Friday, January 14, 2011

Back to basics in the New Year

Posted on January 5, 2011 by Gordon Neufeld

Resolutions in the New Year tend to bring us back to basics. Undoubtedly this is why health is our overwhelming preoccupation as judged by the fact that exercise and diet top most New Year’s resolution lists. Upon reflection, health clearly becomes the ultimate priority, as we need our health to prolong our time and preserve our ability to make use of it.

Is there a parallel priority in parenting, something equally basic and like health, in need of renewed resolve? I believe so. Most simply put, it would be to convey to our children the invitation to exist in our presence. It is hard to imagine anything more important, and at the same time, more difficult to remember in the day-to-day busyness that is parenting. I am convinced, after a life-time of putting the pieces together as a developmental scientist, after 40 years of practicing as a clinical psychologist, after 170 cumulative years of parenting and grandparenting, that this simple invitation contains the essence of what is required for healthy development to unfold....

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Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD)

Sensory processing disorder (SPD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that affects at least one in twenty children. Children with SPD don't process or experience sensory information the way other typical children do; therfore, they don't behave the way other children do. They struggle to perform tasks that come easier for other children. Consequently they suffer a loss of quality in their social, personal, emotional and academic life.

The Sensory Processing Disorder Foundation is dedicated to continue their research into the knowledge and treatment of SPD, so that, as Lucy Jane Miller writes in her book "Sensations Kids", "the millions of sensational children currently "muddling through" daily life will enjoy the same hope and help that research and recognition already have bestowed on coutless other conditions that once baffled science and disrupted lives."

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I was born in Montreal....completed mechanical engineering at McGill University.... In love with mathematical modelling techniques, I enrolled and completed a Master of Science at Queen's University; then, moved to Vancouver and began teaching math at the British Columbia Institute of Technology. I no longer teach math. A single, stay at home mom; I dedicate my days to my children, learning about my children and how to be a better parent. I am very interested in children mental health. I am also an artist. I started painting, mostly acrylics, 20 years ago. I've been a potter (working with clay) for 10 years. I continue my art career in many different mediums. In the future, I plan to pursue a career that combines my creative and problem solving skills with my interests in infant development, parenting, and personal development.

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