In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are thus steadily expanded, while those of adults are progressively constricted. The result is unruly children and childish adults. Thomas Szasz
Learn from Your Mistakes and so will Your Child
Everyone makes mistakes. Granted, some mistakes are more significant than others and harder to get over, but they are a part of life. How individuals deal with those mistakes is significant to their self-esteem. Children who are taught from an early age to admit to their mistakes understand that it's not a crime to make one, and they seem to have the ability to cope much better with them. They recognize that a mistake was made and admit the error. Most importantly, these children also develop a strategy to change the mistake and not do the same thing again.
The process of making and learning from mistakes is an extremely valuable life skill for everyone because learning involves risking. Every time children risk, they will not always succeed. But they tried something new and most likely learned from it as a result.
Children with low self-esteem deal with making a mistake quite differently. More often than not, these children use the experience to devalue themselves. Instead of looking at the error as an opportunity to learn, these children interpret the experience as a reason to quit and never try again. They view it as a devaluing and humiliating experience.
You can help your child cope with mistakes by first making sure they understand that everyone makes mistakes, even you. Own up to your own mistakes to teach them there's no shame in making them. Make sure they understand that it's okay to make mistakes. This presents a great opportunity to tell your child what you've learned to do differently the next time. Then, offer strategies to turn mistakes into learning opportunities. In the process, you can provide your child with an opportunity to enhance their self-esteem and accept responsibility for the mistakes they make. Help your child to realize that the mistake is the problem, and not them. Then help them develop a positive plan for the next time around, and what they'll do differently the next time to avoid making the same mistake again.
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Jerome Godboo-Deep Sea Diver
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Al Cross - drums, Alec Fraser - bass, Darren Gallen - guitar, John Daly - guitar and Jerome Godboo - harmonica.
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Jerome Godboos new Humdinger Cd is now available for download on
iTunes. Listen for free to this blues recording done the old way with
everyone singing and performing at the same time in the same room.
A true representation of a live show done in the studio with high
fidelity.
Also available on:
Musicload http://tinyurl.com/4pp94l
Audio Lunchbox http://www.audiolunchbox.com/album?a=163909
Rhapsody http://www.rhapsody.com/jeromegodboo/humdinger
eMusic
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and other fine on-line stores.
Jerome is a singer, songwriter and harp player extraordinaire. He has released twelve albums over twenty years. He's recorded and toured with the Phantoms, Alannah Myles, Dutch Mason, Jeff Healey, Ronnie Hawkins, Jack de Keyzer, Jimmy Bowskill and Suzie McNeil. He headlined at the Montreal Jazz Festival (2005) and performed on stages across Canada, the U.S., France, Finland, Portugal, Ukraine, Israel and beyond. He's played with Prince, Pinetop Perkins, James Cotton, the Tragically Hip, Levon Helm, Billy Ray Cyrus and many more. Jerome has electrified audiences of all sizes. He's opened for the Yardbirds and performed at the Toronto Air Canada Centre with Ronnie Hawkins as well as to record-breaking crowds at the Montreal Jazz Festival and another 30,000 at Canada Day festivities as the show stopper harmonica player in The Jimmy Bowskill Band.
Jerome's network television appearances include CTV's Open Mike and Canada A.M., Much Music, City TV's Toronto Rocks and Breakfast Television, Global's News at Noon, CBC's Zed, TVO's Planet Parent, and In Session. He's also been showcased at Moses Znaimer's Idea City and on numerous radio shows.
Jerome's current band includes Shawn Kellerman and Pat Rush, alternating on guitar, Alec Fraser on bass and Al Cross on drums. Shawn has toured with Mel Brown, Deborah Coleman, Bobby Rush, Carlos Del Junco and Paul Reddick. Pat has recorded and toured with Jeff Healey and Johnny Winter and toured with James Cotton. Alec played bass with David Wilcox, Bo Diddley, the Drifters, Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, and has been working internationally for the past seven years in The Jeff Healey Band.
Al drummed on tour and in the studio with Jane Siberry, Bob Snider and Big Sugar. This rhythm sections session history is too long to list here.
MAPLEBLUES MAGAZINE REVIEW - about the new CD Humdinger..."There is a lovely, intimate ambience here with the feeling that these are four friends who just set up in your rec room to play some new songs for you... The songs are a well-sequenced selection of modern electric blues. Jerome is in excellent voice and this is one fine band with Kellerman being especially inventive." - John Valenteyn (2007) www.torontobluessociety.com/0709johnspic ks.htm
Here is a link to the full CD review from Mapleblues Magazine (scroll down 3 reviews)
http://www.torontobluessociety.com/07...
Canada has a huge collection of world class harmonica players. Carlos del Junco, Michael Pickett, Donny" Mr Downchild" Walsh, Roly Platt to name a few that are worth checking out.
Management & Booking: Brian Slack, Zeb Productions 22 Belton Avenue, Pointe-Claire, QC CANADA H9S 3Z9 Tel: (514) 830-4932 Fax: (514) 695-1291 e-mail: zeb@vl.videotron.ca
Author: Magublican
Keywords: Godboo Fraser Cross Daly Gallen blues harmonica Healey humdinger silver dollar toronto guitar
Added: May 26, 2008
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