struggle. For every square centimeter of the bottom, the ocean presses here with a force of five hundred kilograms. Nevertheless, the fire managed to overcome this terrible weight and push out through the thickness of the cool, dark ocean waters the lava from which the Hawaiian Islands arose. Millions of millions of tons of red-hot lava flowed and cooled, forming a giant underwater mountain system, the highest peaks of which rose above the ocean surface.
The first islands of volcanic origin are located in the northwest. They are miniature in size. In contrast to them, in the southeastern part, the Hawaiian chain, stretching for two and a half thousand kilometers, eight much larger islands were “created” by fire. These were the ones that were later settled. This “magnificent eight” is actually the Hawaiian archipelago. Ninety-nine percent of its entire territory is concentrated here. On seven of these eight islands (one island – Kahoolave - is now uninhabited, it is the site of the American naval aviation), the entire island population lives. The small, so-called Northwest Islands (the easternmost of them is Nihoa, the westernmost is Kure) are completely deserted. In addition, they are practically impregnable.
Of the eight Hawaiian Islands proper, the geologically oldest are those that “float” at the western end of the chain: the small Niihau and the larger Kauai. They are followed by the islands of Oahu, Molokai (sometimes called “Friendly Island” by the Hawaiians), Lanai (“Pineapple Island”), Maui (“Island of the Valleys”), the small, bomb-ravaged Kahoolawe, and finally, across the Alenuihaha Strait, the most noble member of the Hawaiian family , still very “young” (he was barely half a million years old) – the so-called Big Island, or the island of Hawaii, which overtook its counterparts in size. Its area exceeds the territory of all other islands of the archipelago combined. Therefore, it is often called the Big Island. The latest volcanic explosion added another five hundred acres of land to it. At the same time, the island constantly pays tribute to the ocean, which takes away its coastal strip. I stood on the main street of Hilo and everywhere I noticed traces of the activity of fire and water, traces of creation and destruction. Behind majestic volcanoes – the highest in Oceania. One of them smoked. The ocean stretched ahead and the waves crashed. Powerful chords were surprisingly consonant with the wonderful view that opened up. But underwater volcanoes still breathe fire. As in the old days, they both give and take away life.
The terrible danger that threatens the ocean is called a tsunami. This name came to Hawaii from Japan.
Tsunamis are inconspicuous in the ocean, although they move at the speed of a jet plane. They are imperceptible, because it is not millions of tons of water that move, but only an impulse, a blow that raises the ocean only in the immediate vicinity of the islands. Suddenly, in the shallow coastal waters, a shaft of tens of meters grows, which destroys everything in its path with the ruthlessness of an atomic bomb. In a matter of seconds, he breaks ocean ships, like matchboxes, like garbage, sweeps houses from the surface of the earth, leaving ruins from the villages.
By a sad coincidence, the Hawaiian Islands, located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, and hence the town of Hilo with its famous bay, almost always lie in the path of the waves of death.
Perhaps the most destructive tsunami in the Hawaiian Islands was in 1868. In the post-war years, Hilo was the victim of a tsunami twice. One wave came from the Aleutian Islands, the second, shortly before my first visit to Hawaii, rushed here at a speed of seven hundred and fifty kilometers per hour from the coast of Chile. It was at 1960 year. I was surprised that the terrible “experience” of the previous tsunami caused by the Aleutian seaquake did not teach the locals anything.
Hawaiians, despite the warning of floating, automatic wave stations, instead of hiding in safe places on the slopes of the mountains, went to the city embankment to look into the face of danger from the closest distance. It was some kind of mass madness! The tsunami did not disappoint. Again, a wave eighteen meters high rose from the depths of the ocean. She did not crash on the parapet of the pier, but swept on, taking with her all the curious.
Two hundred and seventy-two people were seriously injured, sixty “spectators” disappeared into the waters of the ocean. And no one ever saw them again. One woman was lucky enough to escape. The woman’s name is Ito. She still lives in Hilo.
The impact of the wave knocked Mrs. Ito off her feet in her courtyard. The water destroyed the dwelling, the front doors, together with the owner of the house, were carried away by the wave into the ocean. For many hours, this unusual “raft” was carried across the ocean. When the wave finally moved on, the rescue ship found the woman at a great distance from the shore.
Most of the houses on the main street were destroyed, dozens of cars disappeared. The wave uprooted hundreds of coconut palms, sank several ships, and destroyed the famous park.
The total damage caused to the town of Hilo by the tsunami was estimated at fifty million dollars. One islander was picked up by the first wave that hit the city. By a happy coincidence, he remained “sitting” on her white foaming crest, sweeping on this amazing “cushion” over the entire Kamehameha street. Houses collapsed under him, power lines fell, people died, and he only screamed in a terrible voice. When at last the wave lowered him to the ground and returned to the ocean, it turned out that this miraculously saved man escaped not only with fright – he was speechless.
I don’t know if he spoke again. As for the town of Hilo itself, then – you can see this at first sight – it continues to live its former life. Carefree and probably happy. Despite the fact that more than any other city in Hawaii, it is exposed to the two powerful and indomitable elements that built this archipelago and are still building and destroying it at the same time. Hilo lives between the waters of the ocean and the fire of majestic volcanoes, lined up at his gates in honor guard.
Water Cult
The cult of water
Honoring Mother Earth, our ancestors also worshiped water. In ancient Russian manuscripts one can read about prayers and fortune-telling near her, about healing with water, about marriages and unions and taking oaths, about sacrifices to water, including human ones. Water Slavs
Heavenly Board of Fire
Heavenly fire council
In heaven, the fire council, the fifth in a row, is headed by Luo Xuan, whose official title is Hode Xin-zhun – “Star Emperor of Virtuous Fire.” There are five ministers under him, four of whom are star gods, and the fifth is “heavenly prince,
Making fire
Making fire
In some runes, Väinämöinen made fire himself – he struck the first spark from his fingernail or with the help of flint and tinder. But the “fire fish” – salmon – swallowed the spark (not without reason it is also called “red fish”), Väinämöinen had to again produce fire from
FUEL FOR FIRE
FUEL FOR THE FIRE
In the king’s chamber, we found only two things worthy of attention. First, it is a rectangular box made of granite, empty and without a lid. Its internal dimensions are approximately 78x27x34 inches, the thickness of the walls and bottom is 6-7 inches. Another interesting detail of
Water World Museum
Museum “Water World”
Shpalernaya street, 56. Tel.: 275-43-25 (excursion department). Metro station: Chernyshevskaya. Opening hours: daily – 10.00-18.00, days off – Monday, Tuesday. The ticket office closes an hour earlier. For people with limited mobility: no special devices
Transformation of fire
Fire transformations
21. XII.66. Pulling, pulling – what? Slackness, bodily and spiritual memory – and all this is from women: the memory of intercourse and anger with one, empathy with the other – that’s why the spirit looks down. I am like the threads of midgets drawn to the pegs of Gulliver. Ignite
3. Taming the fire
3. Taming the fire
It is believed that the ancestor of man began to use fire somewhere at the earliest 1.5 million years ago. The bonfires found at ancient sites date back to this time. However, there is no confirmed evidence that the fire was already used at that time
24. From flying fire.
24. From flying fire.
Flying fire, go to the fire from the servant of God Mikulai, from the white face, from the snout, from the lips. Be my words of modeling and strong. Usage: Read three times to the “castle” over the palm full of salt. When reading the slander three times, a sore spot is outlined. At the end of
25. From the volatile fire.
25. From volatile fire.
Bless, Lord, read this prayer, remove the fire from the servant of God (name). Fire, fire, shim from the servant of God with (name) fire. Chit with flint the end. Read
3. Summon Spirits of Fire
3. Calling the Spirits of Fire
01. Spirits of Fire! Fiery bodies recreating Yav!02. Come to my call, accept my sacrifice -03. Fiery Blood from Lunar Chara!04. With the fiery gaze of the One Who truly Sees,05. I pierce the veils of the Formless,06. Seeing the True Essence of Existence!07. My
Hawaiian Phrasebook
In this section you will find a short list of some Hawaiian words. For convenience, they are grouped by topic. We have included in our list those words and expressions that you will most often hear in Hawaii.
To help you remember words, you can make small word cards and repeat them over and over. You can also learn Hawaiian words with your family or friends. When you arrive in Hawaii, we advise you to write down all the unfamiliar words that you come across.
You will most likely have no problems with pronunciation, since almost all words obey a simple rule – “what I see is what I read”. For all words, the original spelling and Russian pronunciation are given in brackets. If you still have doubts about your pronunciation, then ask any local resident to help you, and he will be happy to teach you a couple of tongue twisters in Hawaiian, which will help you speak like a kamaaina (local resident).
People:
male – Kane
female – Wahine
child – Keiki
grandparent – Pili Mua
local – Kamaaina Mea kipa (mea kipa)
Pele (pele) – “lava”. Pele is the name of the goddess of lava and volcanoes.
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Why KinderCare Is the Best New Daycare in Tribeca
Eight a.m., Greenwich Street, Tribeca. Commuters with briefcases and extra-hot coffees. French bulldogs and their owners out for their morning walks. And strollers—a lot of them—heading to coffee shops, Sarabeth’s for breakfast, and the ship-inspired playground (the S.S. Fun!) in Washington Market Park.
Tribeca’s evolution from industrial district to bohemian mecca to family-friendly neighborhood happened gradually, over decades. And now, just looking around, you can see kid-friendly touches everywhere, from children’s clothing boutiques to parks on nearly every corner.
So, when we were looking for a home for our new flagship center, it wasn’t a hard choice. Kids needed a daycare in Tribeca made just for them for when their families are at work. “Tribeca is a family-centered neighborhood in need of high-quality infant and toddler care,” says our Tribeca Center Director Lisa Bridge. “It’s a great neighborhood for a KinderCare.”
Want a sneak peek at our brand new center? Come on in and take a closer look: Here are some of the early learning philosophies that we’re bringing to life in our new Tribeca KinderCare center.
1. Every child should have space to thrive.
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When toddlers enter this room, they know it’s designed just for them—because it is! Our toddler classroom (pictured here) is filled with toys at kid-eye level and places where tots can create, express themselves, play, and pretend. It’s also a “print-rich environment”: Books are readily available and words are everywhere, which help plant the seeds for strong literacy skills. It’s a perfect place for busy toddlers whose personalities are just beginning to emerge (sometimes with gusto)!
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Creativity means more than drawing inside the lines.
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We’ve got a Matisse in the making! While writing on the walls probably isn’t something you want to encourage at home (unless you invest in some whiteboard paint), you can at Tribeca KinderCare! We designed an entire wall just for drawing in our Tribeca center. For little ones, this fuels creativity, builds fine-motor skills, develops symbolic thinking, and creates a sense of community and ownership in the classroom.
3. Books are within easy reach of little hands.
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No tall bookcases here! Placing books within easy reach makes reading super accessible—and that encourages book love! Instead of waiting for an adult to bring a book over, kids can initiate story time all on their own. When they’re little, we teach children how to be gentle with books and treat them kindly. We know that kids also learn to read by associating simple written words with objects. So, in our classrooms, we label things like chairs and tables to give kids a head start on their ABCs.
4. We like to play pretend.
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ROAR! Playing with animal toys lets kids make new sounds and play pretend. Also known as dramatic play, playing pretend helps children work on problem-solving and social-emotional skills like cooperation—and it’s also tons of fun! When an adult is playing with a child, it’s important to get down to the child’s eye level (like our teacher in the picture above) to help them connect.
5. There’s no right way to play.
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We let kids play their own way. That’s why we build plenty of unstructured play time into the day. Toys and learning materials in our classrooms are open-ended (with multiple uses) so kids can explore their imaginations. Who says trucks have to roll? Weighing his cars helps this little guy learn about cause and effect, and other foundational math and science concepts. (And he doesn’t even know he’s doing some Capital “L” Learning!)
6. Take time to craft outside the box.
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Sometimes there’s no such thing as too much glue! Part of being a great artist is doing what you want and not playing by the rules. In art activities, we provide children with lots of different materials and let them decide how they want to be creative. This kind of independent thinking builds critical-thinking skills and self-reliance. In our classrooms, kids are encouraged to think outside the box. It’s all about the process, not the product.
7. We eat our fruits and veggies.
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She thinks she’s just playing grocery store, but she’s also learning about healthy eating through dramatic play. But we have more than just pretend fruits and veggies in our centers! Our Nutrition and Wellness philosophy makes it all the way to kids’ plates, where meals are accompanied by fruits, veggies, and whole grains. We never serve a drop of juice in our Tribeca center (or any of our centers), because fruit is sweet enough to eat.
8. Caring for each other is key.
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When children pretend to take care of a baby, they’re actually developing critical social skills that will help them become kind and empathetic friends later on. That’s why we believe in nurturing kindness in all kids, starting from day one! Our Tribeca center has plenty of baby dolls, toys, and learning materials that represent all children—it’s okay to play with whatever you want, whoever you are!
9. Yes—you can do it!
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Developing fine-motor skills starts with simple toys—exactly what kids need when they’re just learning to solve problems and get those oh-so-cute little fingers to do what they want! Though they may seem “easy,” simple toys (like the one pictured above) teach little kids that they can take on a challenge—and succeed. By working through the toy with an adult by their side who can ask questions like “What color goes next?” and “Which one fits?”, children also develop important language and literacy skills.
10. When in doubt, act it out.
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Kids have big feelings—and sometimes those feelings can be tough to cope with. Enter our family of adorable puppets, who make everything just a little less personal. If a child is having a hard time learning a behavior used in a social situation (sharing, for example), puppets are a great tool to help kids understand without making them feel bad. Teachers also use puppets to help kids learn how to manage and express their feelings in a positive way. Our Tribeca center has lots of puppets for teachers to use as tools for learning and storytelling—but when teachers aren’t using them, they’re available for kids to play with whenever they want.
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Indians in kindergarten | Outline of the lesson (preparatory group) on the topic:
Summary of the lesson in the pool “Indians in Kindergarten” Preparatory group
Purpose:
Create an atmosphere of celebration for children, give them a boost of energy.
Objectives:
To consolidate the skills of previous classes, to introduce the customs of the Indians.
To cultivate a sense of duty and responsibility to comrades, mutual assistance, speed, courage, love and interest in unfamiliar people.
Equipment:
Inflatable balls.
Hoop
Screen.
Moon on a string.
5. The sun on the pole.
6. Drums.
7 Beads, feather hats, skirts, loincloths.
8. Flags, 2 buckets.
2 ducks, 2 ropes with ring.
2 volleyball baskets.
2 medium rubber balls.
2 swimboards.
Diving fish, 2 baskets.
Pendants with inscriptions for rewarding children.
1 5. Bananas.
1 6. Tape recorder.
On land:
Two “heralds” stand in front of a screen. The screen depicts the night: the moon and stars. The world is extinguished.
herald: “Night in the camp of the Indians of the tribe of Chung Chguk.
Herald: “Yesterday the children of this tribe turned 6 years old and according to the law in the morning they must show their knowledge and skills in sports competitions.”
1 herald: “And now they, together with the leader of the settlement, have gathered around the fire and are waiting for the sun to rise. (The heralds take away the screen, put it in the background).
On stage: a tribe of Indians. Children in beads and loincloths and their leader (instructor) sit in Turkish around the fire. In front of each of them lies a headdress made of feathers, water in a vessel “boils” on a fire.
Leader: “I am the leader of this clan and I must now reveal a secret to you. 6 years ago it rained over the island and we were left alone. Today you are waiting for the ceremony of initiation into the Indians. As soon as the sun rises, the Eagle Feather Ceremony will begin. (Because of the screen, 1 herald raises the sun and at the same time 2 heralds turn on the light).
Leader: “Well, the sun has risen. Children, you are the future warriors and protectors of our tribe. Take your hats and hold them up to the sun. Charge them with the energy of the Sun God Tonatiu! Now put them on your heads. (To the music of “There – There”, the children take their hats, lift them up, then put them on their heads, cross their arms over their chests, thank the Sun God).
Chief: “Now it’s time to take the oath of the Indians of our tribe. Everyone gets to their feet, the right arm is bent to the chest, the left is behind the back. Repeat after me: “We swear that we are ready to choose our own path, to help a comrade in difficult times. We vow to develop relations on the basis of three main principles: FREEDOM, CONSCIENCE AND LOVE. We vow to help everyone who has lost their way. We swear! We swear! We swear! (Everyone sits down in Turkish).
Chief: “But before you start the competition and show yourself, you must warm up your muscles. Let’s start the workout.”
Land warm-up:
I.P. standing. Imitation of archery by stretching the neck.
I.P. standing. Straight arms to the sides. Turn your head to the right or left, look at the fist, stretching your neck.
I.P. Sitting, emphasis on the hands behind. Legs are straight. Raise and lower your legs. 4 I.P .: Sitting, emphasis on the hands behind. Raise straight legs. Flex and unbend
knees.
5. I.P. Sitting grouped, roll over 180 °, face down, emphasis on the hands and hips. Flexion and extension of the arms.
6 Jump to bend your legs to your chest, stand up, stretch, arms up.
Ritual dance before competitions. The boys play the drums and the girls dance.
Everyone sits around the fire in Turkish style.
Sage cleansing ritual.
Leader: “And now, according to our customs, before entering the sacred waters of the pool, everyone must perform a rite of purification with sage. This magical herb is languishing on a fire and the girls of our tribe must surround the guests and people from their tribe with a drink.
(To the music of “There – There”, the girls carry mugs of tea).
Leader: “It’s time to show off your sporting achievements in the pool. (Everyone goes to the pool).
In the swimming pool:
The names of the teams are attached to the wall: “Ramo” and “Sumo”
Children take a shower, change clothes, put on plastic jewelry (beads), enter the water to the music “There – there”, go around of honor, stand in two lines.
Leader: “Indians, do not lose your honor, fight with dignity for victory! You will be assessed by the Supreme Leader (physical education teacher)
High Chief: “I invite the guests to get acquainted with the teams. The Ramo team – physical education – hello! Team “Sumo” – physical education – hello! I allow the competition to begin!
Chief of the tribe: “Teams, be at attention! Get ready for the javelin throw!”
The leader gives the children straws for a cocktail, inserted one into the other for weight. Each team in turn, standing in a line, throws spears. Whose spear flies further, that team won.
Football. Drive the ball into the goal with your nose, swim into the goal, take the ball in your hands, join the team.
“Friendly Indians” Children take the shoulder of a comrade in front with their right hand, and row with their left hand. On a signal, both teams run around the elder and take the place of the other team.
4 “Stand in place.” Children dive on a signal and take the place of their team (change places).
Hit the ball on target. Make a sack out of volleyball baskets. Give each Indian a ball. They have to get into their team’s bag. Scoring.
“Hunting”. Throw a lasso on a tied duck.
Bike racing. Swim with the board between your knees, row with your hands, swim back, holding the board in straight arms.
“Getting shellfish”. Scatter small fish to the bottom in advance. Word to the Supreme Leader. Scoring. Announcement of results.
Chief of the tribe: “To reward the winners, everyone is invited to the fire.” Children come out of the pool, dry themselves, put on Indian costumes, sit down near the fire.
Rewarding ceremony:
Supreme Leader: “Children, you have perfectly shown how strong and dexterous, courageous and courageous you are, for this you get bananas and neck pendants! The tribe is jubilant. The rewarding of the participants takes place to the music “There – there.”
The name of the pendants:
“Lonely star”
“Andromeda nebulae”
“Unidentified object”
“Way of Saturn”
“Ray of light”
“True hand”
Clear Head
Good Friend
Wise Serpent
Keen Eye
The Supreme Chief reads a papyrus: “Tribal Chief: “From now on, you and these little Indians can safely live on your island . Now nothing threatens you, because there is someone to protect the Chung-Chguk tribe! For excellent preparation of children for competitions, you also get a banana!”
The tribe sits around the fire, the leaders take out a screen with the moon and stars.
Herald: “Night in the camp of the Indians of the Chunga-Chguka tribe.
Herald: “The little Indians fell asleep, their day was hard.” The light is turned off.
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Entertainment “Meeting of the Indian tribes”
In MDOU Kindergarten No. 1 “Fairy Tale” in the senior group “Solnyshko” an exciting outdoor sports entertainment called “Meeting of Indian Tribes” was organized and conducted for her pupils by Zhukova Tatyana Mikhailovna. On this themed day, children were able to try themselves as Indian warriors. On the appointed day, the guys turned into the Indian tribes “Apache” and “Comanche”. Boys and girls put on feather headdresses and met in the walking area in order to find out in a fair fight which tribe included the most dexterous and courageous warriors. The tests were rather difficult, but familiar to children. This is throwing the ball into the ring, an obstacle course, horse racing, throwing the ball into the basket, and, of course, riddles so beloved by children. In addition to the sports component of the holiday, considerable attention was paid to dancing. After all, the ability to dance beautifully and in an original way is always appreciated by all peoples, without exception, including Indians. The guys danced with such enthusiasm that it became necessary to sit down and relax near the Wigwam after such a “disco”. “Day of the Indians” was a success, becoming a bright and memorable event of this summer wellness period.
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Kindergarten Science – Nauka – Kommersant
This is an institution with the metaphorical name Kindergarten (“Children’s Garden”), created by the German innovative teacher Fröbel in the resort town of Bad Blankenburg in 1837, is considered in the history of pedagogy the first kindergarten of the modern type. Since then, kindergartens of various types and profiles have long ceased to be a curiosity, but the search for an ideal garden for growing an ideal person from a child continues.
Friedrich Fröbel
Photo: C.W. Bardeen / Library of Congress
Friedrich Fröbel
Photo: C.W. Bardeen / Library of Congress
Primitive Kindergarten
It is clear that the kindergarten as a social institution has deeper roots than that created by Friedrich Fröbel. Modern textbooks for students on the history of pedagogy, as a rule, begin with a chapter on the prehistoric past of the school and kindergarten in primitive society. And recently, even the science of paleopedagogy has appeared, which dates the origins of the kindergarten to the Ris glaciation, which reached Africa 150-130 thousand years ago, and the primitive kindergarten is considered not only as a place for temporary overexposure of dependent kids of the tribe during the absence of parents engaged in the extraction of food but also as an educational institution.
Here is an excerpt from a recent paleopedagogy publication postulating a causal relationship between a tribal kindergarten and an orphanage for the elderly of the tribe: “Cro-Magnons are changing pedagogical principles and methods. It is inconvenient for women to go to forests and savannahs far from the parking lot to search for plant food with children. Can men help? No. They themselves leave for prey … The help of grandparents in caring for children, feeding them, raising them, and cooking becomes relevant. The elders look after the younger ones and teach them… Conditions are emerging for the development of pedagogical forms of employment of the older members of the community with the younger ones. The importance of caring for the elderly is also growing.”
With the social stratification of the primitive society and the emergence of the family, the idyllic structure of the primitive social security service is eroded, the functions of caring for and educating children are transferred to the family. It is clear that paleopedagogy operates exclusively with speculative constructions, that is, a purely theoretical science, but it cannot be denied logic. Indeed, in the historical period of civilization, that is, in the field of the science of history, in the class society of antiquity, as well as in the Dark and Middle Ages, scientists have not yet found traces of a kindergarten. Although it is possible that they did not search much and in time there will be something.
But so far the history of pedagogy is dominated by the postulate of the French historian of the last century Philip Aries, a classic in the history of everyday life, family and childhood of the Middle Ages, which says that children were then perceived as “little adults”, and, accordingly, there were no specific upbringing practices child-oriented. So in the generally accepted history of pedagogy, the beginning of preschool institutions dates back to the New Age. In the 17th century, John Locke substantiated the importance and necessity of what we now call preschool pedagogy, modernizing the Aristotelian metaphor and speaking of the consciousness of a newborn baby as a tabula rasa, which is the responsibility of adults to fill. In practice, the first kindergartens appeared in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
New Age Kindergarten
In 1779, Pastor Johann Oberlin opened a kindergarten in his parish in Alsace to take care of children whose parents worked during the day. The kindergarten was run by the pastor’s housekeeper named Louise Sheppler. In 1780, a similar institution was opened in Bavaria at the Ursuline Monastery: “A school for very young, not yet capable of class girls of four and five years old, who are accepted only so that from early childhood they get rid of bad education, unsuitable for children classes and so that they can enjoy the love of learning from time to time.”
In 1802, Pauline of Anhalt-Bernburg, Princess Regent of the German Principality of Lippe, invited “educated ladies” to take turns working once a week in a kindergarten she had set up by publishing the following announcement in the local press: “Madame Bonaparte and several gentle and elegant ladies in a huge the capital of the French Empire was chosen and built with a truly feminine sisterly feeling and enviable sophistication in various quarters of a large city, rooms where tender youth, whose mothers work outside their homes, are educated, fed and comforted. Every morning blessed mothers bring their children; every night they take them home again with joy and gratitude, and the female founders of this institution take it in turn to supervise. Delicate and elegant “educated ladies”, of course, were found in the tiny German principality of the princess regent. How can they not be found after such an invitation!
In the future, such kindergartens, patronized by the church (both Protestant and Catholic) and the upper class, not only began to grow like mushrooms in Europe, but ceased to be a curiosity. In Britain, the class character of the kindergarten of that time manifested itself even more clearly. In 1816, here in the Scottish city of New Lanark, the manufacturer Robert Owen opened a kindergarten for the children of the workers of his cotton mill, one of the largest in the country. Owen is now considered one of the most prominent utopian socialists of the 19th century, but above all he was a sober capitalist concerned with increasing the profitability of his enterprise.
He limited his working day to 10.5 hours, prices in his factory shops only symbolically exceeded wholesale prices, alcohol was sold strictly according to the norm, and he arranged a kindergarten for the small children of workers. In an address to his workers on this occasion, he wrote: “This institution was created in order to afford to take in your children at an early age, almost as soon as they learn to walk. Thanks to this, many of you, mothers and members of their families, will be able to earn money for better maintenance of your children; you will care less about them and worry about them, while children will be protected from acquiring any bad habits and gradually learn and prepare for the best.
In other words, Robert Owen was actually the founding father of “departmental kindergartens”, which is not written about in textbooks on the history of pedagogy for some incomprehensible reason. As for Owen’s “socialist” innovations, his business partners did not like them, and he was forced to sell his business to them. However, he sold it for good money, so he could finance his kindergarten and engage in other social experiments with the working masses, up to the organization of workers’ and peasants’ communes according to a purely socialist principle: from each according to his ability, to each according to his work.
It did not take root, but the principle of a departmental kindergarten really took root. Friedrich Engels later even took offense at Owen: they say, in vain he was labeled a utopian, his kindergarten, where “children were accepted from the age of two and where children had such a good time that it was difficult to take them home”, can not be called a utopia.
In 1837, in the town of Bad Blankenburg in Thuringia with 1200 inhabitants, Friedrich Fröbel, already quite well-known in Germany and Switzerland, opened an “institution for the care, games and employment of babies” (Pflege-, Spiel- und Beschftigungsanstalt fr Kleinkinder) . Even taking into account the specifics of the German language, its name had a rather tangible penitentiary scent. Froebel himself felt it, and at one fine moment it dawned on him.
“He repeatedly exclaimed, “If only I knew the right name for my youngest child!” – recalled his colleague and like-minded Johannes Arnold Barop. – Suddenly he stopped in his tracks, and his eyes took on an almost transfigured expression. Then he loudly shouted to the mountains that it was reflected from all four winds: “Kindergarten (kindergarten. – “Kommersant-Nauka”). That’s what it should be called!”
Eldest child
“The eldest child,” as teacher Fröbel figuratively expressed it, was his Allgemeine Deutsche Erziehungsanstalt (All-German Educational Institute), which he opened in 1817 in the village of Kielhau (now one of districts of the city of Rudolstadt in Thuringia). Now this educational institution would be called a country boarding school, but then in Germany it was a curiosity, so Friedrich Fröbel was the founding father of this format of German educational institutions, which is now very common all over the world. For example, the educational center “Sirius” in Adler can be attributed to it.
I must say that this boarding school in Keelhau and the kindergarten in Bad Blankenburg Froebel created not alone, but together with close friends and like-minded people Wilhelm Middendorf and Heinrich Lagenthal, who took bureaucratic coordination with local authorities, search for funding , performed administrative functions in the boarding school and kindergarten, and Lagenthal also taught religion in the boarding school (as the subject was then called in German Protestant schools, similar to our Law of God), music theory and geography.
They became friends in the army during the Napoleonic Wars, and in 1813 all three volunteered for the Free Corps of Lützow. Many years later, he described his feelings when he decided to quit his studies at the University of Berlin and join the army: “Undoubtedly, I once wanted to become an educator, especially an educator for boys, I should have been an educator, and now I will go to war. But I was sure, literally sure: if I had not gone to war, I would have completely destroyed my future profession of a teacher. Probably, for the same reasons, his comrades Middendorf and Lagenthal went into the army, only then they returned to their universities, but Fröbel did not. Nevertheless, in their trio, he was the brain, and his friends were the hands.
Friedrich Fröbel had a dream to create a school with new pedagogical principles, and one for all Germans. His school in Keelhau was such an attempt “to save the growing youth from empty insignificance, from timidity to work, from thoughtfulness without action, from mechanical actions without reflection.” This is how Fröbel’s mind refracted his experience of two years of work in 1805-1806 as a teacher at the exemplary Pestalozzi school in Frankfurt am Main and at the most prestigious educational institution in Europe – the school of the guru of new pedagogy Johann Pestalozzi in Yverdon, Switzerland, where numerous German princes and nouveau riche from the bourgeoisie of many European countries.
On the whole, Froebel’s experiment in Keelhau was successful. In 1817, the circle of students of his All-German Educational Institute was limited to his nephews and children of acquaintances, and in 1825 there were already about a hundred students in it, and their number was limited only by the material resources of Froebel and his sponsors. His school in Kielchau survived the revolution and war and has survived to this day in the form of the “Free School of Froebel in Rudolstadt” (a free public boarding school).
Children are the flowers of life
The “youngest child” of teacher Fröbel in Blankenburg was less fortunate. The name Kindergarten was more than apt. Imaginative comparisons of children with the flowers of life immediately appeared, which must be grown with love and correctly, and it was certainly not Maxim Gorky who invented this metaphor, as literary critics believe for some strange reason. As Jin Zhi from the South Ural State University showed in his recent work, this metaphor has been present for centuries in such different linguistic cultures as Russian and Chinese, accounting for 17% and 21. 9% of metaphors about children in different variations in the thematic structure of metaphors about children.% respectively. It would be strange if this did not exist in European linguistic cultures. In any case, the first kindergarten teachers in Blankenburg received the nickname kindergrtnerinnen – “gardeners”. Only many years later did the modern names of their profession appear.
Froebel kindergartens have become fashionable. Their fundamental difference from the kindergartens that already existed at that time and arranged according to the Owen model for a purely pragmatic economic goal – to free female workers from caring for babies during working hours – was that here children were not only fed, walked, put to bed and put on pots but also tried to educate and teach them.
As Fröbel wrote: “Not only to supervise preschool children, but to give them exercises appropriate to their whole being; strengthen their body, practice their senses and engage in the awakening mind; to acquaint them with nature and the human world, especially to direct their hearts and minds correctly. .. In games, they should joyfully and comprehensively, manifesting and shaping all their strengths, manifest themselves in innocent fun, friendliness and pious childhood, truly prepare for school and the upcoming stages of life, as plants grow in a garden under the blessing of heaven and the all-consuming care of the gardener.
Gifts of Pedagogical Magi
If we translate this emotional text into a dry scientific and pedagogical language, we will get what is now called the theory of developmental education, or rather, its foundation, on which this theory was later built. But it all started with the simplest things – the “gifts of Froebel” (Frbelgaben), as they were called in the history of pedagogy by analogy with the gifts of the Magi. Fröbel himself called them “game tasks” (Spielgaben), and now they are called educational games. At first there were five of them, and they were made by Blankenburg and local women.
The first gift was a knitted ball for the little ones; the balls were different colors. The second was a wooden ball and a cube with holes through which they could be hung on a thread and rotated. The third gift was a wooden cube, consisting of small cubes, it could be taken apart and reassembled. The cubes were different colors, so it all looked like a Rubik’s Cube. The fourth gift is a set of dice. The fifth is a set of wooden cubes, planks, blocks and prisms, which were assembled and disassembled into various types of structures, that is, what is now called the Lego constructor. The children also drew, sculpted from clay, sewed, sang songs and, of course, took care of the plants in the kindergarten.
Fröbel traveled to Berlin and Dresden to give lectures about his kindergarten, and several dozen Fröbel kindergartens were opened in the German principalities, staff for which was trained in Blankenburg. But in 1851 kindergartens were banned in Prussia. The Minister of Public Education of Prussia, Karl-Otto von Raumer, motivated this by the fact that they promote atheism and socialism. There was a reason for this. Firstly, the fright has not yet passed after the revolution of 1848-1849; secondly, in the Fröbel kindergarten, the children were really instilled with the skills of an independent look at the surrounding reality and collective work and life, much like Owen’s communes for kids. Friedrich Fröbel died in 1852.
The dawn and dusk of the kindergarten
In 1860, the ban on kindergartens in Prussia was lifted, but the unified system of all-German education, implying the continuity of preschool and school education, which Froebel advocated, did not take place. Moreover, calls to send all children to kindergarten, regardless of the needs of the family in caring for babies and the requirement to include preschool education in the public education system, seemed wild to many parents. And with the adoption at 19In the 22nd year of the Reich Youth Welfare Law, only the function of kindergartens for child care was fixed. It was not until the 1960s and 1970s that the educational mission of the kindergarten in Germany became a topic of discussion again.
The situation with kindergartens in other European countries, including the Russian Empire, was approximately the same. They were there, but only in the form of the Owen model, that is, places for overexposure of the baby when the parents were not up to it. Frebel-type kindergartens also existed, but there were much fewer of them, and they were not included in the public education system. Only after the revolution in the Soviet Union did they return to Froebel’s ideas.
There were already about 20,000 kindergartens here in the 1920s, and their number doubled during the interwar period. Initially created purely out of Owen’s considerations – to free a woman to work in production, at the same time they were immediately included in the public education system. Preschool pedagogy was supported and encouraged by the state, and therefore it is not surprising that our national school of developing preschool pedagogy has become the undisputed world leader.
In Friedrich Fröbel’s homeland, his idea of lifelong education from kindergarten was realized only in 2002 at a conference of state ministers for youth affairs, together with the ministers of culture, where it was decided to develop all-German plans for preschool education. And although the current plans for primary education and upbringing are more of a recommendatory nature and are considered as a guideline for the pedagogical design of educational work in early childhood, almost two centuries later, the problem with kindergartens as the initial link in the education and upbringing of the younger generation has been resolved in principle.
As for Friedrich Fröbel’s other cornerstone idea that babies do not learn to live, but simply live as adults live, kindergarten will not help here. In 1982, the American sociologist Neil Postman published the sensational work The Disappearance of Childhood, where the initial premise was that the social concept of childhood has existed in the minds of European mankind for only the last four centuries and is an artificial product of the development of society. His book is available online and is quite interesting.
It ends with the statement that today the social substance of childhood is rapidly decomposing.
19 Creative Ideas for Camp Theme Days – CampMinder
Great camp theme days transform a camper’s experience. Not everyone will remember what they did on the third Monday of camp. But, if that Monday was Backward day who could forget that ocassion?
Fun themes stick in campers’ minds and help build your camp’s community spirit. At reunions, memorable theme days inspire stories that start with: “Hey, remember that time…”
Chances are you and your campers have your favorite camp theme days. But there might be a few you’re looking to replace and spice up with a new, novel theme. Hopefully, these 19 ideas help get the creative juices flowing!
States Day
Summer camp provides young people with a chance to explore new places, but you can bring even more adventure by extending this exploration beyond your camp’s welcome gate. Take campers on a tour of the sights, sounds, and oddities of different states across the US. You can choose states near your camp or one that’s further away. If you run a sleepaway camp, you can choose the states where your campers live. Set up a variety of activities and stations around camp, one for each state. Here are a few ideas:
Change Your Menu – Every state (or region) has its own unique cuisine. Spice up your menu with some hometown favorites.
A Visit from State Icons – Who (or what) are your state’s icons? For instance, in Pennsylvania, Punxsutawney Phil might make “appearances” at your camp.
Landmarks – Teach campers about different states’ landmarks and then give them fun supplies to build miniature versions.
Shark Week Day
Discovery Channel’s “Shark Week” is more popular than ever. Integrate shark-related activities during a Shark Week-themed day.
Race the Shark – Dress up a counselor (or swim instructor) in shark garb, and see which campers can give the shark a run for its money.
Shark Tooth Crafts – There’s nothing quite as pirate-y as a shark tooth necklace. So let your campers inspire their inner pirates with faux shark tooth crafts.
Shark trivia – Research some fun facts about sharks, split your campers into teams and see who can guess the right answers.
Shark Tank Day
Do you have any future inventors at camp? Let them flex those entrepreneur muscles during a Shark Tank day. Organize groups of inventors and give them the chance to brainstorm ideas to pitch at a Shark Tank-style pitch meeting.
The Marshmallow Challenge is a simple team-building project. Teams get 20 dry spaghetti noodles, a yard of tape, and a marshmallow to try and build the tallest structure.
Showcase history inventors by dressing counselors up as famous inventors and let campers explore each innovator’s contributions.
Encourage campers to invent solutions for real-world problems, then see which ideas can make a deal in Camp Shark Tank.
Farm-to-Table Day
Some camps have rural locations that provide a haven for campers to get back to nature and are in close proximity to food growers, which makes these the perfect place for local food explorations.
Get Dirty in the Garden – A camp garden is a living, breathing classroom. Make it a camp community project, and have campers plan and tend to the garden. (Just make sure you’re planting fast-growing veggies, so they can appreciate the fruits of their labors.)
Taste “Local” at the Farmer’s Market – Is there a farmer’s market nearby? Go on a food scavenger hunt and see what your campers find.
Let Your Camp’s Master Chefs Compete – Split campers up into groups and have them create restaurant-worthy dishes. A twist: They only have an hour to create a dish – and they won’t know what ingredients they’ll be using.
Your Wildest Adventure Day
Bring the adventure to camp with extreme sports races, adventure field trips, and themed activities.
A Race with a Twist – Let teams try all the adventure sports during a canoe/hiking/ropes course/mountain biking race.
Go on an Adventure – Are you near a whitewater rafting, rock climbing, or cliff diving hotspot? Take a trip and let campers loose.
Take an Overnight in the Woods – A backpacking trip – now that’s an adventure.
Backward Day
Run your camp day in reverse! Teach songs with backward lyrics, and have campers wear name tags with their names spelled backward. There are hilarious ways to do so many activities in reverse. You can play sports where the fewest points win, have slow races, and eat meals with dessert first.
Beach Day
Some camps are lucky enough to be near a beach, but many others are not. That’s no worry—the beach is a state of mind. Blow up some beach balls, find a spot to catch some rays (preferably near water), and enjoy some fun in the sun.
Sand Sculptures Competition – There’s no need to call in a truckload of sand. All you need is a bucket or two for your campers to create sand sculptures.
Bonfire on the “Beach” – Host a bonfire near the water with Hawaiian-inspired treats. Have some Hawaiian shirts in the costume closet, too? Pull ’em out!
Call in the Lifeguards – Get your counselors to inspire the spirit of the day, by dressing up in SoCal lifeguard-inspired costumes.
Treasure Hunters Day
Does your camp have any legends of hidden treasures? Maybe not, but that doesn’t mean you can’t start one. Excite your campers and spend a treasure-themed day in search of amazing finds.
Scavenger Hunts Galore – Send campers on a scavenger hunt around camp in search of treasures of nature.
Geocaching for “Treasures” – Set up a geocaching course and let your campers put those GPS units to work.
Pirates Make an Appearance – Counselors can take to the High Seas and dress up in pirate garb. Hey, and after dinner, maybe someone’s unlucky enough to walk the plank (into the lake).
Obstacle Course Day
Here’s a team that’s one part athletics, one part friendly competition, and a whole lot of fun. Let campers spend the day completing obstacle courses. Build fun (and safe) courses and have teams compete for the title.
Try Out Martial Arts – Give campers a morning wake-up with Tai Chi to get into the spirit of the day.
Encourage Team-Building – Build courses designed for relay teams, so everyone can get in on the fun.
Make Mini-Courses – Provide supplies
Dancing with the Stars Day
Let campers explore their choreography creativity during Dancing With the Stars Day. Host dance workouts, play Dance Dance Revolution, teach popular dances through history, and let groups compete to put together the most compelling routine.
Hip Hop Abs – Host a dance-inspired aerobics class for your campers.
Counselor Dance-Offs – Which counselor has the best moves? You’ll find out during the Counselor Dance Off.
Dancing Under the Stars – End the day with an outdoor dance party where campers can show off the moves they’ve learned.
Escape the Day
Escape rooms engage campers’ problem-solving skills like nothing else. And an added bonus: They’re tons of fun. So create an escape room (or two) and have teams compete to see who’s the slyest of them all.
Puzzle the Competition – Get everyone warmed up with some morning riddles, brain-benders and problem-solving puzzles.
Escape the Sun – Take the “escape” theme to the next level with a relaxing indoor yoga session.
Escape Room Ideas – What will your room’s theme be? How about escaping from zombies, defusing a bomb, solving a crime, or escaping from a haunted camp bunk?
Camp’s Got Talent
Take your camp talent shows to new heights with a Camp (Name)’s Got Talent day. Host fun, friendly competitions throughout the day, and hold auditions for your “talent” show. Then, feature the big reveal at the end of the day.
Hold Auditions – Let each act show off what they’ve got, and then let crowd response determine if they’ve got what it takes to move on.
Counselor Talent Competitions – Inspire friendly competition with a dinnertime staff talent show.
Host Your Talent Show – At the end of the day, turn camp into the set of America’s Got Talent, and then feature the day’s best acts in a battle for the most talented camper.
Halloween Day
Halloween is a great holiday, but there’s no need to wait until October to get in on the fun.
Give campers all sorts of supplies and encourage them to create their own costumes
Make healthy snacks and do cabin trick-or-treating
Create a haunted camp and have campers travel in groups to see if you can scare them
Sit around the campfire and tell scary stories
Full Moon Jamboree
City-dwelling campers might not get to see the stars back home. During this astronomy-themed day, give them a chance to experience and learn about what’s above. One hint: Choose an event like a full moon or meteor shower to get everyone excited.
Dance Around the Full Moon – Celebrate the full moon around the campfire, and see if any werewolves show up.
Take a Moonlit Hike – Take advantage of the extra nighttime light during a moonlit hike.
Learn About the Constellations – Teach your campers about constellations during the day, and then see who can point out the most at night.
Survivor Day
Split your camp into groups and let them compete during a Survivor-like competition. Obstacle courses, puzzles, and team-building exercises all are perfect for Survivor Day.
Give Your Group Names – Each team should have a chance to name themselves, and be sure each team has a color.
Obstacle Courses and Relay Races – Get each group involved with team-oriented races and courses.
Hold Meetings – Review the day’s highlights and give prizes and awards to the tribes who’ve earned the most points throughout the day.
Art through the Ages Day
Today, camp is all things art. Campers get a chance to put their creativity to work. So come up with fun projects that enable campers to express themselves.
Hold a Paint and Sip – Open a fruit smoothie bar, and let campers have their own paint and sip event.
Organize Groups by Movements – Group teams according to artist movements – cubists, impressionists, pop artists, surrealists and expressionists – and have counselors dress in costumes that represent the movement.
Creating Found Art Collages – Encourage your budding artists to create collages that represent themselves – the catch: they can only use materials found around camp.
Fear Factor Day
Fear Factor hasn’t been on the air for years, but it still makes for a great themed day at camp. During Fear Factor Day, campers get to face their fears during fun-themed competitions and challenges.
Host a Haunted Campfire – Tonight is the perfect night for campfire ghost stories.
Touch and Taste Your Fears – Fried mealworms, crickets, and other bugs – give campers a chance to eat bugs.
A Spooky Obstacle Course – Organize an obstacle course that features freak-out elements, like counselors that jump out and high ropes elements.
Camp Hollywood
Turn camp into Hollywood and spend a night with your camp’s stars. You might host a camper-created film festival, a red carpet event, and “celebrities” might show up at mealtimes.
Let the Paparazzi Loose – Give a staff member (or photo-buff camper) the chance to go full TMZ and snap candid shots of your camp’s celebrities. Before the film fest, host a red carpet event and let campers pose for the paparazzi.
A Floating Film Fest – Take your film fest poolside with a floating movie screen. You can even showcase movies created by campers during the event!
Staff Impersonators Get a Chance to Shine – At lunch and dinner, the celebrities should show up. Play a game of Celebrity Jeopardy, if you’ve got enough “movie stars” on staff.
A Day of Mindfulness
Spend the day learning the art of mindfulness. Meditation, yoga and pilates, mindful eating and empathy – all skills your campers will be learning during this relaxing day.
Start the Day with Sunrise Yoga – Hire a yoga instructor who can lead your campers on guided yoga sessions. And set up the class in unique and inspiring locations, i.e. lakeside or in the middle of the woods.
Give Guided Meditation Lessons – Today, teach your campers how they can relax and unwind with guided meditations. In small groups, have counselors lead visualization and meditation sessions that seek to calm the mind.
What Are You Grateful For? Have campers create collages and artwork that show thankfulness.
Time Traveler Day
Every camp seems to host decade-themed days – the 60s, 70s or 80s, for instance. But what if you could pack them all into one? You can with a time traveler theme.
Let Your Counselors Travel Through Time – Have counselors change costumes throughout the day, depending on the period of history campers have entered.
Host Staff Skits to Highlight Each Era – Are you entering the Roaring 20s? Staffers might host a Gatsby-inspired skit that brings the history of the 1920s to life.
Capture the Flag History – Create a capture the flag game based on a historical era – the Age of Pirates is great.
Camp Theme Days Are The Most Memorable Part of Camp, Make Them Count
A great theme can create memories that last a lifetime. But sometimes, those themes you’ve been using summer after summer has overstayed their welcome. Keep things fresh with a new theme. Hopefully, these 19 suggestions give you some ideas.
Camp Themes and Activities: Top-Notch Ideas
Nothing says “summer vacation” quite like a fun-filled, action-packed summer camp. And with sunshƒine, warm temperatures, and the end of school on the horizon, campers and counselors are beginning to prepare for an adventure that’s one for the books.
Coming up with an overarching theme for your summer camp can be challenging, though, especially if you’re new to the game or have been in business so long that you think you’ve done and seen it all.
Well, this article is here to share some of the top eight summer camp themes and activities that kids will love. Whether it’s a school-age summer camp themes you need, or you’re attempting to entertain teens on a fun summer excursion, you can find a theme to suit your conditions below.
Summer color themes will always be a hit amongst youngsters, especially those in preschool and kindergarten. Not only do kids of that age love colors, but it also presents a way to teach in a fun-filled way.
Putting together summer camp weekly themes revolving around “colors” is a cinch. For example, you can have a red week where campers wear red, stamp paint with a red-colored apple, and read Little Red Riding Hood. The following week can be blue. Create a blue sensory bin and have a balloon party with blue balloons.
Another one of the most popular summer camp themes for the younger crowd is the ocean. This is an especially great idea if you can take your kids on trips. To bring the ocean theme to life, take the kiddos on a trip to the aquarium or splash around in the local pool. Create fun activities to learn about different species each week, like sharks and whales.
Don’t hesitate to step outside of the box with ocean week, as you could run out of examples. For instance, you could create a pirate week – one of the top fan favorite weekly summer themes – or spend a week learning how to stop pollution from happening on our seas.
Sports (All Ages)
Most parents worry that their child won’t be active enough during summer break. So, you can’t go wrong with sports themes for summer camps. The best part is that these summer camp weekly theme ideas can be used for all ages. After all, who doesn’t love sports?
To put this idea together, have a different sport per week, such as basketball, soccer, football, tennis, etc. You can even do something more unique, like a Ninja Warrior week with obstacle courses. Let the kids play the sports together and have the time of their lives!
Is it 70s week where everyone will dress up like they’re going to the disco, or is it a flashback to the 1800s and kids will learn to churn their own butter and make ice cream in a bag? Time-traveling summer school themes are so much fun, and there are endless possibilities.
The goal is to bring the “time” to life. Set aside summer camp theme days (once per week) where kids can dress up like the date they’re learning about. For instance, kids can dress up in funky 80s clothing for 1980s week. Put together a soundtrack and have a dance party!
In this day and age, there is a push to learn about other cultures while encouraging diversity, making the “Around the World’ theme one of the top summer program themes out there.
Each week can feature a different culture or area of the world. Start with Africa, then move on to Asia and Egypt. You can feature foods from these areas and teach the kids about traditions unique to each area.
STEM (All Ages)
Another common concern for parents is lack of education during summer. Well, STEM is one of those summer themes for camp that make learning fun. Kids of all ages will hardly know they’re building their science, tech, engineering, and math skills with a super enjoyable summer STEM camp!
There are endless possibilities when it comes to STEM. The first two weeks can be science-themed with experiments, while the next two weeks are full of tech activities like coding. Make sure that the activities are age-appropriate!
Plenty of older kids are interested in food, whether they’re planning to attend culinary school or simply want to travel the world searching for some exotic fare. Regardless, food-related summer program themes will always be a hit.
There are many options to choose from. You can have the kids create a new type of cuisine each week, starting with Mexican, Italian, Asian, etc. Consider taking a trip to local restaurants offering the cuisine.
You can also do baking, which will always be amongst the top favorite summer camp themes and activities. Kids can make tasty treats, such as easy summer-themed cupcakes and a summer theme birthday cake. Have a cake decorating contest for them to show off their summer-themed cake ideas.
The final option for the best summer camp themes and activities on this list is music and arts. You will want to focus on a different style each week. Here are a few summer camp theme week ideas to choose from: performing arts, art mediums like charcoal, chalk, and oil, and various instruments such as guitar, drums, violins, etc.
You can throw in many activities each week. For instance, you might consider going to a play during “performing arts” week or have the kids dress up as their favorite music performer during “instrument” week.
How John To Go Can Help
Now that you have your summer program themes picked out, it’s time to focus on where you will hold your summer camp. Whether in a park, a gymnasium, or another establishment, you will need to supply your camp-goers with a safe, clean, and welcoming place to “answer Nature’s Call.”
That’s where John To Go comes into play. We have been servicing summer camp programs for many years, as most administrations wanted to avoid using public park bathroom, pool bathrooms, and other provided facilities.
At John To Go, we have a wide selection of bathrooms for rent, whether you need a simple pool restroom or require multiple bathrooms for rent to accommodate your summer camp attendees.
Don’t focus on just the outdoor bathroom, though. While an outdoor bathroom rental is imperative for your summer camp excursion, you should consider adding hand-washing stations and sanitizer stations to keep kids healthy during the adventure.
Why John To Go?
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The summer is a busy time, whether you’re looking for summer birthday party themes, summer-themed gifts for a wedding, or looking for summer camp themes and activities for your upcoming camp. That’s why we’ve made it easy and hassle-free to get pricing info and book our units.
Final Words
There are so many excellent summer program themes out there, whether you opt to go with classic “color” summer camp themes and activities or do something out-of-the-box like time-traveling or STEM.
Regardless of which summer camp themes and activities you choose, make sure you have plenty of restrooms for your camp-goers. Not sure how many you need? Start with our convenient unit calculator. Then, move on to pricing and booking in a cinch. If you need any help along the way, don’t hesitate to contact our support team.
9 Clever (and Fun!) Summer Camp Themes
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Summer Camp Activities
(Note: this post was originally written during the 2020 pandemic, so the first couple of paragraphs may not apply. The summer camp ideas and summer camp activities are still great ideas!)
Well, here we are. My son has been out of school for 2 days, but still has managed to log 1143 hours of screen time. Normally, I’m the “Let Grow Mom” who follows Lenore Skenazy. However, due to the pandemic, I cannot just tell my kid to “go outside and play with friends.” So, this year, our summer will be different. I need summer camp activities for kids at home or we’re both going to lose our sanity.
Even though vaccination rates are going up (yay!) many camps are going to have reduced attendance or shorter hours. Or, like many of the parents who follow this site, our kids are medically complex or medically fragile, and we cannot send our kids to camps just yet.
Or, maybe due to job changes or something, a summer camp just isn’t in the budget this year. Whatever your reason is, it doesn’t have to be lame!
I let my son (12) pick his summer camp at home themes. I’m not a total sadist, lol.
As a tween, spending the entire summer with your MOM is hard enough. Not going to force him to learn a foreign language too.
Here are some great and easy to implement ideas for summer camp activities.
Summer Camp Themes
The great thing about this, is that it’s up to ME. If I look at the weather on a Sunday and see a week of forecast rain, I can switch it up to cooking or computer.
Hot and steamy weather, I can plan when we’ll be outside. I’m not locked into a particular summer camp theme because it’s all taking place right here at home.
At-Home Summer Camp Schedule
Let’s be honest. Am I going to follow this schedule, all day, every day? Of course not. But all experts agree–having your family stick to a schedule in these uncertain times can reduce stress, anxiety, and depression.
I’m not going to set a clock to “ding!” every hour on the hour. But we will be sticking to some semblance of a daily schedule for our summer camp at home.
If you wish to print this as a PDF, here you go.
diy-camp-at-home-scheduleClick Here to Get it!
Teaching Equality and about Race Relations
Ok, this one was chosen by me, not my kids. But it’s so important which is why I’m doing it. We are going to watch movies, documentaries, read books, and do activities related to race relations and equality. I think I am going to do this week of Home Summer Camp over July 4.
That way, we can also talk about Independence and what that means, and freedom and who truly has freedom in this country. It’s also a great way to reclaim the word patriotism for my kids. Depending on how current events and the pandemic are this summer, we may attend a march or other similar events.
How to Talk to Kids about Race (15 min video)
Teaching Tolerance Website: Activities on Teaching about Race
Disability Awareness Activities for Kids
Why Teaching Black Lives Matters is Important
Activities related to MLK ‘I have a Dream Speech’
Lesson Plans for Safe at School movement
Teaching about Social Justice from Edutopia
List of Popular Anti Racist Books
Children’s Books about Diversity
Nature and Outdoors DIY Summer Camp Theme
Some ideas for having an outdoors-themed summer camp at your house:
Help your kids develop an appreciation for the planet and wildlife.
Explore the natural world by watching nature documentaries like Planet Earth, Blue Planet II, or if they are old enough, Before the Flood.
Look on Pinterest for outdoors-themed age-appropriate crafts.
Do an overnight campout in the backyard or living room.
Take a plant identification app like PlantNet into your backyard and help your kids learn to identify the different plants that exist there.
Help your kids explore the natural world that exists all around them.
Try getting your yard approved as a sanctuary/refuge by NWF.
Finally, end the week of nature by helping them grow a plant from seed or plant a tree in your backyard.
We also really like this board game.
Research state, local, and national parks in your area and make plans to visit one each week.
We really enjoy this game! Click for more information.
Art Camp
I am not creative or crafty in any way. For my family, this DIY camp theme will be more about art history, freedom of expression, and art as therapy or a calming technique. We are also going to talk about artists who have been oppressed throughout history, and why.
Explore the art world with your children by alternating between creating their own art and showing them art online thanks to Google Art’s virtual museum tours.
Show them some amazing watercolors like Light at Two Lights by Edward Hopper then let them create a watercolor masterpiece of their own.
Show them the amazing finger painting artwork of Iris Scott then let them loose with finger paints of their own.
Have your kids create self-portraits and comic books, art is where the imagination gets the opportunity to thrive.
For those kids (and moms!) who are less crafty, you can do adult coloring books and other mindfulness activities for kids. After all, it’s about calming and creative expression, not the medium you choose.
Video Game or Video Creation for Kids
Parents, give yourselves the week off with this at home summer camp idea. Many camps are going virtual, and some topics really lend themselves to being online. You can find online camps for coding, video making and other computer activities.
If your children are interested in video games then video game creation might just be of interest to them. There are a number of virtual summer camps that offer kids the opportunity to learn how to create video games. In fact, some coding camps start at age 5. But, if you don’t want to go the virtual camp route you can still encourage your kids to learn video game creation with Scratch Jr and Pixelart.com.
Sports Camp for Kids
This camp at home theme was chosen by my son. And, truth be told, we really are missing our sports camps this year!
Learn about historical figures in that sport.
How-to videos, skills, drills.
Fiction books about that sport.
Sports-themed movies
Watch a live event if possible.
Learn about the history of a different sport each day.
Themed activities related to that sport
Space Camp at Home
It was 5 years ago that we visited the Kennedy Space Center with our kids. So we’re feeling a bit wistful and nostalgic.
Inspire a love for space by going out and looking up. Bring a star identifying app with you as well as a telescope if you have one. Be sure to point your telescope at the moon and at any planets that happen to be out.
On Spot the Station you can check to see when the International Space Station (ISS) might be passing through the sky over your head.
Watch ET, WALL-E, and even Star Wars then ask your kids to create their own alien world.
Have them create at least 5 plants, 5 animals, and what people would look like from this world.
They should include drawings, paintings, and descriptions of each.
Be sure to get some amazing space documentaries in too like Cosmos, MARS, and Apollo 11.
Finish it off by helping your kids create their own spacesuit so they can pretend to go to Mars and beyond.
Summer Reading Programs
We’re not going to do this as a separate week, but actually weave it into all the other camps. We are going to choose reading materials and books that coordinate with the themes. And, we are going to look online at free summer reading programs and see what prizes we can win along the way.
Get a collection of books that are appropriate for your child’s reading level and set aside some time throughout the day for them to read.
Schedule 30 minutes of reading after breakfast and 30 minutes of reading before bed. If they end up wanting to do more reading in their own time encourage them to do so.
After they finish a book talk with them about it while they enjoy a small treat.
Old School Outdoors Fun
Give your kids a 1970s or 1980s experience. Go outside with just the basics.
Build a fort.
Go fishing.
Play hopscotch
Draw with chalk.
Skip rocks.
Sit under a tree and talk.
Have a water fight.
Go for a bike ride and get ice cream.
Run through a sprinkler.
Catch and release lightning bugs (or fireflies).
Play foursquare, boxball or whatever you called it.
More outdoor games-tag, monkey in the middle, TV tag, hide and seek.
Cooking Camp at Home
We’re going to do this one specifically to work on ARFID and hopefully less picky eating.
Help your kids learn to love the food they eat by getting them involved in the creation of it. Have them help make breakfast, lunch, a snack, dinner, and dessert. Bake bread with them as well. Finally, on the last day of their cooking camp have them do menu planning for the whole family for an entire day or weekend. Then, they get to help make it. (and shop for it, depending on your state’s rules right now)
Honestly, even if I only do 5-6 weeks of this, and 2-3 days each week of activities, I will feel accomplished. I hope this helps you organize a fun summer at your house too!
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Fine Motor Skills-Games, crafts and coloring activities are a great way to use and practice a child’s fine motor skills.
Speech andLanguage– Many parents seek out a language-rich environment for their child. Any activity can be an opportunity to use and repeat new words and language, mimicking sounds, new vocalizations and articulations.
Executive Functioning Skills– Depending on the game or activity, it can be an opportunity to practice executive functions such as working memory, sequencing, following directions, task initiation and more.
Handwriting and Fluency- This piggybacks onto the language skills a child needs, but with worksheets, coloring pages and games, they can be a low-risk opportunity to practice handwriting and fluency.
Practicing Previously Acquired Skills-Applying already acquired skills across all environments, bring the classroom teaching into the real world.
Social Awareness-Practice traditional social skills in a safe environment, such as: joint attention, taking turns, reciprocating conversation, waiting politely, and more.
Gross Motor-If you’re in a new place, practice walking across uneven surfaces, new surfaces, inclines & declines, stairs, or increasing endurance.
ideas for designing a summer themed camp at school
The idea of a summer camp is undoubtedly extremely useful, because for a relatively small fee, working parents can leave their children under reliable supervision for almost the whole day in their own school with absolutely peace of mind.
That is why great attention is paid to the design of the summer camp at the school, which, in turn, should not only be beautiful and ergonomic, but also really cozy, so that children feel, as they say, at home. Naturally, all expenses in this case are imposed on the educational institution itself, and it is quite logical that the more impressive the budget, the greater the possibility of translating all desires into reality becomes.
First of all, the rooms themselves, which in this case should be a play-bedroom, must be put in proper order. We are talking about its overhaul, which should include the replacement of risers and heating radiators, electrics, joinery (doors), as well as the restoration of floors, ceilings and walls. Particular attention should be paid to the lighting in the room, which should not be too bright or, on the contrary, dim.
Since we are talking specifically about the summer period, instead of traditional window textiles, it is better to use vertical rotating blinds made of dense fabric, which are easy to remove and clean. All their convenience lies in the fact that in the closed position they let in the sun’s rays and the room remains lit, but it does not heat up at all. This allows you to do without installing air conditioners and gluing an unaesthetic film on window panes, which also darkens the space very much.
For wall decoration, you can use thick embossed wallpapers that will help hide existing irregularities or water-based paint (of course, if the walls are in the proper form), and it is better to immediately refuse dark or too bright shades, giving preference to warm, delicate pastel colors . If the management has a reasonable fear that soon a too light coating will become stained, then, as an option, you can use the technique of horizontally dividing the walls of the room on a panel (the so-called “light top-dark bottom”, divided among themselves by a relief polyurethane molding on a flat basis).
Having completely dealt with the main repairs and the necessary furniture, you can proceed to a smaller, but no less important, design in the thematic style that was taken as the basis. At the same time, regardless of the general line, the children’s room must be equipped with a Swedish wall and a corner for games, obviously dividing the room into three zones: recreation, learning and active pastime.
Despite the fact that we are talking about a school summer camp, there must be indoor plants in its rooms, which carry not only an aesthetic load, but also effectively purify the air. At the same time, it is not at all necessary to purchase expensive and capricious anthuriums and phalaenopsis, because with these funds you can organize a small winter garden, consisting of lush and no less beautiful decorative leafy plants (sansevier, ficus, dieffenbachia, various not picky varieties of begonias, etc. ) .
Of great importance for such educational complexes is the different thematic design, designed primarily for children’s perception. Undoubtedly. this is a cool corner in the form of funny posters with important and useful information, and all sorts of interior crafts and artistic wall painting. Some of the above list involves the help of professional craftsmen (artists, carpenters, carpenters), and something the administration or even parents can handle on their own, with quite a bit of effort, ingenuity and money.
So, the network has a huge amount of information available and all kinds of design ideas with detailed video or step-by-step photo tutorials, there would be a desire to put them into practice and translate them into reality. If those responsible for the design do not have any special creative inclinations, but there is a great desire to decorate the premises properly, then as an option, you can use ready-made templates, be it a poster designed to post information in a cool corner, or a photo wallpaper with already applied on them are images of famous characters from books and cartoons beloved by children.
There are really a lot of basic design ideas. As a basis, you can take the wooden ship of the famous pirate Jack Sparrow, the beautiful and even somewhat surreal Alice in Carroll’s Wonderland, the Emerald City, a house of cards, a castle with ghosts, etc., etc. For example, if the theme of Alice is chosen, then in the game corner you can make a giant mushroom out of papier-mâché, on which a lazy caterpillar will sit, in the winter garden you can put tubs with white and red hibiscus (popularly called “Chinese rose”), and next to them are huge cardboard cards of different stripes, but of minor rank, who allegedly hastily paint them in the right color, avoiding the wrath of the queen.
An informational poster can be made in the form of a huge striped Cheshire cat with his eternal smile, which will sit on a branch densely covered with leaves. It is to the lower part (“leaves”) that sheets with information and photographs of students can be attached. The design should be made from a single sheet of thick cardboard, cut out in the shape of a cat’s body sitting on a branch. The image of the character can be applied using water-based acrylic paint, or by printing, using the services of a photo studio. It is also very interesting to beat the interior itself. For example, built-in wardrobes visually “place” in a tree. To do this, at the location of their doors, it is necessary to draw a tall oak with a thick trunk so that the effect is created, as if by opening the door, the child can get inside the plant itself.
No less interesting is the idea with the “Wizard of the Emerald City”, for the implementation of which in the play corner you can equip a basket for the great magician Goodwin’s balloon, which children can climb into if they wish. The top of the voluminous composition should be decorated with textiles imitating a fragment of a balloon fabric, sewn from patches of different shades of green. A cool corner, as an option, can be made in the form of a huge emerald made of thick glossy paper, to the many faces of which sheets with a schedule, menu in the canteen, information on competitions, etc. will be attached.
A pirate theme would look great for decorating a summer camp at an educational institution. So, in the corner of the room, you can equip the bow of a wooden ship from real boards or, at worst, chipboard sheets, in which a secret door will be provided on the side in order to go inside, as well as a small round window. The body itself, alas, cannot be completed without the help of carpenters, although at present it can be “put together” from drywall, covered with textured plaster and tinted under a tree (although you can’t do without the help of specialists here too). Don’t forget the gray burlap sail and the black skull and crossbones flag.
One of the walls of the room can be very effectively painted with paints, visually dividing it into two parts – ocean water with underwater inhabitants and an island with its inhabitants and vegetation. It’s great if exotic plants such as palm trees (date, liviston, cycas) or, at worst, decorative dracaena and yucca are located in the winter garden. Do not forget about such an iconic character as the parrot of the main pirate, who will sit on a perch near the plants (it will be up to the parents and the administration of the summer camp to decide whether he will be alive or a toy).
Seeing such an original design of the summer camp, each child will immediately feel as cozy and comfortable as possible and is unlikely to want to stay in it for the whole day. If, at the same time, a decent menu is provided in the dining room and an equipped gym, then it is difficult to wish for something better.
The work plan of the school day camp for children “The World Around You” 27.06.18 | Calendar-thematic planning (grades 5, 6, 7, 8) on the topic:
I approve:
Director of the MBOU “Secondary School
Camp name: school health camp “The World Around You”
Camp type: day camp
Camp profile: complex
Camp model: mixed-age association of schoolchildren
Personnel: physical education worker, teacher medical worker Duration of shift: 21 days Number of shifts: 2
Name of conducting organization:
MBOU
Address:
Phone:
Age of participants: 7-15 years old Number of children: I shift-
II shift-
Dates: June, July
Analytic section of the program
This program is complex in its focus, i. e. includes
diversified activities, combines various areas
health improvement, recreation and education of children in a health camp.
The duration of the program is short-term, i.e. implemented in
during 3 camp shifts.
The main composition of the camp is school students aged 7-15 years.
When recruiting, special attention is paid to children from low-income,
single-parent families, from families with retired parents, as well as children in difficult life situations. Activities of pupils
during the camp shift is carried out in teams of different ages.
The program was developed taking into account the following legislative
normative legal documents:
– the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child;
– the Constitution of the Russian Federation;
– Law of the Russian Federation “On Education”;
– Federal Law “On Basic Guarantees of the Rights of the Child in the Russian Federation”
dated 24. 07.98 No. 124-FZ;
– Labor Code of the Russian Federation of December 30, 2001 No. 197-FZ;
– Federal Law “On Amendments and Additions to the Law of the Russian Federation
– On the Establishment of the Procedure for Conducting Changes in Specialized Camps,
with day stay, labor and recreation camps. Order of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation of July 13, 2001 No. No. 2688 (as amended on June 28, 2002).
Summer vacation is not just a cessation of a child’s learning activities.
This is an active time of his socialization, continuation of education. Precisely
therefore ensuring the employment of schoolchildren during the summer holidays
is a priority direction of state policy in the field of
education of children and teenagers. The summer school camp helps
use the period of summer vacation for students to improve their health,
develop physical strength, enrich knowledge and new experiences.
This form of active recreation contributes to the development and cohesion of both the
children’s team and creates the basis for the development of the student’s social
intellect and the application of the experience of interaction in
any team, including in the subsequent educational activities.
Great opportunities are being created for organizing informal communication. The informality of the situation allows organizing and developing the independence of the children, educating personal qualities, shaping activity, teaching a variety of skills and abilities.
This program highlights various forms of
upbringing, educational, developmental activities of children, daily routine,
rights and obligations of camp participants, camp work plan, questions
logistics of these forms.
We see the relevance of this program in the creation of a pedagogical educational environment that promotes the health of children as a vital value and a conscious desire to maintain a healthy lifestyle, in the maximum attention to the development of the child’s personality, the disclosure of his abilities
based on the satisfaction of the interests of the needs unmet at school
(first of all, spiritual, intellectual and motor). Life and work in the health camp is a continuation of the educational process at school. However,
it also has its own characteristics: the temporality of the children’s team, the saturation
of communication and the intensity of joint activities, the dynamism of the detachment’s life. And its main distinguishing feature is the cyclicality and periodization of the
health camp. The two periods of the camp shift differ in their tasks and ways of solving them.
Organizational period (first 3 days).
Purpose: to create conditions for the adaptation of the child to the conditions and requirements of the camp.
Tasks:
acquaintance with camp traditions and laws;
familiarization with the structure of the camp;
introduction to the plot of the game;
familiarization with the plan of the camp;
laying the foundations of a children’s team;
communication training.
There is a development of role relations, an explanation of the essence and rules of the game.
It is important to pay special attention to creating a favorable psychological climate in the children’s team. At this time, a diagnostic survey of the psychological climate in the detachments is carried out, as well as acquaintance games. The result of the organizational period is the introduction of detachments, the opening of the shift.
Main period.
Purpose: implementation of the program.
Tasks:
strengthening communication skills;
advertisement of healthy lifestyle, active life position;
realization of leadership potential;
realization of creative, physical and spiritual potentials;
development of various types of activities;
media coverage of the camp,
on the school website.
During this period, the practical implementation of the shift takes place. Units
start building a house, earning their bonuses. This is a period of self-realization in the
game space. Control testing for analysis in progress
psychological climate in the units. It is possible to correct individual
parts of the program if necessary.
Total period.
Purpose: analysis, summarizing the activities of the program participants.
Tasks:
summing up the results of the shift, awarding the winners;
issues of photo newspapers, express newspapers;
organization of analysis of work with children following the results of the shift;
pedagogical analysis of all levels of the shift program.
During this period, it is necessary to take into account the impression that the stay in the
camp left on the children. For this, a survey is carried out. At the end of shift
, the leader unit is determined, and active participants in the camp shift are awarded.
Program concept.
The truth says that only a healthy person with good health
, psychological stability, high morality
is able to live actively, successfully overcoming various difficulties and reaching
success in any activity. Therefore, parents (legal representatives), teachers are concerned about the issues of raising a healthy, physically strong 90,003 90,002 child and developing creative abilities in him.
However, analysis of the health of our school students shows that
more than half of them have various diseases. The most common of these
are: scoliosis, poor posture, impaired vision, etc. It has been proven that if a child is
sick, he cannot devote all his strength to creation, to overcoming
tasks related to creative activities.
The concept of a “healthy lifestyle” must be laid down in childhood. According to
surveys of children, parents of our school, many of them seek salvation in
medicines, underestimating the power of influence on the body and the effectiveness of
factors such as motor activity, hardening, etc.
According to statistics, 69% of children believe that lead a healthy lifestyle
, the rest do not attach much importance to this issue. However
all students of our school believe that health is important for the future generation.
Considering all of the above, the teaching staff of the summer health camp
at the school sets the following goals and objectives: intellectual development,
physical, creative potential of camp pupils.
The basic content of education is the classical,
-oriented familiarization with national culture and history, the formation of a creative individuality, the development of an individual’s aesthetic culture.
Priorities are given to the patriotic, sports and recreational, moral and aesthetic direction, creative, leisure.
Patriotic
This direction includes all events bearing
patriotic, historical and cultural character. The events of this
direction should instill in children patriotism, love for their native land,
a sense of pride in their country, in its history and culture.
Sports and recreation
This direction includes camp events that promote a healthy lifestyle. Various meetings, excursions, competitions, competitive programs in physical culture, life safety, anti-terror briefings,
fire safety, traffic regulations, first aid. With the help of sports and physical education in the camp, the tasks of physical education are solved: health promotion, physical development of children.
With a creative approach to business, you can diversify, make the most ordinary morning exercises exciting.
Moral and aesthetic
This direction reflects the moral and aesthetic education of
children. Various activities in this area contribute to the development of
children a sense of responsibility, reliability, honesty, caring and respect
in relation to themselves, to other people and to the task assigned, as well as
a sense of beauty, respect for nature.
Creative
This is one of the important areas of the program. It contributes to the creative
development of children and their initiative. It is necessary to create all conditions in the camp
for the implementation of this direction, because. activities of this
and socialization of the child in life. All activities in this area
are of a practical nature. There is no better form of familiarizing a child with knowledge than play. Firstly, the game acts as an independent creative
activity of education, upbringing, training, allowing children
to acquire knowledge, skills, develop their intended qualities and
abilities (for this purpose, didactic games are used,
Secondly, it is a form of communication between adults and children, a way of educational
influence on the individual and the team.
Third – a method of stimulating the interest and creativity of children’s activity in
other activities.
Fourthly, the game is a way to create an emotional and aesthetic
background for the life of the children’s team.
Leisure
Summer is a time for rest, and therefore a properly organized
leisure time plays an important role. It is in this activity that children are emotionally liberated, they make 90,003 90,002 new friends. It is necessary that all events in this direction be
cheerful, emotional, energetic, short, and informative.
This area is directly related to other areas of the program.
Principles of organization of summer holidays and employment of schoolchildren:
the principle of natural conformity – taking into account age characteristics,
gender differences, individual needs in determining the forms of
summer holidays
the principle of success and support is the creation of conditions for voluntariness and
choice – giving the child the opportunity to choose the form of summer vacation and employment, based on his personal needs and interests, in accordance with his own desire.
the principle of resource maximization – means that during preparation and
the implementation of the program will use all the possibilities
(material and technical, personnel, financial, psychological and
pedagogical, etc.) for the most successful, optimal
solution of the set tasks.
Priority value orientations
can be achieved if the following conditions are met:
providing a variety of different activities in the course of the operation of the health camp;
organization of socially significant activities that favor
enrichment of the child’s personal value experience and his socialization;
ensuring the safety of life of participants
health camp;
support for creativity and initiative of children and adolescents;
development of independence, self-management skills of pupils.
Leading values in the organization of recreation and employment of children and
teenagers during the summer period are:
physical rehabilitation of schoolchildren;
preservation and strengthening of emotional and psychological health
pupils;
development of the intellectual sphere, the creative potential of children and
adolescents;
promoting the socialization of students through the organization and conduct of
social trials.
Program objectives:
Cover as many children as possible with organized forms of recreation and
employment.
Organize recreation and employment for children of “socially unprotected categories”.
Provide an increase in the project coverage of students at risk
organized forms of work and recreation.
Facilitate the maximum involvement of participants in the
children’s day camp in building their own
spatial-subject environment; solution of communicative
problems of pupils.
Preserve and improve children’s health.
To ensure the prevention of child road traffic injuries
during the summer period, the prevention of crime, tobacco smoking through the
system of events organized by the summer recreation camp
.
Predicted result:
maintaining and increasing the number of schoolchildren covered by organized forms of work and recreation at the level of summer vacation in 2016;
ensuring the continuity of the process of education and upbringing;
increase in the percentage of students at risk covered by organized forms of employment;
minimizing the possibility of children committing offenses in the
summer period;
the participation of schoolchildren attending a children’s daytime health camp at the school in building their spatial and object environment;
decrease in the percentage of children participating in a summer recreation camp who have problems in communicating with peers with a level of summer recreation of
2016;
ensuring the safety of life and health of children and adolescents during the implementation of the program
– no cases of injuries, child road traffic injuries.
Diagnostic methods:
Questionnaire at the “entrance” (starting) and its analysis.
Questionnaire at the “exit” and a comparative analysis with the starting one at the entrance.
Anthropometric studies of children.
The program is designed for children 7-15 years old.
Implementation period: 21 days – 1st shift, 21 days – 2nd shift.
Mechanisms for the implementation of the program:
1. Work with teaching staff
2nd shift
Camp leader –.
– educator
health worker
The health and development of children largely depends on knowledge,
skills and preparedness for the work of adults who organize
the life of the day camp at the school.
Experienced teachers of the school,
medical worker,
health worker, teacher-librarian, life safety teacher, who have been instructed in organizing work with children in the summer, participate in the implementation of the program.
1.2. Holding a briefing meeting to familiarize with the duties of each employee of the camp.
1.3. Development of a camp life program, establishment of a schedule (routine)
camp work.
1.4. Conducting meetings with the school administration on the organization of the
summer campaign in 2017.
1.5. Familiarization of the teaching staff with the regulatory documents
regulating the activities of the camp.
1.6. Conducting daily instructional and methodological meetings for
solving current production issues and correcting the actions of
teaching staff.
2. Medical support
2. 1. Organization of medical support for children:
– monitoring the health status of children, evaluating the effectiveness of preventive and health-improving measures;
– organization of preventive examinations;
– control over sanitary and hygienic conditions;
2.2. Control over the organization of physical education and hardening:
– morning exercises
– sunbathing;
– air baths;
– health gravel path.
2.3 Nutrition:
– control over the state of actual nutrition and analysis of the quality and calorie content of nutrition;
– menu preparation;
– scrapping of finished products;
– control over the fulfillment of natural norms;
– control over the sanitary and hygienic state of the catering unit;
– vitaminization of drinks, daily routine.
3. Educational work in the detachment
The detachment in the day camp is the main way of organizing
joint activities of children, a means of including them in the system of social
connections and relationships, the accumulation of experience in these relationships.
In the detachment a child can feel his importance, show
individuality, creativity.
The sphere of leisure creates quite comfortable conditions for revealing the creative potential of children. Instead of guardianship – the community of teachers and children.
Requirements for the teacher’s work plan:
– Taking into account the interests and needs of children in the detachment;
– Variety of content, forms, methods of educational activities;
– Systematism, consistency in the selection of activities;
– Reality of plans;
– Consistency of the detachment plan with the general camp plan.
– The work plan for each day is adjusted according to the weather and the interests of the children.
4. Organization of life in the camp.
Day-stay health camp shift I and II shift is designed for 21 working days.
Children of the 1st and 2nd shifts are in the day camp from 8.30. until 14.30. hours.
5. Day regimen of the summer health camp with day stay at school
.
1. Reception of children 08.30. – 09.00.
2. Charging, organizational line 09.00. – 09.25.
3. Breakfast 09.25. – 10.15.
4. Conversations, briefings, health moments. Squad affairs 10.15. – 11.00.
5. Wellness block: walk;
outdoor games 11.00. – 11.30.
6. Hobby classes 11.30. – 12.00.
7. Preparation for the general camp event 12.00. – 12.30.
8. All-camp event 12.30. – 13.30.
9. . Lunch 13.30. – 14.00.
10. Rest. Summing up, leaving home 14.00.-14.30.
Every day there is an all-camp meeting, which sums up the results of the previous day of the camp. News about life in the camp is reported. A work plan for the coming day is given. Each child has the opportunity to express their opinion about the events of the past day, to report news, wishes, congratulations.
The system of medical and preventive work
in the day camp at the school.
The camp has a nurse who provides the necessary medical examinations and medical assistance.
The plan of the camp provides for daily sports hours, sports competitions, tournaments, olympiads.
Morning, developing, entertaining exercises are held daily. Outdoor games are provided in the open air and in the gym. Each child has a personal towel, soap, shoes for the gym.
Catering services
(including therapeutic and prophylactic components).
Complete, balanced meals (2 meals a day) for children are organized in the school canteen.
System for informing the public about the activities of the camp, interaction with the media.
1. Placement on the school website of an analytical report, a presentation on the activities of LOL in 2017.
2. Report in the form of a presentation “Summer 2017” at the school-wide parent meeting in September 2017.
3. Analytical report on the results of the work of LOL in 2017 to the regional newspaper “New Life”.
Preventive measures
and measures to prevent emergency situations,
protect the life of children in the summer
Instructions for children:
“Fire safety rules”;
“Rules of conduct for children during walks and hikes”;
“Rules for traveling in motor vehicles”;
“Child safety during sporting events”;
“Rules of the road”;
“Rules for safe behavior at water bodies and assistance to victims on the water.”
« Antiterror. Memo for schoolchildren.
Conversations conducted by a medical worker:
“If you want to be healthy, temper yourself!”;
“My height, my weight”;
“How to protect your eyes?”;
“On the dangers of drugs, smoking, drinking alcohol. ”
Laws and rights of the camp.
Law “Our name is a detachment!” The detachment lives and works according to the camp program and daily routine.
Law “Healthy lifestyle!” Take care of your health.
Purity and beauty law. Observe personal hygiene, keep personal belongings and received camp property clean and tidy. Treat camp property with care.
Respect Law. If you want to be respected, treat others with respect.
Territory Law. Do not leave camp without permission. Be the master of your camp and remember that there are neighbors nearby: do not interfere with each other.
Law “Green”. Not a single broken branch. Let’s keep our camp green!
Right hand law. If the leader raises his right hand, everyone falls silent.
The Hand of Silence Law. If a person raises his hand, he needs to tell people something very important, so everyone who raises his hand has a word!
Law “For your detachment”. Always and everywhere try to stand up for the honor of the detachment. Never compromise it in the eyes of others. Since it depends on everyone what the detachment will be, then make every effort to improve it.
Law “00”. Time is precious with us: take care of every hour. In order not to be late, if you please, follow the law 00.
Law “Daily schedule”. No one in the camp can violate the routine (be late for exercises, general camp fees).
Motor Law. Down with boredom!
Endurance Law. Be patient.
Friendship Law. One for all and all for one! And stand up for your friends!
Law “Creativity”. Create always, create everywhere, create for the joy of people!
Rights.
The right to security of life.
The right to respect the individual.
The right to creative creation.
The right of knowledge.
The right to freedom of choice of activity.
The right to free communication.
Right to information.
The right to take the initiative.
The right to be happy.
The right to be wrong.
KTD: Competition for the best emblem, learning the motto, chants.
KTD: Competition-visiting card of the groups “Musical Postcard”.
KTD: Drawing competition “Guess the fairy tale”.
KTD: The work of creative workshops “Paper fantasy”.
KTD: “We are for a healthy lifestyle!” Campaign “No to bad habits”. Speech by propaganda teams.
KTD: Contest of crafts made from natural materials “Gifts of the Forest”.
KTD: “Wonderland – a country of talents” (minute of fame).
KTD: “Laughter” holiday. Cartoon competition.
KTD: Competition of groups “Big Dances” (dance marathon).
KTD: In the country of “Multi-remote” (dramatization of your favorite cartoon).
KTD: Festive concert “Rainbow of School Talents” (closing of the shift).
The main content of the Mir around you program
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Brief description
9000 1
9000 3 this is the right way.
Tobacco prevention talks. alcoholism, drug addiction.
Carrying out morning exercises, sun and
air baths.
Outdoor water treatments, health gravel path.
Organization of mass sports events, competitions.
C-vitaminization of third courses.
2
We are patriots.
Meeting dedicated to the beginning of the Great Patriotic War at the monument.
Folk games (“Burners”, “Russian lapta”, “Zhmurki”). Quizzes: “How do you know your area, region.”
3
Talent rainbow.
Do not be afraid to create and improvise!
Creative workshops, competitive events.
Organization of entertaining game exercises, festivals, competitions.
Interest associations.
Reviews of children’s artistic activities.
Disclosure of the talents and abilities of each child through participation in creative, intellectual games.
Drawing competition.
4
Cognitive
Day of Russia.
Visit to the regional museum of the city of
Bagrationovsk.
Quiz “Symbols of Russia”.
Route games. Operation “Clean Yard”
Ecological landings.
Self-service work.
Self-administration camp.
The camp council is a children’s executive body of self-government, consisting of representatives of the children’s collective. It meets once a day, sums up the results of the day, exchanges information, prepares general KTD, controls the work of the detachments during the day.
Information Bureau – collects information about the life of the detachments, publishes newspapers, develops the design of events.
Health Council – organizes morning exercises, sports competitions and events.
At the end of each day, the teams choose the leader of the day who was the most active, the most creative, the most attentive, etc. Each unit at the end of the day receives a bonus (emblem) for participating in a camp-wide event.
All Star Growth results are summed up at the end of the shift, followed by the assignment of titles and awards.
Program logistics.
1. Availability of specially equipped premises for recreation and holding various events:
– detachment rooms;
– assembly hall;
– gym.
2. Presence of a specially equipped area for games:
– football field;
– volleyball court;
– treadmill;
– basketball court;
3. Availability of sports equipment, various games, stationery.
4. Availability of a medical office and first aid kit.
5. Availability of technical equipment (music center, TV, DVD).
6. Availability of a canteen for children.
7. The presence of a stand to reflect all the activities of the camp.
8. Drinking water supply.
Thematic planning
summer recreation camp with children’s day stay at the school
“The World Around You”
1st shift
1 day
Comfort operation, safety briefings.
Anthropometry “My height, my weight” (medical examination).
Concert program “Planet of Childhood”,
Children’s Day (together with the recreation center of the village of Nivenskoye).
Questioning at the “entrance”.
Day 2
Minute of health “Your daily routine during the holidays.”
Fantasy Day: Let’s create comfort in our squad.
Competition for the best emblem, learning the motto, chants.
Game – adaptation of “Let’s get to know each other”.
Small Olympic Games.
“To be friends with physical culture is to be healthy!”
Squad affairs – “Let’s get to know each other.”
Day 3
Minute of health “Friends of Moydodyr are my friends”.
Competition-business card of the groups “Musical Postcard”.
“Fun Starts”.
Squad affairs – “Laughing”.
Day 4
A moment of health. Conversations on the rules of the road.
Health Day. Competitive game program “Call of the Jungle”.
Squad affairs – “The ABC of security. Antiterror”.
Day 5
Minute of health “Green Pharmacy”.
ONE DAY dedicated to the birthday of the great poet
Russia AS Pushkin.
Quiz “Through the pages of your favorite fairy tales”
Competition of drawings (based on the pages of fairy tales), readers (excerpts from the works of A.S. Pushkin).
Workshop on building evacuation in case of emergency.
Detachment affairs – “Small Hermitage” (drawing competition on asphalt).
Day 6
Conversation “Law and Order” (on offenses and responsibility for crimes of minors).
Pathfinder game. Trekking in the village of Vladimirovo (Kirkha Tarau)
7th day
Health minute “Body hygiene”.
Sports and entertainment game “Health Island” (stadium in Nivenskoye village).
Day 8
06/09/2016
Conversation “The dangers that await us in the forest”.
The work of creative workshops “Paper fantasy”.
Squad affairs – “Lessons of empathy-sympathy.”
Day 9
Conversation “Beware of ticks!”.
Physical culture and health hour “To be the first in sports, you must love sports!”.
Operation Clean Yard.
Squad affairs – “Queen – Voditsa”.
Day 10
Minute of health “Hardening”.
Day of Russia (concert program).
Quiz “Symbols of Russia”.
Squad affairs – “The earth is our home.”
11day
Minute of health “Poisonous mushrooms and berries”.
Quiz “How do I know my district, region”. A trip to the museum of Bagrationovsk.
Squad affairs – “History of Cinema”.
Day 12
A moment of health “So that the sun does not become an enemy.”
“Kaleidoscope of nature” (environmental route game-travel to the Prokhladnaya River).
Squad affairs – “Collage of friendship”.
13day
A moment of health. “First Aid for Burns”.
A trip to Kaliningrad “To the places of military glory”. Detachment affairs – “The diversity of plants in our area”
Day 14
A moment of health “Hardening”.
Trip to the sea.
Day 15
Road safety talk.
Competition of groups “Big dances” (dance marathon).
Health Day. Funny starts “Strong, dexterous, courageous.”
Squad affairs – “Forest fires”.
Day 16
Conversation “Rules of conduct on the water”.
In the country “Multi-remote” (playing your favorite cartoon).
Quiz “Study and take care of your native nature.”
Squad affairs – Quiz “Between stars and galaxies”0825
Conversations about the dangers of smoking, alcohol, drugs “How to say no to alcohol, smoking and drugs!”.
Squad affairs.
Anthropometry “My height and my weight”.
Questionnaire about satisfaction with the camp shift.
Day 18
Trip to Svetlogorsk. TV instruction. Memo anti-terror.
Festive concert “Rainbow of School Talents”.
Day 19
Competition of handicrafts made from natural materials “Gifts of the Forest”.
Competition “Miss and Mister SUMMER-2017”.
Folk games: “Burners”, “Blind Man’s Bluff”, “Lapta”.
Day 20
“We are for a healthy lifestyle!” Campaign “No to bad habits”. Speech by propaganda teams.
Competition program “Wonderland – a country of talents” (minute of fame). Preparing to close the camp.
Day 21
Meeting “Day of Memory and Sorrow”. Closing of the camp.
thematic planning
Summer Highlighting camp with daytime stay at school
“World around you”
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9000 1DEN
1. LAMP Safety training in the camp. Memo anti-terror.
2. A holiday of cheerful meetings.
3. Operation “COMFORT”. Decorating squad rooms.
4. Questioning at the “entrance”.
5. Anthropometry “My height, my weight”.
Day 2
1. “Spark” (Elections of self-government bodies).
2. “Space relay race”.
3. Contest of drawings on asphalt “The World of Childhood”.
Squad affairs.
Day 3
1. Competitive program “Glade of Games”.
2. Revival of Slavic traditions “I will make a wreath”,
competition of bouquets and wreaths.
3. Outdoor games at the stadium. Squad affairs.
Day 4
Animal diversity quiz.
3. Campaign “Clean Yard”.
4. Fairy-tale sports relay race.
Squad affairs.
Day 5
1. Journey to a fairy tale.
2. “Parade of fairy-tale heroes”.
3. Quiz “Visiting a fairy tale”.
4. Treasure hunt game.
Day 6
1.Small Olympics. Under the motto: “We are for a healthy lifestyle”, the championship of the camp in various sports. Stadium p. Nivenskoe.
Day 7
“The ABC of road safety” (route game).
Trip to Svetlogorsk. TV instruction. Memo anti-terror
Day 8
1. Red, yellow, green game.
2. Bicycle relay “Track”.
3. Drawing up plans – routes “From home to school”.
4. Detachment affairs.
Day 9
1. Conversation “Tolerance among the youth” (presentation).
2. Campaign “Polite word”.
3. Workshop “Souvenir”.
4. Detachment affairs.
Day 10
1. Quiz “What do you know about your country?”
2. Contest of drawings on asphalt “My small Motherland”.
3. Mini-football competition.
Squad affairs
Day 11
1. Conversation on TB “Caution, fire!”.
2. Practical lesson on the evacuation of detachments from the school.
3. Watching children’s videos.
Squad affairs.
Day 12
1. Toon parade.
2. Watching cartoons.
3. Drawing contest “Drawing a fairy tale”.
4. Detachment affairs.
Day 13
1. Safety briefing.
2. A trip to the cinema in Kaliningrad.
Squad affairs.
Day 14
Hiking in the forest. Collection of medicinal herbs
Detachment affairs.
Day 15
Road safety talk.
Competition of groups “Big dances” (dance marathon).
Health Day. Funny starts “Strong, dexterous, courageous.”
2. A trip to the local history museum in Kaliningrad.
Squad affairs.
21 days
Closing of the camp shift. A trip to the city of Svetlogorsk.
Scenario musical activities for the summer camp. Scenario of a thematic event for a summer camp. The teacher offers several competitions
Riddles, crosswords and creative tasks about music
What other musical instruments do you know? Try to guess these musical riddles.
Music riddles
You will take it in your hands,
You will stretch it, then you will squeeze it.
Ringing, elegant,
Russian two-row.
Will play, just touch it.
What is her name?… (accordion).
She is glad to play with you,
Invites you to dance!
Oh, she is ringing, she is ringing,
Makes everyone happy!
Only three strings
She needs it for music.
Who is she? Guess
This is our… (balalaika).
Balalaika, balalaika,
Have fun playing!
Sings very merrily
You all play it
And you will guess right away.
Doo-doo, doo-doo-doo, yes-yes-yes, yes-yes!
This is how she always sings.
Not a stick, not a tube,
What is it? … (pipe).
3. Petrova
On a piece of paper, on a page
Either dots or birds.
Everyone sits on the ladder
And they chirp songs. (Notes.)
Smooth bow movements
The strings tremble,
The motive murmurs from afar,
Sings about the moonlit evening.
Wooden girlfriends
They dance on the top of his head,
They beat him, and he rattles –
Tells everyone to step in step. (Drum.)
He has a pleated shirt,
He likes to squat
He dances and sings –
If it gets into his hands.
A dreamy motive sounds,
How clear is the overflow of sounds.
There is joy and a smile in them
Her name is… (violin).
Forty buttons on it
With mother-of-pearl fire.
Each instrument
Has both strings and a pedal.
What is it? Undoubtedly,
This is our glorious … (piano).
B. Zakhoder
Do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si –
Sparrows have arrived.
They sat on my notebook
And they sang the melody (notes).
Triangular case,
Well, try and guess?
This is our (balalaika).
It will shine in the sun,
It will buzz with a gentle sound.
The very first one in jazz –
Silver… (saxophone).
Intelligence tasks
If you look closely and listen, you can find the presence of music literally everywhere and everywhere.
1. Find the presence of music in the objects around you.
Hint: salt , ko la ska, to horns, f ry, la gushka, re ka, si re n, re pa, up mino, midor each , houses k, k la ks, si ha re ta, fa goth, pemok sol , beans , mi xtura, re mont and others.
2. Think of six famous great singers, musicians or composers whose last names begin with the letter “Sh”. Write them in “sunshine”.
3. Solve the secret of this amazing flower. The incomparable flower is incomparable because it contains the famous names of great composers, whose names begin with the letter “B”.
5. Did Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin become famous as a talented chemist or an outstanding Russian composer?
Answer: A talented professor of chemistry, doing scientific work at the Medical and Surgical Academy, entered the history of Russian classical music as an outstanding composer and founder of one of the musical trends – epic symphonism (he wrote the epic opera “Prince Igor”),
6. In the name of This world-famous composer is named one of the most delicious cakes.
Answer: Georges Bizet (1838-1875) – an outstanding French composer, author of the opera Carmen.
7. The names of musical instruments are hidden among the letters. Try to find them. (Words are arranged in a straight line in any direction.)
Answer: Harp. Guitar. Drum. Pipe. Violin. Piano.
8. This is a Russian folk song based on repeated repetition of a small couplet. The rhythm is clear and danceable. It is usually accompanied by playing the balalaika or harmonica. At all times enjoys great popularity among the people.
Hint: this word is derived from the word frequent, i.e. repeated many times…
Answer: Paganini.
11. A well-known guitarist, our contemporary and compatriot, a talented improviser and performer of classical works in his own arrangements.
Answer: Zinchuk (Viktor Zinchuk).
12. Finish the sentence with a semantic rhyming word:
As is known from the newspapers,
London. .. (quartet) is coming to us.
Famous symphonic quartet
At the Philharmonic he gives only one… (concert).
Who wants to go to…. (concert)?
I have an extra… (ticket).
One day at the edge of the forest
Animals started a concert.
The blacksmith-violinist played a rhapsody.
Applause caused … (flurry).
They danced the dance “Cossack”
Beauty fly and … (cricket).
Shy, gloomy rhinoceros,
Suddenly emboldened, he read his… (monologue).
Two cute frogs
Performed for everyone… (chastushki).
He cheered the animals and the cockroach,
He performed with his relatives… (can-can).
Terribly fat hippopotamus Tore himself from laughter… (stomach).
And the stork even shed a tear: “I haven’t had such fun for a long time… (had fun)]..”
E. Arsenina – a fragment of the poem “Amazing Concert”
Leaders exit.
1st leader.
Hello my friends,
We are glad to meet you.
Who is not here in the hall!
We send greetings to all of you now.
2nd leader.
We are glad to start our holiday,
We will sing and dance.
And the song contest is here, friends,
I declare it open.
1st leader.
Dear guys! Today we have a Song Contest. You all prepared for this competition in advance. We will choose the best performers, the best dancers. In this we rely on our jury. (Jury presentation)
2nd leader . Now we will draw lots with the participants. (A lot is being drawn.)
1st presenter . So let’s start our concert.
2nd leader.
Everyone knows this song.
Both adults and children sing it.
Because with such a song
It is interesting to live, my friends, in this world.
I will now remind you of the words,
What you will immediately recognize without error:
“A river begins from a blue stream,
Well, friendship starts with a smile. ”
The phonogram of the song “Smile” is turned on and those present sing it together.
1st leader . And now the participants are speaking. Let’s welcome them.
The concert part is in progress. At the end, the results are summarized. The winners are awarded.
Musical kaleidoscope. Scenario for schoolchildren I. Introductory speech. Leader. Hello guys! Do you like music? What does music consist of? (from notes) How many notes are there? (seven notes) These seven notes make up the scale. Our task is to compose this scale. To do this, you need to complete seven tasks. Ready? For each correct answer you will receive a musical token. The one with the most tokens, , is the winner. We answer, only by raising his hand. Your teachers will be my assistants. They will tell which of you raised your hand first. II. Competitive program. 1. Contest “Guess the melody”. Leader. You need to guess 10 melodies. (I hang a note) 2. Competition “Sing a song according to the proposed picture.” Leader. I will show pictures: raspberry, school, watch, apple. According to them, the participants of must remember and sing a few lines of songs. 3. Competition “Song by prompt”. Leader. The third note is in front of you, Guess the songs yourself. Teams need to sing a song according to the prompt: 1. A song about a long journey of a little girl in a bright hat {“If it’s too long…”). 2. A song about a spirit that lived in a swamp and helped build a flying ship (“I am a water, I am a water …”). 3. A song about a strange toy that no one noticed (“I used to be a strange wooden toy…”). 4. A song about an African island where life is easy and simple (“Chungachanga”).
4. Competition “Auction of songs with names”. Leader. The fourth note is in front of you, It is dedicated to songs with names. Teams need to perform 12 lines from songs in which any name is mentioned. 5. Competition “Changeling”. Leader. Here is the fifth note, And a new work is waiting for you. Changelings turn, Guess them, people! You must answer: what song is “hidden” behind the changeling? 1. Pink truck flies, oscillates. (The blue car runs, sways.) 2. The blizzard told him a poem: get up, cactus, ruyzhui. (The snowstorm sang a song to her: sleep, Christmas tree, bye-bay.) 3. There were locusts on the tree. (A grasshopper was sitting in the grass.) 4. Past the black peach of the sun. (Past the white apple of the moon…) 5. “Let motorists walk deftly on dry asphalt” (“Let pedestrians run clumsily through puddles”) spaces”) 6. Competition “Clip”. Leader. Here is note six in front of you, There is a new task in it. Now I will turn on the soundtrack, and all of you together should show the clip at her. 1 Shorter 2. I’ll forget your favorite name 7. Competition “Musical riddles”. Leader. The seventh note is also for you, We will open it now. “Musical riddles”.
1. Seven vociferous girlfriends, Seven silver bells Live together merrily Songs are sung loudly (notes) 2. He stands on three legs, Black himself in black boots Teeth are white (5, the pedal 90… ) 3. She has her whole soul wide open, And even though there are buttons – not a shirt Not a turkey, but puffing up And not a bird, but pouring (harmonica) 4. Here are the keys, like on a piano, But for them to play, For the song to be good, Furs need to be stretched (accordion) 5. Dad has a six-string one, Its tuning is a difficult task. And, so as not to upset dad, We better not tune it. (guitar) 6. Three strings, plays loudly That instrument is a cocked hat. Find out quickly, What is this? (balalaika) 7. Release the hammers On the iron leaves And a cheerful ringing flies. What’s ringing? (metallophone) 8. A team of musicians that play together, And they perform music together Sometimes it is stringed and wind, Variety, folk and any other. (orchestra) 9. I’ll take the stage in the twilight I’ll go out in an elegant tailcoat I’ll wave a thin stick The violins will pour The harpist will shake the string The pipes will respond How the orchestra plays nicely! Well, I’m the most important in it! (conductor) 10. Which instrument’s name contains the two terms “loud” and “quiet”? (Piano.)
Holiday script for the camp “Hello, sunny summer”
Scenario for 1 day of summer for a children’s camp. An interesting and fun story for kids. Poems and many songs, fun games for schoolchildren. Actors: two presenters, children – readers. What is needed in preparation: to learn songs and poems with children, organize teams, decorate the stage.
Day of humor at the children’s camp
Scenario of the Day of Humor in the children’s camp. An interesting and fun story for kids. Poems and many songs, fun games for schoolchildren. Characters: presenter, teams of children. What you need in preparation: props – paper and cardboard, pens, headscarves, plastic bottles, hoops, cell phones, Chinese hats, cardboard thermometers.
Camp opening script
Scenario for opening a camp shift in a children’s school camp. An oath of allegiance to the camp, other interesting rituals aimed at strengthening friendship between children. Characters: two presenters, children. What is needed in preparation: children need to draw posters, emblems of their squad, come up with a motto, squad name, squad song.
Scenario of the Dating Day in the camp
An event for the first day at the camp, when the children are not yet familiar with each other, the teachers and the laws of the camp. Dating games for schoolchildren to get to know each other in a playful way. Characters: educators, children. What is needed in preparation: educators must prepare props for games, conduct briefings for children.
Scenario for the summer recreation camp “Mysteries of Summer”
Scenario of an event in a health-improving school camp for children from 7 to 10 years old, which takes place in an interesting form of travel through imaginary stations. Actors: presenters for each station, teams. What is needed in preparation: preparation and execution of assignments; venues; formation of teams, jury; card making.
Scenario of the event dedicated to June 1 – Children’s Day in the children’s camp. On this day, children are told about the holiday. Collective games for children in the camp. Characters: presenter, cat Basilio and Fox Alice. What is needed in preparation: props for games, prizes, decoration of the room, costumes of fairy-tale characters.
Scenario for children’s day in the camp “Holiday of childhood”
Scenario of a game performance dedicated to the International Children’s Day. It is desirable to hold this event on the street, where book exhibitions and playgrounds are equipped. Characters: presenter, clowns, artist, Uncle Styopa, Fiona, Fiona’s assistants 2-3 girls, robot – Palamarchuk. What is needed in preparation: props for games, costumes of heroes, equipment of the room.
Scenario for kindergarten or school camp on the theme of the holiday – Children’s Day. Held on the street. Children led by funny presenters play games, guess riddles. Characters: Vraka-Zabiyaka, Clown Smeshinkin (performed by adults). What is needed in preparation: costumes of heroes – hosts, props for games.
Scenario for the camp of the summer music and sports festival “Long live the children of the whole planet”
Scenario for an outdoor sports event for a children’s camp. The holiday is held on the street, the children are divided into teams and participate in outdoor games. Characters: presenter, grandmother, two girls. What you need in preparation: a site beautifully decorated with balloons, ribbons, flags, props for games.
Scenario for the summer camp “Sun Festival”
The scenario of the holiday of the Sun for the children’s camp is ideal to unite and make friends with children. Games, riddles, interesting facts from the Sun. Actors: leader. What is needed in preparation: the design of the site with many “suns”, the “Sunny Bunny” costume, music, a poster with quiz questions about the sun.
Scenario of the event for the summer camp “Day of Miracles”
Scenario of a fun and interesting holiday for a children’s camp. According to scenario 2, teams of children must find a magic tree using a map fragment. Characters: presenter, Baba Yagi, Basilio the cat, Alice’s fox. What is needed in preparation: buy bananas according to the number of children participating and hang them on a tree, prepare maps and tasks for teams, costumes of heroes.
Scenario “Day of liars” in the summer camp
Scenario for a very fun holiday at the school summer camp “Day of Liars”. The holiday develops the imagination and creativity of children. Fun games and contests. Actors: two leading, two liars. What is needed in preparation: the day before, each squad must compose an implausible funny story about life in the camp for the competition. You will also need props for competitions, fun music.
Scenario of the competition program for the summer camp “The Best”
The Scenario of the competition program “The most – the most” is ideal for entertaining children at the school summer camp. Competitions should evaluate both intellectual and sporting achievements of children, erudition, ingenuity. Characters: two presenters, jury. What you need in preparation: awards for the winners, props for competitions, fun music.
Scenario of the holiday “Creativity Day” in the summer camp
Scenario of a very interesting holiday for the summer camp of schoolchildren. Creative competitions in the nominations “Dancers”, “Fashion Designers”, “Writers”, “Artists”, “Poets” should help each child to show his talent. Actors: leading. What is needed in preparation: task sheets for each squad, props for creative competitions, awards for winners, music for a dance competition.
Game scenario for the summer camp “Polundra”
Scenario of a fun outdoor game for a summer school camp. The essence of the game is for teams to go through competitions and as a result reach a place where a large box of sweets is hidden for the winners. Actors: leading. What is needed in preparation: tasks for teams, props for competitions, sweets, music. The game can be played both outdoors and indoors.
Scenario of a patriotic holiday for the Day of Russia for a summer school camp. Beautiful poems and songs about Russia. It is good if the children read their own poems about the Motherland. Characters: presenters, readers of poems. What is needed in preparation: learn songs and poems, decorate the hall with flags and balloons in the color of the Russian flag, set tables and chairs.
Summer camp closing scenario
Scenario for closing the shift at the summer camp “Welcome from Opposites!”. A fun holiday perfect for children saying goodbye to camp. Characters: 2 buffoons, presenter, Padishah, translator, gardener, nurse. What is needed in preparation: compose poems, ditties or songs about each counselor, educator, etc., hand out words in advance, because. they are quite complex.
Scenario of a disco with competitions in a school camp
Script for a fun disco at a summer school camp. Dance and other competitions at the disco will make it more interesting for the participants. Characters: disco host, fishermen. What is needed for preparation: costumes of fishermen, props for competitions, awards for winners, musical equipment.
Scenario of the dating holiday at the opening of the school camp
This scenario of a dating holiday is proposed to be held in the “light” format at the opening of the school camp. The purpose of the holiday is to let the children get to know each other, to create an atmosphere of trust in the camp. Actors: presenter, counselors. What is needed in preparation: cardboard stars with questions for children, come up with chants.
Scenario of the Olympic Games in the summer camp “Faster, Higher, Stronger”
Scenario for a sports event for a school summer camp that can be held like the Olympic Games. Sports competitions, competitions, interesting facts about the Olympics. Characters: leading, Prometheus, Zeus. What you need in preparation: props and sports equipment for sports, awards for winners, music.
Scenario for the opening of a school camp shift for children 7 – 10 years old
This scenario for the opening of a shift at a school camp is suitable for younger students – children 7 – 10 years old. The purpose of the holiday is to give children the opportunity to get to know each other, to express themselves. Games, riddles for children. Actors: leader. What you need in preparation: props for competitions and games.
Scenario for the opening of the camp shift with the participation of life-size puppets
This scenario of opening a shift at a summer camp is quite time-consuming, but very bright and interesting. Games, competitions, riddles for children, the presentation of counselors, a story about the camp. Actors: 2 leading, life-size puppets: Baba – Yaga, Cat, Hare, Tiger. Hut. What you need in preparation: Costumes of life-size puppets, musical records, refreshments, T-shirts for counselors.
Scenario of the concert of counselors at the opening of the shift in the camp
The concert of counselors will be a good event at the opening of the shift in the summer camp. Children will be able to learn more about their counselors and make friends with them. You need to finish the concert with an evening gathering of the detachment. Characters: counselors, children. What is needed in preparation: costumes for counselors, stars for presentation to children.
Scenario of the solemn line for the opening of the shift in the camp
Usually the opening of the camp begins with a solemn line. We offer a script for the line with the removal of the flag of Russia and the welcoming words of the camp leadership to the children.
Baby Drooling? 5 Revealing Things About Your (Adorable) Drooling Monster
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Bibs aren’t just for meal time! By the time your baby is around two months old, you may find yourself with more and more soggy blankets, drool rags, and onesies. Sure, non-stop drool can be messy, but it’s not just a slick, slippery hassle—infant saliva serves some very important purposes in your little one’s development. Here are some of the burning questions we’ve heard about drool, and the, ahem, easy-to-digest answers:
1. I swear the drool started coming out of my baby overnight. What gives?
Researchers believe a baby’s excess drool production is connected to a developing digestive system—so the appearance of drool is likely a sign that your baby’s digestive system is in full development mode. Great! Saliva is vital for digestion—which is why your mouth waters when you smell a delicious dinner on the stove. While drool can be, well, wet, that saliva protects your babies’ gut and may also protect her toys and other objects with disease-preventing proteins and antibodies. Cool, right?
2. Why does so much drool fall out of my baby’s mouth and onto her shirt?
It’s a matter of muscle. Saliva glands in your mouth produce around 2-4 pints of saliva every day: Adults don’t notice as much because we’re pros at keeping accumulation down by swallowing (and a row of mature teeth act like a dam to keep the flow in). Babies, however, don’t develop full control over their swallowing muscles and the muscles around the mouth until they are between 18 and 24 months. Hence: baby = drool faucet.
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3. I heard an increase in drool means my baby’s teeth are on the way.
According to some, drooling is considered a classic sign that your baby’s teeth are getting ready to push through the gums. But there’s not necessarily a direct connection. While it’s true that drooling is very common for children around 2-3 months old, and typically lasts until a child reaches 12-15 months-s (roughly the same age that teething begins) drooling merely means your baby’s salivary glands are starting to fire up after not being needed as much when eating easy-to-digest milk. When your baby develops motor skills like chewing on her hands, motor receptors in her mouth send signals to the brain to initiate saliva production, a sign that she may be ready to eat. Basically, your baby develops the muscles and digestive saliva just as soon as she needs it to eat solid foods. Amazing!
4. She goes through 8 bibs a day or more. Seriously. Is there anything I can do to stem the drool flow?
While carrying around so many drool-catching bibs may take up more real-estate in your diaper bag, it’s important to remember that drooling, and even an abundance of drool, can be healthy. In his blog on excessive drooling, Dr. William Sears notes that “saliva bathes the teeth and gums, washing away accumulated food and bacteria. ” It helps babies break down food, and does all kinds of good things for the gut. The drool fest should end when all of his teeth are in.
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5. The drool was alright, but the resulting rash has me worried. What can I do?
Sometimes drool can lead to a rash around the mouth, owing to irritation that arises from excess moisture. To keep drool from getting in contact with baby’s skin, do wipe the drool off often with a soft, gently cloth. Because babies drool at night as well, before bed time, apply an moisture barrier ointment around his mouth and cheeks: Your pediatrician can guide you to the creams that are best for your baby, depending on his age.
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Understanding Your Drooling Baby – Playtime Pediatric Dentistry
October 25, 2020
It’s typical for babies to drool throughout the various stages of their oral development. It’s not a guarantee, but your baby will most likely start drooling at about three months of age. Drooling is a good sign, as many researchers say that drooling is a sign of a developing digestive system. You may have a baby that drools a lot, or you may have a baby that drools a little. If your baby is drooling a lot, it could be due to underdeveloped muscles in their mouth. The other cause is as simple as excess saliva production. If excess drooling is a concern, you can visit our office, and we can provide guidance. Continue to read and learn more about understanding your drooling baby.
Understanding Your Drooling Baby and Salivary Glands
We have six salivary glands that produce saliva, and when these glands produce excess saliva, we tend to drool. The saliva glands produce 2-4 pints of saliva every day. Adults have teeth and complete muscle control to keep the saliva from running down our shirts. Your little one will gain control of their swallowing muscles between 18-24 months of age.
Drooling Baby And Developmental Cues
As a parent, you will find yourself looking for developmental cues to make sure your little one is progressing into the next phase. Drooling usually begins at about 2-3 months of age. The first drooling phase lasts until the child reaches 12-15 months of age. Your child is entering the teething stage, which means that drooling will most likely increase. Remember, saliva bathes the teeth and gums, helping wash away excess food and bacteria.
Muscular Development and Baby Development
If your baby is drooling and blowing bubbles, you know that the baby is on track in physical development. In other words, these actions signify that your little one has entered a new stage of growth. If your toddler begins to drool after smelling food, you know that their sense of smell is growing.
Is your child ready to eat solid food?
Look out for when your little one begins to chew on their hands. This is a sign of their motor skill development and that they may be ready for solid food. When your baby chews on their hands, the motor receptors in their mouth signal the brain to begin producing saliva. This is another good sign.
About Saliva Saliva is comprised of enzymes that are useful for the baby to digest semi-solid or solid food. These enzymes help neutralize stomach acid, and saliva helps grow the baby’s intestinal lining completely and protects the lining of the esophagus from irritation. Saliva is sticky and slick and plays a role in binding food together to help swallow.
Your Childs First Dental Exam The Canadian Dental Association recommends scheduling your infant’s first dental appointment at six months of age. At that time, we can answer any questions about drooling and your child’s development. Our goal is to spot any problems right away and help you fix them. Schedule a dental exam for your child.
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Why a baby drools
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After the birth of a baby and as he grows up, something new can be observed in his development every day. It is impossible to ignore the symptoms that are alarming for the mother, for example, increased salivation after the second month of life. The baby drools, which at first does not cause any discomfort to the child, then, after a few days, the salivation becomes more abundant, and the mother has to change clothes more often on the baby. If the child’s chin is constantly under the influence of saliva, then it becomes irritated, inflamed, and then the baby begins to show concern, because irritation and a rash cause him pain. Why the baby drools, and what characterizes this phenomenon, we will consider later in the article.
1. Teeth coming soon!
The main cause of increased salivation in babies is preparing the gums for teething. This period can start from 2 months and continue during the first year and a half of the baby’s life. The teeth can move even in the gum itself and cause pain to the baby. And saliva softens inflamed gums and has an anti-inflammatory effect, as nature itself intended. In this case, you are unlikely to cope with salivation, but you can help the teeth to be born by buying baby teething toys and special teethers, for example, filled with water. They can be cooled in the refrigerator and given to scratch the gums of the child. Pain will be much less intense.
2. Intensive work of the salivary glands.
The salivary glands are not yet fully formed, and during the first year of life they may “test” their work from time to time. There is too much saliva, the baby is not able to swallow it all, and it flows out. Fortunately, such periods are short-lived and are quite rare, but nevertheless they take place.
3. Bacteria control.
From the age of three months, the baby puts rattles in his mouth. And the older you get, the more you want to try “by the teeth”. Any dirty object can cause an unpleasant disease in a child – stomatitis. The body wants to get rid of the causative agent of infection by all means, and since saliva has bactericidal properties, the oral cavity is literally washed by saliva from microbes. Hence the complaints of parents about increased salivation in babies.
4. Hypersalivation.
I would like you to never come across this term in everyday life. In this case, increased salivation may be a sign of a more serious condition. Parents should monitor every change in the behavior and health of the child. It is necessary to consult with a specialist to rule out brain diseases, unequal systems, and the presence of tumors.
Hypersalivation is one of the signs of the disease, usually the primary one, because it is quite difficult to determine the discoordination of movements in infancy, because the baby is still just learning everything. The neurologist and pediatrician will see the picture more clearly, so do not jump to conclusions, but be on the lookout.
What to do and how to help a child with increased salivation?
The fact that the baby is drooling in most cases indicates teething. It is useless to fight this, you cannot influence this process. But to make life more comfortable for yourself and your child – it is quite possible for you too:
so that clothes do not become saturated with saliva, put on special collars with a waterproof lining for your child;
on the street, try to give the baby a pacifier, it will help the baby swallow saliva;
baby’s gums are itchy, so you can massage them with a clean forefinger, gently pressing on the expected teething areas;
gel for gums will cool the inflamed areas, relieve redness and in a couple of seconds the child will be calm and not hurt.
Remember that excessive salivation in a child is a temporary phenomenon, with the eruption of the first main teeth, the child will be much easier and saliva will no longer be released in such a large amount. Wait out this period, and to avoid making false diagnoses, contact a specialist – your local pediatrician. Easy teething to you, be healthy!
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Abundant salivation in infants. Why does excessive salivation occur in a child and how to get rid of it? Increased salivation and nausea
The long-awaited day has come and the baby was born, which was so reverently nurtured under the heart of the mother for 9 months. No one and nothing can burden the joy of motherhood. Constant lack of sleep, care for the little one, cooking, cleaning … All this is nothing compared to the sensations that young parents experience after each cooing and smiling of their baby. What surprise parents are given if their 2-3-month-old baby began to salivate intensely. Bibs have gone to the entrance and everyone is waiting for the first tooth to appear. When does saliva normally begin to flow in children, and why does a two-month-old baby salivate so much?
Why does the baby salivate?
There is an opinion that if a baby is salivating, it means that the first tooth will appear soon. This opinion is not always shared by pediatricians, because pediatrics clearly states that the first tooth in a baby erupts at about 6 months from birth. Let’s look at this issue in more depth. An interesting fact is that the salivary glands have the ability to produce saliva even at the stage of intrauterine development of the fetus. Why does a child drool at such an early age?
When is excessive salivation normal?
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Parents should not be surprised if their beloved baby drools a lot. This is a normal physiological process, conceived by nature itself. Parents should be alerted by the side symptoms that accompany their increased excretion in the little one. Therefore, one should know when such a physiological process should cause an alarming reaction, and when it is the norm and does not require any medical intervention.
Newborn
An increase in salivation can be observed in the first months after birth. In newborns, this process is nothing more than a protective function.
It is the secretion of saliva that can prevent infection from entering the oral cavity in the first weeks after birth.
In addition, saliva has another important function in newborn babies, especially between 2 and 5 months of age. Thanks to special enzymes that are part of saliva, starch is broken down into sugar. This allows the gastrointestinal tract to adapt favorably to a new environment, promotes the proper process of digestion, and normalizes bowel function.
At 1 month
The swallowing reflex in the newborn is not yet fully developed, but the active work of the salivary glands stimulates the production of saliva. The baby at 1 month has not yet learned to swallow, although the young mother notices his swallowing reflex when breastfeeding.
Not understanding what he should do with the saliva in his mouth if he is already full, the logical action for him would be to let the saliva go out – to his parents and it seems that they are flowing in a stream down his chin. Mom and dad should then make sure that the baby does not choke on saliva while lying on its back – it is best to put it on a barrel. Also, keep your baby’s chin as dry as possible.
At 2 months
At 2 months of age, salivation does not decrease, but increases even more? It is worth examining the baby’s mouth. Often, excessive salivation may indicate an inflammatory process in the mouth, for example, stomatitis. A child at 2 months old requires special attention if drooling comes in bubbles (we recommend reading:). If the tongue is covered with a white coating, then the pediatrician should be informed about this, who will recommend an effective remedy for candidiasis.
At 3 months
Why does a three-month-old toddler have so much saliva and he literally lets it flow? At 2-3 months, children are already beginning to learn about the world around them. Their attention is attracted by nearby toys, which they strive to pull into their mouths. The thought creeps up that here it is – now the teeth should definitely erupt. Do not rush – everything has its turn.
In the third month of life, the amount of secretions from the gland, normally, should visually decrease. The child has already learned to hold his head, so some of the branches from the salivary glands can already flow into the stomach. Moreover, closer to the 4th month, the swallowing reflex begins to automate. Do not worry – salivation is considered the norm if the baby:
calm;
cheerful;
active;
playful;
does not refuse food.
Symptoms that require a pediatrician’s consultation
A healthy child with parents and its correct development is a great happiness. Strong salivation, if it is not accompanied by other symptoms of abnormalities, requires only a timely change of clothes and bibs. Unfortunately, sometimes an immediate consultation with a local pediatrician is necessary. We list the symptoms in infants that should alert parents and require immediate consultation with a pediatrician:0003
Salivation continues and is accompanied by difficulty breathing through the nose and increased body temperature. It is possible that the baby caught the virus – it is required to determine its etiology.
The child’s eyes turned red, his nose is stuffed up, he coughs and sneezes frequently. These symptoms may indicate an allergic reaction. At two or three months and up to a year, the development of allergies in an infant can be provoked by pollen from flowering houseplants, dust, detergents, children’s hygiene products and pets.
Thickening of the tongue and its constant protrusion from the mouth with profuse salivation. This may indicate a dysfunction of the endocrine system.
Thick, cloudy saliva may indicate the presence of helminths. The pediatrician will prescribe the appropriate tests, the results of which will help to refute or confirm the suspicions.
If by 3 months the baby does not hold his head, his fontanel pulsates, he does not sleep well and constantly cries, then he should be shown to a neurologist. Developmental pathologies are not excluded.
Is excessive salivation accompanied by a runny nose and sneezing? Immediately call the pediatrician at home – these are symptoms of SARS.
The child cannot yet tell on his own where he has pain. You should carefully monitor the behavior of the baby and, at the slightest suspicion of a deviation from the norm, immediately inform the pediatrician.
After two months, the baby may notice a lot of saliva. In the future, salivation only increases, which causes discomfort to the crumbs. As a result, clothes and bedding get wet, irritation and inflammation begin on the chin. In addition, saliva falls not only on the chin, but also on the cheeks on the chest.
Therefore, irritation, dryness and inflammation can also occur in such places. Let’s see why the baby drools. We will learn what to do if a baby drools in bubbles or they flow very strongly, how to help the child and make the life of the crumbs more comfortable.
Causes of increased salivation
Teething is the main cause of this phenomenon. after three or four, and in some babies even after two months. The teeth move in the gums and cause severe discomfort, while saliva softens this irritation and even relieves inflammation.
At this time, it is important to give your baby chews on special teething toys. Gel cooling teethers help well, which are put in the refrigerator for a while before use. Cold products will soothe the gums, relieve inflammation and itching, and reduce salivation.
In the first year of life, the salivary glands are still being formed, so the newborn may suffer from increased or profuse salivation. Saliva is secreted in large volume, and the baby simply cannot cope with swallowing. This is a temporary phenomenon that does not occur often and disappears with age.
More often you will see thick and viscous saliva in the baby, which helps the baby to suckle. Due to salivation, the baby is comfortable and easy to suck on his mother’s breast, to extract breast milk. In addition, copious drooling occurs when the baby constantly sucks his fingers, bites or chews on his fist, puts objects and toys in his mouth. What to do if the baby sucks his finger, read.
Saliva contains enzymes, antibacterial and antiviral substances. Therefore, it is important to protect the baby from various diseases, including stomatitis. The child’s immunity is just being formed, in addition, the baby loves to drag various dirty objects into his mouth. This increases the risk of infections, while saliva, in turn, performs a protective function and disinfects the baby’s mouth, skin and body. Thus, the oral cavity is washed and cleansed of harmful bacteria and microbes.
In each of the above cases, the excessive formation and salivation of the baby gradually decreases and disappears after a year. However, there is a pathological disease that must be treated. In this case, increased salivation is called hypersalivation. It is the primary sign of any pathological disease. With hypersalivation, you need to urgently consult a doctor to establish an accurate diagnosis.
How to help a baby
To reduce skin irritation and skin inflammation, to make life more comfortable for a child, a number of preventive measures can be taken for excessive salivation, which include the following:
Wipe saliva with hypoallergenic, sterile, natural, fragrance-free soft wipes. Throw away the tissue after each use;
Lightly dab rather than rub the skin on the chin. Friction will only exacerbate irritation;
Observe . Wipe the skin of the chin and chest several times with a soft sponge or towel moistened with warm boiled water;
To soften and moisturize the skin, use a special baby cream, milk or lotion. Carefully check the composition and expiration date of the product. It is important that the cream has a natural safe composition and is appropriate for the age of the child. Choose products containing vitamins A and E. They effectively soften the skin, restore and protect the skin;
To protect clothing, hang a special fabric bib or collar with a waterproof lining. They perfectly absorb moisture. Do not tighten the bib around the neck too tight!;
Place a folded diaper under your baby’s head to protect bedding. Such a diaper will quickly absorb excess saliva;
Lay the baby on the tummy. This procedure has a positive effect on the development of the child, prevents the deformation of the skull and the formation of an umbilical hernia, improves digestion and reduces salivation. In addition, it will help drain the saliva that usually accumulates in the mouth when lying down. possible already in the first week of life;
Regularly change your bib, diaper or clothing as soon as they become very wet, with clean and dry items. Wash bedding and underwear, baby clothes separately from adult clothes and only with safe hypoallergenic products. Since such products are close to the baby’s skin and can easily provoke allergies, aggravate skin irritation on the chin, cheeks or chest;
Watch your baby’s teeth, give special teethers to reduce pain and inflammation. You can also lightly massage the gums with your finger using gentle circular motions. Remember that the finger must be clean!;
Use occasionally as they help baby swallow saliva. But do not give the pacifier too often, otherwise the child will be difficult to wean from it.
As we mentioned earlier, copious amounts of saliva can occur if the child sucks, chews or bites on a fist or finger, this may indicate that the baby wants to eat or drink. In addition, such a process can also be caused due to teething. Do not try to wean the child from sucking, as this is an innate reflex that will eventually go away on its own.
Strict prohibitions or screaming due to the fact that the baby sucks his finger or fist can negatively affect the mental development and nervous state of the baby. In no case do not smear your hands with mustard, garlic, salt and other similar means! They can cause allergies and poisoning in a child, burn the oral cavity and esophagus. Show and pay more attention to the baby. Distract the baby from the bad habit with games, activities, exercises and gymnastics. Try to find out and eliminate the cause of this behavior.
When to see a doctor
Unfortunately, hypersalivation can sometimes occur in a child. If you notice too much salivation, as well as blisters of saliva in the baby, contact your pediatrician! This can be a symptom of diseases such as candidiasis, middle ear or nervous system diseases, upper respiratory tract pathologies, hypersensitivity and allergies, digestive and endocrine system diseases, severe poisoning or gingivitis, severe stress and nervous tension in a child.
With stomatitis, you may notice associated symptoms such as white spots and sores on the mucous membrane in the mouth and near the mouth. Each disease causes severe discomfort in the baby. He will sleep badly and often cry, act up, eat poorly. The chair and work of digestion can be broken, temperature rises and puffiness is observed. The examination will help to identify the problem and eliminate the disease at an early stage.
The deviations listed above are rare. Basically, the increased compartment disappears as soon as the work of the salivary glands normalizes, the baby stops putting fingers, a fist or other objects into his mouth, or when most of the teeth erupt. As a rule, the volume of saliva is reduced by the age of one. However, for some children, this problem can torment up to two or three years. In this case, be sure to go to a neurologist.
If a child has a runny nose, it is often associated with increased salivation. The combination of profuse salivation and runny nose speaks of a cold, SARS, tonsillitis, allergies. In this case, be sure to consult a doctor so that he can diagnose and prescribe the right suitable treatment.
Every mother will be alarmed if her little child has profuse salivation. However, from birth, most babies have this problem. Let’s try to figure out why this happens and what are the reasons for this phenomenon.
Causes of excessive salivation
Every newborn has salivary glands with low secret activity.
Saliva should be viscous in texture and should be secreted in small quantities. The causes of excessive salivation in a one-month-old baby may relate to the immaturity of the salivation regulation system. As a rule, there is nothing wrong with this, because the activity of the glands is just beginning to grow. The most common cause of excessive salivation is teething in a baby. Everything will be back to normal as soon as the teeth erupt. Allergic rhinitis is also often the cause. Diseases such as viral infections, bactericidal or birth defects should also be noted. These reasons require the intervention of a specialist. To begin with, you should go to an appointment with a pediatrician, and he will already write out a referral as needed for consultation with other specialists.
Excessive salivation in children, what should I do?
Naturally, the abundant saliva of the baby should be constantly wiped. Otherwise, wet clothes can cause irritation and rashes. A good solution would be to purchase a bib. In case of irritation, you can smear the area around the mouth and chin with petroleum jelly or baby cream. However, make sure that the baby does not lick the ointment. At the age of three months, the intensive formation of the salivary glands and endocrine glands begins in children. But babies can only swallow at this age when they suckle, so a lot of saliva is normal.
Dangerous signals
Causes of excessive salivation in children older than three years require the intervention of doctors.
– They may talk about birth defects that interfere with swallowing. The child cannot swallow, a large amount of saliva accumulates in the mouth.
— Pseudobulbar syndrome may be a possible cause. It consists in the pathology of the muscles of the pharynx, tongue or upper palate.
– Causes of excessive salivation can relate to allergic rhinitis, both seasonal and year-round. The diagnosis made and the treatment carried out will automatically remove this problem.
Need to calm down
To stop living in speculation and drawing the most terrible pictures in your head, you just need to seek the advice of a pediatrician. In most cases, such dangerous syndromes are not confirmed.
Many mothers of babies periodically encounter the fact that for some reason the child begins to salivate very abundantly. In some cases, if the baby has increased salivation, there may not be any cause for concern, but sometimes excessive salivation can be one of the signs of a serious illness. Therefore, if a baby suddenly began to produce saliva in large quantities, parents need to quickly identify the causes of excessive salivation and take appropriate measures.
Causes of excessive salivation in infants
There are various causes of excessive salivation in infants. The most common causes include:
Teething
This is the most likely, common cause of excessive salivation in infants. The gums of a baby during teething become very inflamed, itchy and sore, causing severe discomfort to the child. And saliva, due to its anti-inflammatory properties, has a calming effect on the gums, dulling the pain and, as a result, improving the overall well-being of the baby. In some children, the preparation of the gums for the appearance of teeth begins as early as the second month of life. Therefore, there is no need to be afraid if
Intensive work of the salivary glands
The child has not yet established the work of the salivary glands. It happens that the baby produces more saliva than he is able to swallow, and then it flows out of his mouth. This is due to the fact that the salivary glands in babies under the age of one year are still being formed. You should not worry about this, the baby is growing and soon the work of the salivary glands will be established, and the profuse salivation will stop.
Bacteria control
Stomatitis in babies is quite common. After all, kids pull into their mouths all the objects that fall into their hands – both during teething, when the gums itch, and just out of curiosity – for a child this is one of the ways to learn about the world around them. Therefore, it is very important to keep the toys of the crumbs clean and make sure that he does not pull dirty objects into his mouth (which can result in stomatitis). If any infection appears in the oral cavity of the baby, then the baby’s saliva begins to be produced very abundantly. This is a protective reaction of the body, because saliva has bactericidal properties.
If the parents suspect that their child has some serious illness, then you should immediately consult a doctor. Indeed, in rare cases, saliva begins to be abundantly secreted in such serious diseases as a disorder of the nervous system and a brain tumor.
Despite the fact that there may not be anything particularly dangerous in increased salivation, the baby’s parents still need to take certain measures. After all, an abundance of saliva will lead to the fact that the baby will have skin irritation on the chin and neck. Such a rash will cause considerable discomfort to the baby: the skin will itch, the affected areas will hurt, sores may appear. Of course, it is unlikely that parents will be able to stop profuse salivation. But you can take the following actions:
Massage the baby’s gums with a clean finger, gently pressing on the inflamed areas.
Sometimes give the baby a pacifier – this will help the baby to swallow saliva more often.
Change your child’s clothes more often. Since saliva runs down the chin to the neck, in order to prevent skin irritation, care must be taken to ensure that the child always has dry clothes.
Use special baby teething gel cream. Thanks to the menthol in its composition, such a gel relieves inflammation well, making the baby feel better.
Give your baby rubber teething rings so he can scratch his gums on his own. It is advisable to pre-cool such rings, then they will also help relieve inflammation.
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Folk wisdom says: if a baby drools, teeth will soon come out. However, doctors do not share this statement, despite profuse salivation at 2-3 months, the first teeth usually appear after the sixth month.
Is it worth it to rush to the doctor and look for problems in excessive salivation?
Why saliva is needed
Baby’s salivary glands are capable of producing saliva while still in the womb. A couple of months after birth, salivation increases significantly. Thus, nature took care of protecting the child’s body from various infections that enter the mouth.
Another useful quality of saliva that is worth noting is the breakdown of starch into sugar thanks to special enzymes that are part of it. This property has a positive effect on the digestion of food that enters the baby’s stomach. And less painful teething is also her merit.
Increased salivation
Despite the above, there are times when increased salivation is worth paying close attention to. Drooling in a 2 month old baby may be more likely to be associated with a runny nose than teething. If the baby, with abundant salivation, also breathes through the mouth, this may indicate a nose clogged with snot. If there is no runny nose, and the baby is drooling, why not examine his mouth to exclude the presence of sores or inflammation of the oral cavity.
Closer to 6 months, the baby’s salivation can really increase, and this will be the first evidence of the imminent appearance of the first teeth. Effectively wetting the gums, saliva reduces the pain caused by teething. During this period, pay closer attention to the dryness of clothes – frequent change of blouses and the use of a bib are more relevant than ever.
If your chin is irritated from excess moisture, you need to lubricate the delicate skin of the baby several times a day with a cream with vitamins A or E.
Do not forget that at the age of 3 months a baby drools like water also because he does not know how to swallow them, and salivation seems to be increased to parents.
When to rush to the doctor
If the baby is characterized by profuse salivation, mothers may hear: wheezing in the chest or a strong cough. In this case, to exclude a viral infection, it is worth contacting a pediatrician. If coughing and wheezing are due to the fact that a 2-month-old baby is drooling, but it happens that they sometimes accumulate in the larynx, it is quite often to spread the crumbs on the tummy.
If you suspect inflammation, stomatitis, thrush, you should also rush to the doctor because of increased salivation.
After examining the baby, the pediatrician will answer why the baby is drooling.
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Land – Nordale, Veronica Melan – LitRes
It smells of cinnamon, space and the sea,
There are different maps, the reactor is built,
There, the old woman wrapped herself in comfort,
There the sleeping heart woke up with delight.
People are different there; and there is a Map of Fates,
And only Drake knows what was and will be,
Magic carpet weaves a miracle underfoot,
There you can and should follow your dreams,
There guys are steel, the laws are foggy,
And the Commission is in charge of them strange,
I’ll come to the station, and the cashier, squinting.
“One to Nordale” I will say. And I will close my eyes…
Chapter 1
Bernard.
I didn’t notice this balcony on the second floor of the mansion until Claire “pictured” it. From somewhere, a longitudinal soft rug appeared on the floor, a couple of macrame panels on the walls, plants blooming in tubs near the wall, a table and two wicker chairs. And that’s it, the balcony has become my favorite place for breakfast.
Now I was enjoying my morning tea; outside the window the sun, greenery sprouted on the trees. Space outside, space inside. Nordale knew how to show not only the change of seasons, but also to infuse feelings into you: if it’s winter, then fluffy, with a fireplace and falling snow, if it’s summer, then with tanned cheeks and shining eyes after swimming. And if spring, then an incomprehensible alluring freedom, as if not only dormant plants woke up, but also a new reserve of strength in yourself, in that part of the soul that desires flight, new impressions, achievements, stormy joy.
For some time now I have had a fetish to bring newspapers from my home world and read them with tea with thin sweet wafers. The contrast came out amazing: in their native world they are fighting for power, building factories, rallies, releasing new medicines, introducing traffic rules, discussing football matches. And then there’s Nordale. And always calm. I’m sure, because behind my back there is always the silhouette of a loving, able to protect Drake from all the misfortunes. Drake, who at the snap of a finger will build a new level or demolish the old one. This knowledge has always tickled from the inside with solar pollen.
This time I was reading international news: about old people in Cuba, a simplified system for obtaining visas to Malta, and a submarine missing off the coast of Bali. It’s so interesting to learn about your native world from the parallel world, it’s like sitting in a movie theater, taking the best seat and wearing 3D glasses on your nose.
When Dane stepped onto the balcony, I was just rustling through the pages.
A big white-haired man stormed our house a couple of times a week in the morning: he came for cookies that Claire baked specially for him. These cookies in large bags (breathable! She specially bought breathable ones so that the pastries did not become stale) went to the headquarters, where they were eaten, as I believed, by Dane (mostly) and Steven (less). It might have gone to someone else, but I’d bet a couple of coins on the fact that Elconto didn’t want to share it with junior employees, because he got too attached to crumbly “bois” baked according to a secret recipe. The buas, which I first called “buas” and later “bugs”, were sprinkled with almond petals and abounded with chocolate chips. In general, the taste is extraordinary.
– Are you reading?
They glared at me, pushing through the carcass of the adjacent chair.
– Yeah.
– News of your world?
Colleagues knew about my hobby. The more interesting it was for them, the less scrawl they understood in the overseas text.
– Exactly.
Dane tried to sit like a master and stretch his legs, but the balcony was too short – he had to push his legs under the chair.
– Read to me the first thing that comes across.
– You won’t understand anything anyway…
– Well, just out of curiosity.
I smiled. It was always warm and safe near Elconto. And more fun.
– Okay … – I opened it at random. – “Today, the Indian Raja Govindan takes office…”
– Gawyondan? – Elconto already leaned from his chair to my newspaper. – Is that what it says? Gavnadan?
“Govindan,” I chuckled.
When a man is two meters tall, has a white hedgehog on his head and bulging eyes – it’s funny.
– Come on! No one in sober memory could call his son Govnodam. I don’t believe it!
– Well, this is India, another country … Maybe there it means “sun-faced” or, I don’t know, “bright-eyed.”
– Clear-eyed Gawyeongdan? Dane suddenly burst out laughing so loudly that the windows in the frames shook. – No, well, it had to be invented!
I did not explain again that it was not “Gavnadam”, but “Govindan”. God knows, indeed, what meaning this name had among the Hindus, but in Russian it sounded funny. And just give our sniper everything related to the “gomno”, and jokes will fall like a cornucopia.
Dane was silent for a while, thinking. He put his hand into the bag with the “insects”, began to put them one by one in his mouth. Before paying attention to the unnatural silence, I managed to finish reading the article and skim a couple of headlines below. And then she looked at Dane.
He always laughed as if he wore a disguise. A kind of brave, resilient guy, capable of going through any mess with his own laughter, but I wouldn’t be Dina if I hadn’t learned to determine the degree of seriousness under the mirror lake from jokes.
And now the sniper was scratched from the inside, I would even say, gnawed. Probably, thinking about his own, he would have finished half the package, would have sat with me for another ten minutes, and then got up and left. But I asked:
– Hey, what’s wrong?
Elconto started up. I realized that the mask had cracked, I wanted to cover it with a new one, hastily woven, but decided that I could be honest with me, sighed.
– Yes, something unpleasant happened here.
– With whom? Sled?
– No, thank the Creator, not with Anya.
And who should he grieve about then?
– Speak already…
And I stared at the two-meter friend, with whom we, as it happened, went through both fire and water, intently, like an owl.
– You know that I lead the War…
Surprised. I know.
– So one of my acquaintances, a friend, got there.
– You mean hit? How is the rebel? – I thought. – Well, it will pass to the end or wake up if it grabs a bullet.
“Ani has passed.”
“That’s the point,” Dane sighed, “not like a rebel. But as a soldier.
The soldiers, I remembered, are those on the other side who are fighting against the rebels. Usually these are convicts exiled to death. And soldiers from the War no longer go back to the Levels, only to their world in case of death. Drake once explained this scheme to me, but I remembered it only formally, without details.
– You mean like a soldier? Was he convicted?
– Was. And exiled to the war for life.
Unpleasant. But I suddenly thought that it would be wrong to go to Drake with the words “help Dane’s friend” – something in this case did not stick and did not fit, as if intuition had previously declared that this step would be wrong. And so I was silent for a full minute.
Elconto sighed, he understood.
– I didn’t want you to go to Drake. In the end, I would go to him myself if I felt it was right. But something tells me the answer is going to be tough.
So something told me the same thing.
The topic is, of course, a touchy one. On the one hand, an acquaintance of Elconto and, therefore, not a stranger, on the other hand, not all friends of friends can be helped if the latter stumble. So as not to offend, I chose the next phrase as carefully as possible:
– Well … he will die, he will return to his world. Maybe good too? Maybe he finished things on the Levels? Drake had explained that those who had gained the necessary experience…
Dane continued to grimace.
– I wouldn’t worry if everything is as you say. But he is a good guy and also a better fighter. One of the best I know. He will fight there to the end. One, two, ten, twenty… Like Boyd.
Like Boyd, that’s bad.
With all my dislike for such topics, I still asked:
– Why was he convicted?
Elconto was silent for a long time before answering. He chewed one cookie, then three more at once, and wiped his mouth with the back of his hand.
– I have known Brown for more than a year. He could be one of us, could work for the Commission, that’s how good he is. It’s just that no one called him. Or he didn’t want to, I don’t know. He worked in a private agency as a bodyguard, the last couple of years guarding some businessman – I don’t know the name. And this businessman went badly wrong, they came for him from the Commission. But Brown did not understand that the Commissioners (they were in civilian clothes), tried to put one of them to bed, got it immediately “for life.” You know what laws we have if you raise your hand against Werther.
I knew. Harder than hard. Agents were not very fond of forgiving without that, and even if an attempt was made to attack…
– So this Brown tried, without knowing it, to kill the Agent?
– Uh-huh.
Then it is clear why the War.
– Well, maybe tomorrow he will die at your Level…
– He won’t die, I already told you. Will fight there to the end. People like him don’t give up. And war, especially ours – senseless and endless – burns out. And in ten years nothing will remain even of the best person. That’s why I’m dark. Since you asked.
We could probably end the conversation with that. It’s a nice day, sunny, everything will sort itself out somehow. Elconto will go to headquarters, eat about thirty more “insects”, in the evening Ani will cheer him up … But suddenly something began to scratch me too. With all my love for Nordale and the Levels, the Commission, in my human opinion, has not always acted fairly. Although Drake would probably argue with me. I would have given a bunch of arguments that were incomprehensible to me, but very cleverly formulated arguments, I would have said “trust me” and I would have to believe. I loved the Great and Terrible, and love without trust is not love.
But Drake was away from Noredale because he was away for a couple of days to investigate a “secondary core” unknown to me in a parallel system. God knows, I did not understand anything in this wording, but I understood that so far it did not exist, and there were no arguments. Brown is at war, Dane is sad.
“Listen,” I asked after a long pause and intense creaking of my brain, “is this friend of yours, is he not aggressive? Not a maniac, not a moral freak?
Dane frowned.
– No. I vouch for his character. And what?
– We can move him to my world, that’s what. I just don’t want to move any … unstable minds there, if you understand. I love my planet too.
– Move?
We looked at each other for a long time like conspirators.
– Well, look. If the Commission sent Brown to War, then they don’t care that at some point he will disappear from the Levels, right?
– So.
– And surely they don’t care if he disappears in ten years or today? So why would a person burn out?
Elkonto’s blond eyebrows went up.
– Today?
Uh-huh, because Drake will be back soon. And if he returns, and we do not complete this business, then Mr. Chief can impose a strict ban on our actions. Until he put it on.
– Time is a zigel. I tapped my watch wrist.
– What?
Nothing. You just need to seize your Brown until the Chief returns and forget about it with a clear conscience. As if nothing happened.
– Will we get hit in the neck?
The million dollar question. There was a chance, of course. On the other hand, I did not see any contradictions in the system: in case of death, soldiers leave the War for their home worlds. Who cares if one good guy leaves without a “case of death” and not to his world, whatever it may be, but to mine? There, of course, you will have to deal with money, housing and documents, but all this can be thought out later, now, the main thing is not to fall under the direct gaze of the “all-seeing eye”.
– Let’s agree this way. Until you go to the War, find your friend, bring him to the headquarters to be safe. At the same time, you will bring the Hulk there …
– Why the Hulk?
– To measure the level of stability of consciousness, aggression and so on. I need to be sure that I will not throw a moral freak onto Earth.
– Logically, I agree.
– And then give me a signal with a bracelet that everything is ready. I’m still thinking about the details.
Here is the morning for you. I didn’t finish reading the newspaper, I didn’t finish my tea, I undertook to save “Private Ryan”.
But there was something important in all this – Dane’s eyes cleared up. It was as if a heavy stone had moved aside, as if a cloud that covered the sunlight and mood had dissipated. Important, however, to our sniper was this friend.
– Five bugs from you! I held out my hand brazenly, even though I could have gone into the kitchen and asked Claire to make me her own bag. But here the principle is important, not the cookie.
Elconto willingly put a huge paw into the bag and pulled out much more than five for me. He poured all this into the palms of his hands, from where the “buaches” safely migrated to the tea saucer.
– Deal! Now to business.
Dane looked at me as seriously as ever before getting up.
– I am your eternal debtor.
“Eternal,” I confirmed with the stone face of the red-skinned leader. – Let’s remember that.
While leaving, the sniper still grinned. So, complacency returned to him, so not in vain.
Chapter 2
(Furkan Sert – Hold on to Me)
The one who started it all, Brown, sat in Elconto’s staff chair with his back to the screens. Without handcuffs, unshaven, downcast, with a broken face, but, judging by the look, unbroken. Exactly, the second Boyd.
The Hulk stopped me in the hallway. By the time the call button on my bracelet lit up, I was still puzzling over where and how to rent an apartment for Dane’s friend and what to do with his documents – there was no single plan of action.
“I watched it,” Konrad said quietly, “and…
For some reason I didn’t like the pause after the “and” at all.
– So what?
– The level of aggression … within the normal range, I would say. Practically.
– Practically? Let’s use simple words to make it clear.
The headquarters was always dim, and bright eyes flickered against the background of the sensor’s tanned face.
– He is… on edge. Perhaps because he fought an hour ago.
– Will it calm down if placed in a safe environment?
– There is a chance. So far, the data is such that he himself will not get into an unreasonable fight, but if they say bad things, he will respond with a blow.
– Understood.
This confused the plans even more. This means that Brown is not desirable to be placed in a densely populated area, that is, in a city. Better somewhere away from people. To a village, a village? Into the wilderness? Where to look for housing there?
– Can you force him to calm down?
– I wouldn’t rush into it.
– Why?
– Talk to him first. You will understand.
– Clear.
And I moved into the main screen room.
Here, even indoors, war felt like war. Too gloomy faces, the elusive smell of burning from clothes; bruises and scratches on the face of the prisoner did not add to the atmosphere of joy.
I was able to see him for the first time, Brown. A tall man, well-cut, long hair on top, stubble, hard look. I even remembered the detachment in those days when I was not part of the team, but was their unwanted possible future “colleague”. Then I pricked a lot about such unfriendly glances, making their way to the spine. Baal alone was worth something… The man in the chair did not look as hostile as Regnostsiros once did, but he did not beam with friendliness either. And I decided to move on to the main thing without preamble.
– We offer you a choice: stay in the War or move to another world where a peaceful atmosphere reigns. We will provide you with money and housing for the first time, then you can arrange life as you wish.
Brown, whose eyes were either gray or bluish (in the twilight it was impossible to make out), squinted at Dane standing next to him.
– Who is she?
– You better listen to her. And carefully.
I rarely heard steel in Elconto’s voice, but now it cut through.
– I can transport you. – I deliberately chose this word instead of “teleport” – no need for details. She added softly, “Why waste years on senseless slaughter here?
The prisoner was silent for a while.
– Why are you helping me?
He was not inclined to trust, he also stopped believing in free cheese a long time ago.
“Because I asked her to,” the sniper growled. I haven’t seen him not “darling” for a long time, then I was directly surprised, I looked again at the length and breadth of the familiar Dane. Of course, another man could not rule the war, and maybe it’s a good thing that I didn’t see him like this very often. Here, in the underground bunker, a man ruled, shooting without a miss, whose hand did not tremble when the trigger was pressed. Because of the striking contrast, I looked at the “hedgehog” for a long time. Then she returned to Brown.
– What do you think? Are you interested in our offer?
In the doorway behind me, a sensor was watching our dialogue.
– Move to another world?
– Yes.
Pause.
– Actually… I was planning to go back to the Levels. When I get out.
“You won’t come out,” Dane clarified, “soldiers from the War only go out into death.” And then they go to their native worlds.
– I… can’t.
Strange phrase. Completely unplanned, like everything today. I thought Brown would rejoice at the opportunity to avoid a long and senseless punishment, seize the opportunity, but he only grew gloomy.
– What’s the matter? Elconto asked for me. – Do you want to fight here until the victory? So this War has no meaning, no end. Was it in vain that I bothered for you?
And for the first time, the one who was sitting in the chair sighed, lowered his head, and rubbed his eyes. Not like a soldier, like a human being.
– Here I have… a beloved woman. I promised her that I would return.
Ugh, you irritatedly spat Dink inside me. I understood her. And this guy too. If you promised to return, you will not want to live in another world.
“Dane,” I called softly, “we need to talk.”
Already in the corridor we were talking at the minimum volume.
“Listen, I didn’t know,” the sniper justified himself. He didn’t tell me anything about the woman. Maybe you just found it?
– That’s not the point. If I throw the “family”, Drake will definitely not praise me. “Even with all your love for me.” Some things I already knew. – To do what?
– Return him to the War?
– He will die on it. Sooner or later. And then he will definitely not return to the Levels.
– Any ideas?
– Yes. But very unsteady so far…
– Go ahead.
Now the words had to be chosen carefully.
– In general, you have such a choice. Or stay here to fight, but if you grab a bullet, we won’t know where to look for you, because you will end up in the world from where you got to the Levels. Or you can wait for some time in a quiet place, and we will think about whether it is possible to transfer data about you to the Commission Base. The process, as you know, is not easy. Perhaps nothing will come of it… No guarantees… You must understand that.
Brown listened carefully. In fact, he was sympathetic to me even with his incredulity. He was adapted to defend himself, to survive, he has not yet left the fighter mode. His words about the woman made it clear that he was normal, just like me or Dane, just a person who did not want to be separated from the one he loved.
– So, will you go back to the battlefield? Or will we start looking for a peaceful home for you?
In the eyes of others, tension, an attempt to predict whether a change in the Commission database is really possible, despair, unwillingness to make the wrong choice.
“I won’t insist,” I sighed. After all, I have a lot of other things to do today. – Decide.
Brown is about six feet and a bunch of pounds of bare muscle. A kilometer away from the bunker, shells are exploding, people are dying. The rest survive on rare dry rations and half-empty first-aid kits. Not life, but complete shit, we all remembered the stories of Ani-Ra …
– Housing, peaceful, – Brown finally said hoarsely. “But I will have to go back.
That’s hard-nosed.
You must leave the War first, I shook my head. Baby steps, as they say. One step at a time and you’ll see.
Chapter 3
(UNSECRET feat. Katie Herzig – Buried)
Same day.
Inga Kret.
– … your irresponsibility led to damage to the bridge structure and human casualties. Do you understand it?
Commission Court Hall. For the third time in my short life. The first two times I got off with verbal warnings (lucky): at first I was detained in the company of guys selling dope, then, trying to fight back in the gateway, I hit one freak with a stone. And no, he didn’t die, so I wasn’t imprisoned, but this time…
How to explain to them, these faceless robots, that everything that happened is just banal bad luck? Yes, I’m not the best person in the world, I admit it. Temporarily unemployed, I like to hang out in the evenings in bars – who likes being alone? I was just trying to build my own happiness. Last night I tried, by the way, too, when I wrote SMS while driving that I had escaped from the traffic jam, that I was already on my way. The guy who invited me on a date looked decent, I wanted to finally be happy. Is it punishable?
Who would have thought that I would be carried out on the bridge to the oncoming lane, that a truck would be found there that swerved because of my ridiculous maneuver, that the gas tank would be too heavy, that the truck would collapse, and after a couple of seconds it would blaze. And yes, watching what happened in the rearview mirror, I was horrified.
The bridge was damaged – that’s true. I sighed.
I was told that the driver did not die, escaped with burns, that he would be cured at the Commission’s expense. So everything is fine?
But it wasn’t good, judging by the faces of the three in silver uniforms sitting at the table. Another one, standing at the door, drilled me with a hard look.
“Just bad luck…” I wanted to say, but it’s useless to argue with them. I tried the first two times.
– I understand. I plead guilty,” she whispered softly.
They won’t execute me, will they? Not sentenced to death? There were no casualties other than the driver. It seems to be…
– You fled the scene of the crime.
– I… got scared.
Was it necessary to stop and run towards the flames that soared to the sky? The panic of last night was still pounding in my throat. A night spent in a deaf room without windows only added to the weakness.
“Got it. To the fullest.”
Agents found me quickly, too quickly, I didn’t even have time to get home.
– Inga Kret, inhabitant of the fourteenth Level, – the average man, buried in papers, was silent. – You are being sentenced…
Scenes from the horror film circled before my eyes – mines, damp chambers, closed Levels. Which of these is scarier? They were going to deprive me of my freedom, but that’s the same as killing me. And no one gave water to moisten his parched throat.
– … to be deported from the World of Levels. Code D2C. Do it.
The last one was thrown to a man in uniform standing at the door.
My brain is deaf. Deportations? Am I being evicted from Levels? Where? I’ve heard of homeworlds, but you had to die to get to them. Will I be deprived of my life? Execute? What is this D2C?!
On my own, I couldn’t even get off the rostrum where I was standing – someone else’s tough grip helped me by taking my elbow.
* * *
(J2 feat. Coleen McMahon – Flame Keeper)
He, the one who took me outside, was now driving a car. For some reason I thought: there will be a new camera. A table, a syringe with poison or gas … Well, if not an electric chair. The street is good, the street is better than the camera.
While the driver filled out the luminous sign, marking something, I felt like an inadequate stoner. I was laughing, almost hilarious, and horrified to the point of what was going to happen next. Hence the complete confusion: it was as if I had already fallen out of the Levels, but there was no ground under my feet – I had to forget the house, this city, the people I knew. For them, I no longer exist, for no one else.
“Don’t kill,” I asked hoarsely.
They looked at me calmly and heavily. And for the first time I noticed that the driver is handsome. Damn. This made it even crazier. He was one of the people that I would fuck, which is a big compliment. There are girls who, looking at the photos of guys, say: “Well … he’s okay,” “does it,” or “cute.” I almost never said that. For me, men were usually divided into “terrible” or “complete freak. ” I don’t know why. Someone had the wrong shape of the head, someone had protruding ears, someone had inexpressive eyes, cheekbones or mouth – for me there were always flaws.
But not this one.
The face is correct, very strong-willed. Almost magazine-like, only with a touch of hardness, a very direct piercing gaze, a beautiful nose, well-defined lips. And these barely noticeable folds at the mouth – a flint man. It smelled like a nuclear warhead; he was wearing that damned silver uniform with white stripes on the sleeves. Next to this … it was not scary.
A completely stupid thought when you are about to be executed. Probably, my obsessive brain clung to any nonsense distracting at a critical moment and therefore got hooked on the appearance of the driver tightly.
Green eyes… Or turquoise with blue – it’s hard to understand in the deceptive light of lanterns.
“Your execution is not scheduled,” they answered me evenly.
Deportation. I remember. Only through what – through hanging?
“If you are going to kill, do it painlessly,” I asked quietly, “put me to sleep first.
– Calm down.
It was an order. An order from someone next to whom it is useless to flutter, next to whom it is better not to raise your head, not to look straight, not to speak.
The car started; I clenched my shaking hands in my knees.
We were leaving the city. What for? Don’t know. Maybe in order to arrive at the place of deportation, or maybe this time capsule in the form of a silver car needed speed.
Capsule… It’s a joke, if the world outside the window didn’t tremble from time to time, if it didn’t become strangely unsteady, unreal. We were still driving down the road, but we already existed in some other time dimension, I felt.
The person next to me is calm as a rock, focused on the steering wheel, on the roadbed, or on something else; his hands are beautiful, I thought distantly, very masculine. Moderately sinewy, with bulging veins, the hands of a man with strength.
– Do I have the right to a last wish? I asked when the houses began to get lower and lower, when the rich area was replaced by sleeping quarters.
– Shall I give you a cigarette? – in voice zero mockery, rather, indifferent curiosity.
And he probably would have given it, but I thought that I would have time to smoke later. Someday, somewhere.
– No… Just… give me a ride. I like … to ride with you.
The neighbor looked at me and the thought crossed my mind that I would probably never learn to determine what he was really thinking.
– Ride you to your home world?
Sounded strange.
– Can you?
He just turned away, returned his attention to the road, but I managed to catch the answer that sounded in his aura – I can do a lot.
– Ride on…
I couldn’t believe that this could be true.
– I have to put you to sleep.
The red traffic light changed to yellow, then green; the drivers of neighboring cars were unaware that the nondescript silver sedan, the stripe on the side of which is not yet visible, is a Commission vehicle deporting a girl who has been fined “home”.
– Don’t. Please.
My last chance to admire this world. But much more I was absorbed by something else – my split mind, which, in addition to worrying about my own future, began to catch something else – the feeling that I was fine with this guy in a silver uniform. It doesn’t matter that now is not the time, that we are moving away from Nordale in some way that I don’t understand, although we are still on one of its roads. I also separated myself from myself by vanity and felt that, perhaps for the first time in many years, I was quietly happy. Very, very quiet, but still.
The commission agent looked at me thoughtfully for the first time – my executioner and my appeasement rolled into one.
Buckle up.
So we won’t sleep. I knew. I knew!
And she was right about one more thing – this machine was actually a time capsule. It was almost dark when she, leaving the city, accelerated to a monstrous speed. And no, no shaking in the car, no hysterical engine noise – calmness and silence, only the world on the sides of the road split in two and blurred completely. The highway was lost in an obscure haze, the sky merged with the horizon – it was no longer there at all, the sky. We did not rush through the distance, we did not absorb kilometers – I stared at what was happening, drowned in surprise and dumb delight – we rushed through the facets of an invisible crystal. Gently crossed the borders of the worlds – one, the other, the third … It became almost impossible to breathe: not from fear, from the astonished shock that froze in me. Somehow I knew that now, right now, real dark forests are rushing along the sides of us, in which orcs and elves live, in a second we are where there is nothing but volcanoes, a little further landscapes with harsh rocks and steep cliffs. Somewhere people like me live. Somewhere creatures that are completely different from people. There are many worlds, frontiers – transitional lanes – even more, and only my neighbor knew where and when to stop.
I looked at him… and hovered. Never with anyone have I felt the unity that I felt now with this man – complete. It doesn’t matter that he is wearing a silver uniform, that he is now playing my “guide”, it doesn’t matter at all what my name is. It must have been a side effect of reality shifting – I was no longer up to it. I was drowning in a feeling that I had never experienced – he is mine. I am ready to be with him to the end. The same one. And no, that was not an assumption, but pure knowledge that came straight from within me. I needed this Commissioner sitting behind the wheel, I needed it completely and for good, we are one with him. For such, I am ready to cross space and any difficulty, such will always find a way to bring our meeting closer …
And right in the middle of the shaky reality in a quiet salon, I said:
– You are my man. Do you know about it?
I didn’t suspect that this was possible, but probably everything was possible for him, because he stopped the car right in the middle of “nothing”, in the middle of a haze. If there was a road under the sedan’s wheels, I didn’t see it. And anything could come out of the fog swirling outside the windows.
The agent looked at me. He looked strangely, with a barely perceptible mockery and regret. Or maybe I thought so. He has beautiful, deep eyes, but even deeper he himself is a well. My well. And no, he could not let my words go past his ears, because they sounded not even one hundred percent confidence, but pure knowledge. That is when there can be no doubt.
This pause in the cabin, complete silence.
The alien background flattened, crushed from the inside – I didn’t give a damn about that. Now I have cut off everything superfluous, even if this superfluous influenced my physical shell.
– I’m not a man – the answer is without emotion.
– I don’t care.
Now I was reminding myself of the heroine of the film, who finally had a goal in her life, and, therefore, a mission. The compass needle was in an empty box, and this arrow pointed to the man on the left.
– You are stressed.
He was referring to the fact that the fog swirling around, and the fact that we just rolled through God knows what, affected my consciousness.
– This is not stress.
Well, no, my arrow is now not shifted from the right course and magnetic mountains. Wow, how many years I wandered through the Levels in search of my man, and found him at a critical moment in my life, while moving to another world.
– You know what I’m talking about. Inside. You feel it.
Even though we are still different, even though I have not yet got used to this too direct look into the very soul, even though I still want to form a house of cards in front of him – it’s still him. My. My. My.
The driver was silent – the most significant moment of my life, when the window is completely gray. When we ourselves are in “nothing”.
Veronica Melan – Ticket: Earth to Nordale read online free
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Veronica Melan ,
The maps are different there, the reactor is built,
There, the old woman wrapped herself in comfort,
There, the sleeping heart woke up with delight.
People are different there; and there is a Map of Destinies,
And only Drake knows what was and will be,
A magic carpet weaves a miracle under your feet,
There you can and should go after dreams,
6 , the laws are vague,
And the Commission is in charge of them strangely,
I will come to the station, and the cashier, squinting.
“One to Nordale” I’ll tell you. And I will close my eyes…
Chapter 1
Bernard.
I didn’t notice this balcony on the second floor of the mansion until Claire “pictured” it. From somewhere, a longitudinal soft rug appeared on the floor, a couple of macrame panels on the walls, plants blooming in tubs near the wall, a table and two wicker chairs. And that’s it, the balcony has become my favorite place for breakfast.
Now I was enjoying my morning tea; outside the window the sun, greenery sprouted on the trees. Space outside, space inside. Nordale knew how to show not only the change of seasons, but also to pour sensations into you: if it’s winter, then fluffy, with a fireplace and falling snow, if it’s summer, then with tanned cheeks and shining eyes after swimming. And if spring, then an incomprehensible alluring freedom, as if not only sleeping plants woke up, but also a new reserve of strength in yourself, in that part of the soul that desires flight, new impressions, achievements, stormy joy.
For some time now I have had a fetish to bring newspapers from my home world and read them with tea with thin sweet wafers. The contrast came out amazing: in their native world they are fighting for power, building factories, rallies, releasing new medicines, introducing traffic rules, discussing football matches. And then there’s Nordale. And always calm. I’m sure, because behind my back there is always the silhouette of a loving, able to protect Drake from all the misfortunes. Drake, who at the snap of a finger will build a new level or demolish the old one. This knowledge has always tickled from the inside with solar pollen.
This time I was reading international news: about old people in Cuba, a simplified system for obtaining visas to Malta, and a submarine missing off the coast of Bali. It’s so interesting to learn about your native world from the parallel world, it’s like sitting in a movie theater, taking the best seat and wearing 3D glasses on your nose.
When Dane stepped onto the balcony, I was just rustling through the pages.
A big white-haired man stormed our house a couple of times a week in the morning: he came for cookies that Claire baked specially for him. These cookies in large bags (breathable! She specially bought breathable ones so that the pastries did not become stale) went to the headquarters, where they were eaten, as I believed, by Dane (mostly) and Steven (less). It might have gone to someone else, but I’d bet a couple of coins on the fact that Elconto didn’t want to share it with junior employees, because he got too attached to crumbly “bois” baked according to a secret recipe. The buas, which I first called “buas” and later “bugs”, were sprinkled with almond petals and abounded with chocolate chips. In general, the taste is extraordinary.
– Are you reading?
They glared at me, pushing through the carcass of the adjacent chair.
– Yeah.
– News of your world?
Colleagues knew about my hobby. The more interesting it was for them, the less scrawl they understood in the overseas text.
– Exactly.
Dane tried to sit like a master and stretch his legs, but the balcony was too short – he had to push his legs under the chair.
– Read to me the first thing that comes across.
– You won’t understand anything anyway…
– Well, just out of curiosity.
I smiled. It was always warm and safe near Elconto. And more fun.
– Okay … – I opened it at random. – “Today, the Indian Raja Govindan takes office…”
– Gawyondan? – Elconto already leaned from his chair to my newspaper. – Is that what it says? Gavnadan?
“Govindan,” I chuckled.
When a man is two meters tall, has a white hedgehog on his head and bulging eyes – it’s funny.
– Come on! No one in sober memory could call his son Govnodam. I don’t believe it!
– Well, this is India, another country … Maybe there it means “sun-faced” or, I don’t know, “bright-eyed.”
– Clear-eyed Gawyeongdan? Dane suddenly burst out laughing so loudly that the windows in the frames shook. – No, well, it had to be invented!
I did not explain again that it was not “Gavnadam”, but “Govindan”. God knows, indeed, what meaning this name had among the Hindus, but in Russian it sounded funny. And just give our sniper everything related to the “gomno”, and jokes will fall like a cornucopia.
Dane was silent for a while, thinking. He put his hand into the bag with the “insects”, began to put them one by one in his mouth. Before paying attention to the unnatural silence, I managed to finish reading the article and skim a couple of headlines below. And then she looked at Dane.
He always laughed as if he wore a disguise. A kind of brave, resilient guy, capable of going through any mess with his own laughter, but I wouldn’t be Dina if I hadn’t learned to determine the degree of seriousness under the mirror lake from jokes.
And now the sniper was scratched from the inside, I would even say, gnawed. Probably, thinking about his own, he would have finished half the package, would have sat with me for another ten minutes, and then got up and left. But I asked:
– Hey, what’s wrong?
Elconto started up. I realized that the mask had cracked, I wanted to cover it with a new one, hastily woven, but decided that I could be honest with me, sighed.
– Yes, something unpleasant happened here.
– With whom? Sled?
– No, thank the Creator, not with Anya.
And who should he grieve about then?
– Speak already…
And I stared at the two-meter friend, with whom we happened to go through both fire and water, intently, like an owl.
– You know that I lead the War…
Surprised. I know.
– So one of my acquaintances, a friend, got there.
– You mean hit? How is the rebel? – I thought. – Well, it will pass to the end or wake up if it grabs a bullet.
“Ani has passed.”
“That’s the point,” Dane sighed, “not like a rebel. But as a soldier.
The soldiers, I remembered, are those on the other side who are fighting against the rebels. Usually these are convicts exiled to death. And soldiers from the War no longer go back to the Levels, only to their world in case of death. Drake once explained this scheme to me, but I remembered it only formally, without details.
– You mean like a soldier? Was he convicted?
– Was. And exiled to the war for life.
Unpleasant. But I suddenly thought that it would be wrong to go to Drake with the words “help Dane’s friend” – something in this case did not stick and did not fit, as if intuition had previously declared that this step would be wrong. And so I was silent for a full minute.
Elconto sighed, he understood.
– I didn’t want you to go to Drake. In the end, I would go to him myself if I felt it was right. But something tells me the answer is going to be tough.
So something told me the same thing.
The topic is, of course, a touchy one. On the one hand, an acquaintance of Elconto and, therefore, not a stranger, on the other hand, not all friends of friends can be helped if the latter stumble. So as not to offend, I chose the next phrase as carefully as possible:
– Well … he will die, he will return to his world. Maybe good too? Maybe he finished things on the Levels? Drake had explained that those who had gained the necessary experience…
Dane continued to grimace.
– I wouldn’t worry if everything is as you say. But he is a good guy and also a better fighter. One of the best I know. He will fight there to the end. One, two, ten, twenty… Like Boyd.
Like Boyd, that’s bad.
With all my dislike for such topics, I still asked:
– Why was he convicted?
Elconto was silent for a long time before answering. He chewed one cookie, then three more at once, and wiped his mouth with the back of his hand.
– I have known Brown for more than a year. He could be one of us, could work for the Commission, that’s how good he is. It’s just that no one called him. Or he didn’t want to, I don’t know. He worked in a private agency as a bodyguard, the last couple of years guarding some businessman – I don’t know the name. And this businessman went badly wrong, they came for him from the Commission. But Brown did not understand that the Commissioners (they were in civilian clothes), tried to put one of them to bed, got it immediately “for life.” You know what laws we have if you raise your hand against Werther.
I knew. Harder than hard. Agents were not very fond of forgiving without that, and even if an attempt was made to attack…
– So this Brown tried, without knowing it, to kill the Agent?
– Uh-huh.
Then it is clear why the War.
– Well, maybe tomorrow he will die at your Level…
– He won’t die, I already told you. Will fight there to the end. People like him don’t give up. And war, especially ours – senseless and endless – burns out. And in ten years nothing will remain even of the best person. That’s why I’m dark. Since you asked.
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I was pierced by a discharge, and not at all weak. Cracking through every cell of the body is unpleasant, immediately nauseated, muddied, but I pushed the unnecessary side effects away. I felt another connection between us. The one that, just like me, does not care about “small” differences – structures, shapes and formulas. I was convinced of the main thing: I want to be with him anywhere, to the end. Yes, probably, I will always want to fall on my knees in front of him: a representative of an alien race pressed with his background and attitude so that his face immediately fell to the floor, but … And this very BUT destroyed all barriers.
He removed his hand before my consciousness began to fade. I looked for a long time, and for the first time I caught something new in my eyes. Shadow of wonder. An attempt to apply some absurd theory to the world from beliefs that have long coexisted with each other. Dissent. Albeit still extremely weak, but already a grain of sand crammed into the gears. And if he, accustomed to the absence of emotions, can grind it, then I will never.
– You are taking your woman to another world. I laughed inappropriately; the fog behind the windows, responding, swayed.
– Crazy. Human. Girl.
Sounded flat. Cynically. Cold. And just a little warm.
Hands on the steering wheel, eyes on the road; the car started again.
I didn’t care that he didn’t believe. I was happy because I believed in us.
We must have been driving all night, I thought. It is impossible to determine the time when there is neither sky nor sun. The shock of the touch (sorry, I’m still weak, but this will change) had a detrimental effect on the tired mind – I fell asleep.
I woke up when the sedan was already standing in the foggy forest of my home planet. I don’t know how I knew, felt – this is the Earth. Another smell, another air, another atmosphere, after the Levels of difference there is.
And startled. Little time, very little time to say the main thing…
“Don’t erase my memory,” she asked immediately. Probably, he has an order, because it would be right, this is how it should be done.
“Get out of the car,” it sounded flat.
But you can’t go out, because he will just leave, I won’t have time …
– I will return, – I looked at the man, in whom I managed to see my own reflection, burning, sharp, – I will find my way back.
– You will be judged for this.
I don’t care.
“You are worth it. You’re worth everything!”
He looked back hard, a little tired. As if he thought a lot about something, as if he never found a way that the virus could break the system.
– Get out of the car.
I couldn’t help but obey. But she broke away with pieces of her soul from the one to whom she had become attached, baked. She was ready to growl in helplessness. And she was terribly relieved when he came out too. Came closer, closer.
“Erase the memory!” I leaned back against a tree trunk. The Commissioner standing a few millimeters from you is torture in itself, too much pressure on the psyche, body, emotions.
“I will remember you,” she said confidently, “even if you do this.
But he was just watching. I could not remove the strange new serifs in my head from the previously perfectly smooth orbits of the usual train of thought.
And my confidence in “us” didn’t go anywhere, it got stronger when I finally sank into the pupils reflecting the foggy forest.
I was exhausted from despair, anticipating parting. And I desperately needed to know one thing:
– Will you have coffee with me when I get back?
He heard with his soul, I was sure of it. Not by what made him a Commissioner, not by the usual looks of an “alien”, not by the shell in which he was wrapped.
This is probably how Galileo Galilei hoped to be right in his theories, like a man who suddenly leaned close to my face wanted to know if the impossible was possible.
Salary Benchmarking Guide: Best Practices, Tips and Techniques
Salaries represent most businesses’ largest single line item. By performing salary benchmarking, companies can both control that expense and compensate employees fairly to minimize attrition. This comprehensive guide provides all the how-to steps and best practices you need to understand the salary benchmarking process.
Inside this article:
Why is benchmarking important in the compensation and benefits functions?
How to do salary benchmarking
Elements of salary benchmarking
What are compensation or salary best practices?
Job matching methodologies
What Is Salary Benchmarking?
Salary benchmarking, also known as compensation benchmarking, compares one company’s job descriptions and pay ranges to similar jobs in other organizations. The process shows the average or market salary for each job. Benchmarking — and then using that data to adjust where necessary — is essential to retain staff and recruit new talent.
When benchmarking salaries, HR departments must consider attributes such as company size, industry, training, location and necessary education. This analysis is particularly crucial when creating positions because a company must set a competitive salary scale to attract the right recruits.
Teams track their competitiveness through metrics including the pay range midpoint, which is the average that an experienced staff member would expect in salary. Companies often add data and analysis to a compensation benchmarking template that they tailor for each role. Benchmarking committees or consultants can then present comprehensive reports to hiring managers and other stakeholders.
Salary is only one element of compensation, albeit an important one. Overall compensation may include, for example, employer contributions to retirement or other saving plans, paid insurance, paid time off or stock options. So look at a salary benchmark as one key element in an overall compensation picture for a given job.
Read our compensation metrics and KPIs article to discover salary metrics and formulas. Also, see our article on HR analytics to learn about tracking and analyzing metrics.
Key Takeaways
Salary benchmarking helps companies attract and keep quality talent by ensuring they provide competitive compensation.
Compensation benchmarking helps control labor costs, which in turn helps manage operations costs.
Salary benchmarking can help to highlight and remedy pay inequities in your company.
What Is Compensation Benchmarking?
Compensation benchmarking, which is related to salary benchmarking, is the process of comparing salaries and benefits between organizations. A company first defines duties for its roles and then matches those to jobs in peer companies.
Why Is Benchmarking Important in the Compensation And Benefits Functions?
Benchmarking helps with compensation budgeting. This budgeting, in turn, helps with cost management. A set salary/benefits budget allows room to reward valued talent. Paying competitive wages also reduces costly staff turnover.
Compensation and benefits also contribute greatly to employee engagement. When employees feel fairly compensated, they tend to perform better and are less likely to seek employment elsewhere. To learn more about compensation and benefits, read our employee compensation article.
What Is the Purpose of Salary Benchmarking?
Salary benchmarking helps companies make data-driven decisions. It removes the guesswork and reduces favoritism. By setting a pay range for each job, a company can vary compensation according to staff skills, longevity and performance.
Salary benchmarking also ensures companies pay competitive market wages and helps them recruit quality candidates and reward and retain current employees.
What Are the Advantages of Salary Benchmarking?
The advantages of salary benchmarking are that it controls salary costs and ensures that wages are fair. Benchmarking also contributes to better job descriptions and salary and benefits transparency.
Salary benchmarking may seem like an arduous task. But, once done, it forms a pay structure that you can adjust and update without extensive additional research. It can make the company more profitable.
How to Do Salary Benchmarking
You can complete salary benchmarking in three main steps. These high-level steps include choosing data sources that line up with your company, aligning the data with your compensation strategy and creating salary ranges. Read our how to do compensation benchmarking article for a more detailed, step-by-step process.
Choose data sources that work for your organization
To choose data sources that work for your organization, consider alignment with your job descriptions, industry and location. Then consider the data’s age, completeness and accuracy.
Data may be available from free surveys, but those sources may not offer the most accurate salary picture. Paid, aggregated data may be more precise. When weighing that cost, consider that it can be time-consuming to manually compile and analyze data from multiple sources.
Apply a compensation strategy
A compensation strategy describes how your salaries and benefits align with the overall company goals. Do you want to be seen as having highly competitive salaries and benefits to hire the very best people, or are you more middle of the road?
A defined compensation strategy can show which businesses you’ll compete with to attract talent. The practice also indicates how you will respond to salary requests from current and prospective employees.
Create salary ranges
A set of fixed salary ranges can help you predict and manage salary costs while reducing pay inequities among staff. Use benchmarking and analysis to provide a data-driven basis for pay grades. It is important to communicate to employees the criteria for various pay levels.
Elements of Salary Benchmarking
The elements of salary benchmarking include compensation strategy, salary surveys and job matching. Together, they help you find the correct data and then analyze and interpret it.
Compensation Strategy
A compensation strategy or plan describes how a company intends to align HR costs with its overall goals. A compensation strategy helps promote salary equity internally. It also defines a competitive approach to attracting new talent.
To set a compensation strategy, you first need to look at your organization’s goals. What do you want to achieve this year? Longer term? What skills are needed to get you there, and what does that talent cost? Include the CEO, board, top leadership and other stakeholders as you brainstorm: If you want to grow the business, think about rewarding salespeople. If employee retention is an issue, benchmarking may shed light on compensation solutions.
Consider your financial goals and changes you could make in your company culture to help with retention. Gathering this information provides a framework for creating pay ranges and insights into how adjusting benefits may help.
Once you know what you want to achieve with your compensation strategy, look at what your budget allows and make necessary adjustments.
Salary Benchmarking Surveys
Salary benchmarking surveys help experts and managers set pay ranges for a company by pinpointing the average salaries for roles with very similar job descriptions. The data is specific to industry, geography and company size.
While HR teams could gather this data manually from multiple free sources, many choose to work with leading salary survey companies such as Aon, Compensation & HR Group, Croner, Culpepper, Korn Ferry and Willis Towers Watson. Survey companies sometimes specialize in industries.
Even with the best consultants and sources, there’s no substitute for industry insights born of long experience, so ensure that senior people review data that will be used to set pay grades.
Job Matching Methodologies
Job matching methodologies analyze a position to define its importance and assign the proper pay level. There are four methods for evaluating jobs: ranking, grading, point-factor and factor comparison. Each has its benefits.
Some specialists group these methodologies into two categories: quantitative and non-quantitative. Non-quantitative methods include ranking and grading. Quantitative methods include point-factor and factor comparison.
Ranking method: This method ranks jobs based on their difficulty and/or value to the company’s overall aims. It is critical with ranking to start with detailed job descriptions to ensure fairness and remove personal preference. This method does not gauge market salaries.
You may find job ranking complex in a large company. If this is the case, group jobs according to types, training levels or experience.
Grading method: The grading method involves dividing one job into grades according to skills, education or responsibilities. For example, a trainer position could have grades for Trainer 1, someone with a degree but no experience; Trainer 2 with five to eight years of experience; and Trainer 3 for those with eight or more years under their belts. Companies may find this easy to do for straightforward roles, less so for hybrid jobs.
Point-factor method: The point-factor method weights jobs on the value of skills, responsibilities or other attributes and assigns points for each. The higher the overall score, the higher the pay level. This method rates the importance of duties for a department or company but does not consider how other departments or companies rate duties or a role’s market value. The point-factor approach may not reflect a job’s market value.
Factor comparison method: Similar to the points method, the factor comparison method distinguishes factors for each job and then finds the market value. This approach is complicated and may be challenging to communicate to employees but could be useful in companies where individual roles span a variety of duties.
Job Evaluation Methods
This chart shows how quantitative and non-quantitative job evaluation methods flow and differ.
Approaches for Benchmarking Hybrid Jobs
Benchmarking hybrid jobs may require other approaches. In small companies and startups, people may wear more than one hat, such as technical writer and web manager. To decide the salary for a hybrid job, consider these four approaches.
Blending method: For the blending method, determine which roles someone performs, gather data for all relevant roles and compile a composite to reveal the average salary. This approach may make it difficult to establish pay ranges.
Internal equity method: For this method, look inward to review similar jobs, duties and skills within the company and correlate salaries. Ensuring pay equity is important for keeping your best workers and complying with laws against wage discrimination. Read our employee retention guide to learn more.
Highest responsibility method: In this method, you consider the highest-level role performed by someone who wears several hats. If you need to fill that position again, you will have to offer pay at that rate. For example, company, location and experience level may be determining factors for a technical writer/web manager.
Duty frequency: Duty frequency is a key factor for figuring out hybrid role benchmarking. Determine which role someone performs during, say, 70% of the workday. Then that role serves as the basis for deciding the job title and pay.
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How Do Employees Respond to Compensation Benchmarking?
Employees generally respond well to compensation benchmarking because it can keep salary and benefits packages transparent and equitable. Employees appreciate knowing they receive the same pay as others in comparable jobs within and outside the company. Therefore, benchmarking helps to retain staff.
However, employees might react negatively to information about salaries and benefits — for example, if they learn that someone with similar skills or job experience receives more money. Establishing pay grades based on market rates can help companies implement data-based pay ranges for all staff and supply objective explanations for pay assignments.
Compensation benchmarking should consider not only market salary rates but also benefits packages. Benefits can include employer contributions to retirement or other saving plans, paid insurance and paid time off. Salary is only one piece of the puzzle.
What Are Compensation or Salary Benchmarking Best Practices?
Compensation or salary benchmarking best practices include picking the right competitors and jobs to benchmark. HR teams should also work with department managers and use the resulting data to create a thorough, accurate report.
Consider the salary benchmarking big picture. Consider how benchmarking will affect salaries and bonuses, incentives, employer contributions and benefits, and your promotion and hiring plan.
Define why you are benchmarking. Because benchmarking takes time and effort, your company should agree on which roles require it and your goals.
Choose the right competitors. Benchmarking from the right companies is crucial to an effective result. Consider the companies you would recruit from or where your staff finds employment when they leave. Be sure to include peers in the same locale, industry and size.
Limit what you benchmark. You don’t need to conduct a compensation benchmarking analysis on every position annually or semi-annually. Consider staggering positions to be analyzed, but stay flexible in case a particular role rises in importance or a skillset starts to be scarce.
Review salary and benefits. Compensation does not consist of just evaluating an employee’s pay. Compare not only salary but also incentives, bonuses and benefits to understand the complete compensation package.
Work with department managers. Suppose HR conducts the benchmarking process without a salary consultant. In that case, they are well-advised to work with hiring managers to accurately describe job duties and responsibilities, not just what everyone thinks each role entails.
Use reputable salary surveys and data sources. You want the external data you benchmark to be as accurate as possible. Keep in mind that compensation consultants have the training to source and analyze data. Engaging a salary professional may be worth the expense.
Why Should You Invest in an Integrated HCM Solution?
Salary benchmarking is a complex but vital part of HR and operations that can also boost morale and reduce costs. But to ensure good results, benchmarking also relies on volumes of internal and external data.
To help make salary benchmarking more efficient, busy HR managers and staff need an enterprise-wide human-capital management (HCM) solution. An integrated suite of apps should track the many pay grades for each role, benefits packages, rewards and eligibility criteria. An HCM becomes your one-stop-shop for managing all stages of the employee lifecycle, with the bonus of compliance tracking and reporting.
Read the HCM guide to learn more about how an integrated HR platform can help you.
NetSuite Human Capital Management Solution Simplifies HR
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Salary Benchmarking FAQs
Why is compensation benchmarking an important best practice?
Controlling compensation plans help companies control costs. Compensation benchmarking is an important best practice that helps senior leaders define salaries and benefits, attract top talent and keep morale among existing employees high.
How does compensation benchmarking help set salary ranges?
Compensation benchmarking analyzes internal job descriptions and compares them to external roles. With this approach, a company can set salary ranges and use market averages for salaries to define minimum, midpoint and maximum pay grades.
The salary range process includes the following steps:
Decide on a compensation strategy. This plan shows what skills and experience a company needs to meet its short- and long-term goals.
Analyze the job to define the exact duties and responsibilities. After conducting thorough research, a company may decide to redefine the job.
Evaluate and rank jobs. Evaluation involves comparing job duties to those of similar internal and external positions. A company ranks positions to show how valuable they are to its operations.
Define a salary range. The range describes the minimum and maximum a company will pay someone for a given role.
Create pay grades or job grades. Pay grades define increments in a salary range based on experience, longevity, skill and performance. Pay grades offer a path for employees to advance to positions with more authority and pay without having to join another company.
What are the ways to decide the companies for benchmarking in salary surveys?
Tracking current salary trends can be difficult for an HR professional who already has a full plate of duties. HR often turns to salary consultants who select the best competitive matches and maintain databases of competitive statistics.
If you must conduct benchmarking on your own, consider these approaches. If your business hasn’t matured into its vision, choose competitors you want to emulate. Look for companies in the same industry with processes you want to echo. Or look at benefits programs in locales with an active job market.
What is a salary benchmarking process?
Salary benchmarking is the process of evaluating a company’s internal job salaries based upon their external value. Salary benchmarking involves analyzing the main components of each position and comparing these positions to similar jobs in other companies. Organizations primarily rely on compensation surveys, government labor databases, and the assistance of compensation consultants for accurate job market data.
Why should HR leaders care about salary benchmarking?
Salary benchmarking helps compensation managers create competitive salaries. Though compensation isn’t the only important aspect of a job, it’s obviously an essential factor, as everyone wants to bring home a respectable paycheck. Moreover, competitive compensation demonstrates how much the company values its employees and their contributions. In a particularly competitive job market and an unstable economy, offering an appropriate salary is key to attracting candidates and retaining talent.
How can HR leaders implement an effective salary benchmarking system?
To build a comprehensive salary benchmarking system, HR leaders can incorporate these steps:
Design a plan that will serve as a roadmap. Write up an in-depth salary benchmarking plan that includes the long- and short-term goals, a timeline, the budget, the necessary resources, and the purpose. Outlining these components enables compensation managers to establish competitive salary benchmarks for each job. Keep in mind that the plan can be flexible—it’s not set in stone.
Make sure every job in the company has a description. Job descriptions are a necessary prerequisite to salary benchmarking. Often, organizations may use different job titles for the same or similar roles. Thus, the descriptions enable the identification of synonymous positions. For example, an organization focusing on salary benchmarking for Customer Success Managers may come across the titles: Sales Managers and Customer Success Engineers. While the titles differ, the descriptions may overlap. According to salary.com, HR professionals should compare descriptions that share 80 percent of the same responsibilities and requirements.
Consider where to collect data from. The quality of the data determines the accuracy of the salary benchmarking, so salary benchmarking should stem from reliable data and a solid benchmarking process. Options include domestic and global participant surveys and aggregated employer-reported data. In some cases, companies use employee-reported crowdsourcing as an additional source of information.
Use the compensation philosophy as a compass. Considering both the compensation philosophy and the external salary benchmarks enables compensation managers to build competitive, fair salaries that align with the budget and reflect the company’s approach toward compensation. Defining and integrating a compensation philosophy can contribute to a positive business reputation and employee experience.
Why should salary benchmarking be a part of modern HR strategy?
HR leaders should integrate salary benchmarking into their strategy to keep pace with the fluid, global job market. Salary benchmarking helps HR build attractive, competitive salaries that can directly improve the employee experience and fuel higher levels of employee engagement.
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Competitive analysis helps a company adjust its product to improve its market position. We understand how to apply benchmarking and what this method gives the company in practice
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What is benchmarking
Benchmarking is a set of techniques that allow you to study the experience of competitors and implement best practices in your company. As a rule, this tool is used to compare your business with the best companies on the market, that is, with benchmarks. Business processes, business approaches, production costs, product quality, customer satisfaction can be used as criteria.
Such an analysis allows top managers to make informed decisions when developing a company’s strategy – to determine who to look up to in the market (or to establish that the company itself is a leader), determine the company’s targets and development model.
Benchmarking as a market analysis tool began to be used by companies in the second half of the 20th century. One of the first companies to use this method in practice was Rank Xerox during the crisis in the late 1970s. Then the company lost a significant part of the market, giving way to Kodak, Canon and others. To regain its former competitiveness, Rank Xerox compared its performance with competitors on the following points: production costs, the way copiers are assembled, customer satisfaction, and so on. This helped the company optimize business processes, including by reducing distribution costs, and become a leader in its segment of the copier market.
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How benchmarking differs from KPIs
Benchmarks (reference indicators) are benchmarks for comparing a company with the performance of others. And KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) are set targets in accordance with the company’s adopted strategy. As noted by business strategy consultant Bernard Marr, it is advisable to first conduct benchmarking, and then set KPIs based on this analysis. For example, a laptop manufacturer can analyze the performance of competitors and improve KPIs for annual performance.
“The difference is that KPI is more of an internal work, focused on the characteristics of the company and the result of agreements between management and performers. Benchmarking is always a view from the outside, a description of the already established activities of competitors or reference companies,” explains Denis Konanchuk, Director of the Corporate Training Department at the Moscow School of Management Skolkovo. He notes that in practice there are often situations when companies simply transfer benchmark indicators to their KPIs; but this, he says, is misleading, as it does not take into account all the contexts in which the company exists.
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When to use benchmarking
According to Natalia Pavlova, KPMG Strategy and Operations Consulting Practice Manager in Russia and the CIS, benchmarking is used in practice in two cases.
When it is necessary to compare the company’s performance with the best market practices in order to choose the direction of the company’s development and areas for efficiency improvement.
In the second case, target KPIs for the business are determined based on average market values or levels of market leaders. As Pavlova explains, there may be cases in a company when new technologies are being introduced and top management does not understand what effect to expect from them. Then it is difficult for management to set motivating, but at the same time achievable goals without benchmarking. “Or, for example, a conflict of interest may arise between different parties to the business, in which it is “profitable” for one of the parties to underestimate the expected effects. In this case, the availability of objective market data can be of great help in dealing with resistance, and ultimately in achieving positive changes,” she explains.
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Types of benchmarking
There are several types of benchmarking:
Comparative analysis. It includes the collection and comparison of quantitative data (key performance indicators). Benchmarking is usually the first step companies take to identify performance gaps.
Practical analysis . It includes the collection and comparison of high-quality information about how the company operates, how people, processes, and technologies work.
Internal analysis. In this case, the indicators of different divisions of companies, departments, product lines are compared.
External analysis. Involves comparing the performance or practices of one organization with other organizations with similar business processes.
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Pros and cons of benchmarking
Experts interviewed by RBC Trends say that benchmarking is used today by companies to solve any business problem. At the same time, Natalia Pavlova notes that an important condition for benchmarking is qualitative data. She notes that this method is effective only when the comparison is carried out correctly. “For this, it is important that companies with a similar business model, target audience and other relevant parameters are selected (compare “apples with apples”). Moreover, the same indicator in different companies may have a different calculation methodology, so the consultant must analyze whether such data can really be used for comparison or if methodology unification is required, ”says Pavlova.
Pros
If a company has managed to collect qualitative data for comparison, then benchmarking will have a number of advantages:
Speed . Benchmarking allows you to quickly improve the quality of products by analyzing the advantages of competitors.
Prevention . Analysis helps to prevent the occurrence of difficulties and loss of profit by studying someone else’s bad experience.
Applying best practices . This method gives the company the opportunity to optimize its business by applying the best solutions of competitors.
Availability . Benchmarking does not require significant financial and time costs.
As Denis Konanchuk notes, benchmarking in general opens up a lot of room for improvement within the company itself, when the question is posed – why are the best companies doing well, while we are not yet?
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Doesn’t answer the “how” question
Despite these advantages, benchmarking has a number of disadvantages. According to Denis Konanchuk, the limitation of this method is that it answers in detail the question “what should be done”, but gives few clues to the question “how”. “Benchmarking is the tip of the iceberg, it gives the upper measurable indicators, targets. But the secret to success is how to achieve them. And there is no one correct strategy and “golden” solution. All companies are different in context, corporate culture, resources, and so on,” he says. According to the expert, benchmarking should be followed by a creative process of developing new non-standard solutions by managers – this will allow them to find their way to market success.
Does not work in innovation
The second major limitation, according to Konanchuk, is that benchmarking works mostly on finished projects that need improvement. “For example, when there is a product, but you need to change the processes to make it a little cheaper or better. Or vice versa, when there is a well-established process and you are looking for an opportunity to make new products and solutions on it. In this case, you can “spy” on competitors,” he says. But benchmarking doesn’t work well in the innovation zone, when a company has to deal with two or more unknowns. Most likely, benchmarking will not be applicable when a company wants to release a new product, but does not fully understand what it should be and how to make it.
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Benchmarking examples
Internal benchmarking. It is often used in network companies with branches in other regions. An example of using this method is Hewlett-Packard. At one time, the corporation lost to its competitors from Japan. Competitors managed to establish the production of new products faster and better. Then HP conducted a benchmarking study of R & D departments in the branches and divisions of the company to maintain competitiveness. Comparison of the performance of different departments of companies was carried out according to the BET criterion (break-even time, project payback period). As a result of this study, Hewlett-Packard implemented a Six Sigma methodology that helped streamline processes and remain competitive in the marketplace.
External benchmarking. During the pandemic, this method has become one of the ways to transfer employees to remote work. Companies that did not have remote work experience could analyze how the strongest competitors do the transition to remote work and how this affects their performance. Benchmarking also helps to answer the question of how expedient it may be to transfer some of the staff to outsourcing.
Natalia Pavlova gives an example where benchmarking helped a company move part of its employee functions to a shared service center (SSC) while reducing headcount. “In one of our projects, the corporate center set the task of reducing the cost of services for personnel processes transferred to the SSC. Benchmarking the number required to perform individual processes and comparing the speed of operations showed that it is possible to carry out staff reductions through robotization and organizational changes. At the same time, the benchmarks showed exactly in which operations the gap from market values is the largest,” she says. According to her, after the analysis, the number of SSCs was reduced by 30% due to point improvements in seven business processes of the company. At the same time, as Pavlova notes, in this case, the task of optimizing the number of people met with strong resistance from the SSC; but the benchmarks gave management a strong argument in favor of their decision, making the project possible.
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How to benchmark
Benchmarking consists of several steps:
Planning . The company must determine what part of its business it wants to improve and with whom it will compare itself.
Collection of information . At this stage, it is necessary to collect information about how business processes are carried out in the company, what are the key indicators of the company, and also collect similar information about competitors. Competitor data can be obtained through open sources on the Web, through expert opinion, customers, suppliers; in some cases, this can be done by contacting a competitor company directly.
Data analysis . Once the information is collected, a report is produced and management discusses the next steps to achieve better company performance.
Application in practice . The key stage of benchmarking, which involves adjusting / changing the company’s business processes based on the analysis done.
Results monitoring . Monitoring the company’s performance will show the effectiveness of the changes. It can be done over a short or long period of time depending on the desired results.
Experts interviewed by RBC Trends note that due to growing competition, benchmarking has become one of the most common tools for managing companies. At the same time, says Denis Konanchuk, the approach to benchmarking is changing. “If earlier many companies wanted to choose a standard for themselves from their industry, something similar to the current business, today many are trying to “spy” and compare themselves with leaders in other markets, since many business models and solutions in the modern world are well transferred from one industry to another,” he says.
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Research, benchmarking and work with the image
In the world of modern business, not only the quality of the product or service that the company represents is important, but also the image of the company itself.
In the early 2000s, it was possible to select a highly qualified employee for the company’s team to a greater extent due to the size of the proposed salary. Today, potential employees look at the official part of the salary, the social package, the company’s office, reviews about the brand as a whole and individual divisions, and so on.
Therefore, it is obvious that HR should make full use of classical marketing tools to build effective work in the field of selection, motivation and retention of key employees of the organization, says Olga Shturmina , director of B2B marketing projects Airwaves CG.
What marketing tools and techniques are needed in the work of the HR department
1. Research
When receiving the task of finding and hiring a specific employee, a competent HR specialist should ask himself the question: do the job parameters presented by management meet the requirements of the market. Job search services and resumes regularly review average salaries by profession, but the recruiter should also consider what the profile of a real person who fits the requirements of the job is.
See also: When HR needs marketing: tools and techniques
For example, a manager may see a 40-year-old male with a university degree and more than 10 years of experience in corporate law as a director of legal affairs, while the salary offered will correspond to a specialist with a level of experience of no more than 5 years and under the age of 30 years.
The difference between the expectations of the director of the company and the actual offer on the market most often turns into the fact that it takes more time to fill the vacancy. And this negatively affects the efficiency of the company. The ability to conduct research and adjust management expectations or make timely changes to the job profile significantly saves company resources in the long run.
Case study: The head of an IT company set the task of finding a project manager certified in accordance with international project management standards and having at least 5 years of experience in this field. The financial motivation of an employee consisted of a salary and a bonus part based on project completion indicators. The average project time is 6+ months. Therefore, motivation for a completed project is paid no more than once every six months.
Considering that projects tend to be delayed even with an experienced leader, real wages turned out to be significantly lower than market supply. Motivated refusals of candidates who fully satisfy the director’s idea of a project manager led to an adjustment of the requirements for the candidate. The analysis of vacancies and resumes showed that the time spent on searching for a candidate could be minimized if a simple marketing research of the market had been carried out at the time of the formation of the vacancy description.
2. Benchmarking
Benchmarking is the analysis and implementation of the best practices of competitors. HR professionals need this tool to analyze the effectiveness of their own work and make changes and improve interaction with the staff and the labor market as a whole. Of course, there is a regular exchange of experience at various conferences and exhibitions. But research directly “in the field” provides more information and objective benefits for work.
Benchmarking tasks can be solved by:
monitoring job descriptions from competitors,
monitoring feedback on a competitor as an employer,
interviewing employees who worked or were interviewed by a competitor,
creating a resume profile and interviewing a competitor.
Benchmarking technique is good because it gives not static results in the form of a large number of numbers, but real data on successful solutions of competitors that can be successfully applied in your company. At the same time, benchmarking implies the possibility of using open observation techniques, when specialists from HR departments of competing companies can get advice from colleagues on the mechanics of interest.
Case study: A wooden house manufacturing company was looking for a digital marketer. An example of a successful implementation of promotion on the Internet was the website and social networks of a similar company in another region. Since the recruiter did not have sufficient competencies to evaluate a candidate for a vacancy, we analyzed the archive of vacancies of a competitor company, evaluated the description of a similar vacancy and contacted the HR department of this company directly with a request to talk about the criteria and mechanics of selecting this candidate. During the discussion, we exchanged experience, which allowed us to reduce the time for closing the vacancy. The companies also found common ground and subsequently entered into a partnership agreement.
3. Working with the company’s image
An HR specialist can organize work with personnel for an infinitely long time, use effective methods, but if the company does not have a completely adequate leader (both in general and in a separate unit), then negative feedback cannot be avoided. A few negative ratings will not destroy the company’s reputation, but regularly updated reviews indicating specific names and positions can cause a big headache for an HR specialist.
Case study: A company operates in the consumer goods market. The range of products ranges from medium plus to premium level. The company is Russian, has been operating on the market for more than 10 years, among the clients there are famous people. When looking for sales floor specialists, it becomes difficult to attract employees who are interested in the company. Despite the attractive compensation package, the specialists refuse the invitation, as there are a large number of reviews on the Internet about the poor performance of the claims handling service.
See also: Qualities of a modern HR specialist
It’s simple: the sales floor specialist’s motivation is tied to the sales volume of the product. If there are negative reviews, the specialist concludes that the client will also easily find this information and prefer to buy products from another company. Consequently, achieving the target sales target does not look as simple as at first glance. The company has already corrected this line of work, and the response to complaints from customers has become more efficient and better. But it didn’t work to remove negative reviews or motivate consumers to leave positive ones.
These are just basic marketing tools that can be used to improve the efficiency of work with personnel in a company.
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Welcome to Childtime educational daycare and preschool in Phoenix, AZ. My name is Erin and I am the school director. I have worked in early education for over 13 years and have held many positions including Preschool teacher, Kindergarten teacher and director. Our school offers Infant Care, Preschool, Before- and After-School care and other early education programs. We serve the Northwest, Northeast and Central Phoenix communities. Our school is connected to – but operates separately from – Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church at Glendale Ave and 12th Street.
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Berkeley County Sheriff’s Office is collaborating with Berkeley County School District to host active shooter education presentations over the next few weeks. The point is to show residents ways they can be vigilant and protect themselves in the event of an active shooter, as well as everything BCSD is doing to protect its students.
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Berkeley Middle College was recently ranked in the state’s top 10 most competitive high schools, according to data recently put out by the South Carolina Department of Education. Five students can attest to how the school is setting them up for success after high school.
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These are the approved commencement ceremony dates for each BCSD high school.
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In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, College Park Elementary School’s recent Motheread session focused on a Cuban folktale, “The Bossy Gállito.”
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Kela Middleton wears many different hats at Cross High: she is the Child Nutrition Services manager in the cafeteria, the cheerleading coach, a photographer at sporting events, to name a few. More than that, she just has a big heart for CHS students and wants them to help them succeed.
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Berkeley County School District is looking for certified teachers able to begin working in January 2023.
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Chubb is the third Hanahan High student in recent years to be recognized as a semifinalist for the National Merit Scholarship. In 2021, Ethan Wood and Wyatt Carhart were named semifinalists and later finalists for the award.
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This recent “Survivor”-themed P.E. activity at Howe Hall AIMS had fourth-graders practicing their knowledge on place values while they burned some energy in the school’s multipurpose room on Monday.
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BCSD asks anyone who observes or has been a victim of bullying, threats, or a crime at school to “say something” on the district’s 24-hour free and anonymous tip line, or submit the report via the district mobile app.
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The Berkeley County Board of Education meets the second and fourth Tuesday of every month at 5:30 p.m. in the Boardroom located at 107 E. Main Street in Moncks Corner (except as noted on October 25 and March 14). Board meetings are open to the public and citizens are encouraged to attend. There is an opportunity for “Citizen Comments” at the start of each meeting. Meetings are streamed live on the BCSD YouTube channel.
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Congratulations to Charles Atkins, Philip Simmons Middle’s drama teacher, on winning a PSTA Mini-Grant.
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Berkeley County School District would like to recognize four teachers for helping their schools receive a Distinguished Arts Program grant for the 2022-2023 school year.
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In recognition of Classical Music Mont and Arts in Education week, check out some footage of Sangaree Middle eighth-grade bands students learning some Mozart.
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If any student is having trouble with math at St. Stephen Middle, they typically get sent to Jessica James. Not only does she try to help them with their math, but James also wants to get books in the students’ hands.
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When Zackery Evans talks about Hanahan Elementary, it is evident that he is big on forming relationships – not just with his students, but with the teachers he works with.
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A love for swimming resulted in Kelly Mims getting submerged in a love for children. She is now in her 11th year teaching third grade at Devon Forest Elementary.
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Our Mission: Dorchester School District Two leading the way, every student, every day, through relationships, rigor, and relevance.
Our Vision: Dorchester School District Two desires to be recognized as a “World Class” school district, expecting each student to achieve at his/her optimum level in all areas, and providing all members of our district family with an environment that permits them to do their personal best.
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If you love electronic music and want to manage the dance floor, then learn it on online DJing courses.
Distance learning DJing will give you the opportunity to learn how to work with different equipment. You will be shown in detail how to connect equipment of different types, and you will not be at a loss when you first perform in an unfamiliar place. They will tell you the intricacies of purchasing songs in stores, you will find out what restrictions are imposed by copyright and what they allow. You will also be able to practice working with programs for mixing tracks – these skills are very important if you are striving for a professional level.
During the course you will learn from the best and easily become a star! You will learn how electronic music has developed, what are the subtleties in work. After training, you will be a versatile musician, ready for anything: festivals, private parties, cool parties, commercial projects.
Electronic music has become an integral part of the culture of the XXI century – play at shows, festivals, fashion shows, exhibitions, parties and any cultural events.
DJ Groove: DFM resident. Founder of the first and largest electronic music school in Eastern Europe. Founder of the Drum’n’bass movement in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Determined the beginning of the dance movement in Russia. Recorded 11 albums and 150+ remixes for songs by Russian and foreign artists. Winner of the most prestigious music awards, including the MTV Russian Music Awards and the Muz-TV Prize.
What you get after the course:
Create your first track from scratch without leaving your home.
You will learn how to work with professional sound recording equipment.
Upgrade your skills and break into the music business.
You will learn how to promote music on the Internet and work with world stars.
All you need for training is special programs that you will learn about during the course, a sound card and headphones. And, of course, maximum readiness, fighting spirit and love for music.
PRO STEREO School
Website: https://prostereo.online Phone: +7 (495) 118-35-17 Cost: from 120048 per course
Teachers have more than 20 years of knowledge about the profession of DJ and music writing. The school presents a unique training program developed by experts in the field of electronic music.
Experts from the very bottom have gone through all stages of the musical profession and are ready to share their experience with students. For training, you do not need to have a musical education, the main thing is that you would have the desire to fulfill your dream, having received high-quality knowledge.
Benefits:
100% results after training.
After the course, absolutely every graduate of the school creates professional DJ mixes for 100% and is ready to work in the club industry. Graduates get jobs without any problems.
The biggest DJ community.
Any hardware, software and music format. They teach how to play on any modern DJ equipment, software (Traktor / Serato / Rekordbox / VDJ), as well as how to play classic decks, play vinyl and live DJing. You are taught to play the music you want.
100% feedback. You get access to a closed platform and a secret DJ chat where professional DJs are in touch with you 24/7.
During the course you will record 17 mixes, each of which will be analyzed in detail by the teachers of the school.
The teachers of the school are professional musicians, DJs, world-famous producers and art directors.
The Internet education system has existed for more than 10 years and today you have the opportunity to get the largest amount of knowledge about the DJ profession. Now there is no binding to time, location and schedule. Even the busiest person can go online and give himself a new hobby or profession.
Tramplin School
Website: https://tramplin.pro Phone: +7 (960) 283-75-44 Cost: from 1800 rubles. for 1 lesson
Courses:
DJ BASIC EXPRESS. A course for those who want to quickly and economically learn the basics of DJing
DJ BASIC PRO. The most popular course. After it, you will feel confident at any remote control
DJ PRO XXL. A course for those who like not to deny themselves anything and are set up as seriously as possible
SCRATCH. A course for those who want to learn how to cut vinyl or improve their level in scratching
DJ CONTROLLERS. DJing course using controllers and programs Traktor, Serato, Rekordbox
DJING AT ABLETON. Advanced DJing course in Ableton Live
The schedule of each student is compiled individually, moreover, you can book your time a few days before the lesson.
CVANT ACADEMY
Website: https://www.cvant.academy Phone: +7 (495) 411-25-84 Cost: from 3300 rubles. for 1 lesson
The CVANT Academy of Contemporary Music is a complete body of knowledge and methodologies for transferring experience from the very basics to industry professionals.
Classes are held in the format of individual courses or modules that give students the opportunity to gain knowledge in a way that suits each individual.
Personal training, mentoring, accompaniment are the defining factors of the Academy.
Courses of 5, 10 individual lessons + one-time lessons. Independent practice in the studio is included in the courses.
STORIES MUSIC per course
Theory:
Introduction to the culture and history of electronic music
Introduction to
Equipment
Introduction to music resources
Practice:
Professional mixing techniques
You will need a Traktor Kontrol S2 MK2 controller
Traktor/Recordbox/Serato/Virtual Dj software
Course duration: 6 video lessons and 6 tests for each lesson
HEDU
Website: https://irs.academy Cost: from 2,100 rubles. per course
Online DJing course After the author’s course on DJing, you will be able to work with electronic music and manage the dance floor, performing in Russian and foreign clubs.
Program
Lesson #1 – Introduction to DJing
Lesson #2 – Music Theory
Lesson #3 – Professional Compilation of Tracks
Lesson No. 4 – professional mixing of tracks
Lesson #5 – The Psychology of the Dance Floor
Lesson #6 – DJ Mix
After completing the course you will be able to:
Perform in an institution (100%)
Play on any court
Be the star of any party
Hosting events
Tell about your inner world through music
At the end of the training you will receive a certificate confirming that you have attended 6 lessons of the online DJing course. The certificate will be sent in electronic form, and if you need the original, they will be sent by Russian Post.
You get:
New acquaintances. During the course you will meet positive and creative people and make new friends
Practice. After successfully completing DJing courses, students perform at
venues
Music mix. Recording your own DJ set and preparing to perform at venues of any level
Work with various stage and musical equipment. You are trained on equipment that can be found at different sites
Pioneer DJ School
Website: https://pioneerdjschool.ru Tel: +7 (916) 942-52-48 per course
Courses:
BASIC COURSE DJ SCHOOL. The course is intended for those who want to become a DJ and do not have the skills to play DJ equipment or skills are clearly insufficient to start performing in nightclubs
PRO COURSE DJ SCHOOL. The course is intended for those who already have the skills to use DJ equipment, but would like to significantly improve their level. The PRO course is a step-by-step detailed study of every aspect of the DJ’s skills: starting with an impeccable hit on the beat and ending with playing on 4 players at the same time
KIDS COURSE DJ SCHOOL. The course is intended for children and teenagers from 8 to 14 years old who want to learn how to play DJ equipment. Basic knowledge and skills are not required
SCRATCH COURSE FROM DJ SCREAM ONE. The course is intended both for those who want to master Scratch and for those who wish to raise their skills to the maximum of
TECHNICAL DJING COURSE FROM DJ SCREAM ONE. The course is intended both for those who want to learn how to integrate scratching and fastmixing into their performances and also learn technical and creative work in their performances
SAMPLER COURSE FROM DJ PAHOMOV. The course is intended for those who already have the skills to use DJ equipment or know how to write their own tracks, and want to improve their level and use samplers for performances
SERATO DJ TRAINING COURSE FROM ZERO
Website: https://dj20.ru Cost: from 2500 rubles. for 1 lesson
This course is suitable for DJs and musicians of any level. It doesn’t matter where and how you plan to perform: in clubs, festivals, corporate parties or radio. Also, the course is suitable for those who tour with a band/performer or want to prepare for competitions (battles) of DJs (eg RedBull Thre3Style, DMC and similar).
Benefits:
The duration of one lesson is ~ 1.5 – 2 hours.
Lessons take place via Skype.
The entire course is completed in 5 lessons on average.
There are no age restrictions.
Music education is optional.
You can take as many lessons as you need.
School of Sound
Website: http://schoolsound.ru Phone: +7 (495) 131-09-56 Cost: from 4990 rubles. per course
Courses:
Express course. This training course is designed for those who wish to learn DJing from scratch and those who are just getting acquainted with the profession of DJ (DJ). The course consists of two practical lessons. During this beginner’s course, you will gain an introductory knowledge of DJing and the possibilities of working with electronic music.
“Basic”. School of DJing “School of Sound” offers you an individual, in-depth program for learning the basics of the profession – the course “Basic”. This course is specially designed for individual development and practical DJ school attendance! DJ lessons will give you the opportunity to get more practical skills. Together with you, the teachers will analyze all the styles and trends of modern dance music. By learning to analyze and structure musical currents, you will be able to professionally select music tracks for your sets and mixes. The “Basic” course involves learning to play Pioneer’s professional top-end DIGITALDJ players, vinyl turntables, working with a DJ mixing console, familiarity with additional DJ equipment and software for DJs (Rekordbox, Serato, Traktor NI). A separate lesson will be devoted to the types of DJ equipment, as well as the selection of equipment for your style. You can experiment with the speed of the tracks, learn how to use the effects correctly and use them in your sets.
“Professional”. For a more complete training in DJing skills, the “Express” and “Basic” courses can be replaced by the “Professional” training course. It consists of programs from previous courses, but in these DJing lessons you can learn not only various mixing techniques, but also how to work with effects, effectors and additional equipment for a Dj set. To become a professional DJ (DJ), you must be unique, one of a kind. Teachers will tell you in detail about the creativity of the DJ profession, the school will give you the necessary knowledge about building a DJ set, and tell you how to make the presentation of musical material unique and original. In the course “Professional” you will be introduced to all the techniques and styles of mixing, taught how to use them and put into practice, as well as taught the basics of DJPR and how to properly promote yourself on the Internet. As part of this program, there is training to promote yourself as a musician, DJ (DJ) and your music. During the course, you will be given the opportunity to professionally record (2 – 3 demo mixes) in different styles for 1 hour. Creation of a stage image. Creation of the 1st video preview.
SuperDJ course. The author’s course from Dj Geralda (TOP-100 DJs), professional level, is designed for both beginners and existing DJs who want to improve their skills. An in-depth course at the DJ “School of Sound”!
Online DJ Courses
Website: https://djcoursesonline.com Cost: from $19 per month
Unlimited access to DJ training videos and music production tutorials, starting at 19dollars per month.
You will be provided with detailed video tutorials to improve your DJing skills. All of them are organized and edited by leading professionals in the DJ industry and leading experts in the field of music education.
Video tutorials go into detail about everything from setting up equipment and basic DJ techniques to starting your own live show. They also partner with some of the most prolific educators in the DJ industry to create accessible video content that covers everything student DJs need to develop their craft.
DJ Lessons focuses on software used by top industry professionals including Traktor, Serato DJ & Scratch Live, Ableton Live and Mixed in Key. Teachers are aware of all the new technologies that conquer the world of DJing, and build video lessons on the software and equipment that is shaping the DJ industry!
No experience? No problem.
The library of video lessons teaches students of all specialties and teaching methods corresponding to their level of experience. The three main skill levels provide lessons that suit your specific needs and the methods you want to learn. Whether you’re a new DJ or a seasoned turntable veteran, there are specialized DJ lessons here that will take your prowess beyond what you ever dreamed of.
Unrestricted access. Anytime, anywhere. Control when and where you watch.
Learn basic DJ skills from the comfort of your home and practice at your own pace. An extensive digital library of video tutorials is compatible with most web devices, including desktop browsers, tablets and smartphones. Practice on your computer, then watch on your tablet to take your lessons with you on the go. Whether in the bedroom or on the road, you will never be without your own DJ!
The aim of the DJ course is to develop a learning tool that is flexible enough for anyone to experience at their own time, yet includes all the learning materials you need to improve your turntable technique like never before.
With DJ Courses Online, you’ll find everything you need for an easy-to-use, custom-made DJ training tool to suit your schedule and skill level.
Djacademy
Website: https://djacademy.online Cost: for free
Video lessons online! Dj Academy presents educational video tutorials that will help you learn how to DJ, scratch or write music from the comfort of your home!
Permanent access to video lessons.
Possibility of feedback from the teacher.
School of DJing and writing music “October”
Website: https://djoctober. com Phone: +7 (926) 544-97-98 Cost: from 21000 rubles. per course
Courses:
Basic course. The course is designed for those who want to quickly learn how to DJ for performances at house parties, in small bars, markets and chamber private events. The educational format will help overcome the fear of the public. This is included in the course fee.
Course “Pro”. Become a dj with the “Pro” course. The choice of those who decided to declare themselves seriously, speaking at large events.
Course “Profi+”. Application for victory. The choice of ambitious people dreaming about clubs, stadiums and festivals. From zero to Olympus. There will be a lot of practice. Lots of practice.
Scratchdj
Website: https://online.scratchdj.ru Phone: +7 (499) 350-85-55 Cost: from 150048 rubles for 1 lesson
YOU BUY OR RENT A CONTROLLER, CDJ OR VINYL PLAYER. YOU WILL BE HELPED TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT MODEL FOR YOUR TASKS AND BUDGET.
THE TEACHER CONTACTS YOU ON ZOOM OR SKYPE AND HOLDS A FULL LESSON. SHOWING TECHNIQUES AND WATCHING HOW YOU PERFORM THEM. CORRECTS, HELP AND GIVES TASKS.
EVERYTHING AS IN PERSONAL CLASSES, ONLY AT YOUR HOME.
Learn everything you need: mixing on vinyl, controller, CDJ and DVS, scratching, creating your own show and promoting yourself. From zero to advanced, the program is tailor-made for you.
Help with any equipment: from selection, rental and connection to professional operation. There is a private fleet of controllers that are provided for use during classes.
Suitable for anyone for whom DJing is a new hobby or future profession. It doesn’t matter if you want to make money DJing or just enjoy music: try your hand at the console and you will understand why so many people want to be DJs.
NIGHT MARKET ACADEMY
Website: http://www.nightmarket. club Price: check on the website
Each student receives as a gift:
e-book “History of DJing” development of all styles of dance music;
Electroshock e-book – a very interesting and exciting biography of the world dancefloor star Laurent Garnier;
author’s musical encyclopedia of more than 200 tracks, with which you can understand the ocean of modern dance music;
author’s guide to choosing headphones for DJs!
Duration — 15 lessons.
Udemy
Website: https://www.udemy.com Cost: from 879 rubles. per course
DJing with a controller
You will learn how to use a DJ controller, master the Rekordbox Dj software, learn the basics of mixing and additional controller functions. You will learn about the tonality and mixing of various styles.
Requirements: entry level, it is desirable to have a DJ controller.
In this course you will learn how to play with a DJ controller, deal with the necessary programs, mix tracks cool and make various effects. We will use the Pioneer DDJ RB controller as an example, but any other controller will work. Even if you don’t have a controller, these lessons will be useful and when you get one, it will be much faster to learn.
Who this course is for: beginner DJs, as well as those who want to understand the controller, learn how to mix and make interesting tricks.
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Municipal budgetary educational institution
“Secondary school No. 10” (MBOU secondary school No. 10)
Creation of an educational organization- 1973
by the founder is a municipal formation of the urban district of the city of Arzamas, Nizhny Novgorod Region, represented by the Administration of the city of Arzamas.
Location of the educational organization: 607228, Nizhny Novgorod region, Arzamas city, Lenina avenue, 206-A
Representative offices and branches – none 20.00.
Sunday, public holidays – days off
Reception schedule for applicants
Monday – Friday: from 8.00 to 16.00, without lunch.
Saturday: from 8.00 to 14.00, without lunch.
Pre-holiday days: from 8.00 to 15.00, without lunch.
Sunday, public holidays – days off
Phone: 8(83147)2-25-45
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Secondary school No. 10 was opened in 1973. During its existence, the school has gone from becoming a regular high school to a secondary school with specialized education in certain disciplines.
The school is an active participant in the priority National project “Education”. As part of this project, 10 teachers received a grant from the Governor of the Nizhny Novgorod Region.
The school successfully cooperates with the Academy of Sciences of the UNN. N.I. Lobachevsky. At the moment, the school has 2 regional network innovation platforms:
– “Project and teaching and research activities of students in the study of subjects of the humanitarian cycle”,
– “Project and teaching and research activities of students in the study of subjects of the natural and mathematical cycle.”
Pupils of the school are regular participants and winners of municipal and regional competitions and competitions.
Priority activities of the teaching staff are:
Creation of a school network that provides equal opportunities for quality education for all children
Development of the material base in order to create conditions for the implementation of the Federal State Educational Standard IEO, Federal State Educational Standard LLC, Federal State Educational Standard SOO
Development of human resources, including the renewal of the teaching staff and improving the level of professional readiness of the teaching staff
Improving the content and technology of training
Improving organizational and managerial mechanisms
Sincerely, Director of MBOU secondary school No. 10 Shalanova Irina Vadimovna
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Working hours of the telephone “hot line” of the Department of Education of the Arzamas City Administration on the study second foreign language at the level of basic general education:
7-57-51-Deputy Director of the Department of Education,
7-57-45, 7-57-37 Department of the Department of Education 9000 9000 Region MO work of the telephone “hot line” of MBOU secondary school No. 10 on the issue of learning a second foreign language in the 9th grade:
Monday – Friday : from 15.00 to 17.00
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Koroleva T.V., deputy director of the rector for UVR (tel. 2-25-45)
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State budgetary educational institution of additional professional education “Nizhny Novgorod Institute for the Development of Education”
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Summer speech school “Get on DI”
Those who have ever dreamed of seeing the radio “from the inside”, getting into its “kitchen” and feeling the inexpressible emotions from conducting a “live broadcast” – a unique contest “Get on Dee” starts especially for you in Krasnodar. This is a joint brainchild of the radio station “DFM-Krasnodar” and the educational project “Speak with the mind.”
The purpose of the competition is to give an opportunity to go on the air on the radio to those who have been dreaming about it all their lives. At the same time, there are no educational or professional restrictions for participation in it. Anyone can try himself as a radio host: whether he is an entrepreneur with a turner education or a kvass seller with a “red” diploma from a university.
Of course, a person who is absolutely unprepared to conduct a “live broadcast” simply cannot get to the microphone just like that. To do this, you need to take a special training course. Namely, to learn not just to say “whatever and whatever”, but to correctly build phrases, select words, fill your speech with lively emotions! By attending classes on the development of the speech apparatus, the respiratory system and oratory, the participant will rise to a new level of speech culture.
All these theoretical and practical classes will be conducted by the best teachers and specialists of the educational project “Speak wisely”. Only 20 “selected” people who sincerely want to get on the air on DFM-Krasnodar radio will be able to visit them.
The whole course is designed for one and a half months. During this time, on specially allotted days, the hosts of the programs of the first dance station in Russia – DanaDFm, Vasya Grom, Zhenya “Red” Zaitseva, will also conduct their master classes for all contestants.
After the time allotted for the educational course, the finalists of the “Get on Dee” contest will be selected. They will be selected based on the accumulated points that they will receive as they progress through training for active participation in the program, doing “homework” and a practical task – presenting themselves as a presenter at city venues as part of the “Dance Weekends at DFM” project.
Those who get the most points, and there will be only 5 people, will have the opportunity to visit the studio of radio “DFM-Krasnodar” and take part in the recording of the “technical broadcast” together with the station’s DJs.
The main prize – “live broadcast” as a presenter on wave 106.0 will be given to 2 winners of the contest. They will be selected based on the results of the “technical broadcasts” by Oksana Zainullina-Bakhmet, Director General of DFM-Krasnodar Radio, and Daniella Sarkisyants, Head of the Speak Wise educational project.
To sign up for a course and get information about the beginning and end of the course, the number of classes and their frequency, as well as all questions of interest, please call: +7-918-66-44-666.
Become a member of the unique project “Get on Dee” and get the opportunity to feel like a real radio host.
Maybe this is your chance? Don’t miss it! See you and hear you on D!
Conditions for participation in the special project “Get on Dee”:
1.- a unique author’s course of the summer school of speech from the educational project “Speak with the mind” together with the DFM radio station. All rights, educational programs, content of theoretical and practical classes are the property of the educational project “Speak with the mind”.
2. Classes start on July 3, 2017. The duration of theoretical classes is 1.5 months (6 calendar weeks).
3. Place of training – Krasnodar, st. Levanevsky, 100, 3rd floor, speech studio “Speak wisely”
4. The maximum number of program participants is 20 people.
5. Registration for the course and detailed information about the cost of the program is carried out by phone. (918) 66-44-666
6. Course plan:
– 3 lessons per week0 minutes)
– main areas: speech technique (90 minutes), speech culture (90 minutes), master class from the DFM radio host (90 minutes). (Vasya Grom, Zhenya Zaitseva, Dana)
– approximate days of classes – Monday, Wednesday, Thursday (subject to change) The exact start time of each course is indicated after payment for participation in the program
7. Classes are held in a group mode. The number of participants in the group – no more than 10 people
8. The master class from the radio host is held in the general mode for the full composition of the participants.
9. Each participant receives a Program Workbook containing the main teaching materials and homework assignments. The workbook is an integral part of every lesson in the course.
10.At the end of each week, the participant receives a certain number of points for completing homework and actively participating in the program. The specific number of points is determined by the course instructors and the speaker of the master class.
11.After 2 weeks of training in the program there is an opportunity for voluntary practical training (once for each participant). The format of the practical lesson is a presentation of oneself as a leader at city venues as part of the DFM Dance Weekends project. This practice allows the participant to earn additional points.
12. During the theoretical and practical course, teachers identify the 5 most successful participants who get the opportunity to visit the DFM Krasnodar radio station and record their own technical broadcast with the help of DFM hosts.
13. The main prize – live broadcast with the host of the DFM radio station – is given to 2 participants whose technical broadcast recordings will be recognized as the best in the opinion of the General Director of the radio station Oksana Zainullina-Bakhmet and the head of the educational project “Speak wisely” Daniella Sarkisyants.
14. Schedule of training, technical recordings of the semi-finalists and live broadcasts of the winners:
– July 3 – July 9 – week 1
– July 10-July 16 – week 2
– July 17 – July 23 – week 3 ( + practice opportunity)
– July 24 – July 30 – week 4 (+ practice opportunity)
– July 31 – August 6 – week 5 (+ practice opportunity)
– August 7 – August 13 – week 6 (+ practice opportunity) practice)
– August 14 – August 20 – technical broadcast recording for semi-finalists
Location of technical broadcast recording: Krasnodar, st.