Early Education is where the journey starts. About 20 years after your child begins at Palm View, they will be receiving their college degree!
We are committed to success in our early education center. As part of the ACSI benefits, we would like to offer you resources and information.
First -- Check out the Pre-School webpage. New pictures are posted there. Subscribe to this blog! Read the your re-Fill Newsletter. If there is any way we can assist you in raising your child in a Christian manner, please let us know!
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Welcome to the reFill e-newsletter, an encouragement as part of your ACSI membership offered in collaboration with MOPS International.
Engaging Through Listening
By Karen Marchant, Director of Development, MOPS International
As a leader, you know that the root cause of many issues in working with others is a lack of good communication. Communication challenges aren't confined to leadership; they also take place at home. Just try to communicate with a teenager who won't listen or an infant who can't talk or a husband who has run out of all his words by the time he gets home from work!
What makes communication so challenging? It requires active listening which takes focus, the right environment and using more than one of your five senses. Most importantly, effective listening requires that I check my ego at the door and set aside my personal agenda. What I believe and how I process what I hear is also influenced by my past experiences, present desires and prejudices or assumptions. Ultimately, effective listening requires humility - acknowledging that it's not all about me and what I want someone to know. It's about knowing what the other person wants me to understand.
All of these factors, when combined, present a compelling picture of why communication can be challenging. Just know that a wonderful gift you can give another person is the opportunity to be heard. Stopping everything you're doing, looking into the eyes of someone and simply listening communicates "You matter to me and you matter to God."
Share your thoughts on the weekly reFill Forum.
Welcome to the reFill e-newsletter, an encouragement as part of your ACSI membership offered in collaboration with MOPS International.
Engaging Through Listening
By Karen Marchant, Director of Development, MOPS International
As a leader, you know that the root cause of many issues in working with others is a lack of good communication. Communication challenges aren't confined to leadership; they also take place at home. Just try to communicate with a teenager who won't listen or an infant who can't talk or a husband who has run out of all his words by the time he gets home from work!
What makes communication so challenging? It requires active listening which takes focus, the right environment and using more than one of your five senses. Most importantly, effective listening requires that I check my ego at the door and set aside my personal agenda. What I believe and how I process what I hear is also influenced by my past experiences, present desires and prejudices or assumptions. Ultimately, effective listening requires humility - acknowledging that it's not all about me and what I want someone to know. It's about knowing what the other person wants me to understand.
All of these factors, when combined, present a compelling picture of why communication can be challenging. Just know that a wonderful gift you can give another person is the opportunity to be heard. Stopping everything you're doing, looking into the eyes of someone and simply listening communicates "You matter to me and you matter to God."
Share your thoughts on the weekly reFill Forum.
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