Old Mythologies

Body Language, #1: Repeating When communicating with your friends, family, co-workers, or students it is important to intentionally listen to them to get the whole picture or idea. By repeating yourself nonverbally helps the person with whom you are communicating with to fully understand what you are saying. For example, when asking a student to complete his or her assignment, using the gesture of pointing to the assignment in front of the student would remind the student of the task in front of him or her. All humans remember comments that are accompanied by hand gestures more than just speaking alone. This applies to when interacting socially with friends, relatives or in a classroom setting. By using verbal and nonverbal gestures together gives the listener a better understanding of what is being said. Confidence is also displayed by using gestures Doesn't matter the room its in, classroom, workplace, or your house. By repeating nonverbally what you’ve just said gives the liste...

Inclusion, In simple terms, we are putting the kids with learning disabilities where they’ve always belonged …in a regular classroom!  Embracing diversity and inclusion truly benefits everyone present with having more social interaction, having peer role models for academic, and social interaction. Having inclusion with special needs students within the classroom, has shown increased parent participation which leads to families who become more involved within the community.  Having inclusion also benefits the school staff collaboration. Having inclusion within the school system benefits everyone. It teaches us on how we should treat people, and to work alongside people with disabilities. An increased appreciation and acceptance of individual differences occurs. Having inclusion within the school walls, produces a “win-win” for everyone involved in school and beyond.

 Raising Kids, In raising up children, is no one concrete way or correct way of doing so. Each parenting style in every culture and family is unique. Raising up children with good solid morals and manners is important. I believe parents do matter. Being a good role model as a parent and being interested in the child’s life, along with loving them, provides a stable environment for the child.  Parents can influence their children in positive or negative ways. It is important for parents to be interested and engaged in their children's lives and in their education. Teachers and educational assistants also make a positive difference in a child’s life, but you cannot be the “parent”. I do believe that as a support staff, you can be a good role model for the child. The manner in which the teacher or support staff communicate with the parents is extremely important.  Positive feedback regarding the child’s accomplishments as well as communicating areas that need improvement wil...

Diversity, One of my personal experiences with diversity is simply playing football (soccer). Yes, it probably sounds like my default answer to go to. I attend a drop-in style of game where everyone is welcome to play. I mean everyone from any race…Mexican, German, Spanish, East Indian, Korean, Japanese, etc. When playing and conversing with a number of different nationalities, you soon realize that we all are all the same… human. Diversity, I believe, should and always be celebrated on a football pitch or in a classroom. This is how I see it; by recognizing people’s similarities and differences as not weaknesses but strengths, as we are here for each other. We are here to grow, learn, and live among one another. Instead of looking at face value, meaning the colour of your skin, we should look deeper and soon we will realize that we are all the same.   We are all humans with passions, fears, beliefs, likes, dislikes, strengths, and weaknesses. As the great Dr. Martin Luther King Jr...

New Understandings, I’ve learned that individuals, children included, who happen to have an exceptional disability or in the autistic spectrum should be praised and not neglected, as they are human. We can all learn from them and how they see the world… perhaps they   teach us confidence on how we communicate with each other to going on with our regular days.  For an example; recently at the doctors, for some unknown reason this autistic girl wanted to talk to me, take a “selfie” with me and just hang out. What really impressed me about her was her   strong self-confidence. She came up to a complete stranger (me ) and communicated with me. Most typical people, in general, would not do such a thing. We all tend to keep to ourselves and go about our days without talking and ultimately learning about each other. Basically the complete opposite on how we are originally made. We were created to   interact with each other and develop relationships. Communicating, caring, d...

ROSY THINGS Fellow Christians, please do what Christ has taught us to do, to live with empathy, live how things are.   Pease don’t go around living life is wonderful all of the time, ie living with rose-coloured glasses. When, especially when your friend, family and close somebody is dealing something hard.   Please be kind, to a one another and be real with them. It may seem hard to say or hear but we are here to build relationships and communities up instead destroying them. God didn’t guarantee an easy life when we decided to follow him, he more said the opposite as in your life is going to be more difficult. As he, the creator of everything and everything knows how to grow his kids mentally and physically, simply put by pain & suffering. Yes, I completely understand it’s a touchy subject as God is love. But sometimes love is tough. Maybe God wants you or allows you go into the furnace, to ultimately become a better brother and sister in Christ. “As iron sharpens iron,...