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Dr Paul Jenkins

Nov 22
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How to Help A Child Overcome Fear

By M-Power

My training is primarily as a child psychologist and I’ve helped a lot of kids overcome fear. I’m going to bounce back and forth just a little bit today between talking to you as a parent and showing you how I might talk to a child about fear and how to overcome it. I think the first important thing we need to do is teach our children about fear, what it is. And this is based on your brain’s fight-or-flight response. This is a natural mechanism that’s built in. So, if I’m talking to a child, I might say, “You know what? Your brain is amazing and it’s in charge of everything. It’s in charge of what you think. It’s in charge of what you feel. It’s in charge of what you do. It’s like your brain is in charge of everything that’s going on. And one of its jobs…

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Nov 11
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How To Get Someone To Like You

By M-Power

We’ve all wondered it from time to time how do you get someone to like you. You know what? I learned this from some little kids. I’ve shared with you before that I spent (Wow) probably 12 or 13 years of my career doing child custody evaluations. I did a lot of psychological evaluations and interviews with children, little kids. And they taught me so much. I used to have this instrument that I would use with children called a sentence completion test. And it’s not really a test. It’s more of an exercise to pry out some of their thinking. There are sentence stems and then there’s a blank at the end. And you read the stem to them and they fill in the blank. And one of these was “To make friends, you have to…” Now, how did you answer that? You know what? Over 90% of the…

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Nov 09
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How To Help Kids With Listening Skills

By M-Power

Paul: We are not going to jump into all of the psychological aspects of listening so much as the actual mechanics and skills that are associated with listening, and I have Vicki helping me with this as she works will this all the time. Vicki: There is something called central auditory processing. That is where kid’s hearing is just fine but for some reason when they hear an instruction or whatever it gets kind of jumbled and they don’t know how to process it. Paul: Yeah, the lights are on but nobody’s home. Vicki: Yeah, well a little bit. That is kind of few and far between. A lot of children have a hard time listening. It is a skill. I don’t know if you’ve ever googled those videos of the baby who has not had hearing and then they get their first cochlear implant. And they map it and…

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Nov 08
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How To Overcome Fear and Anxiety

By M-Power

Fear and anxiety are probably the biggest barriers to our success and happiness. Fear, anxiety, and nervousness are very common human experiences but, it’s something that gets in our way. And sometimes robs us of our joy and success. Now, to understand this, let’s just take a look first at the role that fear plays in our lives. It’s not a bad thing, okay? If we had no fear, what would happen? Now, you might think if you’re an entrepreneur or if you are a very creative person who wants to accomplish some phenomenal things that you could get those things done if you had no fear. But honestly, what if you had no fear at all? We come to this earth with fears built in to keep us safe. One of the natural fears that we all have for example is a fear of heights or a fear of…

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