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Show Lakeside Review 3 Thursday, March 26, 1998 Conference aims to help people be better parents By JaNAE FRANCIS Standard-Examme- r correspondent LAYTON - Organizers of a Friday conference at Northridge High School are hoping to change the way local parents and teachers interact with children forever. The Davis County Council on Infants, Children, Youth & Families will sponsor its ninth annual conference on building families. This years conference is built around ideas touted by Foster Cline, M.D., an internationally recognized child and adult psychologist who is author of Parenting with Love and Logic, Parenting Teens with Love and Logic and Teaching with Love and Logic. Parents who learn to get away from punishment and anger and use natural consequences to help their children leam responsibility will save themselves a lot of frustration, said Candace Gunnell, 1CY&F executive director. I find that parents who use these principals often enjoy their children more and develop better relationships with them. Conference registration is at 8 a.m. and Clines keynote address begins at 9 a.m. Cost for the y conference is $35 including a light breakfast and lunch. Those who attend will be able to choose three of a dozen workshops that best meet their parenting or teaching needs. Residents also may attend afternoon or evening sessions beginning at 3 p.m. or 7 p.m. for all-da- $10. in front of the neighbors. The featured speaker professes the notion that responsibility is learned through practice. Cline wants parents to aspire to allow their children to learn at affordable prices. He explains that although children will feel pain from mistakes made at any age, mistakes made while young offer learning at a much lesser cost than the same mistakes made when older. He offers an example of a child who borrows money for a tape recorder from his mother and then fails to pay her back. The mother then repossesses the tape recorder. Cline said this lesson comes at a far lesser cost than the teen who has his first car repossessed Likewise, he said, allowing children to make myriads of other mistakes allows them to leam similar important lessons. He encourages parents to take on more of a consultant role, giving their children choices whenever possible rather than attempting to force them into certain behaviors. Cline writes that often some of the most caring parents raise unsuccessful children as they take away their childrens chances to Traffic tickets, overdue bills, love means rotating their lives around their children, hover over and rescue their children whenever trouble arises. Theyre forever irresponsible people, crippling diseases, taxes - these and othqf, normal events of adult life usuyjj-l- y do not disappear because a loving benefactor bails us out. Helicopter parents fail to prepare their kids to meet that kind &$ world. V; Cline says that drill sergeant parents also are ineffective in the long run. He defines drill sergeant pa Tr ents as those who constantly tdl their children exactly what to do, not allowing their children any room to think for themselves. ; He writes that once these chit dren reach the real world, they make horrendous decisions they are rookies at thinking for themselves. ,J running lunches and permission slips and to homework assignments school; they're always pulling their children out of jams; not a day goes by when theyre not protecting little junior from something - usually from a learning experience the child needs or deserves. Cline states that these parents receive support from others as, ironically, helicopter parents often are viewed by others as model parents. However, he says the real world does not run on the bailout principal. fail. Cline states in his book Parenting with Love and Logic that the way some parents show love can get them into trouble. For example, he says that he- licopter parents, those that think bo-caus- e Students raising money to build worm tunnel By JaNAE FRANCIS Standard-Examine- r correspondent LAYTON - Students, teachers and parents from Hill Field Elementary School in Clearfield will spend part of theit day off of school Friday at Northridge High School raising money for an upcoming school ; project. During the dinner break between 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. at the Davis County Infants, Children, Youth and Families ninth annual conference on families, students will sell food and beverages to conference goers. . The of a number of designed to enable the school to build . project is the first fund-raise- what school officials are calling a worm tunnel - a underground, lighted and ventilated clear tunnel that will allow whole classes of students to visit and simulatesously observe above-groun- d and underground plant and animal life. , I" The project, says Hill Field Principal Judy Nixon, will be the first of its kind in the state. Utah has a similar worm tun-hthat is indoors at the Utah Centennial Park, but this will be the first one to be built outdoors, Nixon said. When finished, Nixon said her school hopes to invite students from throughout and even outside the county to visit the site. ! The school already has received support from the Davis School District foundation and the Davis Conservancy District for the project. In fact, a Davis Conservancy District representative first proposed the idea to Hill Field Elementary School officials. Nixon said organizers need to raise some $5,000 to complete the project that will include numerous safety features, including locking doors on entrances at each side. ; She said safety is an important factor in the planning of the worm tunnel - both safety of children and natural processes that will be observed without harm. three-footwid- e, el ; 13. (graber; Nixon predicts that the type of learning that will take place in the worm tunnel will be invaluable. We want to be able to use our environment so that pacts the student to create it Moke your business port Nixon ing learning experiences, said. I think this tool will certainly be something that kids will remember and look forward to as far as coming to school. We believe the project will create an interest in the sciences and other areas. This special Informative edition to the Lakeside Review will feature articles on Business, Transportation, Schools, Koysvilles sesquicentennlal, the future and will Include Davis County. OGDEN - More than 500 students in grades 6 through 12 2 Designer Vinyl t 2 Grandeur copy datcTs. AprilJ7. Toind. but.mpe, I information contactyour sales representatives call 625-437- Country Blinds 4. West Point 728-057- 5 "t) 1 XV IS ( Ol NTVS ( ( acres Hill Air Force Base donated the land to the school to be used as a nature conservation center. Already students and teachers have created a two-acr- e wetlands acre dry and a lands. The worm tunnel of the wetlands. ' will be part The project also has drawn community interest as members of the schools community council, which includes city officials, local business people and representatives from HAFB, have taken a lead role in the project. The community council plans to build the tunnel once supplies are purchased. t'' ;i urJf are open to projects (grades the public Wednesday from 9 p.m. and April 2 from 9 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. All projects will be displayed and judged in the Dee Events Center. NOW B3S X. Hours. 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To make science education complete, students must be allowed to experiment firsthand," said Michael Slabaugh, a WSU chemistry professor. This fair gives students a chance to put scientific method into practice. 30R COPY In southeast of the playground. ineering, environmental, medical and dental, social and behavioral science and zoology. .o Value! for rv inillpublish April 28 Davis 2000 and beyond - will be at Weber State University March 30 through April 2 competing in the State Science and Engineering Fair of Utah. Now in its 31st year, the fair is held annually at the university in an effort to encourage learning science through doing. Students competed in their individual school districts to advance to the stale level. Project categories at the state competi what Is being done to prepare a look back at the last century Advertising Utah students to show off creativity, knowledge at fair ; WoodPerfect Advertise in Davis 2000 and beyond. spent. The project is part of a larger nature center the school is working to complete that encompasses fenced-of- f Lake Forest of the future! Nixon said the project already is creating some of this effect with her students. She said more than 60 students have joined the schools nature club and are working to plan the worm tunnel. We are certainly wanting the kids to be involved in the plans, Nixon said. If it takes us more time by involving the children, we think it will be time well four-and-a-h- Beauty... Advertisers, im- ongo- i $1.00 OFF ! Any Sandwich FREE Medium Size Drink wpurchase of i i. Sandwich i 6-- The top students in each category will advance to an international competition May 10 in Fort Worth, Texas, where more than 1,000 students from 45 states and 20 countries will participate. All MnJfchhi arc servej wiih ytwir lIaokc id p 4.ito vtl.iJ or cole si m, puklc .mJ i cooLtc - Call Or Fax Your Orders In Advance 974 N. 400 VI. Layton 544-907- 3 ph 70 S. 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