Episode 65: Parenting 3-7 Year-Olds With Ba Luvmour [The Amiel Show]

[Update: in July 2017, Ba’s school, Summa Academy, suddenly closed. It was a shock to our family and others.  The way Ba and the other administrators handled the ending fell short of what we wanted and expected given the closeness of our relationship the prior four years. It hurt. Still—and this is the main point I want to make—our family continues using the parenting practices we learned at Summa and continue to see positive results from them. There’s good stuff in here!]

This week on the podcast, I welcome back Ba Luvmour to discuss parenting kids ages 3-7. Ba is the headmaster at Summa Academy in Portland, which our older son attends–and loves!

Ba and I previously spoke about parenting 8-12 year-olds and parenting teens.

Highlights

• 7:00 The importance of “rightful place”
• 13:00 Loving touch, the nourishment of this stage, comes in many forms
• 16:30 Being patient with a child’s egotism and expressions of power
• 24:30 Kids this age don’t read time well
• 36:30 Being a mountain for the child
• 43:00 Do these kids need to sit at the dinner table while adults talk?
• 47:30 Rejoicing in a child’s experience versus saying “good job!”

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Explore Additional Resources

• Summa Academy—an independent school in downtown Portland, OR for children ages 5-14 and their families
• Grow Together: Parenting As A Path To Well-being, Wisdom, And Joy by Josette Luvmour (new in 2017)
• Optimal Parenting by Ba Luvmour
• Stages of children’s development—the Natural Learning Relationships approach
  • Body Being 0-7 years
  • Feeling Being 8-12 years **focus of this interview
  • Ideal Being 13-18 years
  • Reasonable Being 18-23 years

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