Smiling…
I am aware of how most of us feel about the assessment testing of our children in school. So…
I volunteered to be a proctor and am lending my Presence to the children as they are taking their tests.
I am a part time employee over the next week or two, for one of the 1st online school district programs being offered by our state.
I read instructions and help the kids relax and feel confident…
Posted in about me
Blessings to you. I’m sure your presense will help the children relax. Let us know how it’s progressing.
CordieB.
By: cordieb on April 16, 2008
at 8:31 am
How fun!
By: CuriousC on April 17, 2008
at 4:53 am
I am Privileged to be assisting a genuine professional in the field of teaching. He really is fantastic with the kids.
As of next year, he will retire, after spending 30 years in the state’s public education programs. Ten of those years as a Principal. I asked him what he was going to do, because I was curious. Do you have some hobby or project or something in mind?
And he told me he was going to go to work for the “K-12” Corporation itself. It’s the program all the kid’s are enrolled online in. I recommend it highly.
The number of state’s that offer it, grows steadily month by month and will someday be all inclusive. Washington State is the only one so far, that is offering it as part of the public school system. The rest of the states so far, are choosing it as a ‘charter school’ option.
In situations where the public schools are unable to serve the best interests of our children, for whatever reason, (I’m not blaming the schools by any means), it offers a parent and child options.
Socializing skills are essential in our development, for sure. However, what with parents working full time jobs all the time, the one thing that has been trashed, is someone at home teaching those social skills by way of example within family relations. No one is ever at home together.
Kids are learning social skills from other kids, from video games and from TV. They also join groups seeking a sense of security that has not been provided by and through their home environment. It is our home environment that is also the cause of all the add and adhd symptoms. Our lack of focus is due to being addicted to distractions. That simple. No need to dope the kids. Or give up on them.
There is a lack of Unity within our homes and families. A lack of pulling together. A lack of intimacy.
And it’s time to start changing that around.
For our kids’ sake.
By: Sue Ann Edwards on April 17, 2008
at 3:15 pm
“It is our home environment that is also the cause of all the add and adhd symptoms. Our lack of focus is due to being addicted to distractions. That simple. No need to dope the kids. Or give up on them.
There is a lack of Unity within our homes and families. A lack of pulling together. A lack of intimacy.
And it’s time to start changing that around.
For our kids’ sake.”
I had to copy and past that whole statement because it is so true. Any problems that my children have faced, and I can remember many, were rooted in whatever was going on in our home when the problem originated. If there was lack of unity or intimacy, they found it elsewhere, and not always the best places. They never missed homework assignments as long as I was engaged in the activity. We so often react to problems, but we should strive to live a life for our children which will enable us not to have be in reactive mode so much - a good defense system, for lack of a better word, (one which involves unity, love and intimacy) may dissipate any unforseen problems before they materialize. On another note . . . I found it easier to have loving intimate relationships with my chidlren when I was single, and it just us living together. For some reason, I attract selfish personalities - I know it’s suspose to be a reflection, but I truly don’t see the extreme selfishness in myself. . I know these are choices that I make and find to get out of. Perhaps, my selfishness is hidden and may one day be revealed (I hope not). Perhaps you’d elaborate, AEAW, Sue Ann. (OMG! Just noticed the double meaning or perhaps only meaning in your blog title - funny - I’ve read it many times, but this is the first time I’ve read it correctly.)
Peace, Light and Love,
CordieB.
By: cordieb on April 21, 2008
at 12:25 pm
{{{{HUGS}}} Cordieb…
You’ve brought up a bunch of our issues and given me a new topic for another post. Thank You!
One of the issues I will address right *here*, right *now*. It’s the one you’ve called “extreme selfishness”. It isn’t as we might imagine. (smiling)
I *know* what you’re talking about. It’s an emotional state of insecurity. “Neediness”. It’s a state where we have to constantly be fed energy of attention and/or agreement from/of others. It’s a state of emotional dependency.
It is also a result of the way all of us have been taught to think and believe.
Been there. Done that.
As for reflecting, what it reflects within us, is our insecurity.
Ponder on it…most of us women have been taught our “value”, our “worth” to be based upon CARING FOR THE NEEDY. It has been a nurturing role. This results in our NEEDING people to NEED us, in order for us to feel “secure” in our worth and self esteem. The more we’re NEEDED, the more we feel secure in our worth and value.
Needing to be Needed, we attract the Needy.
Ours is a value system based upon Need. Or a LACK, in other words. The more LACKING it is, the more needy, the more ‘deserving’ of attention it is. And the more ‘moral’ glory there is suppose to be in it.
Energetically, what this arrangement and pattern Is, is what I call a consciousness virus and many others call ‘energetic vampirism’.
Us, needing to be needed, feed off those that need, while those that need, feed off of us. Our relationships are competitions determining who gets to suck off whom, how much and when, basically.
Love, genuine Love, extends itself freely, without condition. In one of the above kinds of relationships, love extends itself only upon condition. Barter. And that means that what ever role we play in it, we’re prostituting ourselves to feed our emotional habits.
This is not really a role, a self image, that expresses having much self respect, or self esteem or sense of self worth. And the cause of it are all of our beliefs in a conditionally loving ‘god’. A limited unlimited. Not “All that is” but just “almost”.
And the way out of the pattern, getting free of it, is Understanding “Always embraces ALL ways.” There is ONLY One Absolute and everything and everyone is included in it.
The Love of Spirit carries a ‘vibration’ a tone…
and that is a tone of Unity.
The Love of God, the Expression of Spirit, is UNconditional Love. And once we open our minds and hearts to it, it starts flooding us with that Love from the inside out. Instead of being empty vessels in search of being filled, we are overflowing vessels in search of expressing our contents. It is the Understanding behind the symbol for the ’sign’ of Aquarius.
Way to go {{cordieb}} !!! Your Aha! moment was an experience of one one of your ‘veils’ being lifted!
I bow before your victorious spirit!
By: Sue Ann Edwards on April 22, 2008
at 10:07 am
I’ve spent the past 3 days contemplating information that came to me later in the week, not really knowing how to say it, how to express it.
There was something *off* within the relationship pattern of student and teacher I witnessed. And I highly respected the Teacher.
On one of the 1st days a couple of young boys got together and fed off each other’s excitement. When it came to picking up the folding chairs and using them in imaginary sword fights, their behavior was addressed.
On successive days, one of the boys was absent and the other quite docile and pleasant, though indrawn. But the teacher’s assessment and attitude towards this child never changed. Note that the teacher was never unpleasant nor threatening nor rejecting in any way towards this child. He was a relaxed authority figure.
Yet the child told my daughter in private that he felt the teacher did not like him. And I knew in the privacy of my own heart that this child was correct.
All I had done was give him some attention. I asked him in so many words if he would share himself with me. I admired his ‘heelies’, saying I’d been entertaining getting a pair myself. (my family keeps insisting I’d likely break my neck)
Towards the end of the week, I was thanked for understanding why I needed to stay there, even tho there was only one or two children waiting to be picked up…
“Anyone with experience *knows* to spend as little time alone with a child as possible.”
The understanding meant, was the understanding of a defenseless position in case a child started inventing accusations of misconduct.
“Where does this put a child?”, I thought, caught between not getting the attention and nurturing of their spirit they need at home, while other adult role models try to stay as far distanced as possible?
Caught between a rock and a hard place?
How about Lost?
I *spit* on “no child left behind”.
“Set up for failure” I heard the Teacher say of some children. And I *knew* what he meant. I *knew* he meant self development and self discovery weren’t being nurtured. But I also *knew* he meant nurtured according to certain rules and certain values.
Rules and values I didn’t necessarily agree with myself.
On the last day a motto in life was shared with me, the teacher’s motto taught to him by his father.
“Never tell the truth when lying is easier.”
Saying farewell after it was all over, I had a chance to have another conversation. This time with a maintenance man. My tire had gone flat and he had come to my aid.
In thanking him, he told me he was happy he got a chance to apologize to me. The 1st day we were there, he never could get the old furnace to work. He apologized to me because he felt so horrible the kids and I were so cold. As for the fella’, he could just freeze as far as the man cared. This man’s impression was one of arrogance.
“Ohhh, thank you for caring so much but honestly, being from the south, I’m cold up here most of the time. Then throw in hot flashes that leave me soaking wet and I shiver a lot in any kind of cold.
I really do understand about old furnaces, especially those older then me! Excuse the man, he’s just not from the harbor. He doesn’t understand we don’t treat each other that way around here.”
My Presence was there, last week, changing the potentials and probabilities. In my wake I left seeds of good feelings.
By: Sue Ann Edwards on April 22, 2008
at 11:30 am
Thanks Sue Ann for your most wise words in reply to my ponderence - you always leave me with new insights and/or remind me of something I already know . . . Now comes the hard part - putting what I’ve learned and know into positive self-action Anywho. . . .
I think you’ve found your calling - you have what I wish all teachers had, and that’s compassion for the children, inspite of whatever. So many teachers waste so much valuable energy on blaming (not trying to help) the parents or other unhealthy environments, that they forget that they are in a position with the ability to make a positive change in the student - and stressing on negatives does not help anybody, and in reality, leaves the child with yet another negative experience. I pray that you will continue to share your gift with the youth . . . in one way or another. Children need to talk to and relate to people like yourself. I was discussing with a blogger last week the state of our schools and youth here in Richmond, Virginia. I feel that religion is not appropriate to be taught in schools, but subjects wherein discussion of awareness, humanity, embracement, personalities, the universe, the mind, etc. should be taught, because I know so many young men who do not have any regard for life - at least that is what they tell me. I talk to many of them, being compassionate, explaining that money earned from drugs is not the key to life–that killing someone is not the answer and that everything changes, –and it helps only a little, sometimes not at all - but I wonder if they could have been reached at a younger age, say in elementary school and continued with a mandatory classes in, say, ” self discovery and self development” until high school, (much like english and math is stressed over and over). Run-on sentence, forgot where I was going with that one. Anyway, I wonder if this would boost our children’s awareness and inturn reduce crime.
You’re really cool! Kids can relate to cool people! Please continue to share your gift! And, BTW, what on earth is a heely?
Peace, Light and Love,
Cordieb.
By: cordieb on April 22, 2008
at 3:41 pm
“because I know so many young men who do not have any regard for life - at least that is what they tell me.”
The issue to address is that of Self Respect and Self Worth, for it is a fundamental fact of life that we can’t give what we don’t have. If we have no realization, no feeling that our own life is precious and worthy, then we won’t think anyone else’s is, either.
We can’t extend Respect for Self when we have none.
Again, the cause is an effect of nurturing or rather a lack of it, applied wisely. And we’re never too old for it to have a miraculous effect. The key is to nurture the individual to come forth, not shove market wants down people’s throats.
Business needs to change to suit the interests and talents of the People, not the People programmed to serve the interests of business. The whole model is backwards, wasting our most precious resources, which are our People.
And believe it or not, WOMEN could perform the most miracles simply by changing our standards when it comes to the fella’s we choose to extend our affections TO. Choose based on inner substance of character, inner strength, *not* appearances of wealth or strength.
WOMEN are calling the emotional tune our MEN have been dancing to.
By: Sue Ann Edwards on April 23, 2008
at 11:31 am
SMILING…
A “heely” is basically a sneaker with wheel inserts in the heels of the shoes. They come with a plug that can be used when the wheels are not.
grinning….
By: Sue Ann Edwards on April 23, 2008
at 12:12 pm
I hope the K-12 corporation links to your blog here 
By: tumel on April 24, 2008
at 6:42 am
hi {{tumel}} !!! I doubt they will, for I’m *just a mother who volunteered* to them and even tho I have more then one degree, I am not considered *qualified* to teach.
just like since I do not have a degree or any formal training, I don’t *know* Art, either.
By: Sue Ann Edwards on April 27, 2008
at 1:58 pm
