Medieval | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 17 2008 | black, program, School, segregation, skin color, skin colour, student, Toronto
I cannot believe what I just saw on the news tonight. The Toronto school board (or one of them) is looking into having special schools and programs for black students.
Medieval | Shared With: Everyone - 22 days ago | behavior, behaviour, changes, child, children, expectations, Family, Kids, parent, parenting, principle, responsibilities, responsibility, schoolI received a call from the school, a lady with a panicked voice told me to come pick up my son from the principles office. He was acting out and they felt I should come pick him up. Ok. Off I went not sure what to expect. What I found was the principles office in lock down as they tried to control my 5 year old. This included restraining him “for his own safety” as he was jumping on things, hitting and more. I told them to let him go, and my son ran to me. Then he became hostile to me as well as I tried to find out what was going on.
- Medieval | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 22 2008 | Advice, behavior, behaviour, changes, child, Child safety, children, disrupted, Family, Kids, parent, parenting, routine, school
Most kids need routines; it gives them a feeling of control and security. They know what to expect and what is expected of them. Real problems can come when a routine is disrupted. A child can feel insecure, threatened or scared and will often act out when their routine is interrupted. Life happens and we the parents or caregivers cannot always meet our children’s needs for consistency and routine, all we can do is deal with the disruption or permanent changes and any reactions our kids have.
Medieval | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 22 2008 | Advice, behavior, behaviour, changes, child, Child safety, children, disrupted, Family, Kids, parent, parenting, routine, school
Most kids need routines; it gives them a feeling of control and security. They know what to expect and what is expected of them. Real problems can come when a routine is disrupted. A child can feel insecure, threatened or scared and will often act out when their routine is interrupted. Life happens and we the parents or caregivers cannot always meet our children’s needs for consistency and routine, all we can do is deal with the disruption or permanent changes and any reactions our kids have.
- Medieval | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 21 2008 | child, Child safety, children, Family, Kids, parent, parenting, pre-school, routine, safe, safety, school
This is harder then expected. I thought that it would be easy to just pack my kid of to kindergarten for half a day. It is not like he has not been going to daycare for years. What is different about sending him to school? Why is it emotionally difficult?
- Medieval | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 04 2008 | carefree, employment, expectations, friends, home, life, responsibilities, school, teen, teenagers, work, stress
People today see teenager’s lives as being carefree and with out any real responsibilities. That is not reality. Today’s teenager does not live in the same world we their parents grew up in. Teenagers have huge demands on them, placed on them by others, for their time, energy and attention. Teenagers have as much if not more stress in their lives then adults. When we were in high school we would receive 2 to 3 hrs worth of homework. Today on average each teacher gives one hour of homework, which works out to be between 6 to 8 hrs of homework every night. That is like having two full time jobs. So not only do you have tons of work to do and not so much time, you have to do it well. You need to do well in school to be able to pass, apply for college or university, get scholarships.
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