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More than 75 empowering and healing classroom activities
Children living with uncertainty and insecurity often have difficulty focusing on learning. They might demonstrate disrespectful or defiant behaviors, act out, or act with aggression. As an educator, you may provide the only stability in their otherwise turbulent world.
Making It Better explains trauma-informed education, an approach that recognizes the impact of traumatic stress on children and its effect on the growing brain, and applies the latest neurological research to teaching methods, disciplinary policies, and interactions to support grieving children.
This book responds to the learning and behavioral needs of children who have experienced traumatic events or toxic stresssuch as natural disasters, community violence, or abuse or neglect within the childs familial relationsand includes a collection of activities and strategies to help children heal and feel empowered.
Distressed children need absolute emotional security and an opportunity to engage in healing activities. With your help, children can begin to build resiliency and find renewed hope for the future.

Barbara Oehlberg, MA, is an education and child trauma consultant who has presented for many organizations throughout the country. With a career that has spanned many levels, Barbara has spent more than 30 years making a positive impact on childrens lives.

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Published by Redleaf Press 10 Yorkton Court St Paul MN 55117 - photo 1

Published by Redleaf Press

10 Yorkton Court

St. Paul, MN 55117

www.redleafpress.org

1996, 2014 by Barbara Oehlberg

All rights reserved. Unless otherwise noted on a specific page, no portion of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or capturing on any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer, who may quote brief passages in a critical article or review to be printed in a magazine or newspaper, or electronically transmitted on radio, television, or the Internet.

First edition published 1996. Second edition 2014.

Cover design by Jim Handrigan

Cover photographs/illustrations by Stephanie Roth

Interior design by 4 Seasons Book Design/Michelle Cook and typeset in Rotis Serif.

Interior photos/illustrations by Stephanie Roth

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Oehlberg, Barbara, 1932-

Making it better : activities for children living in a stressful world / Barbara Oehlberg. Second edition.

pages cm.

Summary: This second edition speaks to the concept of trauma-informed early childhood education and includes many activities to help fragile children process and heal from stressful events, including natural disasters, community and family violence, extensive medical treatments, complicated family dynamics, deployment of a parent in the military, and more Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN 978-1-60554-330-7 (e-book)

1. Early childhood educationActivity programs. 2. Stress in children. 3. Stress management for children. 4. Grief in children. 5. School psychology. I. Title.

LB1139.35.A37O44 2013

372.21dc23

2013031583

This book is dedicated to Mallory Floyd, Susan Ross, and Vanessa Stergios, the three dedicated women who made the Growing the Brain project become a reality at Belden Elementary School, Canton, Ohio, and to our grandchildren.

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Children

Children

Children are the promise of the future

Children are the vessel containing all the incidents and events of their family, generation upon generation

Children, who often force us to face our values in spite of ourselves.

Children

Children, the insistent voice of what might have been, what could have happened differently in their family system, their community

Children, the eternal voice of fairness and justice

Children, the ones who insistently demand our best, in spite of the consequences to themselves.

Children

Children, who have the right to experience dignity and respect

Children, who instead are referred to by what they are rather than who they are

Children, referred to as that ADHD kid, the behavior-problem child, the bully.

Children

Children, who are ignored because they are not able to meet our expectations

Children, who just want attention because they need attention

Children, who are shunned because they are daydreamers, shy, or withdrawn.

Children

Children, who talk back and act out

Children, who melt down into total tantrums in shopping malls

Children, who show us over and over that they feel insecure and stressed but are considered misbehaving and reacted to with rejection and isolation.

Children

Children, who are exploited by a materialistic society

Children, valued more as future consumers than for the creative potential they embody

Children, who are considered belonging to their parents rather than individuals in their own right

Children, who are expected to become the child their parents want them to be instead of who they were created to be.

Children

Children, who are considered disrespectful when they express righteous anger

Children, who are expected to be nice and make adults look good

Children, who are virtually voiceless in our democracy because they cannot vote

Children, who are presumed not to have the same rights as adults.

Children

Children, who will eventually shape our society and become its leaders

Children, who are all born with promise and creativity

Children, who will become adults filled with hope or disdain, depending on how they experienced childhood

Children, who will take care of us when we are frail and elderly, in the same way we treated them when they were children.

Barbara Oehlberg

Contents

T eachers everywhere have struggled as they work with children and try to understand childrens behaviors, particularly in the past several years. Children have not changed. Childhood has, and the children in todays classrooms merely reflect the challenging, sometimes scary changes in their environments and world.

The Brain and Education

As neurologists learn more about childhood and brain development, a growing body of research has established the importance of supporting children through the toughest kinds of childhoods. Many students come from backgrounds and life experiences that dont align with status quo educational pedagogy. Educators must find new approaches to students learning and developmental needs, even if these require significant changes in traditional approaches to discipline and student learning. It has become very apparent that adapting to these students needs will require a major paradigm shift in education, from birth to high school. Even what are understood to be developmentally appropriate practices will need to be scrutinized. This educational shift must involve the infusion of practices and policies that meet the emotional and learning needs of children of all ages.

The original edition of Making It Better was published in 1996, when neurological research had just begun to be reported. This growing body of research immediately resonated with me as a light of hope and insight into the national dilemma of poor achievement and behavioral issues. In recent years, it has proven to be exactly that.

This revised edition of Making It Better is designed to help educators create safe, nurturing environments for their students based on an understanding of foundational neurological principles and theories. Early child educators have always tried to do no harm. Dedicated educators know that while providing lots of love is a major requirement of early childhood teachers, nurturing todays children can look significantly different than it did thirty or forty years ago. In todays world, distressed children need absolute emotional security and an opportunity to engage in healing activities.

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