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On teaching

Remember that time you called the teacher a “know nothing jerk who is the epitome of what is wrong with the education profession today”? Sure some teachers shouldn’t be in the field, but it is your job to raise awareness and fight for your child’s rights, not to rub their nose in it. Like it or not, the teacher, subconsciously, will impact your child in a way that can take years to undo. All because of the things that you say. Look at me. Eating my own words. I was that parent. I don’t know of any educator who went into education with the mindset of “I want to see how many young minds I can destroy”. When it comes to the lives and education of our children, we need to meet half way. Don’t give on following the law. That should be a no-brainer. If you absolutely can not

being a parent

I was reflecting on the past couple of years with David, and of course with my blog. When did I become a leader? I look to some of the communities that I participate in each day both via facebook.com and via other web boards, and I see myself responding to questions, thoughts and ideas put forth by other parents. Like it or not, people see you as a leader, is that a bad thing? No. It is not a bad thing, in fact, it is positive thing. So many times we find our leaders foisting their ideas and ideals upon us. I tend to lead by example much of the time. I don’t call bull as much as I likely should, but that isn’t a bad thing either. Here is why. People need to learn from their own life events. Sure, by sharing our life, I can raise awareness, indeed

Coming milestones

Sometime in the month of September I will write post 1000 for my little site. In the blogger community numbers are huge. Sometime this fall I will hit 100,000 page views. Normally when a blog hits either of these two milestones the blog author celebrates. They celebrate their good fortune at being able to continue the writing process and at the same time, increasing readership of their blog. I won’t be celebrating. My celebration will occur when I no longer feel compelled to use this as the therapy for the things that we deal with every day in our house. I wonder how many milestones I will hit with this little blog of mine. I am still working on a book about our adventures with David, so that others may learn and benefit from the things we deal with every day. Anyway, as I close post 978, I thank you