How to pronounce “schulman” in English

Nancy Schulman: So, we really think that the preschool years--.

Nancy Schulman: So, the first thing that really starts to happen, and if you have two-year olds, you probably heard, "I want to do it myself."

Nancy Schulman: One day in the nursery school, we saw parents coming in and there was a father who was bringing their two and a half-year old daughter to the classroom.

Nancy Schulman: It's interesting because when you think about what children need from parents at this age, all those things, it can't be done with small bursts of high-quality

Nancy Schulman: My daughter used to say to me when I perfected the look--.

Nancy Schulman: So, things like routines at bedtime and routines in the morning where there's the most conflict--they don't wanna go to bed, they don't wanna get dressed to

Nancy Schulman: Another thing that's really important that we are aware of in classrooms and it's great to have at home is the time the children need to make a transition from

Nancy Schulman: One of the hardest things for parents to deal with is discipline because none of us wanna feel like we're being bossy with our kids and whatever, but discipline

Nancy Schulman: OK.

Nancy Schulman: I think these are good rules for all of us to live by.

Nancy Schulman: Even at the youngest level, when your toddler, near 18-month old, who are the most dangerous things on the planet--you just have to keep them alive every day.

Nancy Schulman: One of the things that we've observed, obviously, over the last number of years is the pace of life for children and for adults.

Nancy Schulman: It's interesting.

Nancy Schulman: VHS.

Nancy Schulman: and it must have been the moment in time when there were no more TV sets and everything was a flat screen.

Nancy Schulman: The other thing that the American Academy of Pediatrics says, has come out recently with the position on is no TV, video, or computers for children under the

Nancy Schulman: And you have to give permission to yourself to play because children really wanna do that.

Nancy Schulman: So, one of the things that we did when we wrote this book--.

Nancy Schulman: Giving children time and space to play, limiting after-school activities, understand that though school is important, the most important influence in children is

Nancy Schulman: And also to set limits.

Nancy Schulman: Thank you and we would love to hear some questions from you.

Nancy Schulman: Yours or your child's?

Nancy Schulman: It's also, I think, nature has a really great place.

Nancy Schulman: I think doing things like helping make the salad, doing things where it's really like doing something that helps everybody else--cleaning up your toys, doing

Nancy Schulman: I think it's a hard decision because there's no right and wrong with this, either.

Nancy Schulman: Well, he can understand the difference right now of "yes" and "no."

Nancy Schulman: I mean, he's looking for your reaction.

Nancy Schulman: You have to change the look on your face.

Nancy Schulman: The rule of thumb with time-outs is that this is a chance to take the temperature down, change the activity.

Nancy Schulman: Hope he didn't break anything.

Nancy Schulman: Oh, let's blame it on each other.

And what Dan Schulman did at PayPal said was to say, well, I'm not sure that's right.

Nancy Schulman: So, the thing that works so well with children in school that's easily translatable to home is certainly consistent expectations.

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Nancy Schulman: It was horrifying.

Nancy Schulman: I went to every store on 86th Street to replace this thing to watch the end of this stupid video tape.

Nancy Schulman: If anyone denies that they're doing that, they're lying.

My, our--we didn't have these children together--but my older-- Nancy Schulman: Ellen Birnbaum: child and Nancy's older child were very self-regulating.

including food and books and you know, he just likes to see things go-- Nancy Schulman: It's fun.