Carnival of Homeschool Parents
Do you or does your child always want to know HOW, WHAT, WHY?
This video is super interesting and I, particularly, LOVE factories
with so many stations and whatnot. But, in addition to this video,
PLEASE check out the main website called TheKidsShouldSeeThis. The site
has THOUSANDS of videos of so many different subjects, from sciences to
musics, to particles, to animation, to, well, you name it, with a special focus on STEAM—science, technology, engineering, art, and math!
Created and developed by Rion Nakaya, a photoblogger-turned-design director that loves storytelling, sustainable tech, well-designed spaces, and wandering the halls of small science museums and science center...sound like someone else I know... Rion's many interests and works include practicing some of her interested by producing excellent videos for exhibits and projects for children's museums around the world. She created The Kids Should See This website in 2011 by bringing in videos from all over the webverse to create this amazing website for your kids! Rion's website is dedicated to kids and adults and seeks to inject the WOW factor into learning in all facets!
The website is a true gem; it is fascinating and will
occupy you and your kids for literally YEARS. My sincere THANKS to Rion for occupying my kids and ME for nearly nine years. 💗
Pass it on!
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Continuing a theme, I know. And possibly getting repetitive and boring, this theme of being 55... But this time I have a vow: I will NEVER ever EVER wear pantyhose again. I will never again select the so-called flesh tone (NO ONE is actually that color), purchase something that, in no conceivable way, one size fits all, pay way too much, pull each leg up, fingers-over-thumb, slip my toes in, repeat for the second foot and leg, pull them up gently but firmly with a high likelihood of running them, adjusting the restricting ultra-thin fabric over my legs, masking them completely, shimmy into the chafing control top, adjust the placement of the crotch area to the not-too-loose and not-too-tight itchy perfect spot, pull the binding band up and over the belly, deal with the continual roll down waist band all damn day, and the sit down/stand up adjustment.
I absolutely refuse. Just WTF.
Is the skin on my legs not perfect enough? Are they not smooth enough? Is my abdomen not tight enough? Is the color not uniform enough? To whom do I owe this effort to present a defect less leg? To whom do we owe such binding?
You know that some business spaces require pantyhose to complete a professional look. You know, to wear with the high heels. Some special or formal events have dress codes that presuppose pantyhose with your high heels if you are a female. Pantyhose are de rigeur in nearly every social etiquette situation.
Is this an issue of feminism?
Or of the ruling patriarchy?
Do we owe it to someone to have attractive legs?
Whatever it is, I simply refuse it.
In fact, the last time I wore pantyhose, several years ago, they were so completely uncomfortable I tore them off the very second I got into the car. The restriction was just too much to bear any longer. Hot, itchy, binding, weird feeling, chafing.
Also, the name. Pantyhose. Ick.
Nope. I'm done.
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Last year I turned 55, the same number of the 1974 National Speed Limit Law*. I remember when that happened...it was crazy big news in 1974.
Anyway, I'm 55. As in Years Old.
Man, that's weird.
Inside, I often feel waaaay young. I think most of us feel this way, super young and vital and ingenue...until we walk past a large picture window... At the same time I feel 55. Totally 55. In fact, I think I've felt like I was 55 inside for most of my life.
Weird, huh?
I actually think I've felt 55 inside for decades, but I didn't know it until I turned 55. I've been a very responsible person for most of my life and I've been super-adulty since I was twelve years old, the year my parents split up. I mean, really, about the only reason a young person "acts adult" is because their adult person or people aren't doing their jobs. That was me.
And this is me.
I'm 55 and I love it.
It's so much more than AARP and senior discounts.
- I feel completely and authentically myself now.
I feel so much more personally powerful than ever before.
- I'm far more trusting of my instincts and ideas.
- I'm healthier than I've been in years.
- I get to be a grandmother.
- I'm married to a gorgeous guy.
(For 24 years now!)
- I'm participating in volunteer work that I love.
- I love my job.
- I feel no need to apologize for ANYTHING I have chosen.
- Or explain.
- I'm better able to stand up for myself and for my needs.
- I have confidence in my abilities.
- I'm super, super completely happy.
I'm 55 and I love it.
* The National Speed Limit Law was repealed in 1995.
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Back in the 80s and 90s when I was practicing social work, things were SO different than they are now. I worked in many different places back in the day, but most of the jobs were in the mental health field. Back in those days I was mostly a student or a total newbie, always flying by the seat of my pants. I really had alot to learn.
I mean, don't we all.
But the great thing about those days is that I learned so much...totally in the trenches.
Time: Early 90s. One day I went to a random staff meeting and we were being introduced to a total new treatment model called DBT, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, developed by a psychotherapist named Marsha Linehan. This treatment was focused on treating a particularly difficult type of problematic coping pattern style that is sometimes referred to as Borderline Personality Disorder. This disorder is one of pervasive and chaotic relational patterns (very unstable relationships of high intensity), dysregulation in emotion (very powerful, painful emotions that can feel out of control), and a distorted sense of self (I'm valuable beyond measure or I'm worthless, or both). Oh, and feeling suicidal. There's more to the disorder, but that's the gist.
Marsha Linehan developed this completely revolutionary treatment model for suicidality and borderline personality disorder; that amazes me because the mental health culture in those days, at least the culture that I knew of, was more shaming than helpful with this particular population. But we were confused and overwhelmed. That day in the early 1990s when I went to the staffing to learn about it, little did I know what a revolution I was being exposed to. I remember half of the room of clinicians scoffing at the so-called successful approach to treating this population and the other half of the room feeling excited about the new approach.
And then I moved away, took a job at a hospital, and proceeded to forget about DBT completely. But now I'm truly in awe of the wisdom and brilliance of Marsha Linehan and her treatment protocol called DBT.
Dr. Linehan spent the first part of her life being a client. And the majority of her adulthood being a student, doing research, and becoming an award-winning author, and, now, Professor Emeritus of Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the
University of Washington and is Director Emeritus of the Behavioral
Research and Therapy Clinics. And there is more to her, way more. She is truly brilliant.
Her DBT model is now considered the foremost, preeminent treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder and for some other disorders too. Now DBT is an evidence-based, structured approach to working with these clients who are so very challenged.
The more I learn and the more I read, the more I realize Marsha Linehan is a real hero.
In the 1990s, at that staffing, if you had told me I would be training to be swimming in the deep end of her pool, I would have never believed you.
In 2019, I'm proud to be here.
Thank you, Dr. Linehan.
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