Re: [Unschooling-dotcom] Digest Number 1639
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Bridget,
thanks for your thoughts--no it's not his first heart attack (his 2nd) but
the first one was a "silent one"--he "didn't feel good" -but still went to
work--so we made him go to the doc. Turns out he had mild heart attack, but
this second one was life threatening--and it turns out that the paramedic's
choice of hospitals saved his life--they have cardiac facilities that the
other local hospital doesn't have. I don't think that I have ever been so
scared in my life than when we heard "code blue in the Cath Lab", knowing who
was in the Cath Lab. My dad has lived with my family and been our cheif cook
and bottle washer for the last 2 years and he's only 66, so I am not ready to
give him up yet.(not because he's our cheif cook and bottle washer, but cuz
he's too damn young to die!) My oldest daughter says he's her best friend and
pretty much everybody else who knows him feels the same, so we've got a lot
of support,but nothing will take away that fear that we might lose him.
Please forgive my rambling....fear and love can do stuff to you!
Nancy (the sun came out so that helps!)
thanks for your thoughts--no it's not his first heart attack (his 2nd) but
the first one was a "silent one"--he "didn't feel good" -but still went to
work--so we made him go to the doc. Turns out he had mild heart attack, but
this second one was life threatening--and it turns out that the paramedic's
choice of hospitals saved his life--they have cardiac facilities that the
other local hospital doesn't have. I don't think that I have ever been so
scared in my life than when we heard "code blue in the Cath Lab", knowing who
was in the Cath Lab. My dad has lived with my family and been our cheif cook
and bottle washer for the last 2 years and he's only 66, so I am not ready to
give him up yet.(not because he's our cheif cook and bottle washer, but cuz
he's too damn young to die!) My oldest daughter says he's her best friend and
pretty much everybody else who knows him feels the same, so we've got a lot
of support,but nothing will take away that fear that we might lose him.
Please forgive my rambling....fear and love can do stuff to you!
Nancy (the sun came out so that helps!)
Sarah Carothers
Nancy, is he still in the hospital? Any surgery planned to correct problems that can be corrected? I can relate... just spent my summer at WFUBMC with my mom... Aortic Root Valve Replacement surgery.
These docs can do some pretty amazing stuff!! Keep the faith... will be thinking of you.
Sarah
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These docs can do some pretty amazing stuff!! Keep the faith... will be thinking of you.
Sarah
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Julie Stauffer
<<help our children identify problems like dyslexia>>
Dyslexia means "difficulty reading". There is no proven evidence of an
underlying neurological disorder. Even if there was, its not like you are
going to take a pill and fix it. What helps child A will not help child B.
Once you "identify problems like dyslexia", now what? So what? The kid
already knew they had difficulty reading.
The whole learning disability thing came about because some teachers knew
that kids who couldn't read were still smart and wanted them to have fewer
disadvantages in the classroom, so the kids got to have untimed tests, etc..
It is a school phenomenon, not necessarily a medical one.
Julie
Dyslexia means "difficulty reading". There is no proven evidence of an
underlying neurological disorder. Even if there was, its not like you are
going to take a pill and fix it. What helps child A will not help child B.
Once you "identify problems like dyslexia", now what? So what? The kid
already knew they had difficulty reading.
The whole learning disability thing came about because some teachers knew
that kids who couldn't read were still smart and wanted them to have fewer
disadvantages in the classroom, so the kids got to have untimed tests, etc..
It is a school phenomenon, not necessarily a medical one.
Julie
Julie Stauffer
<<without relying on Holt or anyone else to tell you it's okay?>>
No one has told me "it's okay". What they did was introduce me to an idea
that struck me to the core, that resonated so deeply within me I knew it was
Truth. I have read many books on the topic because it is near and dear to
my heart. I point those books out to others because the authors express
themselves so much better than I do.
I am not a follower. I am not a groupie. I am not of the herd mentality.
I am a seeker of Truth and trust my soul to recognize it when it is
encountered.
Julie
No one has told me "it's okay". What they did was introduce me to an idea
that struck me to the core, that resonated so deeply within me I knew it was
Truth. I have read many books on the topic because it is near and dear to
my heart. I point those books out to others because the authors express
themselves so much better than I do.
I am not a follower. I am not a groupie. I am not of the herd mentality.
I am a seeker of Truth and trust my soul to recognize it when it is
encountered.
Julie
Lynda
There is tons of research and evidence that dyslexia, not the ps excuse for
more special ed money, but the medical diagnosis IS neurological.
Lynda
more special ed money, but the medical diagnosis IS neurological.
Lynda
----- Original Message -----
From: Julie Stauffer <jnjstau@...>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 8:33 PM
Subject: Re: [Unschooling-dotcom] Digest Number 1639
> <<help our children identify problems like dyslexia>>
>
> Dyslexia means "difficulty reading". There is no proven evidence of an
> underlying neurological disorder. Even if there was, its not like you are
> going to take a pill and fix it. What helps child A will not help child
B.
> Once you "identify problems like dyslexia", now what? So what? The kid
> already knew they had difficulty reading.
>
> The whole learning disability thing came about because some teachers knew
> that kids who couldn't read were still smart and wanted them to have fewer
> disadvantages in the classroom, so the kids got to have untimed tests,
etc..
> It is a school phenomenon, not necessarily a medical one.
>
> Julie
>
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Tia Leschke
At 10:40 PM 29/11/01 -0600, you wrote:
reading Summerhill at the age of 14, the schools never really worked for me
again. (Never did really. I just knew why.) I convinced my mother to
help me "drop out" at age 16, because I wanted to learn what interested me
in the way I wanted to learn it. I needed her help because it was not easy
to drop out in California back then. You had to go to continuation school
until you were 18. My mother went round and round the bureaucrats until
finally the principal said he could let me go on a mental excuse. So now
you know it. I'm mental. <g>
Like Julie, the books I read about unschooling resonated with what I
already knew to be true.
Tia
Tia Leschke leschke@...
On Vancouver Island
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It is the answers which separate us, the questions which unite us. - Janice
Levy
><<without relying on Holt or anyone else to tell you it's okay?>>I became an unschooler long before anyone had ever used the word. After
>
>No one has told me "it's okay". What they did was introduce me to an idea
>that struck me to the core, that resonated so deeply within me I knew it was
>Truth. I have read many books on the topic because it is near and dear to
>my heart. I point those books out to others because the authors express
>themselves so much better than I do.
reading Summerhill at the age of 14, the schools never really worked for me
again. (Never did really. I just knew why.) I convinced my mother to
help me "drop out" at age 16, because I wanted to learn what interested me
in the way I wanted to learn it. I needed her help because it was not easy
to drop out in California back then. You had to go to continuation school
until you were 18. My mother went round and round the bureaucrats until
finally the principal said he could let me go on a mental excuse. So now
you know it. I'm mental. <g>
Like Julie, the books I read about unschooling resonated with what I
already knew to be true.
Tia
Tia Leschke leschke@...
On Vancouver Island
********************************************************************************************
It is the answers which separate us, the questions which unite us. - Janice
Levy