Re: Good DVDs for HEG with teenagers?

[Guest guest]

Willie Wonka and similar family movies work

perfectly. Teens will rarely admit enjoying family

movies. They’ve usually seen them enough that they also don’t

care when the session stops. (And it would be unkool for a teenager to complain

about not seeing the end of Willie Wonka).

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Subject: Good DVDs for HEG with teenagers?

Hello list,

Does anyone have suggestions for what would be appropriate DVD media for

teenagers that would not be too stimulating but also come in 10- to 15-minute

increments? I am receiving a lot of frustration from those who don't want

movies to end after a relatively brief HEG session (and I don't have enough

movies and there is not enough time in general to watch the balance of the

movie each time the HEG session is over!)

I'm thinking of trying to get YouTube videos, but my first attempt was

unsuccessful (I don't know why. The .avi's that come with the designs work

fine, but when I converted a YouTube .flv to an .avi and put it into Media,

right under the others, it didn't play, just appeared as the static first

screen of the movie but didn't " move " ) (any tech assistance in this

regard also highly appreciated)

Thanks

Liz Margoshes

[Guest guest]

Willie Wonka and similar family movies work

perfectly. Teens will rarely admit enjoying family

movies. They’ve usually seen them enough that they also don’t

care when the session stops. (And it would be unkool for a teenager to complain

about not seeing the end of Willie Wonka).

From:

[mailto: ] On Behalf

Of Margoshes

Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 1:40 PM

Subject: Good DVDs for HEG with teenagers?

Hello list,

Does anyone have suggestions for what would be appropriate DVD media for

teenagers that would not be too stimulating but also come in 10- to 15-minute

increments? I am receiving a lot of frustration from those who don't want

movies to end after a relatively brief HEG session (and I don't have enough

movies and there is not enough time in general to watch the balance of the

movie each time the HEG session is over!)

I'm thinking of trying to get YouTube videos, but my first attempt was

unsuccessful (I don't know why. The .avi's that come with the designs work

fine, but when I converted a YouTube .flv to an .avi and put it into Media,

right under the others, it didn't play, just appeared as the static first

screen of the movie but didn't " move " ) (any tech assistance in this

regard also highly appreciated)

Thanks

Liz Margoshes

[Guest guest]

Liz, Disney has great DVDs that have simple and mature humor in them for all ages, from young to adult. Most kids I train seem to look forward to their next visit so that they can continue their movie. Perhaps if you explain before the sessions start that they will only see the movie in 15 minute increments it will prepare them for any dissapointment they might have at not seeing the whole movie at one go. Sent on the Sprint® Now Network from my BlackBerry®From: Margoshes <drmargoshes@...>Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 15:39:43 -0400< >Subject: Good DVDs for HEG with teenagers? Hello list,Does anyone have suggestions for what would be appropriate DVD media for teenagers that would not be too stimulating but also come in 10- to 15-minute increments? I am receiving a lot of frustration from those who don't want movies to end after a relatively brief HEG session (and I don't have enough movies and there is not enough time in general to watch the balance of the movie each time the HEG session is over!)I'm thinking of trying to get YouTube videos, but my first attempt was unsuccessful (I don't know why. The .avi's that come with the designs work fine, but when I converted a YouTube .flv to an .avi and put it into Media, right under the others, it didn't play, just appeared as the static first screen of the movie but didn't " move " ) (any tech assistance in this regard also highly appreciated)ThanksLiz Margoshes

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Liz, Disney has great DVDs that have simple and mature humor in them for all ages, from young to adult. Most kids I train seem to look forward to their next visit so that they can continue their movie. Perhaps if you explain before the sessions start that they will only see the movie in 15 minute increments it will prepare them for any dissapointment they might have at not seeing the whole movie at one go. Sent on the Sprint® Now Network from my BlackBerry®From: Margoshes <drmargoshes@...>Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 15:39:43 -0400< >Subject: Good DVDs for HEG with teenagers? Hello list,Does anyone have suggestions for what would be appropriate DVD media for teenagers that would not be too stimulating but also come in 10- to 15-minute increments? I am receiving a lot of frustration from those who don't want movies to end after a relatively brief HEG session (and I don't have enough movies and there is not enough time in general to watch the balance of the movie each time the HEG session is over!)I'm thinking of trying to get YouTube videos, but my first attempt was unsuccessful (I don't know why. The .avi's that come with the designs work fine, but when I converted a YouTube .flv to an .avi and put it into Media, right under the others, it didn't play, just appeared as the static first screen of the movie but didn't " move " ) (any tech assistance in this regard also highly appreciated)ThanksLiz Margoshes

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Hi Liz,

I like to use Dog Whisperer episodes on DVD that are about 5 - 10

minutes long. These offer the the extra advantage of exposure to the

thoughts and actions of Cesar Milan, one of our greatest living

psychologists.

I've converted .flv files and then run them successfully with a program

from AVS4U.

Larry

Margoshes wrote:

> Hello list,

>

> Does anyone have suggestions for what would be appropriate DVD media for

> teenagers that would not be too stimulating but also come in 10- to

> 15-minute increments? I am receiving a lot of frustration from those who

> don't want movies to end after a relatively brief HEG session (and I don't

> have enough movies and there is not enough time in general to watch the

> balance of the movie each time the HEG session is over!)

>

> I'm thinking of trying to get YouTube videos, but my first attempt was

> unsuccessful (I don't know why. The .avi's that come with the designs work

> fine, but when I converted a YouTube .flv to an .avi and put it into Media,

> right under the others, it didn't play, just appeared as the static first

> screen of the movie but didn't " move " ) (any tech assistance in this regard

> also highly appreciated)

>

> Thanks

>

> Liz Margoshes

>

>

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Liz,

I have had luck with 1960s sitcoms. Although it tips my violence scales a bit, for higher-functioning boys the original Get Smart series is good, and it has cliff-hanger moments that allow it to be divided into two segments. Most episodes are around 19-22 minutes long. The Addams Family is fun, too.

Popular Mechanics for Kids may also fit the bill for you. It was a PBS television series and so has natural breaks to fit the notion that children have short attention spans, and episodes are around the 22 minute mark. The series appears to have been designed for the 10-12 y.o. set, but I have had 15 and 16 y.o.s enjoy them. You can buy individual DVDs of four episodes each, but it's cheaper in the long run to get the six-DVD set.

If you have some who will watch nature documentaries, BBC does some excellent ones, and because there isn't much of a story line, they are easily interrupted. Anything narrated by Attenborough is likely to be excellent (the Life of Mammals is one I use a lot, but not with younger children because of the predator-prey bits that will upset anxious ones not exposed to nature in real life), and the Blue Planet series is good. Stay away from the BBC Atlas series, because there is a musical score that accompanies it.

Tamera

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Liz,

I have had luck with 1960s sitcoms. Although it tips my violence scales a bit, for higher-functioning boys the original Get Smart series is good, and it has cliff-hanger moments that allow it to be divided into two segments. Most episodes are around 19-22 minutes long. The Addams Family is fun, too.

Popular Mechanics for Kids may also fit the bill for you. It was a PBS television series and so has natural breaks to fit the notion that children have short attention spans, and episodes are around the 22 minute mark. The series appears to have been designed for the 10-12 y.o. set, but I have had 15 and 16 y.o.s enjoy them. You can buy individual DVDs of four episodes each, but it's cheaper in the long run to get the six-DVD set.

If you have some who will watch nature documentaries, BBC does some excellent ones, and because there isn't much of a story line, they are easily interrupted. Anything narrated by Attenborough is likely to be excellent (the Life of Mammals is one I use a lot, but not with younger children because of the predator-prey bits that will upset anxious ones not exposed to nature in real life), and the Blue Planet series is good. Stay away from the BBC Atlas series, because there is a musical score that accompanies it.

Tamera

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Hi Larry! thank you=---- (just getting back into all of this again)LizOn Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Larry <llewis@...> wrote:

 

Hi Liz,

I like to use Dog Whisperer episodes on DVD that are about 5 - 10

minutes long. These offer the the extra advantage of exposure to the

thoughts and actions of Cesar Milan, one of our greatest living

psychologists.

I've converted .flv files and then run them successfully with a program

from AVS4U.

Larry

Margoshes wrote:

> Hello list,

>

> Does anyone have suggestions for what would be appropriate DVD media for

> teenagers that would not be too stimulating but also come in 10- to

> 15-minute increments? I am receiving a lot of frustration from those who

> don't want movies to end after a relatively brief HEG session (and I don't

> have enough movies and there is not enough time in general to watch the

> balance of the movie each time the HEG session is over!)

>

> I'm thinking of trying to get YouTube videos, but my first attempt was

> unsuccessful (I don't know why. The .avi's that come with the designs work

> fine, but when I converted a YouTube .flv to an .avi and put it into Media,

> right under the others, it didn't play, just appeared as the static first

> screen of the movie but didn't " move " ) (any tech assistance in this regard

> also highly appreciated)

>

> Thanks

>

> Liz Margoshes

>

>

[Guest guest]

Thank you, listmates.How do the kids feel when the DVD turns off on them? (I guess the audio's still there) - the person I'm training (highly functioning 17-year-old with ADHD) gets MAD. Any tips on how to guide these sessions to make them less frustrating?

Liz MargoshesOn Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 6:35 PM, TD Siminow <siminowdt@...> wrote:

 

Liz,

 

I have had luck with 1960s sitcoms.  Although it tips my violence scales a bit, for higher-functioning boys the original Get Smart series is good, and it has cliff-hanger moments that allow it to be divided into two segments.  Most episodes are around 19-22 minutes long.  The Addams Family is fun, too.

 

Popular Mechanics for Kids may also fit the bill for you.  It was a PBS television series and so has natural breaks to fit the notion that children have short attention spans, and episodes are around the 22 minute mark.  The series appears to have been designed for the 10-12 y.o. set, but I have had 15 and 16 y.o.s enjoy them.  You can buy individual DVDs of four episodes each, but it's cheaper in the long run to get the six-DVD set.

 

If you have some who will watch nature documentaries, BBC does some excellent ones, and because there isn't much of a story line, they are easily interrupted.  Anything narrated by Attenborough is likely to be excellent (the Life of Mammals is one I use a lot, but not with younger children because of the predator-prey bits that will upset anxious ones not exposed to nature in real life), and the Blue Planet series is good.  Stay away from the BBC Atlas series, because there is a musical score that accompanies it.

 

Tamera

 

 

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Hi Liz- With the 12 year old I've been working with I explained to him before we began and also periodicaly remind him that such challanges being met with the type of relaxed focussed that turning it back on provides will allow him to eventualy do much better in school and at anything thing he wants to improve in out of the office. I also will tell him it might take any where from a few seconds to several minutes to get into the state neccessary to put it back on. If he hasn't done it within two minutes I allow the movie to play again and than put it back on auto threshold. This has worked at least with this case of one.

Bruce

Re: Good DVDs for HEG with teenagers?

Thank you, listmates.How do the kids feel when the DVD turns off on them? (I guess the audio's still there) - the person I'm training (highly functioning 17-year-old with ADHD) gets MAD. Any tips on how to guide these sessions to make them less frustrating?Liz Margoshes

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 6:35 PM, TD Siminow <siminowdt> wrote:

Liz,

I have had luck with 1960s sitcoms. Although it tips my violence scales a bit, for higher-functioning boys the original Get Smart series is good, and it has cliff-hanger moments that allow it to be divided into two segments. Most episodes are around 19-22 minutes long. The Addams Family is fun, too.

Popular Mechanics for Kids may also fit the bill for you. It was a PBS television series and so has natural breaks to fit the notion that children have short attention spans, and episodes are around the 22 minute mark. The series appears to have been designed for the 10-12 y.o. set, but I have had 15 and 16 y.o.s enjoy them. You can buy individual DVDs of four episodes each, but it's cheaper in the long run to get the six-DVD set.

If you have some who will watch nature documentaries, BBC does some excellent ones, and because there isn't much of a story line, they are easily interrupted. Anything narrated by Attenborough is likely to be excellent (the Life of Mammals is one I use a lot, but not with younger children because of the predator-prey bits that will upset anxious ones not exposed to nature in real life), and the Blue Planet series is good. Stay away from the BBC Atlas series, because there is a musical score that accompanies it.

Tamera

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one other aspect of note. I use plenty of analogies to the process and what happens in real life that to also get such messages across to him. He plays baseball and so I've made the analogy to learning to hit all types of different pitches by having such a focus. In other words the ability to hone in visualy on that temp reading when the movie stops until it starts again could allow him to see the baseball until it practicaly hits his bat which would improve his hitting. Depending on what kinds of problems he and his mother report to me, I come up with different analogies.

Bruce

Re: Good DVDs for HEG with teenagers?

Thank you, listmates.How do the kids feel when the DVD turns off on them? (I guess the audio's still there) - the person I'm training (highly functioning 17-year-old with ADHD) gets MAD. Any tips on how to guide these sessions to make them less frustrating?Liz Margoshes

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 6:35 PM, TD Siminow <siminowdt> wrote:

Liz,

I have had luck with 1960s sitcoms. Although it tips my violence scales a bit, for higher-functioning boys the original Get Smart series is good, and it has cliff-hanger moments that allow it to be divided into two segments. Most episodes are around 19-22 minutes long. The Addams Family is fun, too.

Popular Mechanics for Kids may also fit the bill for you. It was a PBS television series and so has natural breaks to fit the notion that children have short attention spans, and episodes are around the 22 minute mark. The series appears to have been designed for the 10-12 y.o. set, but I have had 15 and 16 y.o.s enjoy them. You can buy individual DVDs of four episodes each, but it's cheaper in the long run to get the six-DVD set.

If you have some who will watch nature documentaries, BBC does some excellent ones, and because there isn't much of a story line, they are easily interrupted. Anything narrated by Attenborough is likely to be excellent (the Life of Mammals is one I use a lot, but not with younger children because of the predator-prey bits that will upset anxious ones not exposed to nature in real life), and the Blue Planet series is good. Stay away from the BBC Atlas series, because there is a musical score that accompanies it.

Tamera

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Thanks, Bruce.On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Bruce Z. Berman <MindFitness@...> wrote:

 

Hi Liz- With the 12 year old I've been working with I explained to him before we began and also periodicaly remind him that such challanges being met with the type of relaxed focussed that turning it back on provides will allow him to eventualy do much better in school and at anything thing he wants to improve in out of the office. I also will tell him it might take any where from a few seconds to several minutes to get into the state neccessary to put it back on. If he hasn't done it within two minutes I allow the movie to play again and than put it back on auto threshold. This has worked at least with this case of one.

 

 

Bruce

 

Re: Good DVDs for HEG with teenagers?

 

Thank you, listmates.How do the kids feel when the DVD turns off on them? (I guess the audio's still there) - the person I'm training (highly functioning 17-year-old with ADHD) gets MAD. Any tips on how to guide these sessions to make them less frustrating?Liz Margoshes

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 6:35 PM, TD Siminow <siminowdt@...> wrote:

 

Liz,

 

I have had luck with 1960s sitcoms.  Although it tips my violence scales a bit, for higher-functioning boys the original Get Smart series is good, and it has cliff-hanger moments that allow it to be divided into two segments.  Most episodes are around 19-22 minutes long.  The Addams Family is fun, too.

 

Popular Mechanics for Kids may also fit the bill for you.  It was a PBS television series and so has natural breaks to fit the notion that children have short attention spans, and episodes are around the 22 minute mark.  The series appears to have been designed for the 10-12 y.o. set, but I have had 15 and 16 y.o.s enjoy them.  You can buy individual DVDs of four episodes each, but it's cheaper in the long run to get the six-DVD set.

 

If you have some who will watch nature documentaries, BBC does some excellent ones, and because there isn't much of a story line, they are easily interrupted.  Anything narrated by Attenborough is likely to be excellent (the Life of Mammals is one I use a lot, but not with younger children because of the predator-prey bits that will upset anxious ones not exposed to nature in real life), and the Blue Planet series is good.  Stay away from the BBC Atlas series, because there is a musical score that accompanies it.

 

Tamera

 

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