Hi, Mike!  Recently you wrote in a message to Ardith Hinton:

MP>  Inattentitiveness (sp??) is spreading rapidly anymore.
MP>  It may be that they are not really paying attention to
MP>  what is going on when they act that way.


          Agreed.  I guess it's not surprising, considering the number of
people we see rushing around with a cell phone in one hand & a coffee
cup in the other. But I'm human, and I'd like somebody to pay attention to
me....  :-))



MP>  Parents who have kids that don't probably don't
MP>  believe that anyone else's kids do.


          Yeah... I experienced that as a teacher.  Many parents seem to
believe every kid on the planet is exactly like theirs.  As a parent,
however, I've also had similar reactions from teachers... if they know one
kid with a mental and/or physical handicap, they know them all.  Seems to
me the concept of special needs is that what works for Person A may not
necessarily work for Person B... (sigh).



MP>  Parents of kids who do probably believe that their kid
MP>  is "gifted" and that no one else's kid really does that
MP>  stuff. ;-)


          Uh-huh.  Okay, here's a Mommy Brag... Nora has finally summoned
up the courage to back into those "built-to-mininum-standards"
wheelchair stalls.  This accomplishment is roughly equivalent to winning
the Governor General's Medal, as far as Dallas & I are concerned.  We
think Nora is an awesome kid too.  But it's not the sort of stuff other
folks brag about in their Christmas letters....  :-)




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