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Today's Fresh Blogs...| 10 ways to motivate your child to read |
| Published: August 5, 2007, 6:57 pm |
| Tags: Books, Children, Education, Motivation, Reading, Success |
| As with most activities in life, reading is a great educational support, and will open your child to a new world, and different concepts and ways of thinking; thus, motivating your child will help them develop the skills and talents all parents dream of. Reading may not be the easiest activity to motivate as in order for your efforts to be |
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| Britney within the sound of Bow Bells |
| Published: August 23, 2007, 8:03 am |
| Tags: Custody, Cheque Books, Children, Britney Spears |
| The credulous Daily Mail reckons that Britney Spears is about to come to live in London town:According to a US newspaper she has set her heart on fleeing to Britain, and is even developing an English accent.A friend said: "She thinks her only hope is to move to London for a fresh start."She is so scared about losing her boys that her mind is |
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| The Pleasures of Reading, Rediscovered |
| Published: September 17, 2007, 7:17 am |
| Tags: Language, Charlisms, Classics, History, Schoolbus, Education, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Books, Children, Childrens Literature, Curious George, Family, Greek, Health, Herodotus, History, Maurice Sendak, Parenting, Pdd Nos, Reading, Science, Wild Things |
| while so many of the many children’s books that we have are full of lovely stories charmingly told, with colorful drawings to match, my reading them to Charlie has become a bit of a chore and a bore, on both sides. Even though I pick up each book and read the words as engagingly as I might—I love books, and love to read out loud |
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| Bad Kitty and Poor Puppy |
| Published: September 17, 2007, 4:47 pm |
| Tags: Books, Children, Kids, Reading |
| I've ever come across for children is "Bad Kitty" by Nick Bruel. It's an alphabet book, but not in the standard sense. See, there's a kitty who gets pissed off because the owners run out of cat food, and all they have left is healthy stuff. Kitty starts wreaking havoc, in a way that cat owners will understand, until the owners buy him new |
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| Does your family have a secret language? |
| Published: September 21, 2007, 5:02 am |
| Tags: Books, Children, Family, Family Language, Family Words, Familylanguage, Familywords, Griswold, Secrety Words, Secretywords |
| Dads, Siblings, 6-7 years, BooksIn my husband's family, if someone has a tummy ache, they say they are feeling 'joogy'. It's a word my husband and his little brother invented as children to describe a feeling of general yuckiness. He has passed this word on to me and Ellie and it has become part of our family's secret language.Ours is not |
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| Judy Blume is back! |
| Published: September 24, 2007, 1:32 pm |
| Tags: You There God, Areyoutheregod, Books, Children S Book, Children Sbook, It S Me Margaret, It Smemargaret, Judy Blume, Judyblume, Soupy Saturdays, Soupysaturdays, The Pain The Great One, Thepainandthegreatone |
| under: Siblings, BooksMention author Judy Blume's name to a 30-something-year-old woman and chances are she'll respond with a wistful smile. In the 1970's and 1980's Blume's books spoke directly to a generation of girls on subjects that nobody else was talking about - puberty, sex and - oh my! - masturbation. Her book Are You There God? It's |
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| Getting Better All the Time |
| Published: September 25, 2007, 7:32 pm |
| Tags: Sensory, Parenting, Stereotypes, Treatment, Education, Asd, Aspergers, Augusten Burrough, Autism, Autism List, Books, Children, Family, Health, John Elder Robison, Memoir, Nonfiction, Parenting, Pdd Nos |
| schools for special needs children, from the benefits of attending to children’s sensory needs and “rebound therapy.” There’s a lot to be learned from life with autism: It may not be heaven on earth, but I’m not looking to live in heaven. I’m glad to be here with my feet on the ground and in the wet sand, |
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| A New Autism Treatment |
| Published: November 19, 2007, 11:32 pm |
| Tags: Disability Rights, Media, Treatment, Adoption, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Autistic, Books, Children, Cnn, Dj Savarese, Education, Family, Health, Pdd Nos, Respect, Treatment |
| DJ Savarese appeared on Anderson Cooper 360 on CNN’s autism special Monday night. When CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta about DJ about whether he felt that autism should be treated, DJ responded: ”Yes, treated with respect!” What if R-E-S-P-E-C-T — not this or this — was the way to spell |
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| Marathon |
| Published: November 20, 2007, 10:20 am |
| Tags: Metaphor, Parenting, Sports, Classics, History, Adoption, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Autistic, Books, Children, Cnn, Dj Savarese, Education, Family, Greeks, Health, History, Pdd Nos, Peloponnese, Respect, Spartans, Treatment Marathon, War |
| on as, aside from (yes) books mentioning autism, most of my reading is related to the classes I’m teaching, which include Greek tragedy and Greek history this semester. I am right now (as in the book is open next to my laptop) reading Thucydides’ Peloponnesian Wars, about events taking place from 431-411 B.C.. Thucydides does |
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| Classic children's books never go out of style |
| Published: November 29, 2007, 11:00 am |
| Tags: Children S Books, Children S Literacy |
| that the Zenda series. These books were great and I was thrilled to see her reading but I worried they were too modern and lacking in substance, sort of like empty calories for the brain. I knew that if I tried to steer my daughter towards a different genre of books it would likely backfire and she might end up reading People Magazine for Teens. |
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| Raising Readers raises funds at B&N |
| Published: November 30, 2007, 6:59 pm |
| Tags: Laramie County, Children S Books, Children, Reading |
| at Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 1851 Dell Range Blvd., Cheyenne. As you make your purchases Friday through Sunday, just tell the store clerks you want to participate in the fund-raiser. It doesn't cost you any extra, and Barnes & Noble will donate a percentage of sales to Raising Readers, which gets books into the hands of |
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| Ransom Notes Campaign Is Over |
| Published: December 19, 2007, 3:07 pm |
| Tags: Psychiatry, Disability Rights, Media, Ads, Advertising, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Autistic, Books, Children, Disability, Education, Family, Health, Marketing, New York, Pdd Nos, Psychiatry |
| day and night to get their children the help they need. We have decided to conclude this phase of our campaign today because the debate over the ads is taking away from the pressing day-to-day work we need to do to help children and their families. They are and remain our first concern. We invite all of you to continue this conversation |
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| The Law of Unintended Consequences: In the Wake of Ransom Notes |
| Published: December 21, 2007, 3:22 pm |
| Tags: Disability Rights, Media, Ads, Advertising, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Autistic, Books, Children, Disability, Education, Family, Health, Marketing, New York, Pdd Nos, Psychiatry |
| What about medication for children? Furious Seasons notes that the FDA’s psychopharmacologic drugs advisory committee lacks a consumer representative: Do parents of autistic children and autistic persons think they should have a say in this? (Just yesterday morning, after a holiday party with Charlie’s class, the mother of one of |
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| Who Remembers Secretin?: Let the Parent Beware When Seeking Treatments for Autism |
| Published: December 23, 2007, 3:45 am |
| Tags: Medicine, Junk Science, Vaccines, Health, Science, Parenting, Treatment, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Autistic, Books, Children, Education, Family, Health, Junk Science, Nih, Pdd Nos, Science, Snake Oil |
| used CAM therapies for their children with ASDs. Another recent parent survey found that 52% of the children with an ASD had been treated with at least 1 CAM therapy, compared with 28% of a group of control children without disabilities. Surveys indicate that only 36% to 62% of caregivers who used CAM therapies for their children with ASDs had |
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| Who Remembers Secretin?: Let the Parent Beware When Seeking Treatments for Autism |
| Published: December 23, 2007, 3:45 am |
| Tags: Medicine, Junk Science, Vaccines, Health, Science, Parenting, Treatment, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Autistic, Books, Children, Education, Family, Health, Junk Science, Nih, Pdd Nos, Science, Snake Oil |
| used CAM therapies for their children with ASDs. Another recent parent survey found that 52% of the children with an ASD had been treated with at least 1 CAM therapy, compared with 28% of a group of control children without disabilities. Surveys indicate that only 36% to 62% of caregivers who used CAM therapies for their children with ASDs had |
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