{"id":1017,"date":"2016-12-29T08:01:12","date_gmt":"2016-12-29T14:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/?p=1017"},"modified":"2017-07-18T07:51:49","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T13:51:49","slug":"teaching-values-to-students-changes-what-they-do-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/?p=1017","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Values to Students Changes What They do at Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Gloria-Pena.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1018\" src=\"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Gloria-Pena-255x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"208\" height=\"243\"><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The majority of the students attending the school I work at, come from nontraditional homes generally being raised by either a single mom or a relative. &nbsp;Parents and guardians are so busy making a living they have very little time for their children. &nbsp;This is why it is so very important for schools to teach young people traditional family values; how to treat each other and themselves. &nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What they learn in school they take home.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Mission Generation textbooks have given me and other teachers the tools we need to build lasting value in the lives of our students. &nbsp;The textbooks make it easy to address very difficult issues at home and in school setting young people up for success in all areas of their life. &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mission Generation has helped me change the way I teach. &nbsp;I used to tell the children \u201cNo\u201d or \u201cDon\u2019t\u201d all the time but I have learned that there is a better way. &nbsp;Applying the examples given in the textbook. I now use very positive examples to enrich children. &nbsp;It is not about right or wrong or even good or bad. &nbsp;I learned those are opinions and the children resented me imposing my values on them. &nbsp;Instead I ask them, \u201cDoes that behavior lead to life or to death?\u201d &nbsp;It is amazing how fast students change when they take ownership of their decisions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The textbooks also teach on nutrition and caring for your body. &nbsp;Parents have started sending more fruits and vegetables with their kids to school as a result. &nbsp;Here at school we have been doing our best to do the same to develop good food habits contributing to better health. &nbsp;It&#8217;s been amazing to be part of the metamorphosis of so many young children. &nbsp;I have advised other schools that if they want healthy, successful children to use Mission Generation\u2019s program. &nbsp;~ <\/span><b>Gloria Pe\u00f1a<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gloria Pe\u00f1a elementary school teacher in Santa Cruz, Bolivia.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The majority of the students attending the school I work at, come from nontraditional homes generally being raised by either a single mom or a relative. &nbsp;Parents and guardians are so busy making a living they have very little time for their children. &nbsp;This is why it is so very important for schools to teach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,94,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-countries","category-school-program","category-testimonies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions\/1027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}