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<blockquote data-quote="hearts and roses" data-source="post: 379373" data-attributes="member: 2211"><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkslateblue">Janet, I agree with Daisy and Loth also. You just don't know her well enough to take anything she says to heart. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkslateblue">Also, my sister is a music teacher who works at the upper elementary level and even without a whole lot of special education courses, she would know the specifics of any particular disability you mentioned. Why? Because she makes it her business to know as a teacher, especially in today's age when most children are mainstreamed in most schools. When I read that, I was appalled. She's not giving the whole story about herself, or, perhaps you misunderstood her.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #483d8b">Regarding the use of the "M" word - I personally do not see what the big deal is. Also, I don't see what the problem is with the use of the word "retard". Retard means slow...as in slow learner. Why the big easy child campaign? Seems silly to me. And terms like "mentally ill" or "mentally disabled" is just a way of capturing any specific type of brain disorder - I can't understand why anyone would find this offensive. To me, the use of "Exceptional Children" is like blowing smoke and another way to make people feel warm and fuzzy about their child's disability. In my Life Span class, we're covering infant and early childhood development and we happened to be going over fussy babies. I commented on how difficult child would cry for 12 hours, then sleep for 12 hours and that no amount of soothing helped calm her down. And then, at 3 months, she just stopped and was way better. Then the teacher put the next slide up on the monitor in which the number one reason for fussy babies was due to the mother's not bonding with the baby or not being emotionally available. I almost ran from the room, I felt all the eyes of the other students upon me because I know they were thinking, "OMG, she was a bad mother because she wasn't nurturing...."!! I did later have an opportunity to clarify that difficult child had issues and that her fussiness was just her personal temperament...and still is today at 20 years of age! </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #483d8b">Anyway, I think people should stop trying to be so danged easy child and just deal.</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hearts and roses, post: 379373, member: 2211"] [SIZE=3][COLOR=darkslateblue]Janet, I agree with Daisy and Loth also. You just don't know her well enough to take anything she says to heart. [/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=darkslateblue][/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=darkslateblue]Also, my sister is a music teacher who works at the upper elementary level and even without a whole lot of special education courses, she would know the specifics of any particular disability you mentioned. Why? Because she makes it her business to know as a teacher, especially in today's age when most children are mainstreamed in most schools. When I read that, I was appalled. She's not giving the whole story about herself, or, perhaps you misunderstood her.[/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=darkslateblue][/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=#483d8b]Regarding the use of the "M" word - I personally do not see what the big deal is. Also, I don't see what the problem is with the use of the word "retard". Retard means slow...as in slow learner. Why the big easy child campaign? Seems silly to me. And terms like "mentally ill" or "mentally disabled" is just a way of capturing any specific type of brain disorder - I can't understand why anyone would find this offensive. To me, the use of "Exceptional Children" is like blowing smoke and another way to make people feel warm and fuzzy about their child's disability. In my Life Span class, we're covering infant and early childhood development and we happened to be going over fussy babies. I commented on how difficult child would cry for 12 hours, then sleep for 12 hours and that no amount of soothing helped calm her down. And then, at 3 months, she just stopped and was way better. Then the teacher put the next slide up on the monitor in which the number one reason for fussy babies was due to the mother's not bonding with the baby or not being emotionally available. I almost ran from the room, I felt all the eyes of the other students upon me because I know they were thinking, "OMG, she was a bad mother because she wasn't nurturing...."!! I did later have an opportunity to clarify that difficult child had issues and that her fussiness was just her personal temperament...and still is today at 20 years of age! [/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=#483d8b]Anyway, I think people should stop trying to be so danged easy child and just deal.[/COLOR][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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