Sitting with a cup of coffee. (coffee lovers)

[Highcotton]

Kids with learning problems have it even worse, if no one takes the time to check that they're understanding what's being taught. Also, luckily, the only significant standardized test we have here is at the end of high school, and even that usually covers the curriculum as widely as possible, so it isn't that easy to teach people to just answer the questions correctly, you actually have to have a firm grasp of the material that's being taught. One thing I find positive, is that learning disabilities are better understood these days, and people suffering from them have a better chance at getting the help they need. But on the other hand, I do think that at some point you have to ask if it's really worth it to cater individually to everyone, perhaps it's okay if you're not able to become a teacher of English (or whatever native tongue your country has) if you suffer from severe dyslexia.

There is organization called Learning Allies that record text books for the blind, dyslexic, and other forms of learning problems. This gets the children around the problems that they have. some of them with learning disabilties overcome the problems the have with some help such Learning Allies. Others can lead productive lives with help to learn to live with the problems.

I have a granddaughter with learning disabilities. It breaks my heart to hear her say how much she wants to learn to read. We are working to get her some help. So many children are kicked to the curb because the school does not want to be bothered with them and they become a burden rather than a productive citizen.

 

[perchie.girl]

Blink Blink Blink.... Another late night.... Soon as I dont need a white stick to get around the house I am off to get my coffee.

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

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I used to ride with a woman who was so dyslexic that she could not have a drivers license. She came to the Stables in a taxi. She said that horse back riding was the key to her overcoming quite a bit. It was part lessons with a good instructor and the fact that horses have a brain that is almost divided. You have to teach them equally on each side. Therefore to ride you have to learn Left handed cues and Right handed cues. There is something also going with the physicality of riding that helps make connections.

By the end of her first year riding she was able to get her drivers license.

deb

 

[TeaChick]

Thanks all for the birthday wishes!!!!!!!

Welcome chicaboo .

Ocap, cglad you are able to post again.

I am enjoying a day off work. We get one for our birthday and I chose to take mine today due to some fair activities.

Wish I could get a day off for my b-day. I did get a spa day (at home from my girls when they were little) a few years ago. =D I guess that's close enough. lol

 

[TeaChick]

Blink Blink Blink.... Another late night.... Soon as I dont need a white stick to get around the house I am off to get my coffee.

deb

Don't worry about needing the white stick. Just watch out you don't burn yourself! Move really slowly; that's what I do.

I want horseback riding therapy. I have quite a lot to overcome. (or get away from sometimes temporarily)

 

[TeaChick]

I was on youtube, and checked the Chicken Chick videos, to see if there was anything I wanted to see.

She did the ALS ice bucket challenge, so I checked out that video. She nominated fellow chicken keeper, Jennifer Aniston.... (among others).

So I searched "Jennifer Aniston chickens" and a bunch of videos came up. She did an interview with Conan and gave him some of her hens' eggs. Very interesting.

Are there any other celebrity chicken keepers I didn't know about?
I started a thread about it, but we can talk about it here too; my threads are mostly dead, so I don't expect much activity.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/924065/jennifer-aniston-keeps-chickens

 

[TeaChick]

Also, I had to process my jr roo today. He's wreaking havoc with the girls and I'm having enough trouble with laying as it is.
I think some of them must be laying in the woods. I'm only getting eggs from two of them, but I'm getting them pretty much every day now. There was a period of about a week or so that I wasn't getting many eggs at all, but they were from everyone.
My hens are hitting the 18-month mark. But they've been "molting" all summer. Maybe they're just wearing tank tops???

 

[Alaskan]

Also, I had to process my jr roo today. He's wreaking havoc with the girls and I'm having enough trouble with laying as it is.
I think some of them must be laying in the woods. I'm only getting eggs from two of them, but I'm getting them pretty much every day now. There was a period of about a week or so that I wasn't getting many eggs at all, but they were from everyone.
My hens are hitting the 18-month mark. But they've been "molting" all summer. Maybe they're just wearing tank tops???

me the whiner... also pessimist (helps to increase the whining) .... my first thought

is are they egg eating?

 

[chickisoup]

Time to put a log on the fire!!! 64o when I got up at 6 am this morning. Been raining heavy off and on all day, well until just a little while ago. Temps have been dropping and as of 6 pm it is 39o F and snowflakes are beginning to swirl past the windows in the stiff north winds howling thru our pines. Definitely a night to break in the fireplace and curl up in my chair under a lap blanket. My poor chooks didn't have the sense to stay out of the rain earlier (well, except for my very intelligent Aussies) so I will have to put them away early so they can dry off before they turn into chook cicles!

 

[TeaChick]

me the whiner... also pessimist (helps to increase the whining) .... my first thought

is are they egg eating?

No, thankfully, they're totally not egg eaters and they've had more opportunities than I'd care to admit.
Yes, I know pessimism increases whining; I married a pessimist. The increase is exponential. But he puts up with my idiosyncrasies too, so...

Time to put a log on the fire!!! 64o when I got up at 6 am this morning. Been raining heavy off and on all day, well until just a little while ago. Temps have been dropping and as of 6 pm it is 39o F and snowflakes are beginning to swirl past the windows in the stiff north winds howling thru our pines. Definitely a night to break in the fireplace and curl up in my chair under a lap blanket. My poor chooks didn't have the sense to stay out of the rain earlier (well, except for my very intelligent Aussies) so I will have to put them away early so they can dry off before they turn into chook cicles!

We've been getting more rain here and more wind from the north. It's anything but stiff or cold here, but fall is definitely trying to get some north wind under her wings.
My chickens go out in the rain, never mind getting in out of it. I hope the hawks don't figure that out!!!
Chook cicles...

But I mean, I hope they don't, but that just sounds so funny!!!