I try to avoid media attention to education because frankly I find it discouraging and hurtful. Lately the government has been on a mission to discredit teachers so that public opinion will be on their side. That is not hard to do here in North America. For some reason a lot of people seem to … [Read more...]
Whatever happened to “My dog ate my homework?”
Well by now most of you already know what a handful Ryley is, but the past few weeks have been tiresome.After months of waiting for speech therapy it finally began. The first week was great. He was excited and really tried hard in his session. The second week....... well the … [Read more...]
AUTISM – first piece of the puzzle
An hour after putting Zachary to bed I heard a scream. My heart dropped to the pit of my stomach as I ran up the stairs to his room. The scream that had escaped from my 18 month olds throat was like nothing I had heard before despite having as many children as I did.Opon entering his … [Read more...]
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
I am sitting here at this very moment, after an especially tasty melange of bbq chicken, rice, celery, onions, yellow pepper, green beans and watching Hudson struggle with a speech on air pollution. It is 6:36 and we have been at it for about an hour and half now. An almost attentive … [Read more...]
My Philosophy of Education & Parenting in a Poem
I worked hard on this and am proud of it. Somehow the idea to put my philosophy into a spoken word open struck me and I worked on it solidly until it was done (with a few breaks for food, snuggling and reading bedtime stories of course).I've posted it on the philosophy page of my blog and … [Read more...]
SO THE WAIT LIST ENDS………
Well some interesting things happened after my last post about waiting for services in the school system and my frustration in what was happening with my 5yr old and his wait for speech therapy. A few days after I wrote my post I received a phone call from the CCRA - this is the company that … [Read more...]
I am my Thoughts – Mindset
Are we what we think? I wrote about Mindset here and you can read more on Carol Dweck's website here. Since I read this post "A Certain Kind of Sadness" - and especially the comments - of Jen's, I've been pondering this issue. The premise of the post is that we need to keep our … [Read more...]
The other “evil things” that parents need to remember
The other morning I was driving my two oldest to middle school as I always do. But this morning there was something different. Something terrible. Right in front of my other younger children's elementary school was a car that had crashed into a concrete street lamp post - you know … [Read more...]
Waiting for the waitlist to end
Well it finally happened. Ryley came home today from school with this in his knapsack:He is very excited that he has been invited to a party. A party for a girl in his SK class - Not a friend of one of his siblings, not a friend of the family, but a girl who he now calls a friend. … [Read more...]
I’ve Started my Own Blog!
I'm so excited I can barely contain myself. I'm also proud of myself. This is something I've wanted to do for a long time. I bought my domain name and hosting service a few weeks ago and have been chipping away at figuring it all out.The learning curve is steep. This isn't a … [Read more...]
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