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Trish
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 Posted - 07/20/2005 : 22:40:15 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dude
Learned that one in the military :)
I can say that I'd rather have kept the ability to sleep deeply, however. A part of my brain is always monitoring for unexpected sounds and movements.
As a result, I have a hard time actually sleeping in an environment I'm not very familiar with.
Allthough the over-alertness has lessened in the years since I left the military.
Ok. I got just the opposite from my years in the military, learned to sleep through anything. Damn jets doing touch an go's off my barracks roof in the middle of the day...nights was a bitch. |
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 07/20/2005 : 22:50:51 [Permalink]
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I got just the opposite from my years in the military, learned to sleep through anything. Damn jets doing touch an go's off my barracks roof in the middle of the day...nights was a bitch.
Direct exposure to life threatening circumstances tends to have the opposite effect. Same for training that prepares you for such.
But Yeah, I can doze off, into a trancelike half-sleep (I guess you'd call it a power-nap these days) fairly easily. But there is little or no time in the transition from nap to full alertness.
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Trish
SFN Addict
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Posted - 07/20/2005 : 22:54:30 [Permalink]
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| Yeah, that's the difference between your MOS, whatever it was, and being a jet mech. Did learn the art of the powernap though, had to during the work up for Desert Sheild. Was transfered to Group at the time because my unit was standing down from the A-6 (yeah, it was a dinosaur). Not enough time to retrain me. And CMC said no women would deploy to SWA - kinda pissed me off. Bahrain wasn't that close. |
...no one has ever found a 4.5 billion year old stone artifact (at the right geological stratum) with the words "Made by God."
No Sense of Obligation by Matt Young
"Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith. I consider the capacity for it terrifying and vile!"
Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
They (Women Marines) don't have a nickname, and they don't need one. They get their basic training in a Marine atmosphere, at a Marine Post. They inherit the traditions of the Marines. They are Marines.
LtGen Thomas Holcomb, USMC
Commandant of the Marine Corps, 1943
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woolytoad
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Posted - 07/21/2005 : 02:18:11 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dave W.
and apparently the fact that he still holds a crayon like a dagger is a problem.
I have a friend, he does really well in his chosen profession (software engineer) but his hand writing is so bad, that for his HSC (High School Certificate, Aussie equiv. to the SAT I guess) he apparently had to have someone present to write down his answers for him.
You said earlier that intellectually, your boy is doing very well. I wonder is this being a problem, depends on your POV?
Yay! I've never been in the military and I get to use acronyms in my post too! |
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Trish
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Posted - 07/21/2005 : 08:02:17 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by woolytoad
Yay! I've never been in the military and I get to use acronyms in my post too!
We are really bad about that aren't we?
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I have a friend, he does really well in his chosen profession (software engineer) but his hand writing is so bad, that for his HSC (High School Certificate, Aussie equiv. to the SAT I guess) he apparently had to have someone present to write down his answers for him.
You said earlier that intellectually, your boy is doing very well. I wonder is this being a problem, depends on your POV?
However wooly, we know more about human physiology and the mind/body interaction than we did before. This lack of coordination shown by Dave's little one indicates a problem that can either be systemic or through a bit of work be one challenge over come. If the work now will make the problem less for him through life, then the work now is the better option.
If Dave feels uncomfortable with the 'Brain Gym', then perhaps he can get a recommendation to a more traditional therapy route. Or they can learn enough to do his therapy at home. But the work will make life easier on the little one in the long run. |
...no one has ever found a 4.5 billion year old stone artifact (at the right geological stratum) with the words "Made by God."
No Sense of Obligation by Matt Young
"Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith. I consider the capacity for it terrifying and vile!"
Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
They (Women Marines) don't have a nickname, and they don't need one. They get their basic training in a Marine atmosphere, at a Marine Post. They inherit the traditions of the Marines. They are Marines.
LtGen Thomas Holcomb, USMC
Commandant of the Marine Corps, 1943
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
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Posted - 04/01/2006 : 21:03:06 [Permalink]
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After more then eight months, I'd like to provide some follow-up (I know you all are dying to hear about my kid  ):
First, the thing that reminded me about this thread were two recent "Bad Science" columns: last week's and this week's, which show that "Brian Gym" over in the UK is absolutely nutsy-cookoo. If it's anything like that on this side of the pond, I'm glad my kid isn't in it.
Second, my kid is in a county-run preschool specifically for kids with developmental problems, and is improving greatly with his fine-motor skills and his speach.
This also gives me a chance to relate this anecdote about the dinner my family I had with Kil and Michelle while we were vacationing at Disneyland. All my kid wanted for dinner was fruit, and because it was a traditional Japanese restaurant, we weren't sure about what he might like anyway, we got him the fruit plate (normally a dessert, I think). Anyway, he's eating and playing with the Disney activity book he'd been given at the table... He picks up a piece of sliced strawberry, turns to my wife and says, "this is my spaceship." My wife replies, "why don't you pretend your mouth is a space station and dock your ship there?"
So he "flies" the spaceship around for a few seconds, and then starts it cruising slowly towards his open mouth. As it goes in, he takes a bite, and then shouts "EJECT! EJECT!" as he takes more bites.
I believe that if Michelle hadn't been sitting in a corner, she would have fallen out of her chair, laughing as hard as she was. |
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beskeptigal
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 04/01/2006 : 22:58:42 [Permalink]
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That's really funny, Dave. Kids are so creative. I always love a cute kid story.
Of course now you're going to have a clown on your hands at the dinner table.
And I was wondering now that he's older, can we expect an update of your picture? |
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beskeptigal
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 04/01/2006 : 23:30:53 [Permalink]
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My son didn't get himself to a sitting position or walk till quite late. I called him my beached whale. (Of course now he is slim and about 6 ft tall.) Anyway, he caught up developmentally soon after. So I don't know what issues your son may have, but what matters is:
Are they things that will interfere with other people's perception of him? Because if people perceive a child has something wrong they often assume it includes mental capacity and there is a negative feedback loop sometimes with teachers and others.
Will the 'problems' stop him from doing what he wants to? Obvious
And/or is it something that early intervention makes more difference than later intervention? Again obvious.
Those would be my criteria for how much intervention and how much I'd want to spend to direct a child's development.
My son went to one of those free spirit kindergartens. I was very unhappy with them and their 'new' teaching methods. And he did actually fall behind in my opinion, if that's possible at that age anyway. When he was in 1st grade, different school, his teacher discouraged me from having him tested for advanced placement, saying he needed help with such basics as using scissors and such. But a couple years later I did have him tested and he moved into the advanced classes. Best thing for him and I regret not doing it sooner. I think the 1st grade teacher judged him by his physical skills instead of his mental ability. And I think he might have done better had he been in a 'standard' school in kindergarten.
But at almost 17, while he did play some basketball, he just isn't a physical guy. I wasn't either (girl of course). I was never coordinated. I wasn't good at sports. Hiking, camping exploring, I'm very good at but that came in college.
So the point of this rambling, be careful what others assume about your son, remember anything new (like a brain gym) hasn't been tested well yet, and it will all work out in the end anyway.
In case anyone is curious, the 'new idea' school which looked good but turned out not to be, had child directed learning. The teachers were supposed to encourage the child but let the child direct the choices in learning. That might work with some teachers and some kids but one or both of those were lacking in my son's case. Other things they did which I really was bothered with was something called "best guess spelling". The kids could spell words any way they thought and the teachers didn't correct them! Supposedly correcting the spelling inhibited creative writing. Maybe, but learning a word incorrectly means you have to unlearn it and relearn the correct spelling later which is difficult. My gripe was I wanted to see the research results that showed these methods had been tested and were successful. I never saw any. |
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Dave W.
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Posted - 04/01/2006 : 23:53:27 [Permalink]
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B'gal, my boy's problems are mainly fine-motor-skill things, like writing and using scissors. We still need to remind him to hold a crayon or marker properly, instead of hamming it in his fist like a dagger, but he's getting much better. The county program is just trying to ensure that he'll be caught up with other kids his age with those skills by the time he enters kindergarten next fall. And since he's physically tall, his current teachers are thinking about letting him do his PE stuff with the kindergarteners right now. We're really happy with the program overall, especially since he's one of eight kids being taught by at least two adults (and, needless to say, being a county program it's all making good use of my tax dollars).quote:
Originally posted by beskeptigal
And I was wondering now that he's older, can we expect an update of your picture?
If you mean the avatar I use, the one that's up there now was taken in 1966 (in other words, it's my baby picture, not my son's). |
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Evidently, I rock!
Why not question something for a change?
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beskeptigal
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 04/02/2006 : 12:22:56 [Permalink]
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Oh, I always thought that was your kid's picture, but now we know your age.
Sounds like a good choice on the preschool. |
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