Monthly Archives: June 2007
Quirks of fate make life better.
In March I picked up an old friend at the airport.
She is Catholic East Indian by culture, Canadian by citizenship.
We first met in the US when our oldest children were 4 years old and attending a part-time pre-school programme – she was the classroom aide.
Since my brother in England had just started going out with an Indian girl […]
What are your priorities?
Have you made a list of your priorities in life?
I’ve gone through my life with priorities, I’ve just never written them down.
In my 20’s my priority was to own an English cottage or small house in the countryside but at the same time close to a creek where I could sail my boat. I just assumed I […]
24 hours a week with love
I have long thought and known from experience that it only takes 24 hours a week to make a difference with a developmentally delayed child.
Most especially the same quality 24 hours a week given to any child from the time they are 4 months of age (earlier if possible) will ensure that a child is […]
Writing – 4 months and counting
I’ve been a conscious writer for over 10 years.
By saying ‘conscious’ I mean that I actually have files and notebooks in which I’ve kept written ideas, perspectives and philosophies about my own life, the lives of young children and other people’s lives.
I’ve been consciously blogging live for 4 months! Yikes!
As a therapeutic tool I started a […]
Picture this -
A ‘mother’?
Bachelors and Masters degrees in Science.
Over the years she has been:
Staff Nurse in hospital
Nurse Manager
Staff Development Coordinator
Founding leader of a community autism society
Board Certified Behavior Analyst
Lead Behavior Analyst in a state projects
Private consulting business
Currently pursuing a Ph.D.
Frequent speaker at conferences and workshops at the local, state and national level.
So my question is – can this person really be ‘mothering’ her children - all […]
‘Bureaucratic autism’ running rampant!
It’s the inability of people at any level in bureaucracies, particularly big government but often big business too, to come face to face with issues.
Staff at our county run public hospital no longer look you in the eye when you pass by – 8 years ago their level of courtesy and acknowledgement of the individual was […]
Goodness – why it matters
Goodness is a long lost attribute and much maligned these days since a “good” person is an easy mark for many of the manipulative people one meets.
But those who are truly “good” have a special quality which makes all our lives better.
I believe infants and children are really “good” before we contaminate them with our materialistic world […]