How long have I been saying this??

Gluten free article

Spring!

Has sprung!  I hope everyone is enjoying it.  Spring in Florida is beautiful!  Homeschooling is going well with Elle, we did learning profiles on the website after reading the book Discover Your Child's Learning Style, and that has helped tremendously.  It turns out that I am a print/auditory/producing (think workbook) learner and she is not.  She's a visual/picture/tactile learner.  So the curriculum that I was picking out for math wasn't meeting her needs at all, it was black and white and boring!  The unit study or literature approach she likes (we started Five In A Row in November), and I lucked out on the phonics workbooks because they are mostly picture learning.  She's also a relater, which means that she needs to talk things out to understand them, which was driving me crazy because she would constantly ask questions about what she was learning.  Turns out, she needs to talk it out to understand.  We went on a field trip to a composting place to learn about worm composting, and it was partly lecture and partly hands-on.  When I questioned her about the lecture, almost nothing had been absorbed except for the hands-on part of the lecture.  She doesn't learn that way, she is completely visual.  Art is her favorite subject and she started taking a homeschool enrichment art class on Thursdays which she loves.  

The Drama Triangle

Drama.  It's a natural part of life.  Right?  Right?  I keep asking myself this question lately.  In high school my mantra was "Normal people are boring." or "It's boring to be normal.  Who wants to be normal?" I never understood my motivation when I created drama with girlfriends by playing them against each other and being involved in a three way friendship.  Or gossiping and expecting secrets to not be told, or telling secrets that were not meant to be told.  All high school-ish behavior, but the glee and manipulative behavior while acting sweet on the outside was classic passive-aggressive.

When I was seventeen I met my Husband.  I knew he was special the first time we met, love at first sight.  I couldn't put my finger on it, we just clicked.  He didn't think anything of my feminine wiles.  He knew I didn't trust women because of what I knew I was capable of myself, and he played on that in a big way.  Told me I didn't need those girls, who I didn't like anyway, I just needed him.  He understood how I really felt about my friends, because he knew about the drama I was creating.

Change at the Speed of Snail

My pediatrician said to me on our first visit that it takes 20 years to change clinical practice.  That parents are changing the treatment of autistic and sensory children simply because they demand it.  And that if we waited for clinicians to do it, we'd be waiting too long because children grow up too fast.

In that same vein I just read this article on gluten sensitivity: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704893604576200393522456636.html.

In two separate places the woman who runs the gluten intolerance group of north america says that patients have been told that it's in their head or they are crazy if they don't have celiac but still react to gluten.  Their symptoms simply written off as psychiatric.  It also says, "Peter Green, director of the Celiac Disease Center says that research into gluten sensitivity today is roughly where celiac disease was 30 years ago."