I recieved a notification last week that my Server would be down for hardware upgrading and that it would be at night and take 1-2 hours or less…
well I guess they ran into problems because the 1-2 hours ended up being about 20….
but everything seems to be working again now and they said that it will be working even better… we’ll see!
So how many times does a question need to be asked in order to make the FAQ list on the official Elections Canada site?
Did they really need to specify this?
Is someone allowed to eat a ballot?
Eating a ballot, not returning it or otherwise destroying or defacing it constitutes a serious breach of the Canada Elections Act. These rules are part of a system of unobtrusive checks and balances that are intended to protect the integrity of the voting process and Canadians’ trust in the integrity of the electoral system. The relevant procedures provided by the Act are summarized below.…..
When I tell people that I am homeschooling one of the first questions is asking me if I am a “qualified teacher”… do I have my degree in education?.. am I qualified to teach my children as much as a child in the public system?…
First… this is a bit insulting…
I mean.. I do think that even though I don’t have a degree in education, I am smart enough to keep up with my children who are of pre-school/grade one age… and as they grow I think that I am smart enough to keep up with them…
Second… does having a degree in education automatically make you a qualified teacher?
but the Ironic point?
A few days ago in the news.. this was mentioned…
Unqualified teachers flood Quebec classrooms
Mon, 2008-10-06 05:38.
Catherine SherriffsThe number of unqualified teachers in this province is on the rise.Last year, more than 2,300 teachers in Quebec classrooms did not hold a university teaching degree.
That’s an increase of more than 1000 per cent over five years.
School Board officials aren’t denying it, saying a massive shortage of teachers in this province is forcing schools to hire anybody they can get their hands on.http://www.cjad.com/node/802900
I wonder if people even realize?
I think I am going to mention this fact the next time someone asks…
The launch was on sunday and It was pretty amazing…
The turnout was more than anyone could have expected… about 150 at the least… and 75% of the authors that shared their stories in the book were there…The editors even had to go back to their office and get more books because they were selling so quickly…
It really feels great to be somewhere surrounded by people with the same views.. and so many of us not only have the same views on birth and breastfeeding but automatically for many parents homeschooling, baby wearing and other ideals follow easily…
Another great thing was to meet Michelle and her two little ones… I hope to meet again!
I feel quite priviliged to be part of the book and part of the community that realized it.
Imagine living in a household or even a society that wants to control everything you do… what and when you eat, when you sleep and for how long, when and what you read and learn…
I think after a while… I would probably rebel… wouldn’t you?
So why do so many parents want to control their kids in such a way? And don’t they see what the consequences will be later on?
In the last few weeks I have heard once too often about children’s “sleeping problems”… and it has made me think about something that I have wrote before about sleep and CIO and well it brought me to the idea of control…
I think many parents seem to be under the impression that they must be in control… that it is in their best interests to control the way their kids behave, when they sleep, how they eat, what they learn, and just everything they do…
And not only do they believe that… but they also believe that if they do not control those things then it will be a free-for-all because the kids will then have complete control…
Not only does this put an enormous amount of unrealistic pressure on parents… but then when they can’t have that complete control (which is normal) then just makes a them feel more “out of control” and then they seem to start spiralling…
Spiralling into making bad decisions that lead to trying more, punishing more… and consequently being more detached and just making everything worse in the end… because being in control of someone is not showing them to make the right decisions for themselves…it is making decisions for them without learning why… so the more you try to control someone, the less they learn for the themselves… so when they rebel, they do so with a lack of skills…
Children do have a lot to learn, and yes, might act on impulse and might not make the right decisions all the time… but they do not need to be controlled in order to learn, but instead need to be guided…
And if we guide well… then the funny thing is… we are essentially “in control” of the situation…
and honestly… when that happens it is quite a great feeling…