Relationship Reflection

God, five wonderful daughters and two precious grandchildren which is what my life is centerd around. God is my source and suppy and it is in his love that he gave me five highly intellegent young ladies. Two of my young ladies in turn gave me a grandson and granddaughter. In the words of the ever enchanting Whitney Houston, Yes Jesus Loves Me for the Bible tell me so......

Children and Education:Quotes

Powerful Quotes on Children and Education

No man who worships education has got the best out of education.... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete. ~G.K. Chesterton

The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men. ~Bill Beattie

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. ~Sydney J. Harris

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. ~Albert Einstein

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

It'll be a great day when education gets all the money it wants and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy bombers. ~Author unknown, quoted in You Said a Mouthful, Ronald D. Fuchs, ed.

An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life. ~Author Unknown

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. ~Attributed to both Andy McIntyre and Derek Bok

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. ~Robert G. Ingersoll

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. ~G.M. Trevelyan

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks. ~A.A. Milne

Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both. ~Abraham Flexner

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. ~Edward Everett

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding. ~Ezra PoundWe worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today. ~Stacia Tauscher

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. ~Franklin P. Jones

In a dark moment I ask, "How can anyone bring a child into this world?" And the answer rings clear, "Because there is no other world, and because the child has no other way into it." ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

I brought children into this dark world because it needed the light that only a child can bring. ~Liz Armbruster, on robertbrault.com

A characteristic of the normal child is he doesn't act that way very often. ~Author Unknown

The quotes tickled me and reminded me of the simplicity children bring to life and the powerful effect they have on others.

Assesments

I feel the cognitive; emotional should be the first thing considered for a holistic assessment. The emotional well-being of a child directly affects the child’s ability to learn. The health and physical condition of the child should be the next area assessed. When a child is healthy and in good physical condition his cognitive abilities are heightened thus allowing him to perform better academically. Then a tool to measure the child understanding of information and how to convey that understanding is important.   Testing to decipher if the child is a visual or tactile learner is important. Trying to understand how the child learns help him and the instructor in evaluating properly his level of competency.

In what ways are school-age children assessed in other parts of the world? One school age assessment in the Us and in other countries is obesity which has become a large concern worldwide.  Sites below are good for things being assessed around the world.

Reference

Björn Kadesjö and Christopher Gillberg (2001). The Comorbidity of ADHD in the General Population of Swedish School-age Children. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 42 , pp 487-492 doi:10.1017/S0021963001007090

Vercruysse J, Behnke JM, Albonico M, Ame SM, Angebault C, et al. 2011 Assessment of the Anthelmintic Efficacy of Albendazole in School Children in Seven Countries Where Soil-Transmitted Helminths Are Endemic. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 5(3): e948. doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0000948

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)

SIDS is situation in which a seemingly healthy infant, at least 2 months of age, suddenly stops breathing and dies unexpectedly while asleep Berger 2009). My first knowledge of this subject came when I was a young minister 30 years ago, my pastor and I was called to a member’s home of a baby who had die. I did not know why or how at the time but later learned it was SIDS. The mom put the baby down for a nap and notice a few hours later the baby had not made any noise.  To the mother’s grief the baby had died. It was interesting to me to find that the death rate was high in poverty stricken areas but the Geographic location also played a part, such as, “Bangladeshi families in England are often quite poor, yet their babies almost never die of SIDS (Berger 2009).”  The good thing is the death rate of SIDS case has and continues to decrease due to better health conditions , wide spread information, and nutrition.

Reference

Berger,K.S.(2009). The developing person through childhood (5th ed.). New York, NY:Worth Publishers.

SIDS and Other Sleep-Related Infant Deaths: Expansion of Recommendations for a Safe Infant Sleeping Environment. January 15, 2012, Pediatrics Vol. 128 No. 5 November 1, 2011 pp. e1341 -e1367 (doi: 10.1542/peds.2011-2285) Published online October 17, 2011

http://raisingchildren.net.au/articles/sudden_infant_death_syndrome_(sids).html

Childbirth

Blog Assignment 1

Childbirth – in your life and around the world

The birth that stands out with me the most happened two years ago by my second daughter, Daniel. I was at the hospital for the birth of four of my daughters and I will never forget the joy as each one stepped into the world. In 2010 My daughters called and said she felt funny and may have wet on herself I told her to go to the hospital and I would meet her there. We were living in Arkansas at the time and there was no other family close. I had to drive an hour on one of the worst winter days in January to get to the hospital. My first granddaughter came in to the world with little difficulty and rather quickly. My daughter had a natural born, healthy baby girl who is our joy.

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Ten childbirths that shocked the world

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Missus.Ru website made the list of most unusual childbirths, which shocked the world in 2010. The list includes a Russian woman, who delivered four children in four minutes, an African woman, who gave birth to children of different colors at once, an Egyptian woman, who gave birth to seven babies, a man from Kuzbass, the father of a large family, who became a grandfather 103 times, and many other interesting cases.

1. In Russia's Kaliningrad enclave, a woman gave birth to four babies - two girls and two boys. It became the first incident in the history of the whole region, and a third incident in the whole country. The woman delivered the quadruplets in four minutes only. Sergei and Julia Grakhovskikh always thought that a family should have two children. When their daughter turned eight, the couple decided to have a second child. As a result, the woman is now a mother of five.

2. Florence, a 35-year-old woman from Africa, gave birth to twins of different colors. Her husband is a white male from Germany. Medics say that there is one chance in a million when children with such distinctive appearance can be born. The woman became the mother for the first time. One child is a dark-skinned and black-haired boy, who was named Leo. His brother has white skin and blue eyes - he was named Ryan.

3. In Alexandria, Egypt, a 27-year-old woman successfully delivered seven children. The babies - four boys and three girls - were born prematurely. The babies were born by Cesarean section. A similar incident took place in Algeria in 2007, although none of the newborns stayed alive.

4. Great Britain was very surprised when 31-year-old Vicky Lamb from Oxfordshire delivered sextuplets in May of 2010. The woman gave birth to four girls and two boys. The newborns range in weight from 1lb 5oz to 1lb 15oz.

5. Aleksei Shapovalov, 73, from the city of Novokuznetsk became a grandfather 103 times. His 103rd granddaughter became the 15th child in the family of the man's sixth son. The record-holding man has 117 descendants: 13 children, 51 granddaughters, 52 grandsons and one great-grandson. Shapovalov says that he has a religious family, that's why they do not use contraceptives. His sons and daughters have 10-15 children each.

6. 22-year-old Chilean Olympic weightlifter Elizabeth Poblete had the surprise of her life, when, during training, she gave birth to a child she did not even know she was pregnant with. The child was three months premature and did not survive.

7. An extremely rare incident took place to a British woman. She gave birth to two sets of twins within just one year. Hazell Bowden discovered she was pregnant with twins again just four months after giving birth to her first set, the Daily Mail reported. The woman is thought to be the only woman in the UK to have given birth to two sets of twins within just one year.

8. Tom Penn, 46, and Alison, 31, from New York became parents to identical triplets. The triplets, carried to 35 weeks and weighing 4 pounds, 12 ounces; 4 pounds; and 4 pounds, 11 ounces at birth, are identical triplets, the first known to be born on Long Island in almost 15 years. The children were named Logan, Eli and Collin. The father calculated that the kids would need 10,000 diapers a year.

9. A 34-year British woman arranged an online broadcast of her labor on Twitter. Hundreds of people were following the woman on Twitter for 13 hours. According to Fi Star-Stone, she decided to tell about the process of childbirth in Twitter, to help women who are preparing to become mothers, to overcome the fears associated with childbirth. "I constantly hear from women that they are afraid of pregnancy, that's decided to tell them that there is nothing terrible," Star-Stone said.

10. In Germany, a 64-year-old woman gave birth to a baby girl and became the nation's oldest mother. The woman previously tried to get pregnant through IVF, but all of her attempts failed.

Alexandra Agapova
Missus

http://english.pravda.ru/society/stories/12-01-2011/116495-childbirth-0/

Thanks Classmates

 Rosemary Daniels http://rosemary-daniels.blogspot.com/

Infuential People

I grew up in Elizabeth New Jersey and for the most part I have to thank my Grandmother for taking me and my sibling in and introducing us to her God. Religion has always been a big thing in my family and it continues to guide and help establish our values. Then Deacon Jessie Kelley, modeled a christian, family man, and mentor for me. His love for God and family taught me how to love my family as well as reach out to others. then My Pastor, Elder Jessie Wooten, was the smartest  man and the best preacher I ever heard. He may be the very reason I love to preach more than anything else I do. My friends say you can wake me up at midnight and I will be ready to preach. My being raise for most of my young life by my grandmother left me void of a father figure until I attended the Neighborhood Community Center and met Rev. Collins, the director. He would talk to me and treated me just like a son. I learned so much about helping young people from him that I knew from that point that what ever profession I chose it had to be working with young people. All of my life I have been working with young people in one way or the other, such as, youth director for my church and national convention, Foster parenting, and substituting in the schools. The boost in the teaching direction came from my youth leader during my teen years. Brenda Heighter said the way I worked with the children I would make a good teacher and I agreed and have continued my service to young people in any way I could. I'm interested in helping them as early as possible so as to aide in giving the a good foundation.