12/22. Elmo...183 AMPS.

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Kris & Teasel said:
Incredibly important. Literacy skills can make or break a person's chances in life.
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Well, it was tremendous fun and fully exhausting .One of the factors in our having our two kids on into our 30s. That and we had one ring-tail-tooter of a little niece, who after visiting we would decide we NEVER wanted children of ANY sort . She is now an aggressive atttorney...can't say we didn't see that coming o_O
 
MrWorfMen's Mom said:
I wish they still taught literacy the way they did it when I was in school. These days, I am aghast at the poor spelling and grammar skills many of the younger generation possess. Maybe they don't make teachers like they used to?! My hats off to both you ladies. :D:bighug:
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Oh, I know....LOVED diagramming sentences. Here in States they are mow reinstituting teaching cursive as well.Dont know why but that made me glad...that and having this huge ah-ha moment that maybe teaching phonics wasn't such a bad idea too.....duhhhhh. I was fed up by the time I left..too much govt and administrative input for me.
 
Beth 73 said:
Oh, I know....LOVED diagramming sentences. Here in States they are mow reinstituting teaching cursive as well.Dont know why but that made me glad...that and having this huge ah-ha moment that maybe teaching phonics wasn't such a bad idea too.....duhhhhh. I was fed up by the time I left..too much govt and administrative input for me.
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My mom was an elementary school teacher. She's with you on the phonics - and grammar - and composition.
 
Kris & Teasel said:
My hero is Leonardo da Vinci.
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Yep! I'd add Feynman and Einstein.

I saw Leonardo's Madonna cartoon at the National Gallery during my teens. It was one of the most powerful experiences of my life. Hard to describe really; when viewing it I got this sense of pulsing energy radiating from it. It was really quite an extraordinary sensation; perhaps some manner of peak experience?


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Critter Mom said:
Yep! I'd add Feynman and Einstein.

I saw Leonardo's Madonna cartoon at the National Gallery during my teens. It was one of the most powerful experiences of my life. Hard to describe really; when viewing it I got this sense of pulsing energy radiating from it. It was really quite an extraordinary sensation; perhaps some manner of peak experience?


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Yes to Feynman and Einstein!!
 
Beth 73 said:
what DrPat(naturopath) said the other day ...that Elmo's body is working at righting itself...homeostasis , I think she said. As she explained it it made great sense,especially since I'm drawn to all things holistic where the body is given time to work with itself....
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Homeostasis roughly means 'unchanging state'.

Homeostasis is the state of equilibrium which the body strives to maintain through a complex system of regulatory feedback mechanisms. For example: if you get too cold, you start shivering (the movement of the muscles generates heat); if you get too hot, your body perspires (it is cooled as the sweat evaporates). Here's a good formal definition:

http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Homeostasis+(Biology)

If a body has been working in a certain fashion for some time - and not necessarily in a healthy fashion - it will regard certain states as 'normal' and strive to maintain those states.

When treating with insulin you are in a way doing battle with the body's homeostatic mechanisms for controlling blood glucose concentration. In very simplistic terms, regulation is a gradual process because the body needs to re-adapt to using insulin properly again (i.e. overcome insulin resistance) and also to become reaccustomed to operating in the healthy normal blood glucose range (i.e. the body needs to learn that 'healthy normal' is not life-threatening). Once this is achieved the body will then work to maintain blood glucose levels at or around this new, lower 'setpoint'. If the pancreas beta cells can recover enough function the cat may not need injected insulin and thus go into remission, otherwise the cat should (in theory) be able to run in a relatively narrow BG range (well-regulated; less swingy/bouncy) with support from injected insulin.


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Critter Mom said:
Homeostasis roughly means 'unchanging state'.

Homeostasis is the state of equilibrium which the body strives to maintain through a complex system of regulatory feedback mechanisms. For example: if you get too cold, you start shivering (the movement of the muscles generates heat); if you get too hot, your body perspires (it is cooled as the sweat evaporates). Here's a good formal definition:

http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Homeostasis (Biology)

If a body has been working in a certain fashion for some time - and not necessarily in a healthy fashion - it will regard certain states as 'normal' and strive to maintain those states.

When treating with insulin you are in a way doing battle with the body's homeostatic mechanisms for controlling blood glucose concentration. In very simplistic terms, regulation is a gradual process because the body needs to re-adapt to using insulin properly again (i.e. overcome insulin resistance) and also to become reaccustomed to operating in the healthy normal blood glucose range (i.e. the body needs to learn that 'healthy normal' is not life-threatening). Once this is achieved the body will then work to maintain blood glucose levels at or around this new, lower 'setpoint'. If the pancreas beta cells can recover enough function the cat may not need injected insulin and thus go into remission, otherwise the cat should (in theory) be able to run in a relatively narrow BG range (well-regulated; less swingy/bouncy) with support from injected insulin.


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Kris & Teasel said:
Do not underestimate the intelligence and skill needed to teach little ones successfully, Beth. You're laying the groundwork on which the rest will be built. :)
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Kris & Teasel said:
Literacy skills can make or break a person's chances in life.
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Beth 73 said:
Thank you, Kris. It really was gratifying to understand I had given the ability to read to those children. Kinda cool:cool:
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Beth, one of the greatest gifts you could give to your students was teaching them to read. If you have literacy skills you can teach yourself anything and transform your own world, perhaps even the rest of the world, too! :cool:

In my mind's eye, I can still clearly see my very first teacher, Miss Cahill. (I was four!) She gave me tremendous encouragement with reading (as did my mother with spelling). I thought Miss Cahill was wonderful (but most of the nuns scared the carp out of me :nailbiting: ). I bet there are many people out there in the world who will have memories just as vivid and appreciation just as warm for you, dear Beth.

:bighug::bighug::bighug::bighug::bighug::bighug:


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Critter Mom said:
Beth, one of the greatest gifts you could give to your students was teaching them to read. If you have literacy skills you can teach yourself anything and transform your own world, perhaps even the rest of the world, too! :cool:

In my mind's eye, I can still clearly see my very first teacher, Miss Cahill. (I was four!) She gave me tremendous encouragement with reading (as did my mother with spelling). I thought Miss Cahill was wonderful (but most of the nuns scared the carp out of me :nailbiting: ). I bet there are many people out there in the world who will have memories just as vivid and appreciation just as warm for you, dear Beth.

:bighug::bighug::bighug::bighug::bighug::bighug:


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Awww, Mogs, thank u from the bottom of my heart. It's just what I was meant to do...kids are my best favorite !!!
 
Oh all this talk of teachers is taking me down memory lane. Most of my teachers were great and I remember a number of them very fondly. There were also those that seemed like my worst nightmare at the time but looking back, I'm grateful for them now because I not only learned the subject they were teaching but also a lot of life lessons.

I have a friend who taught for years and I'm sure his students loved him but listening to some of his stories makes me wonder how any of you maintain your sanity. He has a great sense of humour and I think that might be what saved him. ;)
 
I've had both extraordinarly good and downright atrocious teachers (the latter can utterly destroy a child's confidence and leave very nasty scars behind them).


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Critter Mom said:
I've had both extraordinarly good and downright atrocious teachers (the latter can utterly destroy a child's confidence and leave very nasty scars behind them).


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That is the absolute truth...there were people I taught with who had zero business teaching. I think all they wanted was a job where they got summers off. Don't know about UK but here teachers are tenured and could murder their dear old granny in front of the class and keep their job. I would cringe when some of my little first graders went on to horrific second grade teachers and would beg the principal to not put them with those teachers. I was probably pretty sassy with him but those were "my " kids and I didnt want them to have, as you said, their fragile confidence damaged by a teacher who should have been fired long ago . I'll climb down off my soapbox now...;)
 
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