Parents & Babies Workshops with Con...

The Conscious Discipline Parents & Babies Workshops are scheduled as follows: (If you’re looking for just Parents Workshops click here) ...

Parents Workshops with Conscious Discipl...

The Conscious Discipline Parent Workshop is scheduled as follows: (If you’re looking for Parents & Babies Workshops click here)...

Develop to Grow ta presenta: Bira un mih...

Bira un mihor mayor: Siña con pa anda cu zeurmento, teke teke y conflicto uzando principionan...

Conscious Discipline 2-Day Workshop...

We are happy to share with you that this year Loving Guidance will be presenting a 2-Day Workshop on Aruba in cooperation with Develop to Grow. The title of this workshop Connection is Cooperation: The Brain-Smart Way to Educate Our Children and will be held on the 23rd & 24th of April, 2013. ...

Shubert Book Translations Available...

We are proud to announce that the Shubert Book Translations in Papiamento are available for download! These books are wonderful tools to teach children how to deal with situations like making new friends, dealing with their own upset, seeing the best in others and being a S.T.A.R. Develop to Grow spearheaded this translation along with a group of volunteers to make the text available in Papiamento, Aruba’s local language. We thank all those who put their dedication into making these tranlation possible. Here’s a list to all the links, click to download. Shubert...

The first eye-opener: Fear or Control Ba...

A comment on my title, I’m pretty sure, after the reading some chapters of the book, that it is very important as a parent to realize that discipline means teaching. Then you think of so many gentle methods that do not involve belts, smacks, yelling, threatening or any other method that is not communicating, reasoning or sharing. According to Becky, these are all fear or control based approaches, which will get to some extent the desired effect, quiet compliant children, but at what price? Would you willfully and consciously want to tell your child I love you only...

Certified Conscious Discipline® Instruc...

Helen Guda is a Certified Conscious Discipline® Instructor (CCDI) and affiliate of Loving Guiadance. In this role she gives parents workshops and trainings on how best to guide their children. She works on Aruba and the neighboring islands. Conscious Discipline® is a comprehensive classroom management program and a social-emotional curriculum. It is based on current brain research, child development information, and developmentally appropriate practices. Loving Guidance combines this information with tried-and-true...

Welcome to Develop to Grow!...

Hi, I’m Helen Guda! My aim is to motivate parents and educators to be better parents/educators; to teach them skills to be able to do so and to inspire them to be the best parent they can be. Ultimately my aim then is to contribute to building a better future for our children. In team trainings in is my goal to teach people skills they can use to be more effective, to motivate people to use these skills and want to grow and to inspire people to be the best they can...