The document discusses raising healthy, resilient, and creative children. It focuses on developing the body, mind, and spirit. Specific strategies mentioned include making homemade protein bars and slow roasting marshmallows. The presentation emphasizes connecting the two hemispheres of existence, setting goals for improvement in each area of body, mind and spirit, and applying this model to raising children.

1. HOMEMADE PROTEIN BARS, SLOW
ROASTED MARSHMALLOWS, AND
FOUR LEAF CLOVERS:
MDAEYC Conference: October 2013
A Recipe for Raising
Healthy, Resilient, and Creative
Kids
By Amber Fante
ECE Program Director Baker College of CT

2. Contact Info
 Facebook Me
amber.fante@baker.ed
u
I might not answer
right away.

3. Session Goals
 Focus on connection
between our
hemisphere’s of
existence.
 Identify personal
areas to improve
 Set specific goals for
improvement
 Apply this model to
the children in our
lives

4. Amber’s View
 3 part beings

5. The OUTLIERS

6. Change through setting goals
 Live out of your imagination, not your
history.
Stephen Covey

7. Leading by example

8. Self Assessment
 Body, Mind, and
Spirit
 My strength
is:___________
 Focused attention is
needed:__________

9. Zeke’s
Homemade
Protein
Bars

10. The Body and the Power to
Heal
Zeke and our
Journey towards
Health and
Wellness

11. Amber’s 50 Pound Journey

12. Fast Food Mama to Mother
Earth
 Organics
 Gluten Free
 Trader Joes
 Cook Daily
 The Carb Detox

13. The Health Crisis
 Obesity Map
http://www.ehd.org/health_obesity.php

14. Physical Wellness and the
Brain
This is John Media
He know’s how this works

16. What to do?
 Aunt Karin

17. Recipes
for
Raising
Healthy
Families

18. Your Recipes for the
Classroom/Personal Goals

19. Amber’s Strategies
 Non Food Celebrations
 Ask about nutrition
 Educate parents
 Educate kids
 Educate yourself
 SMALL CHANGES matter
 Nothing tastes as good as _______ feels.

20. Eden ALWAYS Slow Roasts Her
Marshmallows.

21. The Habit Loop

22. Replacing the Loop

23. Self-regulation predicts effective
development in virtually every
domain.
-Laura Berk

24. The Mind and the Power of Habits

25. No Grit No Glory: Listen

26. Encouraging Independence

27. Steven Covey and the Flight
Plan

28. Personal Goals for Self-
Regulation/ Good Habits

29. Recipes for Classroom Habits of
Self-Regulation

30. Elijah Finds the Four Leaf
Clover

31. The Spirit and the Need for
Creativity

32. Elijah Get’s Motivated
 Connector

33. The Power of Q: Why it
Matters

34. The Power of Q

35. Creativity is
Messy

36. Creativity Takes Grit

37. Recipes for Classroom
Creativity

38. Personal Goals for Increasing
Creativity

39. Never Waste a Crisis
“Sometimes one priority-or one person or one
goal needs to overshadow everything else,
though it might be unpopular or threaten the
balance of power that keeps the train running
on time”
-Charles Duhigg
“Without the Red Sea and the Egyptian Army
facing Moses there would be no miracle”
-Amber Fante