Stop blaming yourself — or your kid.




The beginning of the school year is a period of great anticipation and anxiety for parents, especially if your kid is heading off to school for the first time. For many families, that anxiety quickly dispels, as your kid settles in with a new teacher, new or returning friends, and a routine that offers a mix of stability and challenge.

For other families, however — families like ours — that settling in never happens. When you have a child whose particular combination of gifts, challenges and personality simply don’t fit their school, the beginning of school (or the beginning of each school year) ushers in a period of crisis.

We’re now four years into that crisis, and after talking with a friend who’s just starting down a road that sounds like ours, I realize I’ve learned something about how to navigate the challenges of school with a kid who doesn’t fit the mould. (Here’s a short version of our story.)

If you run into challenges as your kid starts school — or if you’ve been struggling with school challenges for a while, as we have — perhaps some of these suggestions can help:
1.Listen to this podcast. I had long since set aside Ross Greene’s book when our child psychologist recommended his podcast. Listening to the very first episode is transformative. Seriously, you need to do this for yourself. The other episodes I’ve listened to are great too, but the first one is the one that actually made me feel better.
2.Remember that school issues are harder for your kid than they are for you. If you’re getting emergency calls from school that force you to leave work, or facing daily battles over getting to school in the first place, it can feel like the school struggle is your struggle. But if your kid is having such a tough time with school that it’s disrupting your work or family life, then your kid is probably having an even harder time than you are. Approaching this with empathy — rather than as something your kid is doing to you — will really help build and preserve the relationship you need if you are going to figure it out together. And believe me, that will be incredibly hard to remember at the moment that you are dragging a screaming 7-year-old to class so that you can make your urgent 9 a.m. client meeting.
3.Recognize the differences between school and life. One of the things we really struggled with was the sense that we had to make Peanut fit into school — instead of vice versa — because in the real world, you have to be able to follow the rules. But the truth of the matter is that school requires a lot more rule-following than life does. Adults have a lot of opportunity to find the type of work, workplace, and social context that works for them; school is mostly one-size-fits-all. Kids who have a hard time in school aren’t necessarily going to have a hard time in life. So don’t feel that making your kids fit into the standard school system is an indispensable part of turning them into happy, healthy, successful adults.
4.Look for flexibility. Your school may set the expectation that kids attend full-time or not at all, but in practice, you may find that they are willing to accommodate a different kind of arrangement. We’ve done half days, we’ve sent Peanut part-time to public school and part-time to enrichment classes, we’ve done homeschooling with supplementary classes at a private school. The one thing that our public school system was not willing to accommodate was the idea of sending someone other than a parent as an in-class helper, because it violates collective bargaining agreements. (I get that you can’t have well-off parents paying to send additional resources into the classroom, but it bugs me that this essentially privileges families that can afford to have a stay-at-home parent.)
5.Be the squeaky wheel. Part of what has made our guy so challenging is that he absolutely will not put up with a situation that doesn’t work for him: if he’s bored or frustrated he brings the whole classroom to a grinding halt. That makes life difficult for his teachers, classmates and family, but it also ensures he gets his needs met. But a lot of kids — especially girls — may turn their school problems inward, so that it manifests as anxiety, disengagement or tears instead of disruption. In either scenario, don’t trust that the school will sort things out: advocate vociferously for your child. Ask for a support worker to come in and develop a plan to work with your kid, and insist that the teacher actually follow it. Meet with the teacher every week, and the principal once or twice a month. Ask what they are hearing and seeing in the classroom, and tell them what accommodations or supports your child needs. Be prepared to be pushy, and make sure that the teacher and school follow through on any plans you discuss.
6.Go with your gut on who to trust. Schools, psychiatrists and other experts love to tell you that they know how to handle kids like yours. Maybe they do…and maybe they don’t. We spent a lot of time listening to and working with “experts” whose approach and perspective just didn’t gel. Over time, I’ve learned to trust my gut on who to work with: we’ve worked with two amazing psychologists, a wonderful developmental paediatrician and an incredible public school support worker who took a shine to Peanut in kindergarten and has stayed in touch (entirely beyond the call of duty) for four years. We chose Peanut’s new school in large part because I feel like the principal really gets him. I wish I’d spent less time working with people who never felt right to me, and just followed my instinct to find and work with the people who clicked.
7.Learn the lingo. If you’re plunging into the world of kids-that-don’t-fit, you’ll come across a lot of jargon and acronyms. A few crucial terms:
• ASD — autism spectrum disorder
• LD — learning disabled
• 2E — twice exceptional, i.e. gifted + LD
• DS/DD — dear son/dear daughter, widely used to refer to kids online (e.g. DS9 = 9-year-old boy)
• Gifted/highly gifted/exceptionally gifted/profoundly gifted — gifted comes in a lot of different forms, and kids at the extreme end of the gifted spectrum have their own particular challenges. It’s worth figuring out (roughly) where your kid falls on this spectrum.
8.Get assessed. There are lot of different assessment processes out there, but the psych-ed (psychological-educational) assessment seems to be the usual starting point. If your kid is having issues, get in line for an assessment as soon as possible, with the best person you can get in to see. If you’re relying on the public school system to provide that assessment, it may take a couple of years before you get an appointment; if you have the means to pay for it, it may be worth having a private assessment sooner. If you have extended benefits, some parents have found psychologists who will split the fee (typically $1500–2k) across both parents and child (since the parents are part of the process) so that it can be covered by your benefits. But a psych-ed doesn’t fully assess for autism, anxiety, ADHD or other mental health/developmental issues, so you may need separate assessments with a developmental paediatrician, psychiatrist, occupational therapist or other experts. Keep all your assessments in one place (ideally a folder full of PDFs), because the chances are good that you’ll need them again and again.
9.Hone your own expertise. I spent a long time deferring to experts before I started reading up on 2E kids myself. Some invaluable resources: Misdiagnosis and Dual Diagnosis of Gifted Children and Adults (a must-read); Dan Siegel’s The Whole-Brain Child; Ross Greene’s The Explosive Child (I hate the title, but apparently so does he).
10.Find other challenged parents. When you’re parenting a challenging child, it can be incredibly painful to be part of the everyday conversations that parents have, comparing notes on their kids. At a certain point I just couldn’t be part of those conversations anymore, so I sought out parents who were having atypical parenting experiences: friends with kids who had learning or behavioral issues, parents I met through homeschool programs, other moms I met on Facebook groups. It only takes one other family like yours — or one other friend who has similarly challenging kids — to transform the lonely experience of raising a challenging kid or navigating the school system. Facebook is a great place to find groups for parents with similar challenges, and there are also forums and email lists for just about every type of kid and family.
11.Let go of the one-school dream. When our son started kindergarten we were excited about having only one set of pickups and drop-offs, because he would be at the same school as his big sister. In retrospect, I wish we’d never entertained that one-school dream, because it made it harder for us to recognize that our kids have very different needs and might need very different schools. The hassle of two sets of pickups and drop-offs is a lot less than the hassle of constantly negotiating with a school that is a poor fit.
12.Rule nothing out. I would never have expected to homeschool, but it’s turned out to be the only viable option for us at this stage. Homeschooling doesn’t have to mean teaching your kid yourself; it’s shocking how many fully certified teachers are available on Craigslist for $18/hour. (Though in my experience, hiring a teacher may replicate the same problems you find in schools — because they are trained the same way. But there are lots of other kinds of tutors and therapists available, too.) My husband would never have expected to send a kid to private school, but when you have a kid who just can’t be accommodated in the public system, that may be something you need to rethink, too. The more you can stay open to a wide range of possibilities, the easier it will be to find something that works for your kid and your family.
13.Don’t expect anything to stay the same. Once you do the work of finding a schooling approach or arrangement that can work for your challenging kid, you may breathe a sigh of relief and thank god that you’ve figured it out. But if you’ve got a challenging kid, don’t expect your great arrangement to last forever. In the past four years we’ve had to reinvent our school, childcare and work arrangements every six months. That’s a problem in and of itself — I’m sure our kids and careers would benefit from more stability! — but it’s been an inevitable consequence of a challenging kid who needs skilled tutors and caregivers…the kind of people who go back to grad school instead of committing themselves to five years of working with our family. Accept the likelihood that you’ll have to reinvent your arrangements periodically, and leave enough wiggle room in your life that you’ll have the capacity to cope when you reach the next crisis, staff change or transition.
14.Don’t expect anything to change. For the first three years of our school struggles, we kept expecting to turn the corner and find the school, teacher, medication, parenting approach or developmental stage that would see Peanut settle into school. Once I stopped expecting the miracle cure, things got so much easier. I re-organized my work around the possibility that I’m going to have a very challenging kid for another three, five or even ten years. I started treating every day as a new day — not just to let go of resentments from a bad day, but even more importantly, to be prepared for a rough day even if the previous day or week had gone well. Best of all, I stopped seeing Peanut as a problem to solve, and actually just got to experience him as my kid — my fascinating, exasperating, amusing, suffering, loving kid.

This post originally appeared on alexandrasamuel.com. Do you have suggestions or comments? I’m @awsamuel on Twitter.

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Government moves to avoid U.S. Steel pension collapse








John Rennison,The Hamilton Spectator

Sources confirm the meeting with an unnamed bidder for the U.S. Steel Canada operations has expressed interest in resuming steelmaking operations in Hamilton.



Hamilton Spectator
By Steve Arnold


The Ontario government is meeting this afternoon with a potential bidder for the former Stelco plants in Hamilton and Nanticoke in a move to protect taxpayers from hundreds of millions of dollars in pension plan shortfalls.

Sources confirm the meeting with an unnamed bidder for the U.S. Steel Canada operations has expressed interest in resuming steelmaking operations in Hamilton.

That's a critical factor for the Ontario government. If the former Stelco plants remain in operation, producing revenue and profits, Queen's Park will be saved from having to rescue 14,000 local pensioners who face sharp cuts to their retirement income if the company goes out of business.

Sources familiar with the situation, who asked for anonymity because they are not authorized to speak publicly, said the meeting is to discuss a number of issues around the sale of USSC assets, including how the badly under-funded pension plans will be handled.

One idea to be discussed is appointing an interim manager for the plan until USSC's restructuring under court-supervised creditor protection is complete. Other sources say the discussion is around management of the pension funds after a sale of the assets.

Tuesday's meeting is ahead of a gathering of unionized Stelco/USSC retirees slated for Wednesday to decide if workers should negotiate a pension settlement with the company.

Gary Howe, president of Local 1005 of the United Steelworkers union, said the security of the pension plans remains the union's top priority in USSC's restructuring.

"The big question for us right now is that the province hasn't committed to anything," he said. "Our priorities are still jobs, the pension plans and the OPEBs (other post-employment benefits)."

Watch thespec.com for updates

Bunnies are pretty smart I have one right now. She is allowed out on the deck she likes to play with all kinds of kids toys.

In Ontario there are several parenting classes that are run through The Early Years Centre http://www.oeyc.edu.gov.on.ca/locations/index.aspx.

There are mental health services
http://mentalhealthhelpline.ca/Directory/Organization/1473

http://distresscentreniagara.com/

My aunt adopted 3 children from china they are wonderful children and love my aunt very much.

I have another aunt who has fostered a few children one she adopted for her own son after her three daughters grew up and moved away .

Sounds like I should have had my cat insured when he was a kitten. He is 15 right now I could still give a few places a call see what they say.

I also have a rabbit but only a handful of vets look after rabbits. Both the cat and rabbit came from the humane society.

Thanks for the information

So he is what 15 years Old?

Ok that is kind of funny.

Ok then

So is Trump in the lead and then Nutz? Do you two vote and who do you hope will win?

I am sorry who are the candidates? These names sound strange 0k I found an article



Why is a third party in Minnesota riding the Deez Nuts bandwagon?








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By Aaron Blake September 8 



A sign announcing Deez Nuts's arrival at the Minnesota State Fair on Saturday afternoon. (Aaron Blake/The Washington Post)

ST. PAUL, Minn. — It was the third-to-last day of the Minnesota State Fair on Saturday, and as we were heading home, there was one more thing my family just had to see.

Deez Nuts.

Yes, the 15-year-old independent candidate for president from Iowa is still riding his 15 minutes of fame. And the Minnesota Independence Party was only so happy to glom on, hosting a meet-and-greet with the faux candidate (real name: Brady Olson). It was even selling autographed T-shirts for -- you guessed it -- $15 a pop.

I tweeted the above picture, leading to this reaction:




It makes sense in theory.

Third parties have been known to ally with celebrities or even quasi-celebrities like young Mr. Nuts in hopes of attaining enough of the vote in one election (usually 1 to 5 percent) to earn larger share of the vote or even a ballot line in future elections. There was Howard Stern for governor of New York as a Libertarian Party candidate; more recently, Roseanne Barr was the 2012 nominee of a little-known third party. Other examples aren't uncommon.

Nor would a party supporting a candidate who is ineligible to serve in the office he's seeking (the age requirement for president is 35) be completely unheard-of. Marxist political parties have run candidates who are under 35 three times, according to Richard Winger, the expert in all things third-party and independent at Ballot Access News. The Socialist Workers Party did it in 1972, with Linda Jenness, who was 31 years old.

About half of states allow such a candidate to appear on the ballot despite not being eligible to actually serve, and Minnesota is one of them, so the Independence Party could feasibly back him. The state in fact has had ineligible candidates in the past three presidential elections -- including 2004 and 2008 Socialist Workers Party nominee Roger Calero, who met the age requirement but was not born in the United States or naturalized. (Calero was also a felon, having been convicted of drug trafficking in 1988.)

But if the Independence Party viewed Deez Nuts as its ticket to ride in future elections, it would have been sorely mistaken. That's because the threshold for third-party ballot status in Minnesota is a whopping 5 percent. (Despite that North Carolina poll showing him at 9 percent that we've all laughed about, his hope for getting to even 5 percent in any state is basically nil.)

And indeed, the party says it won't back Olson's candidacy. "I don't see a realistic path to the IP offering any sort of comprehensive support or any endorsement," spokesman Philip Fuehrer said in an e-mail.




And if you're looking for struggling third parties desperate for attention, the Minnesota Independence Party doesn't really fit the bill. The party isn't a laughing-stock in need of a celebrity name on its ballot line. Back when it was known at the Reform Party in 1998, it elected former pro wrestler Jesse Ventura as Minnesota governor. The party soon became the Independence Party, and Ventura appointed an Independence Party member -- Dean Barkley -- to a brief U.S. Senate vacancy.

Around that same time, in 2002, Independence Party candidate and former Democratic congressman Tim Penny took 16 percent of the vote in the state's governor's race. More recently, Barkley took 15 percent of the vote in 2008 as an Independence Party candidate against then-Sen. Norm Coleman (R) and now-Sen. Al Franken (D), potentially swinging that race for Franken. The party also took 6 percent in the 2006 governor's race and 12 percent in 2010. (It dropped to 3 percent in 2014.)


In this July 8, 2014 file photo former Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura, center, leaves federal court in St. Paul, Minn. Ventura, who was awarded $1.8 million in a defamation lawsuit against author Chris Kyle's estate, is suing HarperCollins saying publicity about the book and Kyle's claims about him generated millions of dollars in profits for the publisher. (AP Photo/The Star Tribune, Elizabeth Flores, File)

And Minnesotans are known historically for embracing third parties, including at one point the Progressive Party and the Farmer-Labor Party, which later merged with the state Democratic Party. (To this date, Democratic candidates run on the Democratic-Farmer-Labor ballot line.)

So this party isn't a fly-by-night operation. The Independence Party is working with other third parties to lower the threshold for ballot qualification to 2 percent -- which is plausible given other nearby states have much lower bars to clear -- but even then, it's unlikely Deez Nuts would do the trick.

"People are very particular about whom they vote for for president," Winger said. "Deez Nuts would be lucky to get one-half of 1 percent for president in Minnesota."

And that's even if he were allowed to run under his pseudonym, which is very much an open question.

At the same time, it's valid to question whether a legitimate political party should align itself with the sideshow that is Deez Nuts's candidacy. The Independence Party certainly wouldn't have garnered a visit from my family on Saturday if not for Olson, so it's clear this was a ploy.




To that, the Minnesota Independence Party has this to say:

"Some have criticized Brady's and/or our involvement, typically citing the 'mockery' of his campaign," Fuehrer said. "To those folks, I quote Sgt. Hulka from the comedy film Stripes: 'Lighten up, Francis!' We're 14 months out from an election that has already been running full bore for a year. We can have a little fun at a State Fair this far out while simultaneously promoting some important and serious issues."

Update: Olson tells The Fix that the proceeds for the t-shirts go to a local firefighters organization.

Well the reason for my dragging my feet is that usually my cat sees the vet about ones a year the kids expenses come first. Now that my cat is aging I may rethink insurance. I wanted to know others thoughts and experiences with insurance before deciding.

Why do think that person is doing so well?

Neat, I agree the garden statues and figurines are pretty tempting.

My youngest son and I tried growing a Tiny Tim Tomato and an Ox Heart Tomato. The plants are doing ok but the tomatoes took forever to ripen.

Who enjoys growing houseplants? What are your successes and or failures in raising them ?


Here is a link with a list of house plants
http://www.houseplant411.com/houseplant?

What I find to be a neat connection is that Sept 7 there was an object falling from the sky and NASA is saying Sept8 so far nothing has been seen in the way of an asteroids.

So what was seen Sept 7?

Ok thanks for that information.

I have always opted out of pet insurance perhaps I should rethink about it again.

That is weird especially with something that size. It appears to look big, I managed to find something else...





September 8, 2015

NASA: Blood Moon Not Harbinger Of Asteroid Apocalypse Doomsayers Say Will Occur On September 22-28

JohnThomas Didymus


NASA has once again assured that, contrary to fear-mongering predictions by apocalyptic doomsayers, an asteroid impact apocalypse will not occur in September, 2015, and the Blood Moon is not a harbinger of world destruction.

NASA astronomers and space scientists are watching the skies for incoming asteroids, and so far, they have not found evidence of a large space object on a collision course with Earth.


According to NASA, in an update of its Sentry Risk Table on September 8, there are currently no asteroids threatening the Earth.

NASA said that if an asteroid as large as doomsayers claim will hit the Earth during this month was actually approaching Earth, NASA scientists would have detected it.


Despite statements by NASA that a catastrophic asteroid impact event will not occur in September, doomsday theorists have continued stoking fears, saying that one of six large asteroids that will pass near Earth September 22-28 will hit the Earth.


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Asteroid Impact

The Inquisitr reported last month that some doomsday theorists have identified asteroid 2012 TT5 as the near-Earth asteroid to look out for.

Asteroid 2012 TT5 will zoom past Earth on September 24 at a distance of 0.55 AU. And, although NASA has dismissed claims that the asteroid could hit the Earth, some doomsday theorists have identified the rock as the “killer rock.”


Linked to predictions of an asteroid apocalypse are claims that appearance on September 28 of the last of the ongoing Tetrad of Blood Moons will fulfill one of the heavenly signs of the end of the world predicted in New Testament gospels, the book of Acts and Revelations.

Conspiracy theory predictions of an impending asteroid impact apocalypse are based on an eclectic mix of conspiracy theories inspired by New Age beliefs and biblical eschatology.


Pastor John Hagee of Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas, and Pastor Mark Blitz of El Shaddai Ministry in Tacoma, Washington, originated the prophetic warning that “something dramatic which will change the whole world” will occur in September in connection with the ongoing Tetrad of Blood Moons.

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“What is so remarkable about this blood moon is that it specifically fulfills prophecies set out in the Bible. Even Jesus himself, in the Book of Luke, states there will be signs in the sun, moon and stars and to ‘lift up your heads for redemption draws nigh,’… and four blood moons is a very significant one – the end of this age is coming…”

Hagee repeated the prophetic warning as the April 4, 2015, Blood Moon eclipse — the third in a series of four successive total Blood Moon eclipses — approached.

The final Blood Moon eclipse of the Tetrad, on September 28, 2015, is being awaited by doomsday theorists and believers with expectations that the event will usher in the fulfillment of the end-time prophecies and the apocalypse.


The first eclipse of the Tetrad occurred on April 15, 2014, and the second on October 8, 2014.

Many doomsday believers see the coincidence of the Tetrad with the prophecies of asteroid impact catastrophe by Rev. Efrain Rodriguez, and predictions of stock market crashes based on the biblical Shemitah principle by Rabbi Jonathan Cahn, as evidence that September, 2015, is a significant month in eschatological terms.


Expectations that the doomsday prophecies are about to be fulfilled were heightened by sudden plunges in stock markets around the world last month.

Many doomsday theorists looking forward to fulfillment of the prophecies of stock market collapse in September proclaimed the stock market plunge in August as signaling the predicted September global crash

Read more at http://www.inquisitr.com/2402099/nasa-blood-moon-not-harbinger-of-asteroid-apocalypse-predicted-to-occur-in-september-22-28/#vSMOllAmiokZ8QG4.99

Best Places To Go Fishing in Toronto

Posted at 09:00h in Greater Toronto Area, Urban Fishing by Rob Campbell




What are the best places to go fishing in Toronto?

fishes_of_torontoPretty much everyone here at FishHunter loves to get away and go fishing. Just about all of us would go fishing with anyone, any place, anytime of the year, and especially during summer when northern Ontario water bodies beckon and our cottages on northern lakes are never far from our thoughts. But just because we happen to live in the middle of the biggest city in Canada, doesn’t mean we have put off our fishing obsession until the weekend; we can go angling right here in town, and indeed we’ve found quite a few amazing places to fish which I will document in this and upcoming blog posts. Fact is we have it pretty good up here. Myself and three million other residents are especially fortunate to have access to more than fifty public waterways, and each of these rivers or streams has somewhere on its course a piece of land that affords good access to fine fishing for a variety of different freshwater species. The city actually encourages fishing out on the Toronto Islands, at Hanlans’ Point . There were printed posters a few years back, in an ad campaign suggesting people take up the pastime out there. Perhaps the answer to the question ‘where is the best place to go fishing in Toronto?’ is the Toronto Islands. This aquatic preserve is probably the best overall venue for urban fishing in the GTA – further proof appears in a popular Toronto fishing blog called Fish on Toronto wherein the author seems to celebrate his biggest catches there. But in this blog post we’re going to remind readers that the Toronto Islands are not the only fish hunting ground in our great city.

Explore the City of Toronto to Find New Places to Go Fishing

Below are a dozen places where you can looking and perhaps locate a lovely secluded fishing hole that you can call your own secret spot. I saw an Toronto fishing discussion forum thread once asking people to share their favourite ‘secret’ fishing spots on a travel TV show which would pretty much ensure that their spots were secret no longer.

Tired of the 15 minute ferry ride to and from the Toronto Islands? Try these fishing places instead:
•Tommy Thompson Park: Foot of Leslie St. Ashbridges Bay Park:
•Coxwell Ave. S. of Lakeshore Blvd. E
•High Park Grenadier Pond: High Park Blvd. W. of Parkside Dr.
•Humber River Marsh: Mouth of Humber River upstream to Lakeshore Blvd.
•Rouge River Marsh: Lawrence Ave. E. of Port Union Rd. Bluffers Park: Foot of Brimley Rd.
•Upper Main Rouge River: Public Lands upstream of Hwy. 2
•Lower Humber River: Etienne Brule Park S. to Eglinton Ave.
•Eglinton Flats: Jane at Eglinton Ave.
•G. Ross Lord Park: Dufferin St. N. of Finch Ave.
•Humber Bay Park: Park Lawn Rd. S. of Lakeshore Blvd. W.
•Colonel Samuel Smith Park: Kipling Ave. S. of Lakeshore Blvd. W.
•Marie Curtis Park: Lakeshore Rd. E. of Dixie Rd.
•Centennial Park: Centennial Park Blvd. S. of Eglinton Ave.
•Summerlea Park: Albion Rd. E. of Islington Ave

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