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IRISH FAMINE MEMORIAL (SYDNEY) database
Throughout the 19th century Ireland saw an exodus of people to all corners of the world especially to the colonies and former colonies governed by the British, in particular to Canada, United States and Australia. These countries are often referred to now as the Irish Diaspora.
I'd like to bring to the attention of our Australian members the Irish Famine Memorial website which has a free online searchable database for ORPHANS from workhouses in all 32 counties throughout Ireland and SHIPS to Australia between 1848 and 1850.
Compiled initially from article by Trevor McClaughlin, 'Barefoot and Pregnant?Female Orphans who emigrated from Irish Workhouses to Australia, 1848-1850', in Familia: Ulster Genealogical Review, incorporating Ulster Genealogical & Historical Guild 'Newsletter', Vol.2, No.3, 1987, pp.31-36 and updated from shipping lists in New South Wales and South Australia.
The Great Irish Famine Commemoration Committee is gathering stories about all the women, following on from the work of Dr Trevor McClaughlin. Some of the stories are attached as pdfs to the individual girls and are mainly complied by descendants - some have not been authenticated by The Great Irish Famine Commemoration Committee but have been compiled from research conducted by descendants.
NOTE THAT NOT ALL 4114 WOMEN FROM THE 20 SHIPS ARE IN THE DATABASE - 2 South Australian ships are still being researched
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National Archives of Ireland
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Researching your Irish Roots
Unfortunately, some important records are no longer in existence mainly due to:
Fire in the Four Courts, Dublin, 1922.
The destruction of the Public Record Office of Ireland in the Four Courts, Dublin (as the result of a fire during civil disturbance in 1922) left a considerable gap in the archival heritage of Northern Ireland. Many important records were lost, including:
The census returns from 1821 to 1851
A small number of volumes survived, covering parts of Co. Fermanagh and Cavan in 1821; parts of Co. Londonderry and for Killeshandra Parish in County Cavan for 1831; and for parts of County Antrim for 1851. These are available in PRONI under the main reference number MIC/5A. Extracts from the 1841 and 1851 census returns can be found in the Old Age Pension books - those for Northern Ireland are in PRONI under the main reference number T/550 see Your Family Tree Leaflet 5 - Census Records (19th Century) (27KB) for further details.
Pre-1858 original wills, administration bonds and marriage licence bonds
Although the original wills, administration bonds and marriage licence bonds were destroyed, indexes survived in manuscript and printed form. Those for the dioceses covering Northern Ireland are available in PRONI - it is therefore possible to extract some details about individuals from these indices. Copies of many destroyed wills can also be found in various privately deposited archives.
Church of Ireland parish records
The records of 1,006 Church of Ireland parishes, originally deposited in the Public Record Office of Ireland in Dublin, were largely destroyed in 1922. However, most of those relating to Northern Ireland (and several from the Republic of Ireland) that survived are available in PRONI either on microfilm or in original form. Those surviving for the majority of parishes in the Republic of Ireland can be accessed at the National Archives of Ireland in Dublin.
The destruction of census records by Government order
Census returns covering the whole island of Ireland for the years 1861-1891 were destroyed by order of the Government on grounds of confidentiality.
Hopefully these sites will offer you a pathway to finding your Irish Ancestor.
P R O N I Public Records Office of Northern Ireland
GENUKI: Ireland for information related to all of Ireland
Irish Genealogy Exploring your Irish family history, step-by-step
Church records in Ireland.
The church records preserve details of the baptisms, marriages and burials which took place within a particular parish, church or congregation and were usually compiled by the relevant clergyman.
There is a great degree of variation in the level of detail contained within these records. Indeed over a period of one hundred years or more there can be considerable variation even within a single parish, church or congregation. In general, baptism records record the date of the baptism; the names of the child, the parents and the names of the child?s sponsors or godparents. The family address and the name of the clergyman may also be recorded.
Marriage records generally record the date of the marriage, the names of the spouses and witnesses. Other information such as the names of the spouse?s parents, residences of the spouses, ages, occupations and the name of the clergyman may also be recorded.
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JUNGES, Amanda Heemann y FONTANA, Denise Cybis. Agrometeorological-spectral model to estimate wheat yield in the State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Rev. Ceres (Impr.) [online]. 2011, vol.58, n.1, pp.09-16. ISSN 0034-737X. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0034-737X2011000100002.
This study aimed to estimate the wheat yield within the Cotrijal Cooperative's operational area (northern Rio Grande do Sul), using spectral and meteorological variables. Yield data (1991-2006), monthly agrometeorological data (1991-2006) and spectral data (NDVI/MODIS, 2000-2006) were used in the analyses. The existence of a significant increase in grain yield due to the incorporation of new technologies was analyzed (technology trend).The choice of the independent variables was based on the analysis of the correlation between yield and spectral and meteorological data. For the multiple linear regression of grain yield estimation the following independent variables were used: rainfall (October), frost damage index (September), degree-days (accumulated from May to October) and NDVI (integrated from June to October). The multiple linear regressions showed satisfactory results with estimation errors below 10%, in most examined years. Accuracy, easy implementation and low cost of regressions pointed to the possibility of joint use of spectral and agrometeorological data in estimating wheat yield in the Cotrijal region. However, further studies are recommended to verify the results of the generated models when incorporating a longer series of spectral data.
Palabras clave : Normalized difference vegetation index; frost index; pluvial precipitation; degree-day.


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The bottom fell out, companies cut marketing and many of my peers were closing shop to seek full-time employment. I just struggled through the slow economy as best I could
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Cedar Park, TX (PRWEB) April 1, 2009
On April 1, 1989 Howard Theriot launched Catch Light Productions with little more than a diploma and student portfolio to his name. His idea was to bring big agency results to small businesses that have traditionally had to settle for less.
After he graduated from TSTI in Waco with an Associate Degree of Applied Arts in Commercial Art and Advertising, Howard moved home to Southeast Texas and accepted several freelance design projects through referrals of friends and family. "I was working from a drafting table in the corner of my old bedroom in my parents home," he says. He accepted an offer from his sister to setup shop in the spare office at her and her husband's real estate office, moved in on April 1 and Catch Light Productions was born.
In the early days, between 1989 and 1994, Howard gained experience through freelance opportunities with local advertising agencies and print shops, as well as direct clients including car dealerships, restaurants, charitable organizations, and a variety of "mom & pop" shops.
In 1995 Catch Light Productions found a niche with local credit unions during a lawsuit between banks and the credit unions. He worked with the majority of the credit unions in the Sabine Chapter of Credit Unions and formed several long-term relationships, which are still alive and active today. The business grew steadily year after year and by 2001 Howard's sister had closed the real estate company and Catch Light Productions was occupying the entire 2500 square foot office building. But in 2003, when the war in Iraq began. "The bottom fell out, companies cut marketing and many of my peers were closing shop to seek full-time employment. I just struggled through the slow economy as best I could," he says. But, in 2005 those relationships he had cultivated over the years really paid off. "A long time credit union client requested I handle all of their media placement in addition to continuing creative services. Catch Light Productions gained agency recognition with media and acquired four additional full-service clients," he says. Catch Light was now officially an advertising agency.
The tide shifted in a surprising way in October 2005 when hurricane Rita swept through Southeast Texas. "I feared the worst due to the violence of the storm and the prospect of many small businesses being put out of business. What I found was just the opposite as everyone wanted the public to know they were open for business," Mr. Theriot says. He worked from a Starbucks in Houston for two weeks until the utilities at his slightly damaged office were back on. "I returned to one of my most profitable times in media placement and new growth." Catch Light Productions continued expanding through the next few years as a full-service agency while gaining more out-of-town clients. Howard continued to utilize freelance talent as he began hiring his first staff.
But Catch Light's headquarters were not so lucky in September 2008 when hurricane Ike devastated the area. Howard knew he had come full circle when almost 20 years after he began his company from his old bedroom he found himself working in his family's home again. "I worked from my mother's dining room table for two weeks and as I got a grip on the situation. I felt that business was sustainable with out-of-town clients and this was the right time to head to the Hill Country and put down new roots as I approached my 20th anniversary," he says.
Today Catch Light Productions is based in Cedar Park, Texas and celebrates their 20th anniversary as they continue to offer a full array of marketing services including brand development, websites, print collateral, and television, radio, outdoor and online media. "It's always been my dream to live in the Austin area. It took a hurricane to to give me a kick in the pants to make that move. I've been especially lucky to retain all of my clients from Southeast Texas and I'm exciting about new opportunities here in Central Texas." says Howard.
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This video has changed my view of AraabMuzik. I know he gets hated on a lot because some of the videos he has put out sound similar. But you have to give him credit, he has been in a number of commercials, he has produced for tons of artist, and he gets paid to perform at events like a DJ or musical artist would. AraabMuzik has not only branded his self as a music producer, but a performer which many music producers can't say. I think there is something to learn from him.
AraabMuzik Discusses Performing Live
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Vanilla Macaroon Crunch Cookies
- 1 cup softened virgin coconut oil
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 3/4 cup packed light brown sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 1/4 cups Nature Box Vanilla Macaroon Crunch Granola
- 1 1/2 cups white chocolate chips
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. and line a large baking sheet with a silpat liner or parchment paper.
- Cream softened coconut oil and sugars until well combined. Add eggs and vanilla beating until just combined. Slowly add dry ingredients, granola and white chips, mixing on low until just combined. Scoop dough onto prepared baking sheet placing about 1 inch apart. Bake for 10-12 minutes, until slightly golden around edges. Remove and let cool on baking sheet for 10 minutes before transferring. Store in airtight container.
Makes 3 dozen Cookies
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The question on the mind of every Star Wars video game fan is what's going to happen to the Star Wars franchise since the closing of LucasArts and the acquisition of the license to Star Wars games by Electronic Arts. Given EA's back-to-back "Worst Company in America" awards, matched with their highly controversial takeovers and other management practices, the initial reaction was panic. EA has had some issues with ruining what makes their games good by trying to market them to a bigger audience, and it goes without saying that Star Wars fans have felt that disturbance in the Force before. But all hope is not lost. Despite The Old Republic failing to meet the hype and expectations laid before them, keep in mind that EA and Bioware were the ones behind the original Knights of the Old Republic, a game that ranks high on many all-time best games lists, and if you know anything about this author, you already know how much it's revered. So EA, here are some suggestions for what to do with the franchise, and what you should avoid doing.
Develop shooters through DICE
Between EA's two big shooter franchises, Medal of Honor and Battlefield, Battlefield is the one that has better withstood the effect of time, and has been met with more critical acclaim. If you exclude the free-to-play titles of Heroes and Play4Free, all of Battlefield's titles have averaged a score of 80 or above on Metacritic, even the less popular modern combat variations such as 2142 and Battlefield 2: Modern Combat. The Battlefield series is so widely praised because of its large-scale maps, intuitive vehicle combat, and intense squad-based warfare. Huge, expansive maps? Addictive vehicle gameplay? Class-based warfare? Sounds like the perfect system for the heavily desired Battlefront 3. And an excellent shooter series that knows how to handle squad-based combat could open the doors for a possible Republic Commando sequel. Perhaps Imperial Commando?
Don't Stick to Sequels, Do Some New IP
"Wait, Scott, don't you of all people want to see a KOTOR 3??" I do and I don't, but we'll get into that later, and EA won't keep the Star Wars gamer fanbase happy by just cranking out sequels to games that everyone and their nerfherding mother are demanding on the message boards. Battlefront 3! X-Wing reboot! Empire At War set during Clone Wars! While these are great ideas, obviously EA is trying to bring in the new generation of gamers who didn't get to experience these games, and they need new IP to draw them in. 1313 was a good start, as an Uncharted-style fast-paced adventure game set in the underworld of Coruscant would've been fucking incredible. Maybe something in between episodes III and IV, as there was a lot of time during the rise of the Empire that hasn't been covered yet. I'd also want to see some Han Solo origins story told, if that's not too much to ask, your Worshipfulness.
Bring together Obsidian and Bioware for a new RPG
The reason we're not going to get a KOTOR 3 is the same reason we're never going to get Warcraft 4: the introduction of an MMO has made it impossible to go back to the old formula. In the MMO world, it's unclear how much time has passed in the game world, and there are so many different storylines going on at once, that it's impossible to pick one and go for it, and it's also as difficult to try and carry something over from KOTOR 2 given all the story that's been told in The Old Republic. The old Republic era is history, and now the old Republic series of games should be put to rest as well. An RPG that takes place during the original film trilogy that takes place in a different part of the galaxy is the way to go. The style that made the KOTOR series popular in the beginning can still be carried over, but with new characters, stories, timelines, and locations. Obsidian and Bioware have an impressive collected arsenal of RPG's: Both KOTOR's, the Mass Effect series, Neverwinter Nights, Fallout: New Vegas, Dragon Age, among others. A new RPG that could explore moral grey areas, in the way Watch Dogs is doing, would be stellar. In fact, it would be…interstellar.
Another Star Wars MMO
Really though, EA is already 0-for-1 on Star Wars MMO's, with The Old Republic now being forced to wear the "free-to-play" cone of shame. Star Ware MMOs in general have typically ended up with what I like to call the "Alderaan outcome." Galaxies started out strong, in the same way that The Old Republic did, but a bunch of unwelcome combat and character creation changes along with a series of unimpressive expansions resulted in the servers eventually being shut down. How the game survived all the way until December of 2011 is a mystery to me. Another release is Clone Wars Adventures, a free-to-play Clone Wars-era online game focused on mini-games, that received surprisingly positive reviews. It's developed by Sony Online Entertainment, who were responsible for Galaxies. I'm in the process of downloading it, so maybe I'll be wrong, but a free-to-play mini-game MMO that looks like its commercials belong on CartoonNetwork is no sound business model. That's no jab at CN by the way, I'm slowly turning into an Adventure Time addict.
Typical EA Shenanigans
Let's run through the list of former grievances that EA should avoid while creating new Star Wars games:
- Another ending fiasco i.e. Mass Effect 3.
- Buying out smaller development companies to reduce competition.
- Requiring an internet connection to play offline games, i.e. SimCity.
- Copy a different game and put Star Wars on it, i.e. what Dante's Inferno did to God of War.
- Close promising studios such as Pandemic.
Until the first Star Wars game by EA is released, we won't be able to judge their decision-making. Will they bring balance to the Force, or destroy it? We'll just have to wait and see. These author's views and suggestions do not represent the views of the entirety of the staff on this site. All compliments, concerns, and criticisms should be directed to the comments below.


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CBO: NewDensity for Frequency Histograms,11g-10.2.0.4 (densities part IV)
NewDensity with the "half the least popular" rule disabled
To disable the new rule, just switch off the patch 5483301:
alter session set "_fix_control"='5483301:off';
(or alter system if you want to make it permanent)
with this setting, NewDensity becomes simply
NewDensity = 0.5 / num_rows
and hence, again for non-existent values:
E[card] = 0.5
which is exactly what we got in pre-10.2.0.4, where density was used (and density was, and is still, set to 0.5 / num_rows by dbms_stats). So the cardinality estimate is 0.5 (rounded up to 1).
For our test case, we predict NewDensity = 0.5 / 216 = 0.002314815. In fact our 10053 traces tell us:
NewDensity:0.002315, OldDensity:0.002315 BktCnt:216, PopBktCnt:216, PopValCnt:4, NDV:4
Table: T Alias: NOT_EXISTENT_OFF
Card: Original: 216.000000 Rounded: 1 Computed: 0.50 Non Adjusted: 0.50
The rationale for this behaviour is sound; the CBO knows that no row with the requested value existed at statistics collection time, hence it returns the minimal cardinality estimate compatible with the non empty result set assumption (check this post for the importance of this assumption). If the statistics are reasonably fresh, this is the only sane estimate that can be made.
Playing with density – a warning
If you set your own column stats using dbms_stats.set_column_stats, the behaviour is different; I haven't made any extensive investigations but as far as I can tell, the value you provide for density is used instead of NewDensity. User-provided column statistics are flagged with dba_tab_cols.user_stats = 'YES'. You can disguise your user statistics as non-user by setting the flags parameter of dbms_stats.set_column_stats to 2 – but since the latter parameter is labeled as "for Oracle internal use only", I would do it only for investigations purposes – that is, never in production.
Bottom note about singleton values: actually in pre-10.2.0.4 versions, if the value was present in the Frequency histogram but covering a single bucket (hence it was present in the table exactly one time at statistic collection time), it used to be classified as "unpopular" and hence used to get the same treatment as a value not in the histogram – the end result being that the cardinality was estimated as 0.5 rounded up to 1; now it is 1 before rounding as one would intuitively expects. I hope to be able to investigate whether this change fixes the issues about join cardinality estimation I investigated – see "the mystery of halving" in this investigation of mine if interested.
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Yearbook of Muslims in Europe, Volume 8
Edited by Oliver Scharbrodt, University of Chester, Samim Akgönül, Strasbourg University, Ahmet Alibašić, Faculty of Islamic Studies and Center for Advanced Studies, Sarajevo, Jørgen S. Nielsen, University of Copenhagen and Egdūnas Račius, Vytautas Magnus University
From Volume 7 onwards, new format with a more current and topical focus on a country level.
While the strength of the Yearbook has always been the comprehensive geographical remit, starting with volume 7 the reports primarily concentrate on more specific and topical information. The most current research available on public debates, transnational links, legal or political changes that have affected the Muslim population, and activities and initiatives of Muslim organizations from surveyed countries are available throughout the Yearbook. At the end of each country report, an annual overview of statistical and demographic data is presented in an appendix. By using a table format, up-to-date information is quickly accessible for each country.
To see how these changes affect the articles, please read this sample chapter about Austria.
The Yearbook of Muslims in Europe is an essential resource for analysis of Europe's dynamic Muslim populations. Featuring up-to-date research from forty-four European countries, the reports provide cumulative knowledge of on-going trends and developments around Muslims in different European countries. In addition to offering a relevant framework for original research, the Yearbook of Muslims in Europe provides an invaluable source of reference for government and NGO officials, journalists, policy-makers, and related research institutions.
Biographical note
Oliver Scharbrodt, Ph.D. (2006) in Islamic and Religious Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, is Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Chester. His research interests include modern and contemporary Islam, Shii Islam, Sufism and Muslims in Europe.
Samim Akgönül, Ph.D. (2001), historian and political scientist, is Associate Professor at Strasbourg University and senior researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). He studies the evolution of minority concepts as well as religious minorities in Eastern and Western Europe.
Ahmet Alibašić, is a Lecturer at the Faculty of Islamic Studies, University of Sarajevo, and Director of the Center for Advanced Studies in Sarajevo. He was educated in Kuala Lumpur (Islamic Studies, Political Sciences, and Islamic Civilization). He also served as the first director of the Interreligious Institute in Sarajevo (2007-2008).
Jørgen S. Nielsen, Ph.D. (1978) in Arab history, American University of Beirut, has researched and published extensively on Islam in Europe, including Muslims in Western Europe (Edinburgh, 2004). He is currently Hon. Professor at the University of Copenhagen.
Egdūnas Račius, PhD (2004) in Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Helsinki, is Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies and the Head of the Department of Regional Studies at the Faculty of Political Science and Diplomacy of Vytautas Magnus University (Kaunas, Lithuania). His academic interests encompass Muslim communities in Europe, and in particular, European converts to Islam, as well as revivalist Islam.
B.D. Singleton in CHOICE 54.11 (July 2017)


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Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is pushing for ID cards for immigrants, which would give them access to city services including a bank account, reports the Huffington Post.
"It will be an official ID," Villaraigosa said. "It will be as strong an effort as San Francisco's."
With an estimated 4.3 million immigrants living in Los Angeles, the card could be used as a prepaid ATM card which would provide access to a private bank account. Supporters claim that these cards would reduce crime, as immigrants would be able to put their money on card, as opposed to carrying around cash. An official ID would also make it easier to use city services and identify themselves to law officials.
Critics believe that the plan promotes illegal immigration, and is helping immigrants who are here illegally be able to stay in the country.
"Los Angeles is making it easier for people who have violated federal immigration laws to live in the city," said Ira Mehlman of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, a group critical of illegal immigration.
According to the mayor's office, card applicants would have to meet certian criteria and that it would resemble a student ID. It would not replace a driver's license, and law agencies could choose whether they will recognize the card. The card would be around ten to twenty dollars, with a few dollars a month going towards the debit service, should one choose to participate.
What do you think of the plan? Are these ID cards a good idea? Share in the comments!


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Smaller Cities Key to Rising Amtrak Ridership in 2013
Streetsblog DC reports that Amtrak's recent ridership growth is fueled in part by smaller cities:
The major growth was in routes serving smaller cities.
Ridership was up 4 percent in Michigan, where construction to improve the speed of connections between Detroit and Chicago is entering the final phases. St. Louis to Chicago boardings were up 9.7 percent, indicating riders are responding to new investments in that line as well. One segment of track was recently upgraded from 79 mph to 110 mph service, and by the end of 2015 up to 75 percent of the route will receive similar improvements, shaving an hour off the trip between the two cities.
Meanwhile, the Pennsylvanian, serving Pittsburgh, Harrisburg and Philadelphia, saw a 3.3 percent ridership jump. And service in the San Joaquin Valley saw 6.6 percent more passengers.
The rise in San Joaquins ridership is further evidence of the value of building high speed rail to serve Valley cities, as they will contribute riders and revenue that will help sustain the California HSR system. The increase in ridership on the St. Louis to Chicago route, where federally funded improvements in Illinois have raised speeds in some sections to 110 mph, also shows the immediate benefits of higher speed rail service.
The recent resolution to the debt ceiling/shutdown in Congress raises some small hope that the Tea Party stranglehold on the House might ease and a coalition of not insane Republicans and Democrats could potentially cobble together a budget, and that such budget could maybe include some more funds for rail. That may be a faint hope at best. But there is clearly demand for passenger rail in the USA, and Congress ought to be doing everything it can to support it.


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In the mid-90's the West Loop Chicago area had very few of the amenities we like to enjoy in our 'neighborhoods', restaurant, bars, and almost no nightlife. But that has changed over the past 10 years and West Loop is one of the most desirable areas to live. It offers a true "walk to work" location as well as some of the city's best restaurants, nightlife and shopping. The West Loop offers some of the most unique Chicago real estate in the city, especially if you are looking to purchase a loft in the West Loop. See below for Brand New West Loop listings, Search the West Loop by price, or view our Featured West Loop buildings.
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Plan to clean up power plants could create pollution
Scientists group fears initiative is pushing emissions elsewhere
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Different Populations
In discussing mental health care rights it is important to distinguish between several populations that these rights address. First, there is the general population in Israel that may encounter acute or ongoing psychological issues, and have rights addressed in the National Health Insurance Law. Another sub-population is considered the "mentally disabled" (nachei nefesh) who have particular rehabilitation rights due to their disorder. The "mentally ill" is another limited group defined by law as suffering from impaired judgment and sense of reality, with particular arrangements regarding treatment and protection of rights.
The following is an overview of rights regarding these three populations with links to sections with more information on the latter two. Some specific psychology related conditions are discussed in other sections.
Universal Rights to Mental Health Care
According to the National Health Insurance Law, all of the rights given to someone who is ill with a non-psychiatric illness are also given to someone afflicted with a psychiatric illness.
Dispute over responsibility
Originally, mental health services were under the responsibility of the Ministry of Health. However, the law has been reformed to pass this responsibility on to the health funds. This transition has been under dispute for many years, and as a result, responsibility for mental illness treatments has not yet been arranged between the health funds and the Ministry of Health.
The health basket specifies entitlement to 60 psychological treatments (30 treatments per year for two years) from psychologists, psychiatrists, trained social workers, and other treatment professionals, subject to medical necessity. Currently, fulfillment of this obligation by the health funds varies in the number, type, and co-payment of treatments, as well as the benefits added to supplemental plans. Contact your Kupat Cholim to determine your rights. The Ministry of Health may also be contacted for help.
Rehabilitation for the Mentally Disabled
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Obama Stumps with Bill Clinton, Releases New Slogan, "Forward."
President Obama has released a new campaign ad entitled "Forward." (yes, with the period), which aims to highlight his accomplishments and also strike out with a new slogan that builds on his "Change" concept while evolving it. The ad's main feature a timeline that starts from the late-2008 financial dip and begins slowly rising up after his inauguration, it's a quite effective concept. Visually striking, plain-spoken and concise, it also does a pretty effective job of communicating that the economic situation was inherited, not caused, by the President. The narrator's first line: "On the day Barack Obama took office, America had already lost 4.4 million jobs." Point taken! His economic policies are especially touted, along with his efforts with health care, energy development, tax cuts, DADT, etc., in an uplifting sequence that then rightfully targets the right wing Republican party for trying to halt his progress. All in all, it's a super savvy move on the part of his campaign, which is now in full swing. Huffington Post on the Bill Clinton-Obama power-duo that was campaigning over the weekend:
"He's got an opponent who basically wants to do what they did before, on steroids, which will get you the same consequences you got before, on steroids," former President Clinton said at a joint fundraiser with Obama in Virginia on Sunday.
Former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs also hammered the point on NBC's "Meet the Press" Sunday.
"I think sometimes you listen to the Romney campaign, and they do think a lot of people in this country are stupid. … Their message is, 'You didn't clean up our mess fast enough,' " Gibbs said. "As I said, we've had 11 consecutive months of positive economic growth, 25 consecutive months of positive private-sector job growth."
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"Who wants to be safe?" writes the poet and novelist John Burnside, towards the end of his second volume of memoir. "Who wants to be sane? Who wants to be normal?"
This book is an account of how, for a long time, Burnside thought that he wanted to be normal; how he came to believe that normality, which he defines as "an astonishing gift for pretending", was the only antidote to the wild, self-destructive anti-pattern of alcohol, drugs and madness that imprinted a lost decade of his life. He quotes Stendhal: "We have to pretend. If we don't pretend, we're lost."
The starting point for Burnside's pretence of normality was a scene he recollects as a film still or a picture from a magazine. There is a small room, containing an unmade bed and a wardrobe. On the bed is a naked man. In the wardrobe and around the bed are dozens of bottles, filled with a dark gold liquid.
"The liquid is a mixture of blood, honey, alcohol, olive oil and urine; the bottles are open [with] just a single feather, balanced precariously on each rim. If one feather falls, then the spell fails …" Looking back at the troubled figure on the bed, Burnside finds it hard to know what prompted him to begin the project of the bottles: "I think … his intention was to cast a spell that would stop the world from disintegrating: he wanted to bind everything together, to make it hold."
In a way, the magic of madness worked surprisingly well. "As every down-and-out knows, a time comes when nothing can be decided, when everything depends on grace, and I had reached that point." Grace – or chance – saw to it that at the moment of Burnside's extremity, a friend came looking for him and perhaps it also arranged the friend should be "a rational, if unusually stubborn professional woman in her mid-forties", who transported the pitiful figure from the scene of hellish imaginings and desperate magical artefacts and installed him in a "clean, well-lighted place full of books and pictures" where, "looking out over a long suburban garden full of roses and apple trees", he began to formulate "a plan that had something to do with Surbiton".
Readers of Burnside's earlier memoir, A Lie About My Father, which described a Scottish childhood dominated by his angry, hard-drinking father, will understand why Surbiton should have represented to him such a halcyon vision of normality: "a simplified world of autumn leaves and buses and a house in a side street where a man could live clean and true".
The plan for the new life – the life of Surbiton – involved containing the demons that had rioted so exuberantly among the urine-filled bottles within a structure of rigorous order, a perfect banality of work, solitary domesticity and modest treats: trips to the cinema for marathons of Fassbinder or Kurosawa, punctuated with cups of tea and slices of gingerbread.
"I would live in the heightened state that Andy Warhol talks about when he advises his readers to do the same things every day, in exactly the same way and in precisely the same order. I would become someone else and so be cured of my indelible shame. All I needed was to be contained, to be delimited, in a routine that was so set as to be unbreakable… It wouldn't be much of a life, perhaps, but it was the most elegant acknowledgement of honourable failure that I could imagine."
It is no great surprise to learn that the plan failed to work as precisely as Burnside envisaged it. More surprising, perhaps, is the comparative ease with which he was able to become, at least for a while, someone else. With the help of his friends a flat was secured – not quite in Surbiton, but close by in Guildford. Jobs followed – menial at first, but eventually a post as a lowly civil servant at the then Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. One of the perks of this job was a bar, with subsidised drinks. And it was here that Burnside's plan of sanity and sobriety began to unravel.
In the days when – as he puts it – "I was a full-scale lunatic", the form Burnside's madness took was a condition known as apophenia, described by Klaus Conrad, the schizophrenia specialist who coined the term, as "the unmotivated seeing of connections", coupled with the "specific experience of an abnormal meaningfulness". In a florid form, this involved "seeing things that weren't there. Hearing voices in the background static. Finding God or the devil in the last scrapings of Pot Noodle." In a version that falls short of psychosis, apophenia is the precious flaw that makes a writer.
"This is a story I am telling myself, though I have no idea why," Burnside writes. "Nothing happens in this story, or nothing much." But it is in exploring his apprehension of the patterns that swirl, the currents that lap and ebb beneath the banalities of everyday discourse, that the former lunatic writes himself into a kind of sanity.
The journey is not linear but proceeds in a series of elaborate digressions; curlicued riffs on scenes from this period in his life. He writes about ordinary things: the sour bar culture of drinking men, "this bitter fellowship of naysayers and nihilists"; about learning to drive, falling in love, becoming a successful IT consultant, with work that took him to offices in California and – equally exotic, in Burnside's account of it – Lytham St Annes.
Because his sense of these things is not ordinary, because he sees, as it were, the stream of blood flowing through the capillaries of life, his description of them communicates their strangeness to his readers with a vivid intensity.
The people Burnside encounters are extraordinary: the man who tries to persuade him to murder his sleeping wife; the good-time girl who feeds her children cocktails of Valium and orange squash; the enigmatic object of his first infatuation, who went home one day from her factory job, lay down for a rest and never got up again; the toxic nymphs and chippy bruisers with whom his lost nights are populated.
But stranger still are the creatures who haunt his personal purgatory. At home he feels a sense of intrusion, a conviction that "things had been disturbed and whatever that presence was, it was still there, inherent in the objects it had touched, like a stain, or a virus". In Lytham St Annes he sees a man in his kitchen – not an apparition but a solid presence – who decays before his eyes, a sight that sends Burnside racing down the M6 to what he thinks is the safety of suburbia, only to realise that it is his impersonation of normality, not his madness, that was the lie.
Burnside's memoir begins and ends with an epilogue – an elegant gesture towards the circularity of his journey from madness to normality and back again – though not precisely to the point at which he began. As a child growing up with "a whole circus of exterminating angels and wilderness visions", Burnside understood that sanity and normality are not the same thing. At the beginning of this most lucid and poetic of memoirs, that clarity has forsaken him. His book, and his journey, end as he rediscovers that troublesome but consoling truth.
Waking Up in Toytown by John Burnside
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where did it all goLast week I deleted all the post of the blog, for the second time.
I started the blog last July, and deleted all the post some time in october because I was unsure about anonimity.
Last week, my boyfriend found my blog, he was using my computer and decided to go to one of the sites showing in my history.
I inmediately deleted eveything.
The last post, which he erad, actually talked about how I stop writting in my journal due to relationship issues, and how trapped I felt no having people to talk to, and not being able to journal which was very important for me.
Funny timing to have to delete the blog.
I was finding it very hard anyway. I was not blogging much.
I miss it.
I can´t get myself around commenting on other people blogs either, which I really want to do.
But it seems as if somehow I have completely closed myself any outlets.
I really can´t tell what is that is making any way of comunication so hard.
It has become utterly imposible.
The isolation is terrible. I am asfixiating myself, I don´t know why.
Is it fear? is the only explanation I can find; but then, fear of what?
Others? myself?
I feel completely trapped; locked in a prision that I have constructed and I guess that only I guard.
How come I am so uncapable of scaping?


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Praise the King of heavenAuthor: William C. Ball
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1. Praise the King of Heaven, call upon His name;
Praise Him for His mercy, evermore the same.
Infinite His wisdom, wonderful His might;
Safely He protecteth all who walk aright.
2. Praise the King of Heaven, magnify His grace;
He is bending o'er us, kindness in His face.
Faithful is His mercy, high as Heaven above;
Wider than creation is Jehovah's love.
3. Praise the King of Heaven; full of pity He—
Like a father, knowing our infirmity.
Fear not to approach Him and His succor claim;
Surely He will aid us, who hath built our frame.
4. Praise the King of Heaven, angels in the height;
All who do His bidding, now with us unite.
Through His great dominion let the anthem roll;
Praise Him now and always; praise Him, every soul.
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Unschooling?(41 Posts)
I've recently started to read a lot about the benefits of unschooling. Has anyone tried this? what are your thoughts on this?
Isn't that natural learning or experienced-based learning?
If so, I think a lot of parents embrace it at home when their children are with them but I don't know how it would be as a complete replacement for a school or more structured learning environment for a child who otherwise enjoys school and does well there.
I think there is a lot to be said for individual and natural ways of learning and for some children it is the only approach that works but at the same time, we live in a world where for most things, you have to get the qualifications and bits of paper that say you've passed, follow set learning goals.... there are some things you just have to learn in life even if natural inclination never leads you to want to learn them but maybe there are ways this is handled?
IMO I think this approach makes adult life difficult to deal with unless you are a millionaire family living in a commune. Structure and formal learning are expectations of adults if you want a career.
However - this is v much my opinion and I am not stating fact. Happy to be educated about the subject more
If you want to debate it, there are people on the Home Ed board who are into unstructured education.
My girls who are thirteen and six learn through unschooling (or "autonomous education" as it is more often called in the UK).
I quite agree that children need to learn that there are certain things they'll have to know in order to achieve what they want. However, it isn't necessary to make an effort to work on this intensively from an early age. They figure it out for themselves.
Children often do choose to do some formal learning even while young. That isn't incompatible with self-directed learning. The key is that it's their decision. They may want to take swimming classes, or work through a book about a subject which interests them, or learn to read music or learn a martial art. I don't think I know any older home educated children who've had no experience whatsoever of structured learning.
It's interesting to me that the older home educated kids I know (including my own daughter) tend to start gravitating toward rather more formal sustained learning experiences around the age of twelve to fourteen. They don't seem to find it a difficult transition. Perhaps that is because they are developmentally ready to concentrate more, or maybe it is because they are highly motivated to achieve their aims.
Some jump into a full-time formal learning environment suddenly and completely, but if they do it when they are ready then they don't struggle. For instance, my dd tried school for a term when she was ten. Many aspects of starting school which can be a challenge for a four year old - getting dressed and out the door on time, sitting still in class, asking for help when she needed it, looking after her things, organising her time to do homework - were easy for a ten year old. She had adjusted completely within a couple of weeks. Similarly, it's common for young people to go to college without having been to school previously.
tiggytape, if you (or anybody else!) wants to give an example or two of something which you feel a person needs to know in life but which they wouldn't naturally be inclined to learn, I'd be glad to give my take on that. The short answer is: maybe they don't need it after all, or if they really do then they'll easily learn it later when they discover they do need it.
I wasn't thinking so much about my personal view of what children should learn, more that qualifications are increasingly the key to everything including vocational paths now and, as such, formal qualifications if not formal learning are needed. You can't do catering or mechanics or even very practical subjects later in life without formal academic qualifications so in that sense, it may be valuable but out of step with what the rest of the world will expect.
For younger children, I was thinking along the lines that a child who struggled hugely with phonics or literacy is generally less inclined to gravitate towards those activities (the children I know with dyslexia for example never choose to read for pleasure - not even magazines or comics - but are made to read by virtue of being at school and getting lots of extra help). It isnt optional. My DD has a physical disability and shies away from some physical activities which are good for her to undertake. If we wait for her to want to do them, we may lose the window of opportunity to help her improve and shed also fall behind in other things because her fine motor skills are affected too. At school she is made to do them in a supported way. If she could chose not to, she probably would but it wouldnt be the right thing for her in the long-term. Generally if you are not very good at something, you may not enjoy it very much but that doesnt mean you shouldnt be made to do it.
My ds has never read anything of his own volition in his entire life. He hasn't had a traumatic experience or been put off or anything: he just finds it mildly difficult and he is the kind of person who has no interest in doing anything that is difficult. It seems a personality trait: he doesn't do crafts or music or sports either, unless they can be done without an effort.
We have done everything we can to provide interesting things to access through reading, but the truth is that he is the kind of person who doesn't like putting himself out. He doesn't have any particular career dreams, so there is no motivation there. He is 12.
Thanks to school he can actually read. If he hadn't been pushed, I don't believe that he would have learnt. And that would have been a big thing to catch up as an adult.
Basically, I think people are different: some are self motivators and some are not. His sister is, I was as a child: you couldn't have stopped us learning and wanting to find things out. We'd have done fine being unschooled.
Though dd would not have had the level of physical activity she needed unless pushed to do it, and I probably wouldn't either: I would have been happy just to stay in bed with my books.
In my own country, acquiring a good speaking and reading knowledge of English is pretty well an essential for having a chance of a decent career. This is very difficult to pick up later in life. Naturally not all youngsters have the understanding of career opportunities when they are 10 or 11, so they might not feel it that important. Which means that the ones whose parents insist that they learn anyway have an enormous advantage over the others when it comes to the crunch.
I remember my PE teacher asking me how I was going to cope in life if I never did any exercise. I told her that all I would need physical strength for was to get books down from a shelf and I thought I'd be able to manage that. Of course I knew nothing of the importance of good physical health for a career in research. My PE teacher was right. My health is not as good as it could be and if I had gone the whole hog and become seriously unfit I could have wrecked my plans completely.
There is a Home Ed section on MN. There are a fair number of autonomous educators on there. I'm sure they would be happy to share their experiences with you too.
All good points, thanks. Everybody seems to be saying roughly similar things.
"You can't do catering or mechanics or even very practical subjects later in life without formal academic qualifications" Yes, there are typically entry requirements, but for practical subjects these are usually flexible and come down to demonstrating that you are capable of the work. If the young person discovers that he really does need, say, a maths GCSE and nothing else will do, there's no reason he can't do the GCSE at that stage. For the more academic careers where entry is going to be very competitive and the entry requirements quite inflexible, any young person who wants such a career will need to be highly self-motivated and academically-inclined anyway: if the child were the type of person who will only study if made to do so by somebody else, he's probably not cut out to be a vet.
Literacy. I hear stories of children who struggle hugely with literacy and are pushed to work on it and then manage to grasp it. I also hear of children who don't succeed with reading at school and for whom all the hard pushing seems to backfire, who feel like failures because so much of their time is being spent on something they can't do, who switch off to the possibility of learning because they have become convinced that they can't do it. Perhaps this prevents them from learning to read though they might have managed it if left alone. I know several dyslexic HE children who learned to read after the age of ten, having been very reluctant to read beforehand and not having been pushed to do so. People are ready for different things at different ages. I suppose it is impossible to say whether a particular child would have done better with a different approach to the one he had.
I don't know about windows of opportunity when it comes to physically disabled children getting stronger. Maybe it depends on the particular condition. Nobody has ever said to me that my own dd needs to get stronger RIGHT NOW or the opportunity to do so will be lost. She could certainly do with more exercise than she gets, and having more exercise does help her in many ways, that much is true. So I go to a lot of trouble to find activities and situations for her which she loves so much that she will voluntarily exercise. But I don't force her to exercise, aside from the fact that I'm increasingly unwilling to carry her short distances when I think she can manage to walk. She is getting stronger over time, undoubtedly more slowly than she would if I insisted on her doing exercise. But she is happy, there are no battles, and she seems to be getting there in her own time. Just as I don't care whether she learns to read at four or six or eight, I am not too bothered about the exact age at which she becomes able to walk a quarter mile.
I remember when she was younger, a physical therapist told me some ways I could work with dd to encourage her to learn to walk. These were all things which dd really disliked doing. I asked her, "If I don't do those things, will she still learn to walk someday?" She said yes. I asked whether it mattered if dd first walked at the age of two or three or four. She said no. "Then we only need to do these exercises if we want to hurry the process along?" She said yes. I told her that in that case I would leave dd to do it in her own time, and she said it was refreshing to work with a parent who wasn't in a hurry. In her experience parents aren't prepared to wait. They want their children to try to "catch up" with others of their age so they won't stand out so much at preschool and school. That was why she hadn't even mentioned to me that the exercises were optional.
Learning a language does seem to be something best done when a child is very young. But exposure alone should achieve this, so I don't see the need to require the child to work on it. If you have plenty of appealing books and TV programmes and computer games and songs in the target language, speak it sometimes and associate with native speakers when possible, then won't that be enough?
Just a few thoughts. I am ready to believe that there may be a few exceptional situations in which it is better to try to force a child to learn something, but in general I think they learn more effectively if the motivation comes from within.
Catch up so they won't stand out so much? Yuk, and what a truly awful thing to say.
I suppose in terms of avoiding additional problems for the child, but that's veering off in to the social model of disability.
Personally speaking I wanted dd2 to be able to walk so that she was less frustrated and made less screaming noise, ditto the hand function and ability to feed and swallow without choking, aspirating and spending half her life with chest infections. She was imprisoned by her own body and unable to do what she wanted so desperately to do, so, yup, we did the physio.
I assume your dd doesn't not have spasticity associated with her condition that becomes more problematic over time, the less stretching you do? And the necessity of surgical intervention becomes stronger?
That's great then - you can take your time. But please don't rubbish any parent who actually follows a physio programme by accusing them of just wanting their kid not to stand out. That's breathtakingly inconsiderate of individual conditions, and naive in the extreme.
Fwiw, I'm a huge fan of unschooling, despite recognizing that there are some situations when really, you do have to step up to the plate and take the choice away from a child who does not understand the consequences of refusing (physio or whatever) in their particular case.
My DD's disability is such that she does have to do certain things at certain times else it will negatively impact on other areas of her life that she hadn't struggled with before which in turn will wreck her confidence as well as her independence. It isn't anything to do with how other people view her (if I worried about that, I'd never stop worrying!).
Just from my experiences with her, I can see that where a child struggles badly with something, there is a chance they would never confront it or tackle it unless made to. Virtually all of the therapies and treatments she has make her do things for her own good that she would never otherwise do.
For some things (like learning a language) it may not matter much later in life if a child never wishes to tackle it. For other things like physio and learning to read, it matters very much.
Maybe that's the point though. Maybe it isn't a method that can suit all children but one that suits some very well.
"Learning a language does seem to be something best done when a child is very young. But exposure alone should achieve this, so I don't see the need to require the child to work on it. If you have plenty of appealing books and TV programmes and computer games and songs in the target language, speak it sometimes and associate with native speakers when possible, then won't that be enough?"
I think most bilingual families will tell you that bilingualism doesn't just happen because a child has access to a language. Children from such families typically grow up with a limited passive understanding of a language but unable to speak, read or write it. Active knowledge happens when you are regularly put in a situation where you are forced to use the language actively, either because you are taught it at school, or associate with people who genuinely only speak that language or because one parent at least insists that you speak that language to them. I am one of the very few parents on the bilingual board who does not insist on speaking my own language all the time to my dc (and am therefore perceived as a bit of a naive optimist), but even I wouldn't have expected any results if I had just provided the materials and spoken the language to them sometimes.
Saracen, I'd be genuinely interested in how you'd deal with somebody like my son who simply isn't interested enough in anything that reading can give him. As far as entertainment is concerned, he reckons he can get that from the telly, from music or from friends; if those are not accessible, he prefers just lying on his bed staring up at the ceiling (and has been known to do this for hours on end). As for learning, he doesn't have much of an enquiring mind. As for a career, he says he can't think of one he'd want. He is not dyslexic; he has been tested.
He wouldn't want to be home-schooled and has actually said so- he prefers going into school even when he is unwell and would have an excuse to stay off. But he basically regards school as one big social event (with lots of girls to choose from ).
He is not unhappy- he is very sociable and quite popular- but he just hasn't found anything worth making an effort for.
Would you really have been happy if he had been your son and still unable to read at 12 and showing no signs of wanting to learn?
Hi madwoman and tiggytape, I'm very sorry if I offended you. You're right, my dd doesn't have spasticity, just the opposite: she's a floppy one.
I don't think physiotherapy is a waste of time in all cases, which is why I was consulting a physiotherapist. I don't think the PT was implying that all parents who use her services are doing so because they want their children to become more average as quickly as possible, just that some were. I just take exception to the idea that children who have delays ALWAYS need to be hurried along for the sake of it. Why waste the physiotherapist's time helping my daughter against her will to "catch up" though there is no medical need, when she ought to be working instead with children like madwoman's daughter who actually want or need her help?
There are definitely times when I make decisions for my children which they don't like. For several years when my dd refused to take the medication which keeps her alive, I did force her to take it. Unschooling parents don't all give their children free rein in everything. However, I tend not to feel that there are many times I ought to intervene on the educational side.
I think I've sidetracked the whole discussion by mentioning physical therapy, sorry about that!
"I think most bilingual families will tell you that bilingualism doesn't just happen because a child has access to a language."
Thanks for the clarification, cory, that helps!
Yes, we do it. Works very well in our family of four very different children who all learn very differently and have different strengths and interests (to dispel the 'it only works with self-motivated early readers' myth).
Unschooling doesn't mean you don't get qualifications if you want them. I know unschooled kids who now, as adults, have PhDs.
When I have my regular and healthy 'omg what are we doing!?!?' wobbles and frantically compare my kids with their schooled peers, I find that they're behind in some aspects, but not by much, and way ahead in others. Therefore, I am usually shown that the whole school/unschool thing is swings and roundabouts. My kids may well be fine in school, but it appears that there's not much point in being there when they have way more time within the family to learn what they want how they want in much greater depth and without the distraction of the bad bits of school, so as I'm happy to have them home educated, what would be the point of sending them to school?
Flamingo, I'm not disputing that it works: more wondering how you would make it work with a youngster like my ds who simply isn't interested in anything that reading could give him. I'd be very grateful for any hints. I might be able to use them.
"Would you really have been happy if he had been your son and still unable to read at 12 and showing no signs of wanting to learn?"
Happy, no. I'd like to think I'd have the courage of my convictions and keep waiting, but it wouldn't be easy. Reading is very important to functioning in our society, and there is a lot of emphasis on doing it young. Someone very wise, who had two children who learned to read in their teens, once said something along these lines in a discussion about autonomous education: it's easy to let children come to reading in their own time if they choose to do it at four or six, but it takes nerves of steel to do it if they happen to become ready after ten!
But in return, let's consider a worst-case scenario when it comes to non-autonomous education. Picture a 12 year old who has not had success at school. It all started when she was four and everyone kept on at her about reading and writing when she wasn't yet ready and would rather have been doing other things anyway. After a while she shut off and stopped trying. The harder her teachers and parents pushed, the less she seemed to understand. Would you have been happy if this had been your daughter?
What's the difference between these two children? Neither can read. There's no guarantee that either of them will ever read.
The first child probably feels a bit down about this. He's not oblivious to his grandparents asking his parents regularly about whether he can read yet, and a couple of kids may have noticed and teased him about it. It's inconvenient that he can't look up the TV listings or figure out a new computer game without help. Still, his inability to read doesn't dominate his life. He's had time to get good at other things, so he is confident. He can do lots of things and has never bothered to invest much effort in learning to read. He knows that nearly everyone is capable of learning to read at a basic level. So he is fairly confident that he'll manage it whenever he gets around to tackling it. The rest of his education isn't affected much by the fact that he doesn't read. He learns from documentaries, from going places and talking to people. He listens to audiobooks. People will read him things if they have time. His friends are barely aware of the fact that he can't read, since they aren't sitting in a classroom alongside him. They think he is a pretty bright kid. He knows a lot about science and history and archaeology.
The second child is confronted by her inability to read in a painful way on a daily basis. Everyone at school knows she is in the lowest sets - not just in English but in most everything else too. There's no chance of producing a geography essay or passing a history exam when she can't read. She's pretty sure she is thick: people have been trying to get her to read for eight years now and she hasn't got it, so she "knows" she can't do it. There's no point trying any more. School takes up a lot of her time, so she doesn't have much time to master other things which might have boosted her self-esteem.
One other difference: everyone will criticise the parents of the first child and blame them for his inability to read, whereas everyone will blame the school for the second child's problems. But it isn't at all clear to me that the first child's problems are caused by his parents' decision to let him decide when to learn to read, or that the second child's problems couldn't have been avoided if she hadn't been made to attempt reading for years when she didn't want to.
As risks go, I think the second scenario is a worse risk. I know Child A well... that is to say, I did - he can read moderately well now. I don't know Child B. My mum, a schoolteacher who specialised in teaching teens who had very low maths attainment but no diagnosed learning difficulties, said that most of her pupils had terribly low self-esteem. The almost insurmountable problem was that they thought they were incapable of learning.
cory, does your son not want to find out when his favourite programmes will be on or when the next film in the series is being released? How does he download the music tracks he wants? Do his friends not text him or want to make social arrangements on Facebook? Does he not find it awkward to catch the right bus to town to meet them?
If he has found clever ways to deal with all of these situations then perhaps he genuinely doesn't need reading right now. That's not to say he never will need and want to do it. As he gets older he will discover more interests, he will want to more things, and it's quite likely that reading will play a part.
I know this is a frustrating answer but: I think that with autonomous education it isn't a case of the parent "making it work". It is a case of waiting. Waiting, and ensuring in the meantime that he isn't in an environment where people are trying to force him, at the risk of teaching him that he can't do it and that reading is all that matters. Autonomous education isn't something you do, it's something you refrain from doing.
I am afraid he relies on his friends to keep track of when things are on etc, Saracen. Whenever he has wanted to take up an activity and his friends haven't organised it for him it has come to nothing; however keen he seems he just can't go to the effort of doing it.
He goes out when they call for him; left to his own devices he will lie on the sofa all day.
This works at this age, because he is quite popular and his friends enjoy mothering him. I can't see it working in the workplace. In fact, I can't see it getting him a job.
I can see the rationale of autonomous education- but how long would you be prepared to support an adult child who had not yet seen the benefit of getting himself adequate skills and a job?
(Deep Breath) I have lurked on other websites, online, where folk ask "Were you unschooled and did you like it?". The replies are a range of opinions just like anything else. But the one thing that jumps out is most folk saying that they have noticeable gaps in their education. They feel those strongly & often feel quite strongly about it (feel quite insecure as a result). They seem to feel that the gaps are quite formidable.
I know a lot of HErs and None of them unschool, several of them (no matter how passionate they are about HE) express considerable skepticism about unschooling. It is a hotly debated topic within HE circles.
we follow autonomous education in our house, this does not stop me from parenting and from talking to my DD and telling her things.
we had our first visit from the LEA last week and he was very happy with how DD is doing.
i fail to understand how anyone that has been "unschooled" could have gaps in there education that bothers them, that goes against what "unschooling" is/means.
it is for the child to learn any and all things that the child finds interesting, useful nessersery for there own ends. if they want to know more they simply do, they ask for help as and when needed and get on with it. if this is not the case then they have not been "unschooled"/ followed an autonomous path but simply been ignored/ neglected.
my DD can not read yet but she will ask me to Google something, she knows there are many ways to find things out.
This is what I find interesting, behanjo, because everybody who speaks of the successes of unschooling seems to be describing a child who is very different from my ds, but like my dd, a child who is interested in finding out more about a subject.
So how would you deal with a child who wants to lie on a sofa and watch the same re-runs of Top Gear over and over again but has no interest in learning how a car works or anything else about it? A child who literally only wants to be entertained and who does not want you to tell him things?
If ds is left to his own devices, he doesn't bother to get dressed, he makes it as far as the television and there he watches the same no-effort programmes over and over again. For a child who only wants to be entertained and is given a free run of the home entertainment systems (which I suppose is what autonomous means) there is absolutely no need to learn anything beyond how to work the remote controll.
It doesn't bother him at all, because he doesn't have any "ends" in mind. But I don't fancy the idea of having to support an unemployable 22yo.
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