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Delusions of the Modern American Child (Boy)

A number of years ago, I was complaining to my dad about something to do with work.  Never one to mince words, my dad said something that always stayed with me – “That’s why they call it ‘work,’ Richard.  They don’t call it ‘play.’” Modern children (typically boys...

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Our Neurological Explanations of Everything

It seems we seek neurological explanations for almost all the struggling that children encounter.  That is, we seem to be comforted that there is a neurological dysfunction at the core of a child’s struggling. Given that the brain is the central engine driving all...

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The Pyramid of Fantasy

So often, in the work that I do with parents regarding their kids, there comes that squeamish point, where the parent asks the inevitable dreaded question… “So, what do we do about it?” Why it’s dreaded is there is almost never, and I mean never (at least from my...

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Writing Deficits on the Rough Road

Open-Ended writing is usually not difficult for children on the “smooth road,”  the ones without the myriad of variables leading to school struggling. For the “Smooth-Roaders” their sentences are complete and varied in style.    There is flow to their written stories...

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Talkin’ IQ Blues

I’m sure you know the old school expression,  that something “sticks in your craw.” Probably not a day goes by where something is not sticking in my craw.  The only good that comes of it is I usually get inspired by the stuck craw to generate something to write about...

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More Questions of An Assessment: Part II

Last week we talked about some of the essential questions to ask of an assessment:  Questions of An Assessment: Part I. We emphasized asking fundamental questions first such as: Does my child have a problem? (yes or no) If there is a problem(s), where does it lie? How...

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Questions of an Assessment – Part I

In this day and age of ready information at your fingertips, what I find is that parents are frequently armed with confused notions or misinformation that they’ve gotten from all kinds of sources. For example, there frequently is a great deal of confusion or misguided...

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