5 connections that will change children’s lives | Laura Jana | TEDxOmaha
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- This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Early childhood development, personal health, and business performance are intertwined. Dr. Laura Jana takes a long view on merging these topics to improve children's lives.
Dr. Laura Jana’s is a pediatrician, health communicator and an award-winning author of two parenting books and three children’s books. Her focus extends far beyond a pediatric office, from health technology, vaccines and injury prevention to parenting, early literacy, brain and child development, and health and nutrition promotion/obesity prevention. She is currently collaborating with MIT Media Lab on global health technology innovation.
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Here are 5 connections that changed my life:
1. Growing up with BOTH of my parents
2. Having many diverse friends from my neighborhood in my childhood
3. Growing up with an extended family and cousins around my age
4. Having Teachers that cared not just about our grades but how we were doing in life
5. Falling off my bike
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Here's my summary. Hoping it will help you! Make the 5 connections
1. Connecting what we do now with what we want later - Connection with the big picture and WHY of parenthood. Don’t lose yourself in details.
2. Connect the playroom to the boardroom - Build strategic 21st century skills like communication, collaboration, critical thinking, questioning, creativity - skills that s/he will need to succeed in the future
3. Build connections in the brain by giving positive feedback - smile, coo, read, play with the baby to help her rapidly developing brain
4. Reconnect health and learning - the importance of sleep, nutrition, and exercise should be an integral part of learning as health and learning are codependent
5. Connecting to the world our children will live in - Help children get ready for the world we live in now! Help them learn technology wisely. Help them learn to communicate with the world as their future success depends on it. Interesting stat about children’s ability to read by third grade: Their 18 months' vocabulary :O .. That was a wow for me. I have a 9 months old and this is very pertinent information. Hope it will be helpful to you! I will be making videos on child development as well - as it has become my passion! See you there! :)
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Thanks for a summary
It seems to me like many viewers might have misunderstood the message. This talk was on purpose set in the economy style. Not because she only cares about children becoming money-makers but in order to point out that we, as the modern society, often put much less thought and effort to how we raise our children than how we do business. Every single thing we do with a baby matters so much and impacts who they grow up to be. And, as she said, this affects their future careers as well as overall well-being . So for me, this talk was about making sure we maximise our children's chances of becoming good, happy and successful (whatever that means - all up to the values you instil in them). Cheers all!
You are correct with respect to my intentions. My personal view has everything to do with child well-being, and very skewed towards health and education outcomes. That said, it's easy to "preach to the choir," but more challenging and critically important to "translate the message" to those outside the early childhood/education/pediatric sectors. In this case, my goal was to make the case that early brain and child development is a critical period, and that more attention (as well as much-needed investment) needs to be made....not only for yours and my children, but for all children.....especially those born into poverty/facing adversity that we know will impact their life outcomes, not just in the business sense, but in the health, education, and overall well-being sense!
As parents, the greatest gift we can offer is to encourage our children to give things a go regardless of ‘winning’ or ‘losing’. Attempting new things takes courage and the winning is learning from trial and error. There is no such thing as failure, only learning that leads to progress.
DaisySmile absolutely!
Pay at least one parent to stay home. Respect them for doing it!
The most important job to our society is parents. Look the system has worked hard to dismantle the family unit. It pays for unhappy people to buy stuff they don't need to fill the whole in their heart.
@1pink1blue like it or not you already do subsidize other people's kids with your taxes. You also pay for the affects to the economy when people are raised without a strong foundation. There are smarter ways to do things which actually cost less in the long run.
@1pink1blue I agree people who can't afford kids shouldn't have them. However, we don't live in a perfect world and that happens all the time. So like I said, you are already subsidizing that. The idea above would be a universal benefit paid to every family, no matter income. There could also be universal childcare. Again this would benefit everybody. Society pays for children who are poorly cared for one way or another. Why not do something that would benefit everyone, prevent children growing up without a strong foundation, and produce better adults who make up the society we all live in? I bet it would cost less money in the long run.
It used to be that 1 parent could support a family with a minimum wage job btw. I think if people work and are loving and caring people they should be able to have a family. The state of our economy is terrible, people have trouble affording children even with 2 college educated parents working full time. We should demand that our government do more for us. They could afford it if they spent less subsidizing companies who don't need a government hand out, and spent a little less on the defense budget.
All I heard was read and talk to your kids, they'll be healthier and happier.
So many amazing points! Yes, early childhood is so crucial in determining a child's education level and future career, as well as health. So worth the listen!
I am absolutely Blown Away by all the negative comments here. It's almost as if these people watched a different TED Talk. I can only assume that those who had nothing but negative things to say are unable to comprehend the angle from which you are speaking. I enjoyed your TED Talk and agree with almost every point that you made. I apologize on behalf of all of the idiotic commenters.
Thanks Robert, and glad to know the intent of the talk wasn't overlooked/missed by all viewers. I knew this "framing" of the issues was going to generate strong reactions - both negative and positive - but my overall goal was not about what people think of me/my talk, but rather whether it would draw much needed attention to the opportunity we have, based on all of the evidence and research to date, to improve life outcomes for all children....yes - our own, but importantly also for those most at risk/born into poverty/adversity. And yes - that involves advocating for more talking, cooing, playing, singing, and reading books to babies (and supporting parents and caregivers who may have never experienced these important "brain-building" interactions themselves)!
@@laurajana4611 thank you for your reply. And I'm glad you have thick skin. Sometimes I don't. I have an Achilles heel for Injustice and I just felt like people were reacting to one small part of your presentation out of context.
@@jaclynm.wagner2754 Thanks! I fortunately figured out long ago that it's not about me/what people think about me/my voice etc etc, but rather what we all can try to do to help improve the lives of children and families. On that note, it sounds like you are doing really meaningful work, and I look forward to hopefully getting to see your TED talk someday soon (feel free to let me know if/when you do it!) Best - Dr. Laura
@@jaclynm.wagner2754 - why thank you. Sounds like you're doing some meaningful work yourself! As for what I'm up to these days - yes, definitely working in the same "space" of advocating for all children (and families/communities). Wrote a book (The Toddler Brain: Nurture the Skills Today that Will Shape Your Child's Tomorrow) a couple years ago, followed by a subsequent "sequel" TED talk (TEDxChandigarh) last year that, in combination, has garnered quite a lot of interest/attention.....So as of late, I've been doing a whole lot of public speaking about the importance of investing in early childhood (including at the US Chamber of Commerce, global business leader summits, and at this year's annual meeting of the World Bank!).
Yea you are right sir.. funny how people interpret certain things. But they might come at it from their own insecurities and misconceptions. Anyways they might have still picked up something useful out of this!
Two thumps up for your thoughts ! We all need to be educated about raising children ,before becoming parent , this means prevent lots or most of humans crisis ,before they happen . Viva Parenting School!
Thank you for caring to share and relating your wealth of knowledge to parenting in the present day. Most comprehensive and holistic approach - integrates health, nutrition, technology to learning and eventual outcome as adults. I am priviledged to listen to your recording. Congrats Laura Jana.
We are no longer called parents. We are "chief engagement officers".
I smile at everyone, 20% smile back the other 80% give me the "is he nutz look"
Very interesting and making sense within the many assumptions stated along the speech.
My gosh! Thanks so much for the talk. It is what I have been looking for... the big picture and not to get lost in the day to day crying, eating, diapers etc and the fact that technology do exist and see the gap and help them to close that gap
In a playful way of course...
so many points unaswered , what exactly were her opinion on technology?
Awesome!!
Congratulations dear Laura.
I am a proper parenting activist. Your presentation is awesome i enjoyed and learned a lot from it and i totally agree with you in your point of view. i will be glad if i can be opportune to discuss more of this with you.
That its true we must connect the child with our Creator, now that I am going to be with childrens , thank you
Thank you- and if mom and dad fight almost constantly for the first 4 years?
This is terrific.
I understand the importance of creating healthy behavioral patterns in kids is very important, however, this approach of turning children into money maker machines feels oddly unsettling to listen to.
+Reynaldo Velasco besides people did that in Victorian England, that didn't turn out well
Can't agree more
It's blindingly amazing how common it is for people to repeat history....like some promoting the idea of creating schools to totally raise children, removing parents from their direct lives....that failed in communist Russia, too. Or how Victorian England cultivated stiff upper lips and emotionally distancing children from adults.
And yes...how the speaker equates business with family....but I get it...she's trying to draw-in the many who speak business language more fluently than relationships.
MAYBE if we can get the recipe right for Early Childhood Development, there's hope for humanity. The knowledge has been there, about how crucial Early Childhood Development is; has existed for many decades...more people need educated in how best to use that knowledge in real-world instances.
the points are OK and correct, but I felt like a piece of wood in the "pipeline" of my business. Productive children ..I feel like a commodity.
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This is definitely a very different perspective on parenting. I found it very depressing.
LFerRam1
I am just out of high-school and find current education rather depressing.
If we were to allow children to develop in such a way many things might become less depressing.
So cool. I also read business and leadership books to improve my parenting and I thought I was an anomale.
dulahdaglace
I see school as an Victorian Labourer sorting factory (as they don't provide improvement for those not distend to fit there boxes)
The Scandinavian cultures know how to educate children connected to nature where a child can explore and wonder and be creative. Learning to read is left to the age of 7. Didn't agree with Laura Jana at all.
Yikes! The imagery painted here of raising children to "strategically build our human capital pipeline" is quite disturbing; no, horrifying. I can hardly tell whether you are discussing human beings or horses.I feel like I just time traveled to 1645 rural China. My children will be instructed to run and call for help if they ever see your face.
Hmmm, that’s rather unusual. What’s the family structure? Father, Mother, other siblings? Traumas you know about? Onset of this behavior? History? Nannies, daycare, babysitters, exposure to other adults who may have abused this boy you are not aware of?
I would like to see Laura Jana in a discussion with Dayna Martin.
+pavlovsdoggies Nah. You'll need to watch the entire video.
I ask my parent and coworkers to help the children learn who to use computers.
Is hard to understand because of the audio :((
Has anyone else noticed that almost all these TED talks basically come back to exactly the same things which everybody already thinks anyway?
With the childcare TED talks it's always 'talk and interact with your baby', 'don't shout at your child', 'don't let your child get out of hand but at the same time allow them to 'work through their emotions'', 'don't spoil your child', 'give them a balanced environment', 'consider the environment your child is raised in'. 'limit their time with technology and don't let them get out of balance by them not interacting with real people'.
Then with the diet and brain efficiency things it's always 'eat a variety of foods especially fruits and veg' and 'exercise is good for you' and go outside and interact with nature', then there's the whole 'practicing certain mental techniques makes you better at that specific task' stuff.
Some of them are interesting like the 'common misconceptions' kind of talk that actually reveal to you genuine misconceptions like supposedly a lot of people don't know that poverty is at an all time low (percentage-wise) and war, disease, death by natural disaster are at all time lows and that the average woman spends almost as much time in education as the average man even in 'less advanced' countries.
With the others though a lot of the time the watcher is just lead to conclusions they already had just with 'slight of hand' making it seem like it's new and interesting information, and fed even more data about things that they already thought were true by it being so vague and open for interpretation
I think there was one potentially 'counter-intuitive' point for some people in the video above and that was 'let your kids use and learn technology', although that was one point that didn't have any data to back up the advice! haha, it's literally just one women, who for all we know is a total bitch to her children in private (or perhaps doesn't even have children), giving us advice that has been picked out of her bubbling cauldron of random opinions and thrust down our necks which we happily consume because there is a vague air of credibility due to the fact it is a well produced video and features someone who's good at stringing words together in a sentence and so doesn't appear full of 'malice' or 'negative' emotion
I'm on a quest to better myself as a parent, and you sir, just helped me a lot, but making me think that what I need to learn won't be on TED talks.
About this talk in particular, I agree she said a whole lot of nothing, then some stuff that seems odd at best.
Agree with both of you above 👍
So if I don’t have the money to send my kids to a high quality preschool they will end up obese and unsuccessful?
Can someone tell me the 5 points?
Amanda Moss
1. Connect what we do now to what we want later. 2. Connecting playroom to board room.
3. Reconnecting health & learning.
4. ?
5. Connecting to the world our children will live in.
Purposeful connecting brain neurons in a developing brain?? it is mentioned before number 3
Wwwhhhaaaaa ? My daughter plays with dinosaurs... loves to hold caterpillars..... sings silly songs......
she seems happy..... forgive me if I sound stupid but..... children are only children one time in their life. I believe I have given "purposeful connection of neurons " ??? As for better preschools and schools...... humans worship and pour money into football, and entertainment, but a teacher can barely make a living to take care of a family while dealing with "real world" children..... children of the single parent household, where mom is trying to relive her 20's..... Dad has moved on to create another family and MIGHT ...if the child is lucky enough... be able to spare some of his weekend time ? the children that speak very little to no English ( an insurmountable amount ) here in Florida.... if you watch people in society in general, they are not kind nor tolerant of each other, so therefore ( since children learn by demonstration ) they too are disrespectful of teachers and others that " they feel " go against their " entitlement " ..... the speakers points were wonderful if our world were made up of ONLY college educated , highly diverse , emotionally stable , higher income , involved parents. But .... unfortunately that is not the beginning that a vast majority of children receive or are exposed to..... useful advice maybe one day when the elite and wealthy create a private Utopia. A secular society in which only (the people she must believe exist for all children) is created.?? As for now, it is a struggling society in which children are not ( unfortunately) everyone's top priority. Teachers and parents alike are struggling to survive... children do not "go out" and play in their neighborhoods anymore ( or a big majority of them ) because they are home alone taking care of themselves and often younger siblings because the single parent OR both parents are at work, and it isn't "safe" to be out, riding bikes, drinking from the water hose, and God forbid getting a skinned knee !!! Or they are being raised by before and after care workers, while the child is at school longer than the parent is at work !!! So really ? Who is supposed to teach the children their importance in the "economic role of our society "? When so many people don't even have a concept of that phrase?? I am blessed enough to be married for seventeen years... even MORE blessed to be a stay at home mom.. ( which my husband and I have seen the extreme benefits of this ) but I am rare amongst so many, many, real people just trying to survive in today's world. Take a day... one day... to volunteer in a public school classroom, and you will see..... this is not real, obtainable, advice. I wish it were. I really truly wish it were, because wouldn't it be great advice to implement ?
Lucylovewalk amen
Well said...
Lucylovewalk i
Outstanding!!!
"youth human capital sector" "human capital pipeline" Capitalism has officially ruined us
"most important product our economy produces"
That's the point when I stopped listening. Educational system is graduating anxious, depressed beings precisely because of that kind of vision.
Laura Jana, we highly recommend you to take a silent retreat and contemplate on the words that are coming out of your mouth.
Thank you!
I bet she's fun at parties.
I’m so confused
Lack of language exposure ➡️Illiteracy➡️Lower life expectancy. Sooooooo......WIC Services +(WIC nutrition book)= Irradiation of illiteracy in an effort to help impoverished individuals read nutrition labels and therefore make better food choices that can then, increase the life expectancy of these same impoverished individuals.
So what about the literacy component? According to the data, the poverty that perpetuates the illiteracy is what forces new mothers to return to work prematurely because they literally can not afford to miss work which consequently means that baby now gets even LESS exposure to words and intimate interaction with mommy ( both of which are critical components of preventing illiteracy.)
Did I miss something? WTF does WIC. Have to do with the overall objective which she restates at the end, “talk to your kids ALOT within the 1st 3yrs. of life”. I’m so confused
This woman is scary does she work for The Circle?
I stopped listening after 8:0.
How about we stop trying to build children into what we think they should be and what we assume the future will need and instead nurture and support our children to become who they are! Then they can change the world instead of adopting to the business model that has been created in the past and the boardroom culture allow them to turn inward and discover themselves so that they can create the world that they want to live
Preach 👍🏾🔥❤️
Voice is too low, have a budget to buy good amplifier please
It wasn't a budget problem - the TEDxOmaha team and their setup was great. I just woke up that morning with a viral infection and almost no voice. It was either not give the talk at all (after months of preparation) or work with what I/we had, and given the circumstances I thought the tech team did a good job compensating! Hopefully you managed to look past my (lack of) voice issue and actually engage with the message(s) I was trying to share.
Ms Jana uses some MBA language that seems to turn every childhood Japanese, but she is resolutely interested in the welfare of children. Her references for avoiding disease by nurturing and stimulating the young are sound...just a little stiff, but that's what it takes to swing dollars into the formation of more alive and productive people. For the most part, whenever budgets are cut, the first things to go are women and children's programs...dumb and even dumber than reflecting blossoming minds with GDP.
+Ridicu Ryder Thanks for explaining it. It's probably the MBA language I don't like. The rest is fine.
What a bunch of psycho babel, techno jargon, etc. There were lots of confused comments, never got to the point. She meant well but just cannot communicate.
This is the reason parents feel like they are not doing a good job. This is the manual of raising a robot and her voice is hard to keep up with. This sounds like a transaction.
You are scary! what's next? your child's life on the stock market??
Pity her children!
and we must connect the child to their Creator, the God of the Bible who loves them and can heal their wounded heart.
Not this
Dale Fletcher stop
Hello Barbara, since God created us as a spiritual being, it's essential that our spirit be connected to our Creator who loves us! And our Creator is the God of the Bible. Why do you say stop? ~ Dale
there is no time for that - children are commodity and human capital pipeline... I feel like a piece of carpet..used one as I am not that strategically built in this life
Dale Fletcher of course yes
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...so glad this woman is'nt my mum,..
way too monotone. so boring! great for inducing sleep!
True... but I also think the terrible sound recording didn't help her talk.
Awful! Just words no meaning
Her voice make me sleepy....I swear
Wow , that was horrible. Seems like she is more concerned with sounding smart , than actually saying or providing any real data. Lot of big words, not many practical ideas. First TED video I ever wanted to unwatch.
This is all great if you want to foster mindless capitalism. I'm glad I wasn't her child!
She lost me at globalization.
I'm not sure what you mean, as my mention/consideration of globalization is purely an impartial acknowledgement of the world we (and our children will) live in, which is unquestionably globally interconnected.
Wtf. This is messed up.
I'm so distracted with this audio and her creaky throat
Well that's unfortunate. Not ideal to wake up feeling really sick and with almost no voice on the morning you are scheduled to give a TED talk, so this was the best I could do as the only option was otherwise to not give the talk at all. Sorry you couldn't get past it, but fortunately, many people were able to enough to appreciate what I was trying to get across, as this talk has led to all sorts of increased interest in supporting investments in early childhood, early education, and maternal child health efforts.
Thanks for putting me to sleep...So boring and broken into the most boring words and segments. Stop talking! Torturous.
Einstein didn’t speak until after his 3rd birthday so your cruel opinions stated as fact are irresponsible and damaging.
Boring af