Comments on: How to Create a More Positive Learning Atmosphere https://doingwhatmatters.com/how-to-create-a-more-positive-learning-atmosphere/ Cultivating creativity, wisdom, and virtue in education, entrepreneurship, and soul care. Fri, 21 May 2021 23:06:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Homeschooling in Challenging Times • Doing What Matters with Janice Campbell https://doingwhatmatters.com/how-to-create-a-more-positive-learning-atmosphere/#comment-45879 Thu, 20 Aug 2020 17:49:19 +0000 http://www.janice-campbell.com/2008/04/29/limiting-negative-input-creates-a-healthy-learning-atmosphere/#comment-45879 […] You might also like How to Create a More Positive Learning Atmosphere. […]

]]> By: Janice Campbell https://doingwhatmatters.com/how-to-create-a-more-positive-learning-atmosphere/#comment-20761 Sun, 18 May 2008 16:53:04 +0000 http://www.janice-campbell.com/2008/04/29/limiting-negative-input-creates-a-healthy-learning-atmosphere/#comment-20761 Hi, Kalla,

You’re quite right that parents don’t want to become a source of negativity. Interestingly, I chose to specify an ‘unthinking audience,’ because I wanted to avoid the implication that the audience was deliberately malicious or lacking in intelligence.

We can all be unthinking at times– it’s a by-product of being human. However, it is often during those times that we allow ourselves to do, say, or participate in things we wouldn’t be involved with if we took the time to think it through. To say that someone has been unthinking is certainly not name-calling, as it simply acknowledges the part that human frailty can play in our decisions.

My use of the term was meant as a caution, because being unthinking is truly an ever-present danger. I believe it’s important for each of us to be alert and thoughtful in order to avoid relaxing into a state of passivity.

Thank you for writing!
Janice

]]> By: Kalia https://doingwhatmatters.com/how-to-create-a-more-positive-learning-atmosphere/#comment-20760 Sun, 18 May 2008 13:30:23 +0000 http://www.janice-campbell.com/2008/04/29/limiting-negative-input-creates-a-healthy-learning-atmosphere/#comment-20760 Hi Janice,

You make an excellent point about removing negative media from our childrens lives so they do not become trained to “use ridicule in an effort to make someone else look or feel bad”. Unfortunately, as parents trying to raise our children, we are not immune to the barrage of negative media. An excellent example is your statement about “radio talk-show hosts who use ad hominem attacks and ridicule, rather than serious, intelligent communication,to gain support from an unthinking audience” in which you use the very same tactic of name calling using the term “unthinking audience” to make someone else look bad. As parents who wish to keep the exposure of negative media away from our children, we also need to learn to filter what we say and be in the habit of using positive and intelligent communication so that we do not inadvertantly become a source of negativity. As homeschoolers, our children have the greatest exposure to parents therefore the example we set has a profound impact on our children’s development.

]]> By: Lori https://doingwhatmatters.com/how-to-create-a-more-positive-learning-atmosphere/#comment-20759 Mon, 05 May 2008 19:48:49 +0000 http://www.janice-campbell.com/2008/04/29/limiting-negative-input-creates-a-healthy-learning-atmosphere/#comment-20759 Our family gave up TV and cable five and one-half years ago and it was one of the best things we have ever done. We haven’t missed it hardly at all. The time we used to spend watching tv is now spent playing games, reading books, camping, playing, etc. Our family has grown closer as a result! I would recommend unplugging the tv for all families. Now, when we happen to see tv at other people’s homes we are shocked by what tv has become. Our families worry that we will fall out of touch with current events, but just as mentioned in the article, we always find out what is important. Our children haven’t heard a lot of the language children their age are using. They aren’t as stressed out about the world. And everything that does come up, we can take it in context with the Word.

]]> By: Kimmie https://doingwhatmatters.com/how-to-create-a-more-positive-learning-atmosphere/#comment-20758 Thu, 01 May 2008 12:35:56 +0000 http://www.janice-campbell.com/2008/04/29/limiting-negative-input-creates-a-healthy-learning-atmosphere/#comment-20758 Hi Janice;

True, true…garbage in, garbage out.

I added you to my friends list, as truly in my heart you are a sweet dear friend, who I am thankful for.

(((hug)))
Kimmie
mama to 6
one homemade and 5 adopted

]]> By: Patricia https://doingwhatmatters.com/how-to-create-a-more-positive-learning-atmosphere/#comment-20757 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:38:46 +0000 http://www.janice-campbell.com/2008/04/29/limiting-negative-input-creates-a-healthy-learning-atmosphere/#comment-20757 As a self-proclaimed political junkie, I struggle with this all the time. I don’t want to breed apathy, but where in our society is the rational discourse?

]]> By: Carla https://doingwhatmatters.com/how-to-create-a-more-positive-learning-atmosphere/#comment-20756 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:35:22 +0000 http://www.janice-campbell.com/2008/04/29/limiting-negative-input-creates-a-healthy-learning-atmosphere/#comment-20756 We took up this challenge last week to turn off the TV. The kids are allowed to choose one program at night. Dad still watches a lot of news or sports. The first day, was like drug addicts coming off their drugs. My 14-year-old daughter sulked for hours on the couch. Now, afer a week, the kids are outside playing more, reading more, the 14-year-old has taken up beading, and their Wii time is limited to 30 minutes a day. I find it so much calmer now.

]]> By: Jocelyn https://doingwhatmatters.com/how-to-create-a-more-positive-learning-atmosphere/#comment-20755 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:06:20 +0000 http://www.janice-campbell.com/2008/04/29/limiting-negative-input-creates-a-healthy-learning-atmosphere/#comment-20755 For those of you in this trap…getting out of it will bear more fruit than you can understand. You may have to literally “detox”…and the longer you stay off TV and radio, the more discerning you will become when it’s on…to the point that you will not be able to bear such nonsense, sensationalism and worldliness. You will wonder how you ever put up with it in the first place. Stick with it, and reward any whining about it with chores. Choose movies carefully, and make them an occasional event which is made special by planning a special snack or inviting friends over. You CAN do it.

]]> By: cindy https://doingwhatmatters.com/how-to-create-a-more-positive-learning-atmosphere/#comment-20754 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:35:37 +0000 http://www.janice-campbell.com/2008/04/29/limiting-negative-input-creates-a-healthy-learning-atmosphere/#comment-20754 Thanks for the info. I’m gonna try it tomorrow. We’ve always got the TV on even though we know better. I hope to get a loving, peacable life out of it.

]]> By: Carmen Watson https://doingwhatmatters.com/how-to-create-a-more-positive-learning-atmosphere/#comment-20753 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:31:49 +0000 http://www.janice-campbell.com/2008/04/29/limiting-negative-input-creates-a-healthy-learning-atmosphere/#comment-20753 I just read over your blog. It’s as if you read my mind. I’ve been trying to get my family off t.v. and give up cable. My husband is resistant. So we’ve compromised. The kids cannot watch television unless their school and chores are done and done well. And yes, I have to compliment my children more on speaking respectfully and politely instead of scolding them to do so. It also helps to model the same. Thank you for your article.

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