Syberchick70":sttyiv0w said:
Well, I'm not familiar with your music listings either... what genre are they?
It's funny, really... She and Bunny-Wan Kenobi found our old stash of Christian music CDs from early in our marriage. They started playing them, and they'd call me in to tell me about this group or this artist that they'd found and really liked... come hear this song!!! And the first notes would play, and I'd say, "Oh, I know this song by heart... it's one of my favorites from this group!" :lol:
They got to White Heart (rock... sorta... mostly), and I pulled them over to Youtube to listen to one of the most beautiful love songs I've ever heard, called "Gabriella"... up there with "You are so Beautiful" by Joe Cocker and "The Lady in Red" by Chris de Burgh. Later, when she found the disk it was on, she made me sit in the car in a parking lot until "Gabriella" finished.
Galadriel":sttyiv0w said:
I like techno music. Mom introduced me to Eric Champion, a super-techno Christian artist, and I really liked his stuff.
She had told me she liked techno, and I told her that as far as I knew, she'd never heard real techno. That's when I looked up Eric Champion. The lyrics on the song I picked were vague and very different, but it was a great example musically. I even included the dystopian prelude, which they both found interesting. I don't care much for techno, but hey. I did play for them the one song he did that I really do like (it's not techno :lol: ), called "Endless".
My kids remind me of myself, in my teens, raiding my uncle's extensive LP collection. I preferred music from the 40s - 60s and some 70s to most of the music from the 80s. We've enjoyed introducing them to a lot of that music, too.
Syberchick70":sttyiv0w said:
lol sorry! I get enthusiastic with explanations
Me too... that's how we end up watching science videos at midnight, after two hours of discussion while they are IN BED supposed to be asleep...
:lol:
Galadriel":sttyiv0w said:
A good, relatively controlled dubstep beat can be pretty good and enjoyable for me
I... don't like Dubstep. :razz2: :lol:
michaels4gardens":sttyiv0w said:
The 2 "children" [21 and 25 years old] that are still at home with My wife and I, were home schooled also, but not because they were "gifted" in fact they have learning disabilities, and one, severe OCD . They have progressed very well in a home environment and now have jobs and are integrating into society on their terms.
My wife had decided to home School them before I met her,[18 years ago] so I can claim no credit for the decision. But I supported the decision - I still remember and cherish the the day my daughter went out into the yard after a rain ,sat on the ground and put mud all over herself, [she was very afraid of germs and dirt, and compulsively washed herself] she said-- "what is the worst that can happen, I could get sick and die, - so what-- I can't live like this either I am not going to be afraid any more" -- now-a-days, she is also a great musician, a very good cook at a restaurant, and makes very logical, and sound decisions. Her OCD has turned into compulsive work ethic, and she is a very valuable part of our home and loved by her employers [who wish they had a few more like her]
Sometimes home school is the best environment for children who are not "academically gifted" also
That is so neat and amazing... wonderful that she was able to make a decision to not allow it to rule her any more! :hooray:
You are so right that homeschooling is perfect for special needs kids. You can tailor the way you teach to the way your child learns best. And it can be different for each child.
MamaSheepdog":sttyiv0w said:
cmfarm":sttyiv0w said:
There have been studies that show that people with it have brains that are different.
Again, quoting from the same book:
Some medical professionals, mental health professionals, organizations, and government agencies claim that ADHD is a biologically-based and valid mental disease. In November, 1998, the National Institute of Health (NIH) held its NIH Consensus Development conference on "The Diagnosis and Treatment of Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder". Dr. James Swanson, Ph.D., Professor of Pedatrics at the University of Irvine, Ca. was given the task of proving that there was a biological basis for ADHD. In his presentation, Swanson showed many brain scan slides of children who allegedly had ADHD, and whose brain scans were different from normal children.
Here's what happened next:
...Then a child neurologist in the audience raised a telling point. He noted that psychiatric drugs are very toxic to a child's brain. Then he asked Swanson "How many of the children with brain abnormalities had been previously exposed to psychiatric drugs?" Swanson was forced to admit that all of the children had. Then the devastating follow up question "How could you withhold such vital information from your presentation?" Swanson made no direct reply.
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Another excerpt:
Let me quote Mr. Blumenfield again on this issue:
There must be something wrong with an education system that requires so many children to be drugged just to attend school.
Last year I spent a week in Beijing, China. During that week I visited a school where I was able to observe about 500 children doing their morning physical exercises in the school yard. I asked my host how many of the children were on Ritalin. He asked what was Ritalin. He had never heard of it. In short, in China they don't have ADD and they don't drug schoolchildren.
Are American children more mentally handicapped than Chinese children? Are they afflicted with a mental disease that is more prevalent in the U.S. than anywhere else on the globe?
Interesting... I wonder if the brain abnormalities were present because of the drugs, or because that's the way they were. No way to know, the way he did it.
China... yeah. I imagine they have the same kinds of kids we have, they just deal with it differently. In fact, I found this on a Chinese site:
A total of 15 to 19 million Chinese children suffer from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), accounting for about 5 percent of mainland's school-age children, statistics of a recent survey revealed. ADHD has become a serious problem concerning public health, said Wang Yufeng, an expert on children's mental health and also a director of the Mental Health Research Institute of Peking University...
http://www.china.org.cn/english/China/219830.htm
And this on NIH:
The results of studies using DSM criteria suggest that the prevalence of ADHD/ADD-H is at least as high in many non-US children as in US children. Certain populations may have a lower prevalence of ADHD symptoms (e.g., Iceland, Australia, Italy, and Sweden), but this cannot be concluded on the basis of the available data. Direct comparisons between different populations are required to truly assess the relative prevalence of ADHD symptoms in different cultures and countries.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1525089/
I am not speaking to the trustworthiness of the sources, and I don't pretend to know much about ADD/ADHD. I know there's a big debate about it. I remember being angered when every person with imperfect social graces was being media-diagnosed with Asperger's. Galadriel had gone through hours and hours of testing. When we first moved to Louisiana and set up with a new pediatrician, I learned that they didn't use the term "Asperger's" anymore, because it was being so overdiagnosed. They had reverted to calling it Pervasive Developmental Disorder. Thankfully, I had her records, and so I didn't have a fight on my hands. Most of the time, since Asperger's is on the Autism spectrum, I just tell people (when it's relevant) that my kids are mildly autistic. That way, I avoid both the people who have no idea what Asperger's is, and the people who would dismiss the diagnosis because they know it's been overused.
