Hi. I'm so ready to be able to sit down and tell you all that's been going on. The drama, the angst, the grace, the bullsh*t....You know, life. But, alas, I'm on my way out the door after a 13-hour day. I'm not sure when we're gonna have the luxury of the internet back at the homestead. I'll try to sneak out to the library tomorrow so I can fill you in a bit.
1. Still employed. Learning a LOT about "Lateral Hostility". Wow. and from a "Christian".
2. The boy's "dad" is recovering (still) from his liver transplant. So far, so good.
3. Thanks to the recent decision to give the child medication for the AHDH, he's doing GREAT at school. I'm very proud.
Gotta run. Love and hugs~
Abs
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Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Friday, April 12, 2013
You may be right. I may be crazy. But...bite me.
I found this recently, and I knew I'D want to read it again at some point.
I thought you might want to, too.
54 UNIQUE BENEFITS OF HOMESCHOOLING
By Joel Turtel
April 22, 2008
Parents, is homeschooling the right choice for you and your children? Maybe you think you don’t have the time to homeschool because you work. Perhaps you don’t have confidence in your ability to teach your kids because you never took “teaching” courses.
But consider the alternative. Public schools can destroy your children’s self-esteem, destroy their ability to read, strangle their love of learning, put them in physical and moral danger, and wreck their future.
In contrast, here’s 54 unique benefits homeschooling can give you and your kids, as written and explained by Laura B., a smart, wonderful wife, mother of three, homeschooler, and business owner who works from home and still focuses on her family!
Homeschooling (or low-cost internet private schools), can have the following extraordinary benefits for you and your children:
But consider the alternative. Public schools can destroy your children’s self-esteem, destroy their ability to read, strangle their love of learning, put them in physical and moral danger, and wreck their future.
In contrast, here’s 54 unique benefits homeschooling can give you and your kids, as written and explained by Laura B., a smart, wonderful wife, mother of three, homeschooler, and business owner who works from home and still focuses on her family!
Homeschooling (or low-cost internet private schools), can have the following extraordinary benefits for you and your children:
1. Be with Your Family
2. Set Your Own Schedule
3. Vacation When You Want
4. Choose curriculum that best suits the needs of your child
5. Be totally aware of the state and progress of your child's education
6. Keep your child away from un-necessary peer pressure
7. Keep your child away from the bad influence of other children
8. Love, nurture, and teach your child the character and morals you value most
9. Make learning fun
10. Make learning as "experiential" as you want
11. Don't have to get up at the crack of dawn to get your child dressed and fed and off to school where their so tired they don't learn well anyway.
12. Break up the day however you want to fit your child's learning attention span
13. Teach your child without any "assumed limitations". Teach multiple languages, develop one skill or subject--the sky's the limit
14. What you teach an older child naturally filters down to the younger child(ren) making learning must easier and faster for siblings
15. Teach at the pace and developmental stage appropriate for your child
16. Avoid educational "labeling"
17. Keep you child as far away from drugs as possible
18. Never have to worry about bomb scares or mass shootings
19. Allow your child to do think, discuss, and explore in ways not possible in a classroom setting
20. Constant positive reinforcement and gentle correction. No abusive words or actions that scar your child's psyche
21. Don't use the school system as a babysitter. You only need a few hours for learning--the rest of the day is filled with unnecessary "busy work"
22. Develop life skills such as cooking, cleaning, and organizing that are easily learned with the additional time spent at home
23. Spend as much time outdoors as you want to enjoy nature and the world around us
24. Teach the value of responsibility by providing daily jobs
25. To make money management as natural as breathing by allowing even small children to do tasks, earn money, save it, and spend it in an appropriate manner.
26. Never have your child beat up by a bully. Teach self-defense skills that will enable him to deal with any situation but not until he is mature enough to handle the emotional aspects of confrontation
27. No pressure or set "expectations" from teachers on a younger sibling that follows an older sibling in the same school
28. Be around when your child needs to talk
29. Take a break when your child needs a break
30. Bond as a family through family group activities
31. Pass on your religious beliefs and morals to your children and stay away from the "indoctrination" of other school systems
32. Teach sex education when you and how you want
33. Develop your child's imagination and teach diverse problem solving skills instead of one institutionalized method of thinking
34. Unlimited possibilities for extra curricular activities that interest your child having to live up to the expectations or skills of others.
35. Develop the individualism of your child
36. Avoid traditional school "group activities" that may leave one student doing all the work or ruining it for everyone else.
37. Never have your child feel the failure, embarrassment, or teasing from "failing" a grade
38. To keep your children out of the care, custody, and control or people you don't know and who naturally teach their philosophy of life whether they realize it or not
39. No opportunity for your child to "sluff off", "snow-blow", or "just get by" with academics
40. To have your child learn initiative naturally as there's no peer pressure or fear of embarrassing himself
41. Allow your child to have input and say in subject matter and style
42. Allow your child to focus on growth and development--not following the latest fad or being in a certain group
43. So your child will only be surrounded by people who love him, encourage him, and want the best for him.
44. Make sure your child doesn't end up graduating without knowing how to read or knowing other basic skills due to educational failings of your local schools.
45. Keep your child out of private schools that have peer pressure, teacher criticism, drugs, sex, and alcohol that your child never needs to be around
46. Avoid grading scales and testing that gives no positive benefit to your child
47. Not to give the state or federal government control of your child that they assume is theirs
48. To easily pass on your unique heritage or language to your child
49. So your child is not limited by "age" or "grade" to advance or explore academics in which they are interested or gifted
50. To teach your children to enjoy life
51. To allow your children to go to work with Mom or Dad when you all want--not just on the one "go to work with a parent holiday"
52. As many field trips as you want, to places that interest your child
53. To just take a day off when everyone feels like it
54. Flexibility to switch or experiment with different curriculum
2. Set Your Own Schedule
3. Vacation When You Want
4. Choose curriculum that best suits the needs of your child
5. Be totally aware of the state and progress of your child's education
6. Keep your child away from un-necessary peer pressure
7. Keep your child away from the bad influence of other children
8. Love, nurture, and teach your child the character and morals you value most
9. Make learning fun
10. Make learning as "experiential" as you want
11. Don't have to get up at the crack of dawn to get your child dressed and fed and off to school where their so tired they don't learn well anyway.
12. Break up the day however you want to fit your child's learning attention span
13. Teach your child without any "assumed limitations". Teach multiple languages, develop one skill or subject--the sky's the limit
14. What you teach an older child naturally filters down to the younger child(ren) making learning must easier and faster for siblings
15. Teach at the pace and developmental stage appropriate for your child
16. Avoid educational "labeling"
17. Keep you child as far away from drugs as possible
18. Never have to worry about bomb scares or mass shootings
19. Allow your child to do think, discuss, and explore in ways not possible in a classroom setting
20. Constant positive reinforcement and gentle correction. No abusive words or actions that scar your child's psyche
21. Don't use the school system as a babysitter. You only need a few hours for learning--the rest of the day is filled with unnecessary "busy work"
22. Develop life skills such as cooking, cleaning, and organizing that are easily learned with the additional time spent at home
23. Spend as much time outdoors as you want to enjoy nature and the world around us
24. Teach the value of responsibility by providing daily jobs
25. To make money management as natural as breathing by allowing even small children to do tasks, earn money, save it, and spend it in an appropriate manner.
26. Never have your child beat up by a bully. Teach self-defense skills that will enable him to deal with any situation but not until he is mature enough to handle the emotional aspects of confrontation
27. No pressure or set "expectations" from teachers on a younger sibling that follows an older sibling in the same school
28. Be around when your child needs to talk
29. Take a break when your child needs a break
30. Bond as a family through family group activities
31. Pass on your religious beliefs and morals to your children and stay away from the "indoctrination" of other school systems
32. Teach sex education when you and how you want
33. Develop your child's imagination and teach diverse problem solving skills instead of one institutionalized method of thinking
34. Unlimited possibilities for extra curricular activities that interest your child having to live up to the expectations or skills of others.
35. Develop the individualism of your child
36. Avoid traditional school "group activities" that may leave one student doing all the work or ruining it for everyone else.
37. Never have your child feel the failure, embarrassment, or teasing from "failing" a grade
38. To keep your children out of the care, custody, and control or people you don't know and who naturally teach their philosophy of life whether they realize it or not
39. No opportunity for your child to "sluff off", "snow-blow", or "just get by" with academics
40. To have your child learn initiative naturally as there's no peer pressure or fear of embarrassing himself
41. Allow your child to have input and say in subject matter and style
42. Allow your child to focus on growth and development--not following the latest fad or being in a certain group
43. So your child will only be surrounded by people who love him, encourage him, and want the best for him.
44. Make sure your child doesn't end up graduating without knowing how to read or knowing other basic skills due to educational failings of your local schools.
45. Keep your child out of private schools that have peer pressure, teacher criticism, drugs, sex, and alcohol that your child never needs to be around
46. Avoid grading scales and testing that gives no positive benefit to your child
47. Not to give the state or federal government control of your child that they assume is theirs
48. To easily pass on your unique heritage or language to your child
49. So your child is not limited by "age" or "grade" to advance or explore academics in which they are interested or gifted
50. To teach your children to enjoy life
51. To allow your children to go to work with Mom or Dad when you all want--not just on the one "go to work with a parent holiday"
52. As many field trips as you want, to places that interest your child
53. To just take a day off when everyone feels like it
54. Flexibility to switch or experiment with different curriculum
Parents, if you are disgusted with public schools and want your children to have the great education they deserve, why not consider homeschooling? Millions of parents now homeschool their kids, and many of these parents are only high-school graduates.
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In the last three chapters of “Public Schools, Public Menace,” you’ll find many ways to homeschool your kids or use internet private schools, even if you work. Homeschooling can be a lot easier, and take a lot less time than you think. It can also bring you great joy in teaching your children.
© 2008 Joel Turtel - All Rights Reserved
P.S. I love my kid too much to put him through the public schools any longer, if I can POSSIBLY avoid it. Knowledge is power.
P.S. I love my kid too much to put him through the public schools any longer, if I can POSSIBLY avoid it. Knowledge is power.
Saturday, February 2, 2013
Stigma of Being Branded Bad Parents - HealthyPlace
Wonder if this is what Little Bit's teachers will be talking about now, since our meeting last week.
Stigma of Being Branded Bad Parents - HealthyPlace
Stigma of Being Branded Bad Parents - HealthyPlace
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Hey gang!
I love you all so dearly, that I'm making a special trip to the library today to make sure you have access to this e-book. http://www.revolution222.com/ After reading the first 50 pages or so on my iBook, I had to come print out a few to read on a hard copy. I figure it won't seem as costly to pring out several at a time. : ) Yeah, I COULD just buy the book, but what fun would that be, since it's FREELY offered online?!
I think this book belongs on this blog, because the blog is about mental health and the like, and the book seems like something that the AVERAGE citizen would call us CRAZY for considering. (Now You MUST read it, I know, cos you're so intrigued.) hee hee hee
I think this book belongs on this blog, because the blog is about mental health and the like, and the book seems like something that the AVERAGE citizen would call us CRAZY for considering. (Now You MUST read it, I know, cos you're so intrigued.) hee hee hee
Thursday, February 16, 2012
School, and actually LEARNING!
I found this as I was working on the last class required before I can get a Technical Certification...It raised some good things to think about. I thought you might think so, too.
Depression has run rampant in my own family for generations, like the writers'.
I have a personal relationship with depression. The depressive periods in my life are highly situational in so much as in the past they occurred after my divorce and most recently since the death of my mother. However, I am no stranger to the effects that chronic depression can have on a person and the people in their lives. I am certain that along with having difficulties with anxiety, my mother suffered from depression – never really addressed clinically or in any other way. The man I married when I was in my twenties was most certainly depressed – like so many others I recreated in my adult life what was familiar to me as a child. He, also, do this day has never addressed his depression – or chronic basic unhappiness. I have been affected by depression and so I am interested in what this condition is and ways to combat it – and in another sense, ways to accept it and actively deal with it.
Depression is clearly defined by a list of symptoms in the DSM-1V and will certainly be defined, again if differently, as a list of symptoms in the upcoming DSM-V. Certainly, these criteria will aid counselors and other mental health professionals in the pursuit of helping their clients. Diagnosis is made with the use of the DSM – but there are many differing views of what depression is, how to treat it and if it really exists at all.
That being said perhaps we can, for the moment, rethink depression much the way William Glasser, the founder of Reality Therapy does. Glasser maintains that we need to take responsibility for what we are and what we are experiencing. He states that being depressed, being anxious, even having a headache are expressions which avoid our responsibility in behaving in these ways. We choose to be depressed and hence, when depressed, we are depressing. We choose to have a headache, and hence, when we have a headache, we are headaching. He uses verbs to describe these conditions because we are choosing to experience this. This viewpoint does not support treatment with a medication.
Depression through the lens of Dr. Martin Seligman, the developer of positive psychology, changes the focus from what’s wrong to what’s strong. This ideology views the fight against depression as a journey through which the client accesses creativity and strength to endure and overcome deep unhappiness. Through these actions meaning can be found.
Eric Maisel is a creativity coach has who has written a book “Rethinking Depression” and previously wrote an article for Psychology Today exploring depression. Like Glasser, Maisel takes a nonclinical look at depression and goes as far to declare that there really is no disorder of “depression” and that unhappiness, chronic or otherwise, need not be looked at from a medical model of pathology. Maisel makes a great case for this way of thinking and mentions how pharmaceutical companies have a lot to gain by making any state of human emotional or physical discomfort labeled as a disorder. Often depression/unhappiness is a normal reaction to what is occurring around you and is no way a disorder. Maisel’s goal is to help a client look at her unhappiness and aid her in making changes in her life.
Considering these ideas as a counselor in training I have to say I am absorbing them all like a sponge – and slowly formulating my own viewpoint regarding this issue. I’m strongly attracted to a non-medical model on which to build my practice. But what about a client who is so depressed they can’t get out of bed or function in any meaningful fashion? What if he or she is driven to suicide by unrelenting unhappiness? Would medication be a welcome component of therapy? Is a clinical definition of depression necessary? Human beings are meant to experience discomfort – even misery – often as a catalyst to change.
This is a fascinating subject and counselors in training have all points of view available to them. The more we know the better we’ll be able to serve our client. Here is on point of view.
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/rethinking-psychology/201202/rethinking-depression
Susan Jennifer Polese is a counselor in training, a personal coach and a freelance writer. Her areas of interest are mindfulness, divergent thinking, and creativity in counseling. www.evolutionlifecoachingstudio.com
Depression has run rampant in my own family for generations, like the writers'.
A Catalyst to Change – Rethinking Depression
Susan Jennifer Polese
Depression is clearly defined by a list of symptoms in the DSM-1V and will certainly be defined, again if differently, as a list of symptoms in the upcoming DSM-V. Certainly, these criteria will aid counselors and other mental health professionals in the pursuit of helping their clients. Diagnosis is made with the use of the DSM – but there are many differing views of what depression is, how to treat it and if it really exists at all.
That being said perhaps we can, for the moment, rethink depression much the way William Glasser, the founder of Reality Therapy does. Glasser maintains that we need to take responsibility for what we are and what we are experiencing. He states that being depressed, being anxious, even having a headache are expressions which avoid our responsibility in behaving in these ways. We choose to be depressed and hence, when depressed, we are depressing. We choose to have a headache, and hence, when we have a headache, we are headaching. He uses verbs to describe these conditions because we are choosing to experience this. This viewpoint does not support treatment with a medication.
Depression through the lens of Dr. Martin Seligman, the developer of positive psychology, changes the focus from what’s wrong to what’s strong. This ideology views the fight against depression as a journey through which the client accesses creativity and strength to endure and overcome deep unhappiness. Through these actions meaning can be found.
Eric Maisel is a creativity coach has who has written a book “Rethinking Depression” and previously wrote an article for Psychology Today exploring depression. Like Glasser, Maisel takes a nonclinical look at depression and goes as far to declare that there really is no disorder of “depression” and that unhappiness, chronic or otherwise, need not be looked at from a medical model of pathology. Maisel makes a great case for this way of thinking and mentions how pharmaceutical companies have a lot to gain by making any state of human emotional or physical discomfort labeled as a disorder. Often depression/unhappiness is a normal reaction to what is occurring around you and is no way a disorder. Maisel’s goal is to help a client look at her unhappiness and aid her in making changes in her life.
Considering these ideas as a counselor in training I have to say I am absorbing them all like a sponge – and slowly formulating my own viewpoint regarding this issue. I’m strongly attracted to a non-medical model on which to build my practice. But what about a client who is so depressed they can’t get out of bed or function in any meaningful fashion? What if he or she is driven to suicide by unrelenting unhappiness? Would medication be a welcome component of therapy? Is a clinical definition of depression necessary? Human beings are meant to experience discomfort – even misery – often as a catalyst to change.
This is a fascinating subject and counselors in training have all points of view available to them. The more we know the better we’ll be able to serve our client. Here is on point of view.
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/rethinking-psychology/201202/rethinking-depression
Susan Jennifer Polese is a counselor in training, a personal coach and a freelance writer. Her areas of interest are mindfulness, divergent thinking, and creativity in counseling. www.evolutionlifecoachingstudio.com
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Checking in...
Hiya kids;
I'm hating how long it's been between posts, this is NOT the direction I'd hoped to be going with this, but alas, School started up and until I'm past the next 14+ weeks, I'm not likely to get to post nearly as often as I want.
I miss you!!
As much as I want to write something fresh and original for you, I will probably be cut-and-pasting some, just so you'll know I've not forgotten or died. ; )
I'm hopeful that when the rest of the Pell grant comes in, I'll be able to use the cash to purchase a tiny little Netbook. This will make my life-as a student/blogger extraordinaire-SO much easier. Things at home are going along...Hubby si wonderful, boys are healthy and growing, Kittehs...well, yeah, the newbie is growing a LOT. I'll try to get another picture of her up for you before the babies come. Which reminds me, I need to Google the info about how to tell when she's ready to pop...AUGH! I've never been a midwife before!!
Love to you all, and Hold on-regardless of what you're going through right now, remember, this too shall pass.
I'm hating how long it's been between posts, this is NOT the direction I'd hoped to be going with this, but alas, School started up and until I'm past the next 14+ weeks, I'm not likely to get to post nearly as often as I want.
I miss you!!
As much as I want to write something fresh and original for you, I will probably be cut-and-pasting some, just so you'll know I've not forgotten or died. ; )
I'm hopeful that when the rest of the Pell grant comes in, I'll be able to use the cash to purchase a tiny little Netbook. This will make my life-as a student/blogger extraordinaire-SO much easier. Things at home are going along...Hubby si wonderful, boys are healthy and growing, Kittehs...well, yeah, the newbie is growing a LOT. I'll try to get another picture of her up for you before the babies come. Which reminds me, I need to Google the info about how to tell when she's ready to pop...AUGH! I've never been a midwife before!!
Love to you all, and Hold on-regardless of what you're going through right now, remember, this too shall pass.
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