Grown ups are responsible for what happens at school

When grown ups don’t interfere with social processes in the class and group when these processes result in exclusion of a few, children are hurt. This is happening at the school of my daughters, and has been happening. Now the story unfolds itself it becomes clear that grown ups have seen this exclusion and didn’t [...]

Care for babies: mom or money?

When I expected my first child I was delighted. Because my husband had to finish his studies first, he did, and we decided I would take my time to finish mine. I loved studying and I’ve spend time collecting knowledge and experience at all sorts of places at our university: psychology, medicine, sociology, pegagogics, biology, [...]

I told her: no homework

Homework. The burden of each young person. It belongs to life. Or not? I’ve blogged before about the enormous amount of homework: here. Yesterday one of the girls was sitting beside me, making her homework. It was quiet and rather relaxed. She’d been staring at her books before. Suddenly I felt she was nearly crying [...]

Thank you!

Thank you for all the lovely birthday wishes, sunscriptions to my google friend connect, rss feed and everything else on the site. Life has returned back to normal and with it back to life’s surprises. My third son had a happy day today as you can read ::here::. The girls were happy because one of [...]

topdroppers december 2009

It’s one day early, but I don’t feel like blogging at the moment. I have 4 sons, three of them are officially diagnosed with autism spectrum syndrome. Their father and some family members suffer from it too. My fourth (actually third) son is autistic too. We decided to get his diagnosis of ADHD updated to [...]

Please read my former post

The topic I discussed in my former post has been one of the main themes of today. All I can do is encourage girls and their parents to ask for scientific information and have that information checked by those who have true knowledge about research and statistics. There’s a lot of junk on internet, and [...]

I’m furious about marketing techniques to manipulate girls into taking HPV vaccinations

I’m furious! That doesn’t happen very often, so this is a matter of importance. Remember suddenly the world took action against 2 of the more than 130 HPV’s by vaccinating young girls against, what they called a virus that causes cervical cancer. HPV stands for: HPV stand for humane papilloma virus. These virusses are able [...]

Politics and youthcare

In 2005 we got a new law which would bring heaven on earth for those needing care for their children. Young people who needed support were not required anymore to go to different organizations to be diagnosed, receive support, guidance, therapy. Just one place would be sufficient: youthcare. Ofcourse it was not enough to listen [...]

a healthy bit and bite

When your children don’t want to eat, don’t chose the way of fighting them, but the way of proper tactics. When you’re preparing food switch on music, preferable child songs your little one loves. Prepare your food at the same place, but find a corner where your child can reach at and you can put [...]

bad teacher?

We went to the national autism centre today. You can read about it at my other blog. Here. I was lucky to feel better and that there was no need to cancel it. The girls came home from school telling me about the talk they had with their mentor/teacher. One of the girls works very, [...]