I Speak of Dreams

Underage Drinking

LAW ENFORCEMENT

One key to the success of an underage drinking prevention program is the participation and support of law enforcement agencies and personnel. Consistent enforcement of existing laws, in conjunction with broad community involvement and support, has been shown to prevent underage drinking.

Why do we care? Because underage drinking is illegal, is more likely to lead to driving fatalities, and some kids die.

List of children who've died this year. What to Do With Alcohol Overdose

Linguists on Lakoff and Metaphor and More

Go on if you are interested

Online Self Help:Procrastination

Clay Tucker-Ladd has written a very helpful book on self-help, all on on the net.

This book reviews all aspects of self-improvement. It provides you with a system for analyzing any problem into its manageable parts and for planning self-change. It invites you to first carefully consider what you value and want to accomplish in life. It summarizes science's best explanations of most human problems. It lists the most promising ways of treating a wide range of unwanted behaviors and emotions. It describes in detail how to use about 100 self-help methods. In short, this book gives you a sound, research-based fund of knowledge about behavior; add to this your own coping experiences and you accumulate a storehouse of general knowledge that will help you understand yourself and gain more control over your life. That is offered; absorbing and applying the knowledge is your job.

Master Plan

There's Sun Valley the City, and then there's Sun Valley the company. What will happen when Mr. Holding isn't at the helm?

(Ketchum Master Plan; and then there's: Sun Valley City Offices (master plan is pdf, click on link) the master list from (The Region IV Development Association, Inc. is a private, not-for-profit corporation established to encourage development and diversification in the economy of South-Central Idaho. )

Autism Spectrum Disorders: Brain Synchronization

In contrast to people who do not have autism, people with autism remember letters of the alphabet in a part of the brain that ordinarily processes shapes, according to a study from a collaborative program of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National Institutes of Health.

Waaaa! Waaaa! You Aren't LISTENING To Me! Bad! Bad!

The following is a tendentious assertion of "marginalizing". It is slamming the gelatinous amorphous free volunteer reality of blogging into the square peg of market-based communications media.

Sometimes I take it back, being a feminist.

You aren't paying attention to what I'm doing! You aren't respecting me! I'm TELLING. Please. Go away, and don't bother the grownups.

Leave No Family Behind

This is the most important movement in public education:

"We can, whenever and wherever we choose, successfully teach all children whose education is of interest to us. We already know more than we need to in order to do this. Whether we do this or not must finally depend on how we feel about the fact that we have not done it so far"-- Stephen Constantino;

Creating Family Friendly Schools (a publication); Family-Friendly Schools Website; Creatiing and Sustaining Family Friendly Schools (a publication); Institute for Responsive Education (has family-friendly schools guidelines); and more.

FunBlog!!

Look, I am willing to cop to being a recovering depressed person. (Oh, wait....I have some deep reservations about the whole "recovery" movement....)

More fun part of the answer, more funfunfun.

My fun leader (when I don't have happy toddlers around) is Bernie DeKoven, who brings us sack circles and waterballs--which violate the Found Fun ethos a little bit--but the history of hopscotch....well, you get the idea. Join me in fun.

Autumn Leaves November Round-Up J-O

Autumn Leaves is a consortium of bloggers....not young. Previous roundups are A giant roundup of all the older bloggers I could find; a sampling of bloggers born between 1940 and 1949; another sampling of bloggers born between 1930 and 1939and finally: bloggers born before 1930

Autumn Leaves November Round-Up F-I

Autumn Leaves is a consortium of bloggers....not young. Previous roundups are A giant roundup of all the older bloggers I could find; a sampling of bloggers born between 1940 and 1949; another sampling of bloggers born between 1930 and 1939and finally: bloggers born before 1930