How to Create and Celebrate Success For Your Baby

Create and Celebrate Your Baby’s Success

Create and celebrate your baby’s success with Suzuki Early Childhood Education (SECE) Baby Class. For example, the activities create opportunities for you and your baby to explore and learn together.

Certainly, all parents hope their children are successful in whatever they do. Your job as a parent is to find ways to help them succeed. Participating in Suzuki ECE Baby Class is one way to help your baby successfully learn skills step-by-step.

Success Breed Success is one of the SECE Concepts.

What is Success?

People have different ideas about what success means. Unfortunately, it is often defined in terms of money.

However, that definition doesn’t fit your baby. They are dependent on you for everything for a very long time.

So, here are two definitions of success:

1. a favorable outcome of something attempted
2. the ability to solve problems and continue to solve problems

Failing Should Lead to Creating Success

Still, one more definition of success is:

The ability to deal with failure, but keep on going and learn from it.

You may have heard someone say, “FAIL!”, when someone else makes a mistake. This should make us all cringe!!

Firstly, people usually don’t make mistakes on purpose. Secondly, you rarely hear the accusing person say, “Let’s figure out what went wrong and try to do it correctly.”

It seems like they said it to just be unkind. Maybe it makes them feel better in some way.

Worse yet, the accuser may think it’s funny. None of these are good reasons to point out someone’s failure.

This is one obvious reaction to failure. A more subtle reaction is one with which most of us struggle everyday.

It happens particularly when we deal with out children. They say or do something that is not correct.

I can almost guarantee that our instant reaction will be, “No! That’s not right.” The unspoken part is, “Can’t you do better than that?”.

We may also get impatient waiting for our child to respond in some way. So much so, that we just give them the answer.

Automatically, that reaction sets up negative feelings for the child. It becomes more difficult for them to think clearly.

Maybe think about the last time someone may have treated you this way. It didn’t feel very good, did it?

Environment For Creating and Celebrating Success

We all know that it is much easier to learn and work in a positive environment. Interestingly, another one of the SECE Concepts is Environment Nurtures Growth.

You can set up success for your child. But, it does require effort and patience on your part.

So, how do you, as a parent, create opportunities for your baby to be successful? Let’s think about some of the milestones in your baby’s growth and learning.

Remember your baby’s very first smile (that wasn’t the result of gas)? Would you have even thought of saying that it wasn’t a good smile?!!

How about the first time they rolled over? Did you say, “Uh, baby of mine, you didn’t do that quite right.”

Think about when your baby takes his /her first steps? You certainly will not respond with “FAIL!” when they fall down on their first attempts.

Of course, you didn’t say any of those things. more over, you didn’t run out of patience waiting for them to do those things again and again.

Instead, you encourage them to try again. You create opportunities for them to a keep trying until they accomplished their goals, whatever they may be.

Then you celebrate every small accomplishment. It’s not a coincidence that another of the SECE Concepts is Encouragement is Essential.

So, with your baby’s first attempts and accomplishments there is success. That builds confidence.

You baby’s confidence leads to their willingness to try more new things. There is an energy that comes with confidence.

That energy helps guide your child to want to repeat an activity until he/she does it better. The repetition forms knowledge and good habits which lead to more success.

Success Breeds Success

The interesting part of the Success Breeds Success concept is the word “breeds”. In this case, it means to train, develop, or nurture.

Dr. Suzuki used these particular words all the time. His goal in the Mother-Tongue Method of Education was to train students to think and learn. He wanted to develop their abilities and nurture beautiful hearts in them.

Repetition is the basic ideas of the Mother-Tongue Method. When your baby is learning to speak, they repeat words over and over again.

As parents, we don’t get tired of hearing them speak (at least not for awhile anyway!) We are fascinated with them learning new words.

We don’t impatiently say to them, “Well, you’ve said ‘mama’ 50 times. That’s enough. Next word.” Make it a PRIORITY to remember the fascination and patience you had when your baby was first learning to speak or walk.

Always keep these in your mind as they grow. It will help you and your child to be willing to repeat things. Repeating and mastering each step of a process creates ability in your child .

Begin when your baby is an infant. Model the mindset that you are willing to take the time and energy it takes to help them develop their abilities.

Success in SECE Baby Class

Success with one step breeds the ability to attempt and master the next step. There are several SECE Baby Class activities that have several actions to learn.

Let’s find out how one of those Baby Class activities can help to create and celebrate success for your baby.

The activities may focus on music, listening, literacy, or life skills. Most often, the activity includes more than one of these educational purposes.

There are several songs and rhymes that have a sequence of actions to learn. One of them is the nursery rhyme Wee Willie Winkie.

Check out this video of the actions to Wee Willie Winkie.

Now get your little one, say the rhyme, and keep the beat on your knees along with the video. Have your child sit in your lap and help them do the motions.

• Begin by just reciting the rhyme and keeping the beat
• Next, add in the hands clapping above your head and back onto your knees
• Followed by knocking motion
• Then hands cupped around mouth
• Finish with holding out hands and pointing to your wrist

Now you have the idea of how to do the actions for the rhyme. Your next step is to repeat the rhyme many times doing only one action.

Remember to celebrate your child’s success as they begin to master the one action. Then, continue to create success by adding the next action as you say the rhyme.

Wee Willie Winkie

Wee Willie Winkie runs through the town
Upstairs and downstairs in his nightgown.
Rapping at the window, 
Crying through the lock.
Are the children in their beds?
For now it's 8 o'clock

Challenge to Create and Celebrate Your Baby’s Success

I am offering you this challenge to help you begin creating success for your baby and you!

Make saying the rhyme Wee Willie Winkie part of your daily routine, i.e. when diapering, playing, while riding in the car, etc.

Remember to just start with learning the words and keeping the beat.

Then, one-by-one add each action to the rhyme.

“Any skill can be acquired by constant repetition“

Shinichi Suzuki

A reminder: you will need many repetitions of each action before adding on the next one.

Let me leave you with a gentle reminder. This is not a race! Enjoy the love and learning in each step and the mastering of each action with your baby.

On the Beautiful Heart Musical Journey with you,

Susan

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