Jun 14th, 2007 – 10:31 am
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 […]
Jun 10th, 2007 – 10:42 am
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 […]
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 […]
May 23rd, 2007 – 12:30 pm
Does anyone know how much of our food is coming from China? I was in my local store the other day and as is my custom I checked the ‘country of origin’ of most of the products I was contemplating buying, in this case frozen bay scallops – farm raised in China. Needless to say – or […]
May 23rd, 2007 – 10:37 am
There are simple remedies for developmental delays (barring physical causes). This will astound many people, especially scientists, researchers, and career parents, to name a few. These highly intelligent individuals, many of whom have children on the autism spectrum, have the intelligence and power to learn what to do to allow their children to return to normal […]
May 20th, 2007 – 11:00 am
Imagine your life as a modern child. Can you imagine it? Probably not, because the operative word in the sentence is ‘modern’. There is no childhood any more. I know of few children who live an early life of freedom, happiness and good cheer. Parents aren’t choosing freedom for their children – they are choosing a […]
May 15th, 2007 – 12:03 pm
Tell me why we even need such a phrase in our vocabulary? It is of course that we live in a society where non-maternal care has become the norm. The phrase comes up querying whether there is a statistical link between early non-maternal care and autism, classroom behaviour in later years, developmental delays, speech delays, vocabulary […]
I seem to flip flop between being courageous and not. I am usually more courageous when I have returned from England, as I have recently. Perhaps I feel more valid when I’m there? I can usually be very courageous for anyone in my family or close friends of any age. My ideas flow well and I […]
Mar 27th, 2007 – 11:03 am
Previous generations might ask me why I’m so open to meeting new people. I haven’t moved house in nearly 26 years and I’m really happy about feeling so permanent in so many ways – not that I can ever be an American, I’m English still. But you just never know who is round the corner to […]
Mar 23rd, 2007 – 10:25 am
These terms are much in use these days. In a recent discussion with a friend we mentioned ‘at home mothers’. The phrase implies that the mother is not only ‘at home’ but that she is spending much of her time interacting with her child/ren. Likewise with the word ‘nanny’; commonly bandied about to describe the […]