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5 Steps to Surviving Distance Learning
Surviving Distance Learning! Many children who do well naturally in school do NOT thrive under the current Distance Learning conditions! Moreover, not only are they isolated from their friends, but they are expected to pay attention for hours via internet. Add to this a child with learning disabilities, or who struggles with academics, and it can be a perfect storm for disaster! There is not a lot of stimulation from a flat screen concerning school work! How can you help keep them engaged, and save your sanity? Basically, if what you are currently doing isn’t working, or is not working well, consider changing tactics. In other words, a new approach…
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My Covid-19 Class of 2020 Kid
What’s Covid-19 Distance Learning?!? This Whole World Wide Covid-19 Virus Pandemic has been difficult for all of us. To say that life has been very strange, would an understatement. Did I think that it would still be going on? No, not at all. I assumed we would be back to normal before the end of June. Now we are well into July and life is still strange. What has been the most difficult for me? Getting my son Lane through the end of his Senior year of High School. He is my youngest child of 5, and I joke that this was my last time to complete high school, so…
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Diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder
Labels A few years ago, a 17 year old girl in our local high school was diagnosed with Situational Bipolar Disorder. It wasn’t a severe case, but still she suffered. Wouldn’t it have been better if her friends had been aware of the struggles concerning this disorder rather than alienate her? She had lost most of her friends, and struggled severely with social anxieties, and battled depression. Kandi was teased and ridiculed for exhibiting what the other teens think is “Hyper-active, immature, or annoying behavior.” She could not help it when she got into these phases. Kandi was not Hyper-active: she was in a state of mania. When in this…
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Parenting a Child from Planet Asperger’s
Once Upon a Time, there was a King and Queen who had a beautiful baby daughter. They threw a grand celebration and invited all of the magical fairies in the realm to bestow upon the child a gift. The fairies gave her gifts such as the gift of kindness, grace and beauty. Oh wouldn’t it be magical if we could really do this? If we could bestow our children with gifts of the spirit, talents, abilities and other positive genetic features and traits? We cannot choose our genetics, at least not yet. So what do we do when we have this beautiful baby Prince or Princess who ends up being…
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Bits of Wit & Wisdom
When I was a little girl I often pretended to be Cinderella. I was especially good at becoming a martyr as I did my chores and thought dreadful things about my mother who I was sure acted identical to the evil step mother! I wanted to meet my Prince Charming and live Happily Ever After. I didn’t want to go to college when I was a little girl, because I wanted to grow up and be a mommy. I have obtained that dream through sweat and tears and more tears. But more tears have been happy than sad. I believe that life is short, unpredictable, that it’s okay to…
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The Stigma Of Mental Illness
Many people would say, “If you are depressed, then you need to snap out of it; think positive thoughts. It is your own fault and you shouldn’t blame it on anyone else. It’s not the fault of hormones, chemical imbalances, or sad situations. It isn’t hereditary, and people could get over it if they tried. The world is full of people who aren’t really sick. Depression isn’t a disease.” Everything that was previously said is absolutely false. However, this is the way that much of the world views MDD—“major depressive disorder” or depression and it needs to stop. I get frustrated by people who just “don’t get it”. If people…
A Romantic Blessed Mom of 5; Mental Health Advocate, with a Creative, Victorian Soul.