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“Homework wars not worth it!” – Doc Meek
January 24th, 2013 | 
Author: Thursday, January 24, 2013. Today I am grateful for those who challenge unproven conventional schooling practices. – Doc Meek
“What if you’re smarter than you think?” – Doc Meek
Thursday, May 10, 2012. Today, I am grateful for parents, teachers & students who endure. - Doc Meek
Do You or Your Student or Your Child Have Reading Difficulties or Learning Difficulties?
What if you are smarter than you think?
Einstein had overwhelming learning difficulties at school, and look at the creativity and accomplishment he brought to his life.
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A series of articles to help mothers, teachers & students with reading problems is at: docmeek.com/mothers
Doc Meek, Thurs, May 10, 2012, Sherwood Park, Alberta, CANADA
“What if you are smarter than you think?”
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November is Aviation Month! ~ Doc Meek (the “flying nut”)
Sunday, November 20, 2011. Today I am grateful to learn that November is National Aviation Month in the USA. Here I am, a “flying nut,” and I didn’t even remember that. My trusty colleagues at TeacherPlanet.com reminded me. ~ Doc Meek
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Dear Santa,
I know it’s a little early to be writing to you.
However, I thought it might be worth alerting you ahead of time on one of my smaller wishes.
See, I’m a simple man with simple tastes. I don’t much care what kind of car I drive, and I do not have any overweening ambitions to be rich or anything like that.
All I want for Christmas is a simple little Lear Jet, OK?
Are you able to accommodate a humble wish like that?
Sincerely,
Doc Meek
P.S. Maybe you could lend me a million dollars as a down payment on a Lear Jet if you feel my wish competes with other people’s requests for flying machines (like sleighs–with or without reindeer)?
P.S.S. I help kids overcome learning difficulties of all kinds. Does that count in terms of you listing me as a good boy?
I had serious learning problems at first when I tried to learn to fly. Trying to drive the aircraft in 3-D space (maybe infinite-D space?) was not easy compared to driving a car in 2-D on the ground, eh? No fear. I got it in time. That’s what I tell the kids: “No matter what you are facing, you will get it in time. Look what Santa learned to do. What if you’re smarter than you think?”
Ho, Ho, Ho!
Doc Meek, Sun, Nov 20, 2011, Sherwood Park, Alberta, CANADA
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“Music opens the channels of learning.” ~ Doc Meek
15 minutes Catching Up With Rex by CBS 88,713 views
Images from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCF1xSgyKXg&feature=relmfu
Friday, March 18, 2011. Today I am grateful to know that a child who was labeled severely autistic was found later to respond to music, even though he was super senstive to sounds and would hold his ears when exposed to singing.
Of course every autistic child does not grow up to be a musical genius. That is not the point of this article.
I use music in my private practice (Baroque music, about 60 beats per minute) to help open the channels of learning for children with a large array of learning problems.
Sometimes the music is simply background music in a classroom that helps almost every child in that classroom to learn more easily and achieve more.
Thanks to those who know, and who have taught us, that music opens the mind and soul!
Doc Meek, Fri, Mar 18, 2011, Sherwood Park, Alberta, CANADA
P.S. Here’s the book about Rex Lewis-Clack by his mother Cathleen Lewis:
Rex: A Mother, Her Autistic Child, and the Music that Transformed Their Lives – Hardcover (Oct. 28, 2008) byCathleen Lewis
P.S.S. Somebody told me that it is the “Ides of March” today. I know the reference is to Shakespeare and I do not know the full import of the phrase.
Can anybody “out there” give us some more information on the “Ides of March?”
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“Technological marvels can be hazardous to human health.” ~ Doc Meek
Wednesday, January 26, 2011. I am grateful that someone made me aware, at the last minute, that the Edmonton Public School Board was addressing a “WiFi Motion” at their meeting last evening, January 25, 2011. Thanks to the Board Secretary, I was able to forward to the Trustees a quickly-drafted “one-pager” brief on the subject of reliance on Health Canada and the World Health Organization for safety standards relative to WiFi (WiFi is a trademark of the WiFi Alliance).
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WiFi Motion at Edmonton Public School Board Meeting, Jan 25, 2011
(A “one-pager” brief similar to the following was emailed to the Trustees the day before their Jan 25th meeting)
“A brief introduction: I am a learning specialist, not a medical specialist. I have been in private practice for many years, encouraging students, parents, teachers and educational administrators to utilize strategies that help to overcome learning difficulties.
“The Board’s WiFi motion (WiFi is a trademark of the WiFi Alliance) proposes to rely upon Health Canada and the World Health Organization for safety standards relative to the installation of wireless devices in schools. Trustees should consider broadening this WiFi motion, slightly and vitally. It would be prudent, I think, to include in the motion reference to other solid research data, in addition to that adduced by Health Canada and the World Health Organization (WHO). Published standards by such large organizations have a tendency to lag behind solid research.
“Further, much of the well-publicized research upon which Health Canada and WHO rely is industry-funded research, and there is a tendency for such studies to find no harm in the devices which industry produces. This is a natural sequence of events. No organization wants to undermine its own means of existence and we can’t fault them on that.
“What we can do is protect the health of students by the inclusion in the WiFi motion of reference to additional independent solid and reliable research.
“Many of you may recall that decades ago a very convenient and useful technology was introduced into shoe stores. People could place their feet in a slot at the bottom of the machine and see their toes wriggling in a pair of new shoes, to see for certain if the fit of the shoe was good. This seemed to be a great and convenient technological aid, at the time.
“Experts assured us that these fluoroscopy machines were perfectly safe. The subsequent rise in cancer rates came as an unpleasant surprise, because it was not generally perceived, at that time, that such ionizing radiation presented a serious health hazard.
“Independent and reliable research is now cautioning us that even non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation (EMR), such as that emitted by numerous wireless devices now in common use in homes, schools and workplaces, presents serious health hazards.
“One man wryly noted that they don’t call WiFi “hot spots” for nothing.
“We need to pay attention to this vital knowledge, ahead of time, not after the fact.
“Central nervous system disturbances caused by non-ionizing EMR (electromagnetic radiation) have been documented, in addition to other kinds of human cellular damage.
“In other words, EMR (electromagnetic radiation) impacts the child’s brain cells negatively.
“In my many years of working as a learning specialist with children with learning difficulties, I have learned that non-ionizing EMR (electromagnetic radiation) damages the brain’s capacity for learning.
“Would it not be the height of irony for schools to install great and convenient technological learning aids that damage the child’s capacity to learn?”
- J. Collins Meek, Ph.D.
Email: docmeek@gmail.com; Website: http://www.docmeek.com
The Trustees voted 6 to 3 to continue to rely on Health Canada and WHO for safety standards for students, thus guaranteeing that students in schools where WiFi is installed will be bathed all day in health-hazardous non-ionizing EMR (electromagnetic radiation).
Not prudent, in my view.
Doc Meek, Wednesday, January 26, 2011, Sherwood Park, Alberta, CANADA
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“Innovative Perlmutter Health Center.” – Doc Meek
Wednesday, November 24, 2010. Today I am grateful for David Perlmutter, M.D., a Board-Certified Neurologist with a worldwide practice centered in Naples, on the west coast of Florida.
Images and text below from Dr. Perlmutter’s website: http://www.perlhealth.com
“Raise a Smarter Child by Kindergarten”
by David Perlmutter, MD, FACN, ABIHM Learn More »
Dr. Perlmutter works innovatively with a wide variety of neurological and nutritional issues and preventive medicine, including helping adults and children overcome learning problems.
This makes him a hero in my eyes, as I have been helping adults and children triumph over learning difficulties for more than 30 years now.
Thank you, Dr. Perlmutter, for inspiring hope for children and parents and others!
Doc Meek, Wednesday, November 24, 2010, at the Super 8 Motel in Dania Beach, Florida (on the east coast of Florida, opposite Dr. Perlmutter’s office on the west coast at Naples).
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Pat Wyman is a learning specialist par excellence
I am very grateful to Pat Wyman for her guest article below. – Doc Meek
America’s Most Trusted Learning Expert
Instant Learning Strategies®: The Top Five Secrets You Need to Learn Anything Fast
In your ever-busy, “on demand” life, have you ever wondered how it would feel to be able to learn twice as much in half the time? Life changes in an instant, so here is a proven, Instant Learning® formula that will give you the learning edge you need.
Whether you are a CEO, an employee in job training, a student, or a parent, did you know that a baby learning to walk uses the same techniques that are key to your Instant Learning® ability? The baby practices but really learns to walk in an “instant” once he unlocks the code I share in my Instant Learning® seminars—”learning is not about being smart; it’s about strategy!”
Curious? Read on, put your eyebrows on relax, and you will remember everything you read in this chapter. Here are five proven strategies that neuroscientists, psychologists, and learning experts say anyone can use to confidently learn anything new. I call this Instant Learning® formula BBAPI.
1. Belief
You already believe that you can learn in an instant because you’ve been doing it your whole life. When you were younger, you learned thousands of new things, firm in the belief that you would succeed. You simply tried new strategies until you mastered the task. As Henry Ford said, “If you think you can do a thing, or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.”
Right now, give yourself permission to believe that you can learn anything based solely on the information you receive from your actions. Adjust your learning strategies as you read this chapter, and do things differently until you get the result you want. Remember, your belief and strategies together are so strong that they inspire the highest vision of what is possible.
2. Body
Your body movements are a reflection of what is going on in your brain. If you lie on the couch in a dimly lit room and say self-defeating things to yourself while deciding that you’re going to learn something new, you will simply end up on the couch. This is information that you’re not highly motivated to learn anything new.
Do this: change your body position as if you are perfectly successful and record how you feel. When you are ready to learn something new, put yourself into your “success position.” Next, do what experts do with their bodies: I call it “Brain Smart, Body Smart™.” Make sure you get any “body or brain” roadblocks to learning out of the way. Have your eyes checked by a developmental optometrist to make sure that you see the printed page the same way others do; make sure you are hearing properly; exercise, love your body enough to put nourishing foods into it, and explore why supplements like omega 3s, which are proven to help you think faster and remember longer, are the very best strategies to enhance your body and brain.
3. Association
Have you ever met someone and liked them right away, even though you did not actually know the person? The reason is called association, which neuroscientists say is created from connections in your brain that remind you of someone else you already know and like.
To make learning faster, connect it with something you already know because your brain craves patterns. To cement the learning, add more connections like humor, uniqueness, emotion, and visual, auditory, and tactile modalities. Psychologists report that you can learn something new the very first time, if the associations you make along with it are strong enough. When I teach medical students how to recall complicated medical terms, we use humorous letters, pictures, and words connected with things they already know. Their learning is stress-free and virtually “instant”!
4. Pictures
Have you ever read sections of a book and then forgot what you just read? After you see a movie, do you notice that it seems easier to remember the pictures?
Picture recall has much more meaning across many parts of the brain, so the saying “one picture is worth a thousand words” really is true. Whenever you are reading something new, put your body into success position and become a filmmaker in your mind. Read something, look up, and make a movie from the words. Then, add your own, personalized version of something familiar in your picture. Connect the two images, and when you look up at your images again, you’ll easily be able to learn and remember whatever you want. This is called the eye-brain connection.
5. Input, Storage, and Output Need to be Matched
If you wanted to find out whether a baseball player had the skills to make the team, would you give the person a written test? Sounds silly, but the mismatch between learning and testing styles is a major reason people wonder about whether they can learn new things.
One of the best-kept learning secrets that you’ll never hear in school is how to match learning styles with testing styles for effortless learning. Discover your preferred learning style (visual, auditory, or tactile), and ask yourself what style will be used to test your knowledge. Match your learning style (input), memory style (storage), and testing style (output), and learning becomes a breeze.
Remember, learning is not about being smart. It is only about strategy, and once you know the strategies, you can choose to learn anything at any time. Learning how to learn is your key to Instant Learning® for a lifetime of learning success.
For your FREE Personal Learning Styles Inventory, and your 4 FREE chapters of my immediately downloadable eBook, Instant Learning® for Amazing Grades, go to: www.howtolearn.com/amazinggrades.html
- Pat Wyman ………………………………………………………………………………………..
Thank you, Pat!
Doc Meek, Thursday, July 29, 2010, at South Jordan, Utah, USA ——————————-
J. Collins Meek, Ph.D. (Doc Meek)
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“Why China is passing us.” – Winnipeg Free Press (2nd of 2 parts)
Lanshan Middle School No. 2 is in an agricultural area in the southern part of Hunan province, China; Hunan province is highlighted in red on the map of China above; image from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunan ………………………………………………………………………………………
I am grateful for today’s guest article from the Winnipeg Free Press in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/fyi/why-chinas-passing-us-84291977.html
Winnipeg Free Press – PRINT EDITION
Why China’s passing us [2nd of 2 parts]
At Lanshan Middle School No. 2, no free rides
By: Carol Sanders, February 13, 2010
About one-third of the students live in dorms on campus. Many of their parents work in factories in another province or their farms are too far from town to commute to school every day.
The high school students do their own laundry near a cold-water tap beside one of the dorms, using a basin and wringing their clothes by hand before hanging them up to dry.
On Saturday mornings, when classes start later and the school day is shorter, a student clean-up crew armed with straw brooms and garbage bags, pails of cold water and rags cleans the school.
Once a month, students have to take their turn, working in groups of three. They sweep the grounds and wash the windows.
They do it freely, while they talk and joke around.
“It’s our duty,” said Gina, a girl in Grade 10 who wants to join the military. When they had a freak snow storm in Lanshan two years ago, it was the military that rescued people in buses in the ditch and the military that went to help earthquake victims in Sichuan.
She wants to be a soldier so she can travel around China and help people. She’s never seen the military in the bad light of Tiananmen Square or Tibet.
The upbeat optimism of Gina and her schoolmates overshadows a lot of darkness — like when the power goes out. Or the garbage dumpster is filled to overflowing by week’s end.
Or when students fall asleep in class because they’ve stayed up all night studying.
The new boys’ dorm looks like a palace for little princes compared to the grungy, gray girls’ dorm.
In class, there’s a lot of rote learning and memorization, as opposed to creative writing and critical thinking.
And if you’re not up to speed, you get left behind.
Middle School No. 2 is for the smartest and hardest working kids in the region. The less-skilled teachers and students are at Middle School No. 1. There appears to be no place for students with disabilities or behaviour problems.
Self-discipline, hard work and proper deportment are the norm.
Teachers say it only takes one meeting with parents to correct a student’s misbehaviour.
When a Grade 10 girl got caught putting a note on a boy’s back that said “sex monster” she panicked and pleaded with her Canadian English teacher not to tell the principal.
The school doesn’t practice corporal punishment — but parents might. Getting called down to the principal’s office because your kid was acting up is a major disgrace in a culture that intensely values education.
In the last 60 years, China’s illiteracy rate has dropped to 9.1 percent from 80 per cent in 1949, according to the World Bank. The enrollment rate for primary-school children rose to 99.3 per cent from 20 per cent, and high schools and universities are booming.
We can shame China for its human rights record and feel superior, but that’s not going to stop its 1.3 billion people from getting ahead of us, educationally and economically.
The number of Canadians who earn bachelor’s degrees is below the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development average and well behind many other nations, the OECD 2009 report Education at a Glance said. Even the number of PhDs has fallen.
The Chinese have a saying “fu bu guo san dai” which means “wealth does not pass three generations.” The first generation works extremely hard, the second generation reaps the benefits. The third generation arrives — and squanders the wealth.
The forces of globalization aren’t going to give our kids a break. If we don’t equip them to compete with the hundreds of millions of kids schools like Lanshan are turning out, there may not be any wealth to squander when we’re gone.
[This is the 2nd of 2 parts; the 1st part was published in the previous post, dated Tuesday, July 27, 2010]
- Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition February 13, 2010 H1
Doc Meek posted a comment at the Winnipeg Free Press about this article:
February 19, 2010 at 7:19 PM
I am writing a book that will encourage Chinese teachers and students to involve themselves more in active learning, so that the school work they do will be more meaningful to each of them personally. I would like them to learn to love active learning, not just rote learning, so that they can enjoy life-long learning, not just factual memorizing. However, it is clear that they will teaching me about active learning too, from their example of self-discipline and hard work. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. – Doc Meek, Calgary, Alberta, CANADA, and South Jordan, Utah, USA …………………………………………………………………………………………
Doc Meek, Wednesday, July 28, 2010, at South Jordan, Utah, USA
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J. Collins Meek, Ph.D. (Doc Meek)
“What if you are smarter than you think?”
Learning Specialist http://www.docmeek.com
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“Why China is passing us.” – Winnipeg Free Press (1st of 2 parts)
Lanshan Middle School No. 2 is in an agricultural area in the southern part of Hunan province, China; Hunan province is highlighted in red on the map of China above; image from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunan …………………………………………………………………………………………
I am grateful for today’s guest article from the Winnipeg Free Press in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/fyi/why-chinas-passing-us-84291977.html
Winnipeg Free Press – PRINT EDITION
Why China’s passing us [1st of 2 parts]
At Lanshan Middle School No. 2, no free rides
By: Carol Sanders, February 13, 2010
In one of the poorest regions of the economic powerhouse of 1.3 billion people, kids are up at 6:30 every morning, working out, doing their own laundry by hand and going to classes 12 hours a day. And they’re learning English.
On a cold, dark December morning, a whistle blows over a loudspeaker at 6:30 a.m. followed by a wake-up call and some march music.
It’s time for the hundreds of high school kids who live at Lanshan Middle School No. 2 to wake up.
The school is in an agricultural centre in southern Hunan province.
The students get up and gather for exercises accompanied by canned Chinese pop music, then head to the cafeteria. They get their bowl and chopsticks from their cubby and line up for a hot stir-fry breakfast and steamed vegetables. If they want dumplings or doughy sweets, they’ll have to pay extra. After breakfast, they wash their bowls and sticks, put them away and head to classes.
The top students are located on the top floors of the school. The Grade 10 high-achievers have to climb up five flights of stairs — the reward for their hard work is more hard work.
At mid-morning, all the teachers (some wearing high heels) and the students (some wearing slippers) take a break from classes and go for a two-kilometre run around the perimeter of the sprawling high school campus.
It’s quite a sight. There’s no pissing and moaning or goofing off. The 2,200 kids and teachers joke and chat while they jog. Some high-five a Canadian English teacher as they run past her.
The midday break is not siesta time.
The students head to the study hall to do homework. Before supper, they gather to play basketball, table tennis, soccer, badminton, lift weights or run around the track.
There’s no teacher organizing them — the kids just break off into their groups. And nobody’s left out.
The students group themselves according to their skill level, so kids who suck at sports like badminton but like it anyway can still play with someone in their league and have a chance at winning.
The kids who are really good at basketball play with others who are really good. The jocks are constantly being challenged by other jocks, so they can get better.
There are no cliques huddled in corners or slackers sitting on the fence.
It’s fun, competitive and inclusive because you get to play even if you’re not very good.
[This is the 1st of 2 parts; to be continued in the next post, the 2nd of 2 parts, Wednesday, July 28, 2010]
- Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition of February 13, 2010, page H1
Doc Meek posted a comment at the Winnipeg Free Press about this article:
February 19, 2010 at 7:19 PM
I am writing a book that will encourage Chinese teachers and students to involve themselves more in active learning, so that the school work they do will be more meaningful to each of them personally. I would like them to learn to love active learning, not just rote learning, so that they can enjoy life-long learning, not just factual memorizing. However, it is clear that they will teaching me about active learning too, from their example of self-discipline and hard work. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. – Doc Meek, Calgary, Alberta, CANADA, and South Jordan, Utah, USA …………………………………………………………………………………………
Doc Meek, Tuesday, July 27,2010, at South Jordan, Utah, USA ——————-
J. Collins Meek, Ph.D. (Doc Meek)
“What if you are smarter than you think?”
Learning Specialist http://www.docmeek.com
For brain health, ensure heart health (short video):
http://www.amiraclemolecule.com/themeekteam
More on heart health http://www.themeekteam.info
Ph (801) 971-1812 (Jeannette); Fax [801] 282-6026
THE LEARNING CLINIC WORLDWIDE, INC.
CANADA: P.O. Box 3105, Sherwood Park, AB T8H 2T1
TONGA: Mele Taumoepeau, P.O. Box 60, Nuku’alofa
USA: 3688 W 9800 S, #138, South Jordan, UT 84095
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Autism: “A hair-dryer kid in a toaster-brained world” (Part III of III)
- Bud’s Grade 5 class, in disguise; photo from: http://momnos.blogspot.com/ …………………………………………………………………………………………….
- I am grateful for this guest article I am borrowing again today, Friday, July 23, 2010. This is Part III of a 3-Part series about Bud, a 10-year-old with learning differences.
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- If you missed Part I or Part II of Bud’s Mom’s poignant story, you can click on the titles below to read them now:
- Autism: “A hair-dryer kid in a toaster-brained world” (Part I of III)
- Autism: “A hair-dryer kid in a toaster-brained world” (Part II of III)
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- Bud, who has been labeled autistic, has been placed in a regular Grade 5 classroom. His Mom’s brilliant interactive discussion with the kids in his class (with Bud absent of course) is detailed here.
- This is the best description of autism I have read anywhere
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- Thanks Mom! We are grateful for your creativity, your courage, and your willingness to share!
- Excerpt from: http://momnos.blogspot.com/2010/03/on-being-hair-dryer-kid-in-toaster.html
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- What is autism? (Part III of III)
- {If you missed Part I or Part II of this Mom’s poignant story, you can click on the titles below to read them now}
- Autism: “A hair-dryer kid in a toaster-brained world” (Part I of III)
- Autism: “A hair-dryer kid in a toaster-brained world” (Part II of III)
- Bud’s Mom is interacting with Bud’s classmates at school:
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- “But, remember how there were some things that the hair-dryer brains could do better than the toaster brains? There are ALSO things that Bud’s brain is really GOOD at doing. There are things that HIS brain can do better than a lot of our brains can do.
- “I bet you can guess what some of those things are. Can you?”
Hands flew up all over the room, and without my prompting, they recreated the list I had written in the notes in front of me.
“He’s really great on the computer. He’s better at it than LOTS of people.”
“He has great hearing.”
“He can remember lots of lots of things.”
“He can remember all the words to TV shows.”
“And he can remember the words to songs.”
“He is very musical.”
“He’s a great speller, too,” I added. “Once he learns a word, he usually remembers how to spell it.”
“If I had a brain like that,” said Nathan. “I’d read the whole dictionary and learn all the words.”
“That would be a great thing to do,” I said. “And it reminds me that Bud is also a really good reader.”
Molly raised her hand. “And he has a great sense of humor, too.”
“He does have a great sense of humor,” I said. “And that’s one of the ways that his brain is a lot like other people’s. What are some of the other ways that Bud is just like everyone else?”
Again, the hands flew up.
“He can see just like everyone else.”
“He looks just like everyone else.”
“He’s human.”
“Yes! He’s human – which means that he has all the same feelings that everyone else does. And he loves the people in his life. And he likes to play and have fun. He likes to laugh, he likes to swim, he likes to eat pizza. In lots of ways, Bud is just a regular kid.”
I looked around the room at the smiling faces of Bud’s classmates – his friends, with their toaster-brains firing.
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Photos by Bud, from: http://momnos.blogspot.com/2010/03/on-being-hair-dryer-kid-in-toaster.html
I posted a comment on this Mom’s blogsite:
- Doc Meek said…
- Does anybody know the tune for “A hairdryer kid in a toaster-brained world?” I predict that, like “Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer,” this Mom’s “Hair-dryer kid in a toaster-brained world,” will go down in history. I’ve been helping kids mitigate learning and attentional problems for over thirty years now, and it is an axiom with me that “Mother knows best.” This Mom makes that point sharper than a surgical needle, right? – Doc Meek, Learning Consultant, May 7, 2010, Sherwood Park, Alberta, CANADA
- May 07, 2010 11:38 AM
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