Who do I tell when a child is over anxious in its own home? Who do I tell when a 6 month old has legs like jelly? Who do I tell when a 2 year old’s language disappears? Who do I tell when a 6 year old has a meltdown over her spelling homework? Who do I […]
I think ‘lack of hugging’ is a missing piece of the puzzle with developmentally delayed children and most people who are ailing. I’ve written about this, in part, once before talking about touch in one of my earliest posts on March 2, 2007 “The Three Primary Senses†Being English I didn’t come from a ‘hugging’ […]
Do you remember your times table? It serves me well! Not to mention reciting the alphabet when going through the phone book! What else did we learn by rote memorisation at a young age? I started attending a private Catholic primary school (one of only four protestant girls in that year) full time before I was 5 […]
Apart from hearing from my brother that my father had suddenly died, the most painful words I’ve ever heard are “Will you be my Mummy?†I’ve mentioned before that the little girl who asked me that question was just over 4 1/2 years old. I had cared for her part-time in her home from the […]
There comes a time when you pick up a book and it just grabs you. Such a book for me recently has been “The Right to be Human†by Edward Hoffman, a biography of Abraham Maslow, revised and updated in 1999. The title alone hooked me while browsing a church fundraising sale when I was in […]
I became interested in design, branding, advertising and the like, many years ago when my husband and I compiled the first US Edition of Reed’s Nautical Almanac. More recently, design and branding have become my sons’ work and the most interesting discussions ensue; some based on age and experience and others on modern philosophies and […]
Did you hear about the Taiwanese fishing fleet that fishes for sharks (and maybe other sea creatures) using long lines off the coast of Costa Rica? I too was astonished and the filmmaker interviewed implied that such things were generally hidden from view. Since Geography is my favourite subject, just long extinct in US schools (perhaps as […]
You know the phrase: If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck. I guess I have a big bold label on me saying – sucker! Flags go up when each in turn your neighbours’ infants are constantly crying (and you can hear them through closed windows); day after […]
Jul 26th, 2007 – 12:08 pm
As ever, I was foraging through useful pieces of information the other night. Most of my notes relate to learning about autism in the past 4+ years and it was the term ‘Incidental Teaching’ that caught my eye. Incidental teaching doesn’t mean there’s no planning on the part of the person teaching. Plans are made but within […]
We frequently use this term when talking about photography. I have been a pointer and shooter in my time. I’ve even used throw away cameras. But I was thinking about how children learn to speak these days. From my own survey 83% of middle class children under 8 (with a ratio of 3:2 in favour […]