Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Rick Rakauskas

Helping Your Child Learn To Sing

If you've ever taken singing lessons for yourself, you might think "I wish I learned all this when I was a child." And you might want to think about helping your child learn to sing early on. So how do you go about it? You could, of course, sign up yo... Read >

Teaching Children To Be Kind

Getting an education is more than learning your ABCs and counting, even at preschool level. As any good Montessori teacher knows, education is about preparing children to be great people. So along with learning how to read, paint and tie shoelaces, presch... Read >

What Singers Should Do With Their Hands

When you've taken a few singing lessons and you have enough confidence to perform in public, you might start wondering what you're going to do with your hands when you're on stage. Do you wave them around like a conductor? Do you stick them in your pock... Read >

Ways To Beat Anxiety

Anxiety seems to be more and more common these days. People often visit professionals for help with this problem via hypnosis and other methods. These methods often help, but there are some things that we can do to help ourselves. Anxiety probably h... Read >

Road Rules For Small Children

Some people walk to bring their children to their Montessori early childhood centre; others don't. But most parents of young children will walk somewhere at some time, even if it's just down to the corner store. And it's important to teach your children... Read >

Don't Let Fear Dominate Your Life

Fear. That paralyzing numbness, mixed with a racing heartbeat, a dry mouth, shaking hands and that dreadful sense of doom hanging over you. Don't let it rule you any longer. A number of conditions that send people looking for help from a hypnotherap... Read >

Musical Terms Explained For Singers

Not every singer can read sheet music, even if they have passed a course of vocal lessons. But if you come across a page of black lines and notes with little tails, Italian words and strange symbols, knowing what this notation means can help you perform ... Read >

Don't Panic!

panic attacks are nothing new and they are surprisingly common. Ask any hypnotherapist and they're likely to tell you that this is one of the most common reasons why people come to them for hypnotherapy. panic attacks are definitely horrible to exper... Read >

The Milton Method And Hypnotherapy

A lot of clinical hypnotherapists use the Milton Method for treating their clients. The Milton Method blends the techniques of hypnosis established by the pioneer Dr Braid with the concepts of neuro-linguistic programming (NLP). But what is the Milton Me... Read >

What Is NLP?

The way we use language changes the way we think. The way we think shapes the way we behave. If you can change the thinking, you can change the behaviour. And you can change the thinking by changing the language. This is just one of the principles beh... Read >

Golden Rules For Singing Karaoke

Here's to that unknown Japanese inventor who first brought us the "empty orchestra". "Empty orchestra" is the literal translation of the word "karaoke", and it's a real winner at parties. Who doesn't like singing along with good old classic songs and li... Read >

What Sort Of Singer Are You?

One of the nice things about singing in a group is that each person has a different voice. Although the same vocal techniques are used by every type of voice - which means that many singing lessons are one size fits all - each voice has its most comfor... Read >

Vacation Tips For Parents: Airports

Maybe you're thinking of taking the kids to Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida, for your next family vacation. And you won't be alone there - this is a world famous resort. You will probably be flying into Orlando rather than driving to this c... Read >

Montessori Maths At Home

One thing that the sensory materials originally developed by Maria Montessori for use in early childhood learning were for was to teach basic mathematical concepts such as length, width, height, weight and the like. A child using these materials looks as... Read >

Messy Play

As any parent knows, children can be very messy. Tidying up after children seems to take forever and more than one parent has been amazed at how much washing can be created by one small person. But now and again, children (and parents) need the fun of bei... Read >

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