“Why on earth would you want to do that??!!: Understanding Children’s Temperament”

A Special Evening with Dr. Georgia Tiedemann

Neurodevelopmental research is confirming what parents have always know: our children are born with their own unique and enduring temperamental styles.  Many intellectually gifted children have particular intense or extreme personalities.

Understanding how basic temperamental characteristics drive our children’s often baffling behavior, can help us respond with compassion and guide our children more effectively. 

In this workshop, we’ll explore the fundamental dimensions of temperament, the joys and challenges these characteristics can bring, and how we can use our understandings of temperamental differences to make life more manageable for our kids – and their parents.

Dr. Georgia Tiedemann, R. Psych., is a registered psychologist and a mother of two young adults.  Her clinical work with children and their families began in the early 1980’s with her doctoral research at UBC, into how parents can help their children learn to share.  Later, she worked in public health, consulting to families and caregivers of young children.  For about the past 20 years, he work has been partly in child and adolescent mental health, and partly in private practice doing assessments and consultations around issues such as learning disabilities and intellectual giftedness.  She has been an enthusiastic supporter of gifted children in our community. 

Admission $10

Thursday, October 3rd, 2013
6:30-8:30pm
Winslow Centre, Gallery room
1100 Winslow Centre, Coquitlam

Please plan on arriving between 6:30 – 6:45pm, so we may begin promptly at 7pm

RSVP appreciated at fast.brained.kids.coquitlam@gmail.com so we can gage numbers

Sponsored by Fast Brained Kids of Coquitlam (GCA)

 

SUMMER POSSIBILITIES in Our Area 2013

Jabber-Wacky www.odysseybc.ca Offering kids a chance to be totally creative including making things that go zoom, building towers from balsa wood, exploring inventions and making prototypes

Mindstein www.mindstein.ca Strategy-thinking puzzles and games, critical thinking strategies, generating many ideas and finding new ways to think for children in grades K-7

Think Tank Challenge Center www.thinktankchallengecenter.com -innovation and problem solving in a cooperative group setting

Legomation & MORE at Heritage Woods in Coquitlam www.mediafinearts.com

SFU Summer Camps http://www.sfu.ca/camps.html or www.sfu.ca/recreation

Evergreen Cultural Center: SUMMER CAMPS GALORE! A terrific line-up of camps for 7-18 year-olds, running in July and August READ MORE  http://www.evergreenculturalcentre.ca/Programs/Summer+Camps/default.htm

Place des arts Art Center and Music School – Inspire the artist in you! http://www.placedesarts.ca/

the art centre Port Moody – Summer Art Camps and Classes 2013 http://www.pomoarts.ca/

Quiring Chamber Music Camp www.quiringmusiccamp.org A unique program for musicians aged 5-20! A combination of chamber music, master classes, composition/art classes and concerts providing a well-balanced, fun and enriching experience for music students

UBC Summer Programs: http://camps.ubc.ca/ Tech Trek Summer Camp https://www.cs.ubc.ca/grades-k-12/techtrek/summer-camps  and Geering up http://www.geeringup.apsc.ubc.ca/vancouver/

Bard on the Beach www.bardonthebeach.org The main camp at Vanier Park, with satellite camps in Burnaby and other communities.

Academie Duello www.academieduello.com *Knightly training including falconry, heraldry, swordplay, archery, strategy and medieval games.

St. George’s School www.summeratstgeorges.ca Fun topics include Lego, engineering, alien guide to planet earth, junior robotics, cartooning, digital media, web design, chess & puzzles, circus skills and Shakespeare

Digivations  Summer Programs http://www.digivations.com/programs/summerdaycampacademy.html

 

An Evening with Gordon Neufeld – How to Keep Children Safe in a Wounding World

What can parents and teachers do to keep their children safe? Signs of alarm are skyrocketing in our children and bullies seem more numerous than ever. Peer interaction – the primary source of wounding in today’s world – is now only a click away and seems virtually never-ending for many children. In the aftermath of recent teenage suicides, legislators are scrambling to pass laws and social activists are calling upon the social media to police themselves. But laws won’t address the existence of a mean streak and the social media have yet to demonstrate a conscience.

If we cannot change the world around them for the better, how do we keep the world from changing our children for the worse? What are the factors that put children at risk and how can we recognize when they are in trouble? How do we protect our children without heading for the hills or locking them up?

Dr. Neufeld will address these issues and point to a way through that puts parents and teachers back into the driver’s seat with regards to the children in their care.

Tuesday, March 12, 2013  from 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm @ Sir Winston Churchill Secondary, 7055 Heather Street, Vancouver     TICKETS $35

For more information please see – Evening with Gordon Neufeld Poster

 

Our Kid’s Conference

A Conference for Parents & Others Connected to Gifted Children. Featuring: Stephanie Tolan who will speak on the topics “Gifted Creatives” and “Gifted Identity: Inspiring Personal Growth”   ($60 includes lunch & handouts)

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20 FROM 9:00 – 2:30

AT WINSLOW CENTRE, 1100 WINSLOW AVE., COQUITLAM

Plus: Total ChaOS! for Grade 6-8 Students
And: Jabber-Wacky Mini-Camp – A Kids’ Program for Grades 2-5!
(Children’s programs are $25 – see reg. form for details)

Download pdf for more detailed description about these 3 programs.

Online Registration Form

Science Spooktacular at SFU

On Saturday, October 27, 2012 there will be a free afternoon of spooky science fun for kids in grades K-6 and their families presented by the Biology, Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology, Chemistry, and Physics Departments and Radiation Safety. Come out and see some Creepy Creatures and play with some Halloween-y hands-on science activities in the south concourse of the Academic Quadrangle, just outside Shrum Science Centre lecture hall B9200. We will present the Phantom Physics and Cryptic Chemistry show twice at 1:00 PM and 3:00 PM. Check out this YouTube video to see how much fun science can be. 

Advance Ticket Reservations for the Phantom Physics and Cryptic Chemistry shows are now available. To ensure your seats at one of the shows, please fill out the reservation survey.

Spooktacular Schedule  Saturday, Oct 27th

12:00 – 3:30 PM Demos and Activities South Academic Quadrangle 3000 Level

1:00 PM and 3:00 PM Phantom Physics and Cryptic Chemistry Show Shrum Science Centre Lecture Theatre B9200

Costumes Welcome!

more summer programs

Computer Animation 1 students will use tools such as LEGO stop motion animation to build their skills.This camp is designed to provide students aged 9 to 12 with the expertise required to enter into the ever expanding computer animation industry. As students advance through a sound progression of relevant 3D production training, they will gain the fundamental skills and knowledge to produce a portfolio and demo reel to showcase their talents to potential employers. Ever wanted to create stunning environments and characters for video games, or produce breathtaking visual effects?  

July 23rd to 27th, 2012 9:00am – 12 noon

Video Game Design I

In this Week-long day camp, students ages 9 to 13 will learn how video games work from the inside out. Within a few hours, they will have completed their first game. Students dive into a world of storyboarding, role playing, and complex game development.

Students will have the chance to create games from a variety of genres – including action, adventure, platform, side-scrollers, pinball, strategy, and racing – or to invent new ones. Students can design their own characters, backgrounds, and sounds, or use content from existing libraries. We’ll cover concepts like game planning, path-based movement, collision detection, level design, dialogue, inventory, and playability. Students will help each other test their games and may choose to collaborate on some projects. At the end of the program they’ll be able to show off their games to friends, family, and classmates.

July 23-27, 2012 or Aug 13-17 1pm to 4 pm

Digital Arts Class

In this one week camp, students aged 9 to 12 will learn the preliminary elements of the Adobe Photoshop program including working with layers, transparency, numerous filters and tools such as cloning, painting, and various artistic effects. Students will also learn how to import, manipulate, edit and print images using Photoshop. To create digital artwork pieces, students will use both their digital cameras (if they have them) and a scanner to import photos, drawings and other material such as magazine pictures. Students will also learn how to prepare images for both the internet and printing, including cropping, pixel and dpi dimensions and sizing.

Upcoming Workshop

Click here for more info – Worry monsters Poster May 15th

This workshop is for parents who are supporting a child who is struggling with anxiety.  Estimates are that over 42,000 children in BC are experiencing some form of anxiety “disorder.” Anxiety comes in many shapes and sizes, and appears different in younger children than it does in older children and adults.

Parents will learn about the common forms of anxiety in children (ex: Separation Anxiety, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Phobias, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Social Anxiety and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder). What unites these different expressions of worry?  How best support a child feeling overwhelmed by such worry?  Participants leave with a better sense of how to help put a child’s worry monster to rest.