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Update 2016- I wrote this post during the first 2 years we were in France. My daughter was 4 and 5 back then and a lot has changed. She is now 9 going on 10 years old and she has been in the French school system for five years. She is also no longer in public school. We moved to Montpellier and decided to give private school a try which I will write about soon.
First, general info about preschool in France
Preschool in France is called école maternelle. Pronounced [ay-kole ma-terre-nel]
Unlike U.S. and Canada, preschool is fully sponsored from the age of 3 to 6 years old. (it's free). Preschool is not mandatory but most parents do send their kids to preschool from about 3 onward especially if they work.
There are three levels of pre-school.
-pre-school, small sections = école maternelle, la petite section – (3 to 4 years olds)
-pre-school, middle section= école maternelle, la moyenne section -( 4 to 5 year olds)
-pre-school, big or high section = école maternelle, la grande section – (5 to 6 years old)
Our daughter attended moyenne (middle section) in Marseille and la grande section in a town called La Garde. After pIreschool she was promoted to CP which is the first official year of primary school. It's comparable to Kindergarten in North America.
How Long Is A Preschool Day / Week?
Pre-school students generally start at 8:30 in the morning until 4:20 in the afternoon.
Kids go to school everyday EXCEPT Wednesday. (update: As of 2015, primary school kids now have a half day on Wednesdays. They usually finish up just before lunch at 11:30 is)
On the surface, this may sound long but there are several things to consider here.
1-If you are a working parent in France, you would have to put your kids in before and after school care. Having a longer day at school means that many parents don't have to send their kids to after school care or they can minimize the amount of after school care needed.
2-Kids used to have Wednesday off but now have a half day of school which gives kids a little break from their regular school hours and routine.
3- Lunch is about one and a half to two hours long and the kids have several breaks throughout the day to play and run around.
Preschool Lunch: The makings of future foodies
The French Take Food Seriously
One thing to note is the French take their lunch time very seriously. People in France generally eat slower, they eat smaller portions and take longer breaks for lunch. They also enjoy GOOD FOOD. This slower and eat better food culture can bee seen at the preschool level.
Longer Lunches
Up to two hours for lunch break which is eaten at "La Cantine" (cafateria).
The first 45 minutes to an hour is spent eating and the rest playing with friends in the yard.
Not all kids eat at La Cantine.
Many parents pick their kids up at lunch time and then return them back to school at the end of 2 hours. The longer lunch break makes it possible for parents to drive to pick up the kids with plenty of time to eat together.
Meals cost about 3,50 to 4,25 depending on the preschool and you usually pay a month in advance for your child's meals. Some parent pay less. It just depends on your income.
What is "La Cantine" Like?
At the 2 schools my daughter attended, the kids sit at a round table with real plates and utensils. No Styrofoam or plastic utensils.
The cantinière (lunch ladies) come around and places napkins around the children's necks before serving the kids food like you would at home: family style.
Serve Food Family Style Just Like At Home.
Each lunch lady, has several huge serving platters and bowls from which she serves each child. There are usually 5 different food items that each child gets not including bread. (see menu below).
The food looks surprisingly appetizing, like something made with love at home, probably because much of the food is prepared on site and served family style.
What Type of Food Do Kids Eat?
Above is a sample menu from the school my daughter attended her first year in French preschool. Notice the different columns for the five food groups.
Kids taste buds are cultivated from a young age in France. No dumb down kiddie food served. Catherine get's a big dose of French food that would have many adults drooling with envy.
She also has eaten some things at school that might send some people running for the hills like the time she had duck pate and another time she had baby octopus salad.
What's on the menu?
Things like mussels, octopus, beets, grated carrots, fish, blue cheese, chicken paté and more. All things a north American would not expect their kids to eat. Maybe not even in the UK either.
Every preschool meal has 5 items for lunch:
1- One a starter: such as grated carrots in a vinaigrette
2- One main plate: Such as lamb or Rake (fish) curry
3- One Side: such as green beans or polenta
4- One cheese or dairy product: Usually cheese but sometimes yoghurt
5- Desert: such as fresh fruit or fruits with sweet syrup.
Plus a Pastry: One bread option
Surprise "NO MILK"
You might be surprised to learn that milk is not served a la Cantine. Instead, children are given water to drink. Not juice, not coke, not milk but water.
The emphasis is put on the cheese column of the menu rather than serving milk. There are over 350 cheese types and it seems like the schools want all the kids to try as many as possible.
I've counted over 25 different cheeses that rotate on the kids menus. A few, i've tried myself and have put hair on my chest.
Typical Preschool Class work
Every few months, a 3 ringed binder comes home with Catherine filled with all of her work.
I really like this method because rather than sending the kids home everyday with random papers, I get to flip through her work in an organized fashion and see the progression of her work.
I do notice an emphasis on hand writing practice. Something that is sorely missing from many schools in the U.S. This could be why so many
French people have beautiful handwriting.
Lot's of Snails: Escargot
Lately I've noticed a theme. Certain things are very prominent in the French culture and subsequently in Catherine's school work like owls, hedgehogs, crepes and as of late, lots of snails. –>> ESCARGOT.
Here area few photos of the 3 ring binder with the snail work she has been doing.
SPELLING: They learn to spell "escargot"
Body parts: They learn the body parts of a snail
Word Recognition: They learn to point out the word escargot in a sea of words
Counting: They learn to count snails
There were more, but I think you get the point.
Snails At Home
This affinity towards snails transcends to her life at home now too. Catherine looks for snails in her free time. Here's a picture of her holding one in her hands.
Catherine likes to draw snails in her free time too. Here is another random snail drawing. Very elaborate if you ask me.
General Questions
What if my child does not speak French?
Kids learn so quickly just by interacting. You are pretty much guaranteed that your child will be speaking french almost fluently by the end of one school year.
I personally know 4 other families who sent their kids to French preschool without speaking one word of French. At the end of the school year, all of their kids were speaking and communicating in French.
What if I want to home-school my child?
I understand that some parents prefer to home school their kids. I considered it myself.
However, If one of your goals is for your child to become bilingual and to pick up the little nuances of local culture and you have limited time in France, than preschool is an easy, fast and fun way to expose them.
They learn organically from playing with other children.
Catherine often comes home from school and teaches us something new about French culture that we had no idea existed.
She is very proud of those moments.
Lastly, you can always supplement preschool with your own home schooling curriculum or you can take your child out of preschool all together if things don't work out.
Conclusion: Is preschool right for your child?
I can't answer whether or not sending your child to French preschool in France is right for you and your child.
I can tell you that my daughter loves school.
Any and all hesitations, doubts and concerns I had about sending her to preschool in France are long gone now.
I truly feel I made the right choice.
Catherine has made many friends and so have my husband and I through the parents of Catherine's friends.
If for one moment I did not think she was benefiting, thriving or enjoying herself, I would take her out in a flash.
Coming Soon
What's it like to go to High School and Middle School In France.
Pictured below, all three of our kids sitting on the bench outside of Catherine's first day of preschool.


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Sonja's Suggestions: Grocery DeliveryFriday, February 28, 2014
A recent conversation with a client about the polar vortex made me stop and think. I found myself worrying about people who are stuck in their house because they can't get out of their driveway or because they are afraid they may slip and fall on the ice. I mean, how would they get to the grocery store or to the drug store if they weren't able to leave the house? The idea that some stores may still do home deliveries came to me. So, my suggestions are:
- Call your local neighborhood stores and ask if they make home deliveries - you may be pleasantly surprised. Or, check out these and other local grocery delivery services:
- PrestoFresh delivers groceries throughout Cuyahoga County for a fee of $7.95 to $9.95 per order, depending on the amount ordered.
- HelloFresh is a grocery subscription service offering free delivery. You select your recipes of interest and they deliver the ingredients on a weekly basis.
- Schwan's offers a variety of flash frozen foods. They charge $1.75 for delivery and have an app for easy ordering.
- Do not hesitate to ask a family member or friend to help you out. I know many times people have said to me, "but I don't want to be a bother." My response is that you are not being a bother. Your family and friends care about you and I'm sure they will be more than happy to help you. All you have to do is ask.
Until we speak again,
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text: For those that wandered into the deep void of I Can't Escape and enjoyed the offset of moments it gave you, can now enjoy being engrossed in the sequel, I Can't Escape: Darkness. I Can't Escape: Darkness, developed by Fancy Fish Games, is an immersive atmospheric horror adventure game that invites the player to explore an unknown paradox full of conspiracies and danger. My challenges for this album was not only to write better music than I did two years ago but to constantly fuel the inspiration I needed to make the immersion effective . New things that differ from the first album are voice manipulation techniques, live instruments, singing, binaural mixing procedures, and non-linear music. So many ideas went into making this soundtrack that instead of describing it more, I challenge you to play the game, try to escape and get lost in the darkness. Disclaimer: This album may not stand alone on it's own entirely but if you enjoy ambient music and abnormal atmospheric soundscapes, as well as a few nuggets rhythmic nuggets, then this is for you. For more info on the game check out www.icantescape.com and purchase it on Steam. Thank you Fancy Fish Games for the opportunity to collaborate on this game. Thank you Kole Hicks, Brandon Reader, Alex, May, Kyle Johnson and Michael Shapiro for the paramount feedback and inspiration given to me this past year during the creation of the project. Thank you Ken Jacobsen for being my mentor and helping me master the album. www.kenjacobsen.com Thank you Michael Muranaka for making something from nothing. (Album cover) www.muraknockout.com


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SOUTH BEND Â? It may be much ado about nothing. Then again, when the NCAA is involved, you never know.
Notre Dame senior associate athletics director John Heisler confirmed Friday night that the school is looking into whether some of its athletes may have inadvertently violated an NCAA rule by participating in Â?bumpsÂ? during the local sports talk show Â?Sports Dogz,Â?Â? on WSBT-TV.
A bump is a short piece of tape coming in or out of a commercial. In the bumps in question, the Notre Dame athletes said to the effect, Â?YouÂ?re watching Â?Sports DogzÂ? on WSBT.Â?
WSBT-TV news director Meg Sauer said the student-athletes she was asked about by Heisler were menÂ?s basketball players Luke Zeller and Kyle McAlarney as well as All-America football player Tom Zbikowski Â? all of whom did bumps for the show in the past year. However, ND athletes have been doing bumps on the show for several years.
Â?IÂ?ve spoken with John Heisler several times tonight,Â? Sauer said. Â?I was shocked to hear it was a problem. WeÂ?re certainly not going to hold up the process of the investigation.Â?
The NCAA became involved when Fort Wayne Journal Gazette reporter Michael Rothstein witnessed a WSBT sports reporter filming Irish running back Darius Walker doing a bump for the new Â?Irish Sports ReportÂ?Â? TV show after practice earlier this week. Â?Irish Sports ReportÂ?Â? debuts Sunday in the old 11:30 p.m. Sunday time slot of Â?Sports Dogz.Â?Â?
Tribune sports reporters will be regular guests on Â?Irish Sports ReportÂ?Â? as they had been on Â?Sports Dogz.Â?Â? The Tribune and WSBT-TV are both owned by Schurz Communications.
After witnessing the bump and talking to WSBTÂ?s Todd Bella, Rothstein then called the NCAA to see if it was a violation.
Â?WeÂ?re looking into it,Â? was HeislerÂ?s response. Â?I have no idea what (Rothstein) is talking about. But itÂ?s no different than anything else. If someone says thereÂ?s an issue, we report it to our compliance people.Â?
The case of former USC quarterback Matt Leinart comes to mind. LeinartÂ?s appearance in a promotional spot for ESPN last December violated an NCAA rule, but the USC quarterback had his eligibility quickly restored without missing a game.
The Trojans reported the violation to the NCAA and petitioned for LeinartÂ?s reinstatement. According to the NCAAÂ?s Kent Barrett, LeinartÂ?s actions were Â?unintentional and inadvertent. This was the type of thing where it was obvious the student-athlete was not attempting to become an endorser of a network.Â?
There may be some gray area in that LeinartÂ?s situation was a promo shown outside the show and the Â?Sports DogzÂ? bumps are contained within the confines of the show and are never shown to promote the show itself.
Barrett told ESPN that athletes may take part in practice and team and school activities while reinstatement petitions are considered by the NCAA.


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On the 22nd there was a Wool and Sheep festival and so my mother and Max and I went to see the animals. Max loved it, well except the horse, he cried the whole time he rode the horse.
Monday, May 31, 2010
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Excellent rear speakers, worth the investment!
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I was looking for a pair of rear speakers for my home theater. My wife did not want towering floor speakers in the main living room,...so we settled for in-wall. It was hardly settling! I did extensive research on many different brands. I was really interested in the Martin Logan product that is very similar to these. They sounded great, and I loved them! I decided on Klipsch for two reasons....one, obvious reason, they were cheaper per pair. The second reason is that I've had Klipsch products in the past and have been very happy with the sound quality of the brand. Klipsch speakers are excellent! Klipsch also has a larger line-up of in-wall speakers to pair with these. I purchased these "S" models over the regular 5650-wii because of the dual tweeter. My walls are not angled the best towards the listening area, so I wanted to be able to throw the highs in different directions. It works, I hear the sound very well And it is crisp! Since There are not many places besides the local big box retailer to hear speakers before purchasing, it makes it really difficult to make a decision. I purchased these without hearing them first. I was comfortable knowing that I've heard Klipsch products in the past. Rest assured that these speakers are very high quality and you will not be disappointed. Make sure you have an amp with enough juice to feed these speakers. I'm using an Onkyo TX-NR656, also paired with the Klipsch R112 Subwoofer.
Pros: Excellent, crisp highs, and good bass. A really good, all-around speaker for many different types of viewing media. Works well as rear channnel speakers.
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Well, speaking of cheese, which you know I love, there is a dessert in phase 1 that was truly created for me. It's called Peanut Butter Delight- and it's a creamy, rich-tasting concoction of peanut butter and ricotta cheese that makes my mouth water just thinking about it. The first time I made it I ate 3 times the recommended amount. However in reality, the 1/2 cup serving is very satisfying and decadent. Yes, decadent.
Here's the recipe:
Peanut Butter Delight (from The South Beach Diet Super Charged) makes four, 1/2 cup servings
2 cups part skim ricotta
1/4 cup all natural peanut butter
2 tsp pure vanilla extract
4 packets of Equal or other sugar substitute- use real sugar if you like, I'm just not sure of the exact amount you'd need
8 dry roasted peanuts chopped (my contribution)
South Beach recommends that you process the ingredients in a blender. Do that if your blender is not tempermental. Mine is, so I use a hand mixer first and combine all ingredients until they are nicely incorporated. Then I transfer the mixture to my blender and whirl away until I see a silky, smooth, ice cream-like consistency develop. Refrigerate and then serve with chopped peanuts as a garnish. I think that little bit of peanut crunch is nice with such a creamy dessert.
I haven't done a re-mix for this, but my first thought was Nutella instead of peanut butter. Then I read the Nutella label and saw the sugar number was 21 grams versus the 3 grams in the peanut butter. So I guess that will have to wait until next year. Which reminds me, Happy New Year!


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Our writers group met this past week and I wanted to let the world know how hard this group really does work. I am amazed with the women in this group and how fortunate I feel to know them, hang out with them and they put up with me:)
Jen, Margie, Lois and Jo, good luck with the re-writes, query letters and submissions. I know it has been tough on you girls, but all of you are great writers and I admire you all. So with that said, burn those candles to puddles, drink a little caffeine, and give yourselves a huge pat on the back, your almost there. :)
My wish for all of you is that the universe is ready and awaiting for these manuscripts, and the right little hot hands are ready to receive them. (did you see the wave of my magical wand)
I love you guys, but don't forget when it's mine, Amy and Tasha's turn for submissions, we are going to be kicking your doors in for help.
Friday, May 14, 2010
My Wish for the MMWG - Girls
Our writers group met this past week and I wanted to let the world know how hard this group really does work. I am amazed with the women in this group and how fortunate I feel to know them, hang out with them and they put up with me:)
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Tuesday, May 4, 2010
I Like to Write...Why?
"Why do I write?" I have been thinking about this a lot lately. I suppose it's because people have been asking me about my book and what my story is about, and why is it so important to me. So I decided to analyze that for a while and this is what I came up with.
First let me say, I don't consider my self an over the top writer and I'm not a professional. But I do have things to say and I love to create, with my writing or in my art.
I love realism and fantasy in books, movies and art work. Isn't that what makes up our entire lives anyway? When the real world seems to Real, that's when we want to escape. We can let go of everyday stress in music, art or reading and transport ourselves any where, that's Fantasy. So that was simple enough, I write to escape.
I enjoy creating characters that can dream and see life from all different view points. They can go and do what I cannot and sometimes "YES" they can speak for me when I can not find my voice.
I believe all writers and artists do this. Writing is more than coming up with a storyline, plot and a mystery. Don't get me wrong this can be hard as Hell, but it is a writers way of living vicariously through characters and being able to have many voices. I like it, actually I love it and believe it or not I sometimes I hate it.
It causes me to have to pull out old feelings, open nasty wounds and re-taste bitter tears I have cried in the past. Why? Because of realism, your characters have to become tangible for the reader or guess what, they become phony, shallow and boring. I know that sounds horrible and why would anyone in their right mind, do that to themselves. The life of a writer is bittersweet. (More about that another day)
I have finally... I hope, come to a place in my own realism that if the only people to ever read or have my novels, short stories or poetry are my kids and grand-kids. It's okay, because through all my characters and the places that I have created, they will hear my voice.
That is immortality...write to the Edge.
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Monday, May 3, 2010
What is in a Name?
I believe I have decided on a name for my new friend (laptop)...
"ELVIRA" my very own little Mistress of the Dark ;)
Now I still need to work a spell or two, perhaps light a candle or two, for my beautiful new friend.
All of this for WHY? So she will become my magical tool and serve me well!!!!
Does anyone know when the next full moon is? How about a cool incantation?
muahahahahaha (evil laugh inserted here)
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Sunday, May 2, 2010
Laptop or Bust !
Well from the advice of several of my writing friends, I have a new Laptop :)
I have done the happy dance all day! It is charging as we speak. She is beautiful, black and shiny, with little sparkles. Now I can write my book, notes and nonsense from anywhere. I feel like a teenager with a new drivers license. So we will just have to see how much trouble I can get into with my new TOY!!! For those of you who know the story, I hope you are sharing in my overwhelming JOY:) I'm half tempted to name my newest friend (Laptop) any suggestions?
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The Blog Gods
The Blog Gods have been appeased :) I have comments! Awesome, now I can get back to writing about writing, complaining about writing, laughing about my writing... and
Oh Yeah, and sharing all the insane, crazy, profound and sometimes totally useless ideas,
I have about writing.
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Saturday, May 1, 2010
My Blog is Haunted
Well I have tried everything to get my comment button to work.I think it is broken.
Who broke the button? I have reset the settings AGAIN...and nothing has happened yet.
So until the forces at work (blogspot) or the comment button Gods, decide they are going to turn it back on, I guess I will have to be patient (not my strongest attribute.)
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Dartington in Conisbrough 1972 - 1975
By Pat Kitto
A staff member's account of a progressive experiment in a mining town when the school leaving age was raised in 1972, with an afterword by Michael Duane.
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This book is an account of a joint venture, in the nineteen-seventies, between Conisbrough Northcliffe Secondary Modern School, then a relatively radical state school led by the charismatic and forceful Arthur Young and Dartington Hall School, a progressive, fee-paying school led by the radical educational thinker, Royston Lambert. The aim of the project was to exchange experience, ideas, staff and pupils on a short-term basis and to establish an alternative option for students struggling in mainstream education. A central aspect of the scheme was the acquisition of The Terrace, a large detached house in its own grounds in the South Yorkshire mining town of Conisbrough to provide accommodation for students visiting from Dartington and those Conisbrough students who were to join them on courses. Similar residential experience was to be provided at Dartington in South Devon for pupils from Northcliffe and from Mexborough Grammar School whose involvement in the scheme soon faded. Pat Kitto, the author of the account, and her husband, Dick, were appointed as wardens of The Terrace by Dartington in 1972 and continued to live and work there until 1975. During that time, The Terrace became the site of educational work which implicitly questioned many of the assumptions made then and now about how schools ought to be run.
The Kittos oversaw three types of activity at The Terrace. The first of these is described by Pat as 'Open House' and consisted of The Terrace being opened to kids of the town as a kind of cultural centre cum youth club. Pat herself describes this strand of their work as sometimes chaotic but also points to moments where individuals and groups eventually gained dramatically from the contact that they had with new ideas or ways of thinking. I remember seeing something of these evenings as a young teacher at Northcliffe and being shocked by the way in which the Kittos opened up what was, after all, their home to what seemed like droves of kids in various states of excitement. Pat admits that the two of them took on the role of policing rather than providing experience such as art, drama, folk singing and story reading sessions.
The other strand of The Terrace's programme was the provision of courses attended by both Conisbrough and Dartington students, often with groups drawn from both schools. Such courses were also held at Dartington. Pat remembers these courses with more uniform satisfaction than the 'Open House' strand, although they were beginning to be less frequently run when she arrived at The Terrace. When I arrived at Northcliffe in 1974, they appeared to be largely a thing of the past. The courses took many forms and often involved members of the community talking about their lives or areas of expertise to groups from both schools. The Kittos and the other staff working at The Terrace were adept at ferreting out engaging and challenging people to work with groups and Pat's account records real engagement across what might have seemed a massive social and cultural divide.
The last and, to me, most interesting strand of The Terrace's work was in providing an alternative for those kids trapped by the raising of the school leaving age into staying on at school until they were sixteen years of age in 1974. These were disaffected and, in some cases, delinquent pupils selected from a volunteer group who had found that school offered them little other than boredom and frustration. The first group were all boys and were in the care of the Kittos, a Liverpudlian man of action, Ken Hosie and Neal Fitzgerald, a young drama teacher from Northcliffe seconded for a year to work with the group.
Pat's account of the first year of the ROSLA scheme in particular makes very interesting reading. The group operated largely under principles laid down by Royston Lambert which included a requirement that the activities undertaken by the group should at least be 'perceived by them as real life ones' and that the students 'should have a real share in the decisions that affect them.' This solidified into the group being involved in various forms of work such as painting and decorating, renovating furniture and raising vegetables. They attended practical courses locally and at Dartington. They put on plays, climbed rocks and went to art exhibitions. What they also did was talk. In regular sessions, they discussed the work they were doing, their relationship with staff and with other members of the group, what they were to eat and who they were going to invite to join them for meals. Notions of teacher dominance were put aside, real pupil democracy flourished and, according to Pat, the boys made progress physically, mentally and intellectually as a result of the programme they followed. Her account records the sometimes rocky progress that the group made and is meticulous in examining the social and emotional problems that were surmounted. Years later 'outcomes', as the sociologists would have it, support Pat's observations insofar as when the first group was interviewed by Neal Fitzgerald 30 years later, they reported universal valuing of their time at The Terrace and satisfaction with their careers. Two of the group are reported as being millionaires.
What this account suggests is what many teachers have long suspected: schools as we know them are built on precisely the wrong model to educate a substantial minority of our children. All children learn better when they see the point of what they are being asked to do. Some can create this relevance from a bank of cultural conditioning which is absent in others. Real pupil participation in identifying aims and means in the process of learning is a pathway to relevance in education for many even if its implementation nationally on a whole school basis is prohibitively daunting.
The last 30 years in state education have been characterised by a relentless move towards the academic. Our conceptions of what children should learn, how they should behave and even dress at school have retrogressed radically and some of the worst casualties of this return to Victorian rigidity have been the disaffected and non academic minority. What happened at The Terrace all those years ago could have presented an alternative model for these pupils. A special irony for me was that I spent a good part of my career coping with students at Northcliffe School who were being forced through a curriculum invented by a Conservative government and slavishly accepted and developed by a New Labour one which offered a good proportion of our kids very little other than boredom, failure and exclusion.
I remember the ending of The Terrace 'experiment' at Northcliffe now with sadness, although I didn't understand at the time that its consequences would be the hundreds of pointless incidents of disruptive, seemingly mindless oppositional behaviour that I and other staff at Northcliffe would have to deal with as a consequence, let alone the sacrifice of a cartload of human potential for a doctrinal whim. Common sense should have told us that what had gone on at The Terrace was a practical alternative for many kids failed by school.
The book is well written, although the accounts of group discussion seem at times stilted and artificial in their presentation and the moments of enlightenment on the part of some kids are sometimes sentimentally presented. Kitto is, however, precise and honest in her recounting of her own emotions in often incredibly trying circumstances and no teacher worth their salt should be wholly without sentimentality when talking about kids. It's in the end a profoundly sad book in that it records a past in educational thought and practice seemingly without place in modern mainstream education.
(Teacher at Northcliffe for 32 years and in that time Head of English, then Assistant Head and finally Advanced Skills Teacher.)
Reviewed by Stephen Jones
This is the story of a fascinating educational experiment in what might be considered the golden years of progressive education in England. The story covers the years from 1972 to 1975 and yet it is absolutely relevant today.
Michael Gove, the present education minister, talks about his radical plans for schools and in particular the free schools which will allow parents and teachers to establish their own schools. Radical plans existed before this time and this is one of the stories.
In the early seventies progressive education was part of the landscape which include free schools, liberal progressive private schools of which Dartington was one and new community comprehensive schools built to deliver student- centred learning.
Pat Kitto's book should be compulsory reading for Michael Gove's new radicals. There is a particular irony in the fact that Toby Young,the son of Michael Young, Lord Young of Dartington, should now be one of the pioneers of the new "free schools". I am not sure that Pat Kitto's experiences on the Yorkshire coalfield will resonate strongly with him.
Pat Kitto and her husband Dick were long-serving members of Dartington Hall School but not teachers, and yet they were inspired by the new head, Royston Lambert to move over 300 miles away from friends and family to become wardens of an educational experiment in the middle of the mining community of Conisbrough in the south Yorkshire coalfield.
Lambert had set up a link with Northcliffe Secondary School to see how the progressive methods at Dartington, a private school for children who came from rich and varied backgrounds, would stand up to scrutiny and be relevant to the demands of the state system and in particular to the raising of the school leaving age to sixteen. Equally Arthur Young, the head at Northcliffe, was keen to see if there were any benefits for his school students from mixing with the youngsters from Dartington who followed a different curriculum and had a different relationship with their staff.
Kitto tells a compelling story of working with the children of miners in a community that was about as far removed from the pastoral scene of Dartington as can be imagined, a community at that time shaped by the omnipresence of the coalmine and its history and indeed its future. Her stories are of youngsters who challenge, who come from backgrounds that she has never experienced, where the man is the boss and yet the women are the ones who keep their families and the community together while living in the shadows of their menfolk, where consequently the girls struggle to find their own voice – all such a contrast to her experience at Dartington. She shares freely with the reader her astonishments and her surprises.
The Kittos succeeded in Conisbrough because they believed that the values of the Dartington School were applicable in this very different community. They were listeners, they had immense patience and they believed that children should be given responsibility, they cared and they did not stand on ceremony.
In the early days such values were an invitation to the youngsters to run riot round "The Terrace", the building which housed the experiment. They could not make sense of the fact that there were not long lists of rules or locked doors. The food was different – brown flour, lots of vegetables and salads. The stories the children tell in the book not only reflect the richness of the oral tradition of the coalfield but also describe an awakening to drama and art, visits to the theatre, learning, living and working with the Dartington children and above all a developing confidence in themselves.
The Kittos aspired to and delivered the principles set out by the heads of the two schools. Like all those involved in progressive education these were challenging tasks, much more so than those in authoritarian institutions where the relationship between adults and young people is very clearly defined and there is no doubting who is in charge.
In this wonderful, relevant book the voice of the young person is strong and clear and it will remind all those working with schoolchildren to listen and to demand the very best from all those they work with.


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Skating Charm
James Wolcott
- The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan edited by John Lahr
Bloomsbury, 439 pp, £25.00, October 2001, ISBN 0 7475 5418 8
Kenneth Tynan smoked like a maestro, an aficionado of his own smooth technique. As the stripper sings in Gypsy, 'Ya gotta have a gimmick,' and photograph after photograph shows Tynan squiring a cigarette between the tips of his middle and ring fingers (his trademark), each puff drawing attention to the languid elegance of his long, slender, concert-pianist hands. Cigarettes were key props in the Ken Tynan legend assembly-kit, along with the Mickey Mouse watch and effete-aesthete Anthony Blanche outfits he wore at Oxford, and, later, the poolstick collection of headmaster's canes he kept handy to beat women's bottoms. The cigarettes eventually killed him, but it is only with one in his hand that he looks fully activated, in character. In London, creating a sensation as a theatre critic, he's as trim, sleek and transparently avid as Laurence Harvey on the make in Room at the Top, but more convivial and amused – an amiable shark. No one looks that eagerly young anymore. Two decades after his death, Tynan is still getting the star treatment, a rare thing for any writer; even rarer for a critic, whose work tends to date fast. The morbid, sexy idolatry usually reserved for rock stars, dead poets and suicide blondes is being lavished on him. The front cover of Tynan's Letters, published in 1994, features a portrait taken by David Bailey, itself a sign of pop status. The front cover of The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan is a close up of its subject inhaling, eyes shut, fingers splayed; its back cover, three shots of him in different stages of smoking – an action-sequence of sorts. How did Tynan become such a cool dead daddy? True, he remains a pleasure to read: his float-like-a-butterfly, sting-like-a-bee style has lost none of its panache, his witty concision is still quotable (on Gielgud in modern dress: 'The general aspect of a tight, smart, walking umbrella'), much of his excitement outliving the occasions that produce it. But there have been other theatre critics with dapper styles and deep commitments whose names faded once their work slid out of print, once-prominent tastemakers such as Stark Young and James Gibbons Huneker. Tynan's review collections have joined theirs in the second-hand stores, but he himself stays hot copy. Words aren't enough to sustain a journalistic legend; neither are looks, photogenic as he was.
'What makes a figure is the lore,' the Jungian psychologist James Hillman declared. 'Take the Beat Generation, Kerouac; their lore made them more than they were. We can't get rid of Nixon, no way to forget him, because of the lore. Freud and Jung are full of lore . . . so they are very much alive as figures in the imagination. We keep on learning from them, through the lore.' Kenneth Tynan's life is a walk-in vault of lore. His bastard status. His dandy days at Oxford. His stammer (another reminder of Anthony Blanche), a stalling device that made his conversational cobra-strikes all the more lethal. The precocious brilliance of his first book, He That Plays the King, written when he was 23 and tapped for glory with a foreword by Orson Welles. His triumphant stint as theatre columnist for the Observer. His championing of Look Back in Anger, the play that blew the tea cosies off the English stage and became the rude manifesto of the Angry Young Men. His rock-'em, sock-'em first marriage to the novelist Elaine Dundy, their drunken rows rivalling Scott and Zelda's. His snap conversion to Marxism after seeing Mother Courage. His hero-worship of Castro and his defence of the Cuban revolution, which led to his being summoned before the United States Senate Internal Security Subcommittee to explain himself (his own brush with the Red Scare). His intoxication with bullfighting in Spain, which brought him into contact and conflict with Hemingway. His second marriage to the divinely cheekboned Kathleen Halton. His headline-making utterance of the word 'fuck' on live TV. The party he threw in the 1960s that inspired the 'Swinging London' orgy scene in Antonioni's Blow-Up. The Borgia intrigue of his stint as dramaturg under Olivier at the National Theatre. His championing of pornography for the masses and the scandalous success of Oh! Calcutta! His spat with Truman Capote over In Cold Blood. His years of demoralised inactivity. His third-act exile in Los Angeles, where he sunned with coked-out stars and their lizard-skinned agents, and yet was able to revive his reputation through a series of profiles for the New Yorker, his biggest scoop enticing Louise Brooks to break her silence, a piece laden with Sunset Boulevard shadows. The much-publicised party snap of Tynan in drag as Brooks, looking instead eerily like a cross between Milton Berle and Anna Wintour. His long, racking, losing battle with emphysema.
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1 stalk of green garlic
a handful of arugula
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½ bunch of kale
½ a head of garlic or some green garlic stalks
Olive oil
Juice of ½ a lemon
Optional: Portobello mushrooms
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Tina Campbell (Mary Mary) opens up about her husband's infidelity
Tina Campbell, the other half of gospel group Mary Mary opened up to Ebony magazine in its June issue about infidelity in her marriage. She spoke about how her husband of 13 years had an affair for two years; how she first wanted to harm him and divorce him and then later learnt to forgive and how they worked things out.
Tina on discovering her husband was having an affair:
"Once I became aware [of the affair], I initially wanted to kill my husband…I was considering adjusting the will, the living trust and all that kind of stuff. I did physically try to stab him. Several times…I never got to the point of physical harm, not really, but my words…My words hurt. "
A few days after the online publication, Tina posted the following message to her fans on her website asking for prayers.
Hi fans and friends,
It's Tina. I hope all of you are well and I thank you for all the love and support you've shown my sister and I over the years.
Well, I'm actually writing you on behalf of my husband Teddy and I. I'm assuming that many of you have seen or heard about our article in Ebony that discussed the challenges of overcoming infidelity in our marriage. Well since the article, the challenges have worsened. My hope turned into hopelessness & despair and I became unwilling to forgive and fight, until God showed me myself.
My husband's struggle, was with sexual immorality BUT I have struggled with anger, rage, unforgiveness, pride, just to name a few, for over 2 decades. The devil wanted to use strongholds that took hold of our lives in our childhood, to remain and destroy us as adults. So now instead of being mad at each other we're mad at the devil and we're ready to fight.
Today we began a 30 day fast (May 24th-June 22nd) for complete deliverance & restoration. If u are able to, please fast and/or pray daily that God would answer our prayers and give us a deeper love & commitment to him and to each other. We believe he still works miracles and he can give us the greatest marriage we could have ever imagined. We can pray alone BUT your prayers will certainly help.
Some Scriptures To Target Your Prayer
2 Chronicles 7:14
"If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land."
James 5:16
"Therefore, confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another so that you may be healed. The effective prayer of a righteous man can accomplish much."
Thanks in advance. Talk to you in 30 days.
Tina and Teddy got married in 2000 and have four children together.
I think it's really brave for anyone who's going through this sort of situation to open up to the world and share their story and most of all, ask for help. Cheating is a huge deal in any relationship and it HURTS like hell. If you've ever been cheated on, you would know what I'm talking about.
I believe strongly that there is a strong reason why Tina and Teddy need people to pray for them. Let's all join in and say a word of prayer for these two and believe that God will help them overcome this challenging period.


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Midnight blue Dell XPS m1530.
Geforce 8600M GT 256 MB
Also got Norton, Microsoft Office, a Warranty.
Overkill for a laptop, and underpowered to be a gaming machine. Just out of curiously, why laptop?
I wanted it portable. As for underpowered, You think if GTA4 comes out for pc this would be able to run it?
nice. I cant mow lawn in the summer of AZ cuz I'll either:
get skin cancer
die in heat
get attacked by a weed wacker
where did you by it from?
maybe, the graphics card might not be able to handle it
First of all, it's been said many times before the GTA4 is high unlikely for the PC. Even then, you will run it at a low resolution and medium-low setting on graphics.
Dell.com Ok, Well so far it has satisfied my gaming needs... I hope these new games that are coming out wont need a monster machine.
Not at the higher settings, resolution and filters together.
You didn't think to ask BEFORE you spent 2 years worth of money?
It isn't bad, but you could have gotten a better CPU for $1400
It's not that high powered, but for a laptop guess it's okay..... but i wouldn't play Crysis on it.
I will be buying this PC next week for 359€ which is 568 US-Dollar:
E8400 Core2Duo 2x 3,0Ghz
NVIDIA GF 8600GT 1024MB Graphics Card
+ DVD Burner and stuff
its not bad for that price, eh?
I'd tap that.
from newegg, right?
also, invest in the 4870
It's a pretty good deal, the processor could be better.
Why you got 4GB of RAM is beyond me but yes it's a pretty good laptop, since it has Microsoft Word and other software... I would've just bought one for cheaper without software, and pirated the software.
Nice laptop. I really like Dell laptops and got the XPS M1330 for work, which looks very similar to the M1530, but is quite a bit smaller. They are very nice looking machines. Also, if my M1330 is anything to go by, your laptop should be pretty decent.
Now you just need to cut some more lawns for a few months for money to buy a kick ass desktop to compliment the laptop
Just what I want to do
So far my only regret is the processor. But after upgrading to this after having a windows 98 pc, and an old dell laptop with a broken LCD, and not even the ability to run zoo tycoon at full speed, the laptop seems like god.
You might consider upgrading to Vista x64 to have full use of that ram. Running a 32bit OS is a bit of a waste, as it will never be able to use 4 gigs of ram. Usually your same cdkey for Vista will work on the 64 bit version also.
Really? I understand Vista 32 that I have works with 3gigs, but can you explain the whole upgrading? What are the pros and cons of it? And is it free?
Thanks a lot!
Now that's nice. But change the 8600GT for a HD4850 and you'll have more than double the power of one 8600GT.
And I wouldn't even play Crysis even if I can.


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This is a tiny little PCB that lets you solder an ESP8266 ESP01 WiFi module onto your Espruino Pico.
The ESP8266 only needs 4 wires to be connected, but this lets you put everything together into a very small volume. It also has space for a voltage regulator and capacitor if you need them.
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Now that Ive got two little munchkins of my own I am reminded of my own childhood and how there were always an abundance of photos throughout the house with a majority of them lining the hallways. I would stare at the photos of my family. My brothers in crazy KISS costumes for Halloween, photos of me as a young Ukrainian dancer or flower girl, a variety of pics of my parents looking very cool and 70's stylish while visiting some random tourist attraction. There were also a ton of photos of relatives (aunts, uncles, cousins) I had met and some I didn't.
The older I get the more nostalgic I am about my childhood and I am now realizing what an impact those hundreds of photos in my parents home meant to me. I want my kids to also look up at old photos and be reminded of the good times and memories our family has and will create. I want to look back on a photo of my little guy with his chubby cheeks, bright blue eyes and blonde hair smiling back at me when I need to be reminded of how quickly he is growing and how I need to cherish every moment. As Emily grows her photos are increasingly more adorable, each photo seems so serious and proper. I think she will be quite amused by this when she gets older. I want my kids to have fun with photos and always be reminded of the past.
SOOOOOO the beginning of a family photo wall is calling. I'm still a bit shy and its baby steps for me, I didn't want to have too many photos up however this may change in the future. Here is the plain wall in our family room:
I purchased a variety of frames from a church sale, goodwill and a few from stores like walmart and ikea. I sprayed the frames in high gloss black and also white.
|Some of the frames were purchased at a church sale, 3 for 50 cents!!
|I wonder if there are spray paint support groups?
A number of the frames did not come with glass so I came up with these little numbers and I must say they are my favorite
|old frame sprayed white, wooden S purchased for $2.50 at walmart and a sheet of scrapbook paper for the background
|A tiny bit of twine glued to the back of the frame and a clothespin to hang a photo of my little angel
The photo wall also has a small wooden sunflower that looks awful but is special to us. It is the ONLY thing my husband and I have that survived an apartment fire we had many years ago. We lost everything we owned in that fire including photos, mementos, etc. We came back to the rubble pile a few weeks later and Ken spotted the little sunflower that use to hang on our patio. He jumped into the pile (completely heroic) and saved it. We have carried it with us ever since. Its covered in soot and ash and we have kept it that way. It symbolizes a memory of life before the fire and like the photos reminds us to cherish what we have and never take it for granted.
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Laced with built in quality features, "Cruel Summer" serves as a launching pad for upcoming solo efforts from the talented roster. Come for the previously released bangers you have heard Kanye let loose on, but stay for the unheard tracks that add depth to this compilation album.
G.O.O.D. Music's long awaited Cruel Summer finally hit stores this week. Although it was
mysteriously missing from iTunes, that didn't stop listeners from guzzling down
this eclectic album start to finish. From the legendary R. Kelly on the album's
opener, "To The World", to the infamous Jay-Z on the street thumping "Clique", Cruel Summer is chock full of features,
traditional and new age hip-hop, experimental voice effects and resounding,
crisp production.
Much credit is due to Mr. West, who proves once again he is a maestro at music composition. The album plays out like a rap-opera, taking the listener on a journey of music exploration. If you were expecting a Kanye West free-for-all though, that's not what this album was about. Mr. West only appears on seven of the album's twelve tracks. Rather, he lets the tracks breathe and gives artists like CyHi Da Prince, Teyana Taylor, Pusha T, 2 Chainz, Big Sean and even Kid Cudi the chance to deliver the goods. John Legend, Common, Mase and Marsha Ambrosius also have guest appearances.
So get off Kanye's "Scott Disik", this was about raising the awareness of G.O.O.D. Music and where they are heading with their craft. It also didn't hurt to have features from New York rap legends and former Wu Tang Financier's, Ghostface Killah and Raekwon. Needless to say, they're still stone cold murderers.
Kanye West did his thing on the songs he was featured on. From "Mercy", "Clique", "New God Flow", "I Don't Like (Remix)" and "Cold", which have been on permanent spin since the beginning of the summer, West shows he still possesses crazy lyrical creativity. These tracks combine nicely with his previously unreleased features such as "The One" and the aforementioned "To The World". From lines about Kim Kardashian, Bar Refaeli being Israelian or rather Gisele being Brazilian, he'll have the listener exclaiming "Holy crap" the whole way through.
After their rambunctious performance at Made In America, this album further cements Big Sean, 2 Chainz as some of the hottest rappers in the game. If anyone was sleeping on them, somehow, this album should definitely peel back some eyes. It was also very impressive to hear Kid Cudi going "Solo Dolo" on his track "Creepers", which reminds me a lot of the type of music that made him a household name a few years back.
Overall, if you were looking for My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Part II, this album may not be for you. However if you are interested in diversity and crazy collaborations you will never see anywhere else, then this album is definitely worth a listen. I'm excited to see where G.O.O.D. Music is heading and it is certainly nice to hear something different. It almost reminds me of a neo-noir movie. Classic mixed with freshness. Style combined with substance. Class sprinkled with swag. If you thought the current state of music was in trouble, Kanye West and G.O.O.D. Music are here to deliver the hotness and brighten up your outlook.


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These two adult Greenland White-fronts found by Steve Grimshaw are only the third confirmed record of this subspecies for the East Lancashire Ornithologists' Club (ELOC) recording area, the previous two records both coming from Stocks Reservoir: 1 on 4th-22nd Jan 1983 and 1 on 15th Feb and again on 31st March 1996. Outside the ELOC recording area, but still in east Lancs, one was at Belmont Res 16th-19th April 1998. Thanks to Tony Cooper for researching past records. Superb birds and a great site tick for my old patch.
What is assumed to be the same Red-breasted Merganser as that present from 13th-20th November, and presumed long gone, dropped in from height at 12:30, so it is clearly feeding elsewhere! A 1stw drake Shoveler also present.
Recently, I have been suffering from my worst bout of blogging lethargy since I started a birding blog back in May 2005. I have a few posts to catch up on which I will try and do if I can summon up the will to do so!


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Sunday, November 15th, 2009
Norman Finkelstein to Jewish TV-host Adam Holm: Listen to yourself spouting Israeli propaganda
Norman Finkelstein was interviewed on Danish public service TV on November 13 by Jewish TV host Adam Holm (Video: bottom of page)
Norman Finkelstein: You are just repeating Israeli propaganda. They have no right to East-Jerusalem.
Adam Holm: 'But you are very extreme in your criticism of Israel'.
Brigadier Rabbi Avichai Rontzki - IDF
The Israel Defense Forces' chief rabbi told students in a pre-army yeshiva program last week that soldiers who show mercy toward the enemy in wartime will be damned. Brig. Gen. Avichai Rontzki also told the yeshiva students that religious individuals made better combat troops. Speaking Thursday [...]
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Exploiting the Holocaust for political purposes - Avigdor Lieberman visits Denmark and Holland
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Jewish supremacist Avigdor Lieberman to travel to Denmark next week. According to Israeli media he will leave Israel on Sunday November 7 to visit Holland and Denmark.
During his visit to Denmark the Israeli foreign Minister will have talks with his Danish colleague Per Stig Moller [Møller], and take part in a commemoration of Danish Victims of the Nazi holocaust.
This event is going to take place in Copenhagen in Langelinje Street on Monday, according to Chief Rabbi Bent Lexner who also confirmed that [...]


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Last week the first wheelchair friendly forest path was opened by Tenerife president, Ricardo Melchior in Tacoronte's highlands.
The specially developed path is in Agua García, next to the Barranco de Toledo, and covers a distance of 860 metres (both ways) through the forest.
It might only be a small concession to opening up Tenerife's countryside to people who may not otherwise be able to enjoy it, but it is a commendable one.
Monday, 24 May 2010
Creating A Barrier Free Paradise – Tenerife's First Wheelchair Friendly Path
Posted by Real Tenerife at 12:13
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- Canarybird said...
What a wonderful idea and I hope a start to many more of such paths so the elderly and disabled can also get out into the woods to enjoy the nature of the island!
- 24 May 2010 at 13:56
- Real Tenerife said...
It is a wonderful idea isn't it. Nice to see you back online.
- 24 May 2010 at 14:33
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Robert Wright: Piracy threatens U.S. economy
Wearing his hat as a Hollywood studio mogul, NBC Universal Chairman Robert Wright argued last week that the theft of intellectual property threatened U.S. economic security and recommended a response similar to the war on terrorism.
Speaking to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington, D.C., Wright warned that the problems facing media content owners would spread to other sectors of the economy.
Wright cited a new study claiming that piracy of motion pictures had cost the industry more than $20 billion — a broader impact on the economy than previously thought. The ripple effect, he said, branches out to include many businesses that support the making of films.
Piracy, Wright said, increases the federal deficit because of the $837 billion in lost tax dollars, $5.5 billion in lost wages and 141,030 lost jobs.
Wright chided Internet service providers and consumer electronics makers for having as much to lose to piracy as the content owners, and urged them to take greater efforts to protect copyright-protected material.


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Some of the common symptoms of duck phobia include:
You would come across multiple drugs meant for treating phobia of ducks widely available in the market. Unfortunately, the drugs are often accompanied by several side effects and once you stop taking them, your phobic condition may get immensely aggravated.
In reality, bird phobias cannot be cured by drugs only. At length the symptoms of the disease can be suppressed through chemical reactions for a negligible amount of time.
However, good news is that some contemporary, fast, drug free processes prescribed by NLP can completely cure your illogical fear of ducks.
Phobia of ducks is a creation of the unconscious mind. Maybe at some point of bygone days you may have come across unfortunate incidents in relation to birds, which ultimately took the shape of an emotional trauma. Phobic conditions can also be triggered by movies, television programs or traumatic experiences of life.
Relevance of NLP in treating Duck Phobia
The best way to combat this condition is to reconstruct and reprogram your mind and eliminate the illogical fear of birds. In most cases, NLP interventions are quite rapid and effective.
Energy psychology
is gaining popularity as a perfect remedy of eliminating duck phobia and several other conditions of fear.
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Sunday, March 14, 2010
The Water Principle
I had a half-hour before the train arrived at Trenton to take me to New York. A cup of coffee would be fitting as I lounged around the station. But then I thought water would be better to drink. I found myself daydreaming and as my mind drifted I focused on the image of water. I imagined a clear pond, still and reflective. I thought of a waterfall and its hypnotic rhythm. I imagined breathing in the ionized air. How clear my thoughts were and how relaxed I became. I remembered learning from a woman who taught a class called, "Brain Gym" that water is a great neutralizer. She believed that taking a sip of water between mind exercises cleared the palette of our brains.
"Yes," I thought, "I will drink water instead of coffee!"
I got up from the bench that had become my meditative sitting area and I walked over to the Dunkin' Donuts portable cart where the bottles of water were stacked in the fridge adjacent to the hot coffee dispensers. Slowly I reached in to retrieve a bottle. Then I walked to the counter to pay for it.
"Don't I have a right to be happy?" the young woman behind the counter said as I handed her my money.
"Excuse me?" I said.
"I can be happy too, don't I deserve that?" she continued.
I hesitantly replied, "yes, of course you do," not knowing what I was saying and wondering what the hell was wrong with her.
"You don't know what I am talking about, do you? You don't know the spirit. You only think about what you have to do and where you need to be."
"You have no idea who you're talking to," I replied. "I am a very spiritual person and in fact I was just thinking about the principal of wa..."
"You don't know anything!" she exclaimed with her eyes ablaze and full of hatred.
Then she gave me my change.
I moved away in a confused state and wondered if I was witnessing someone having a nervous breakdown and soon an ambulance would come to take her away.
I stood to the side of the cart in a spot that was close enough but not too conspicuous so I could watch what she was going to say to the next customer.
When the man paid for his coffee, she said with a sweet smile, "have a good day."
I watched her with more customers and there was no hint of that previous venom I had witnessed. She was back to normal.
I've been to that cart often since that day and she waits on me without any hint of what happened between us. Sometimes I buy coffee and other times I get water. Once I gave in and bought a chocolate glazed donut. But never again will I meditate in a train station or any public place for that matter. I guess that's why the yogis tell us to sit in a quiet, safe place when we want to clear our minds.
Who knows what we could conjure up when we have our guard down?
Maybe there was "something" hanging around the Dunkin' Donuts cart that day, like a nasty spirit with a sweet tooth.
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High point #9 and finally another non-solo accent. I had climbed Ohio's Campbell Hill earlier in the morning by myself after getting up at 6:00 AM in Versailles and driving the hour and back to Campbell Hill but returned to Versailles to finish watching some ultimate Frisbee and pick up the rest of my car after the tournament was over. Thankfully, the games were done early so we could leave sooner then I had hoped as we had a ~10 hour drive back to Memphis, TN.
We packed up our wet, soggy camping gear from the nights rain and grabbed a few more famous chicken dinners from the illustrious Poultry Days Festival and headed out the Hoosier Hill for a picnic on the high point. The drive took about 30 minuets, heading west out of town on Ohio-47. We turned onto Indiana-227 just after the state line and then on to County Rd 100 and Elliot Rd where the high point is. The car load was myself and ultimate friend from Chattanooga, Raley and his new fiance Emily. We found the turn off for the high point although the sign had been stolen so we drove past it once.
Taking the few steps from the car to the high point we were greeted with a picnic table, registry box and small stone cairn, all recently built by a Boy Scout for his Eagle project. We had a nice chicken dinner picnic, snapped our photos and took off back south to a land where tea is sweetened and Coke means carbonated beverage.
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