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living and playing and napping and reading

An idea worth spreading

peace on and off the earth and i love you

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whatever you need to get off your chest or we could just b.s. ;)

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• A comment on Conversation: ADHD, Friendships, Social Skills and Medication Am I wrong to not wanting to medicate my son ?

  Apr 19 2011: my son is 12 yrs old now in 6th grade. when he was 4 yrs old in pre-K he ran around his class like some kinda maniac and his teacher had him evaluated by the school psychologist. I was called in to a meeting with the teacher, principal, and school psychologist and was told I needed to take his hyperactive butt to the doctor and get him placed on ritalin posthaste.
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  I told those people that i was NOT going to do that. He was a teeny little active curious healthy 4 yr old boy and if they thought he sat still at home they were sadly mistaken. I told them that I was in the process of teaching the boy (get ready for this) SELF CONTROL. I told them even at the tender age of 4 i would snatch that boy up when he got overly rambunctous and remind him that i might swat his butt to remind him how to behave but HE was the one who actually had to make himself behave. His squirmy little body, he had to control it. I then told them that i was enlisting THEM in my endeavor to educate and enlighten my child by charging them with my method - when the little squirt got out of control it was THEIR job to remind him that he had to control himself. It might be a seemingly never-ending process of "reminding the boy" ~ but that was what they were to do, and be gentle and compassionate about it. And each year he has progressed a little more and a little more & now he is perfectly acceptable socially (well as socially acceptable as a 12 yr old can be). There are kids in his grade who ARE still on ritalin and they are big ol' messes. and i'm very proud of my boy & he is proud of him too - cuz HE did it, he DOES it every day. ya gotta teach your kid this stuff. I've always been a very open and honest mommy, but it seems to do the children right, i have a 26 yr old kid too & she is a sweet, fun, funny, prosperous, loving member of society. good luck with peace and love
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  A comment on Conversation: Wealth and power have been our conventional measures of success. What definition will better sustain us now and how can we move into it?

  Apr 19 2011: how cool would it be if everybody woke up tomorrow and realized money means nothing and the major commodity were emotions - love being the most worth-ful. just a thought. peace and love to you from me :)

• A comment on Conversation: How to train my self to be creative?

  Apr 19 2011: i'm surely not an artist - i can draw stick figures and my interior decor is modern mess - but the one thing i know about creativity is that any true artistic genius knew the secret of the power of 'now.' You can't be creative in the past, and you can't be creative in the future (although you can plan a bit and visualize for creativity in the future) the only time you can ever create anything is in the moment you are in right now ... and i think that is key ... dig your moment li'l bro. peace and love :)
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  A comment on Talk: Carl Honore: In praise of slowness

  Apr 19 2011: i agree & i slowed my life down practically to a screeching halt - moving from the space coast in central florida 900 miles to the backwoods of TN. it's not that hard to just turn the phone off and go sit outside ... one of my fave pastimes is to sit in the yard and watch the chickens. relax y'all - relax.