We got a free newborn session to help a lady build her photography portfolio! They turned out super cute! It guess it was worth 4 hours in a super heated room. ;)
Dominic was born May 18th, 2014 at 1:34am. He weighed 7lbs, 19.5 inches.
Sunday, May 25, 2014
Dominic Blair Fluckiger
We got a free newborn session to help a lady build her photography portfolio! They turned out super cute! It guess it was worth 4 hours in a super heated room. ;)
Dominic was born May 18th, 2014 at 1:34am. He weighed 7lbs, 19.5 inches.
Friday, January 3, 2014
Vision
3 Ways to Achieve Vision (Soul Vision as opposed to Physical Vision)
- Nicholeen Peck - TSG Circle "Personal Vision" and blog post: http://parentingselfgovernment.com/fathers-parent-or-playmate-part-3-105
She says:
1. Searching Study and Prayer
2. Occurs when you are part of an inspiring experience; you actually see of participate in something new and achievable.
3. (The most common) Starts as a feeling. This feeling comes from an inspiring story; (heard or read) listener/reader allows self to become emotionally attached to the story, and is changed or sees things differently because of it.
The 2nd and 3rd ways are transferable. 1st has to be initiated by the receiver.
(From Discussion with women TSG Step 2 Implementation Course:)
Wisdom - the biggest part is:
1. How to Control Yourself
2. How to Related to Other People
- Nicholeen Peck - TSG Circle "Personal Vision" and blog post: http://parentingselfgovernment.com/fathers-parent-or-playmate-part-3-105
She says:
Vision is essentially a picture in your mind or heart; probably both. In order to transfer vision your audience must be able to see. There are only three ways that I know of to get vision. The first is gained because you are searching for it through study and prayer. The second occurs when you are part of an inspiring experience; you actually see or participate in something new and achievable. The third and most common way to get vision starts as a feeling. This feeling comes from an inspiring story; either heard or read. The listener or reader allows himself to become emotionally attached to the story, and is changed or sees things differently because of it.
The second and third methods of finding vision are the only two which can be transferred from one person to another, because the first must be initiated by the receiver. By asking a question and having an effective conversation, I used the second method. My husband was able to see how our effective communication would help him and the whole home.
1. Searching Study and Prayer
2. Occurs when you are part of an inspiring experience; you actually see of participate in something new and achievable.
3. (The most common) Starts as a feeling. This feeling comes from an inspiring story; (heard or read) listener/reader allows self to become emotionally attached to the story, and is changed or sees things differently because of it.
The 2nd and 3rd ways are transferable. 1st has to be initiated by the receiver.
(From Discussion with women TSG Step 2 Implementation Course:)
Wisdom - the biggest part is:
1. How to Control Yourself
2. How to Related to Other People
It's a Boy!!
The due date of our 3rd baby is May 15, 2014. It's a boy! That will be fun for Wyatt to have a little brother to share his room with. He really was hoping for a little brother.
We got ourselves a thumb suckers. Maybe this one will actually take a pacifier.
The Power of Calm
Power of Calmness MP3 by Nicholeen Peck - Notes
William Jordan – Essay – The Majesty of Calmness Book recorded below:
"Calmness is the rarest quality in Human life. It is the
poise of a great nature. In harmony with
itself and its ideals. It is the moral atmosphere of a life self–centered,
self-reliant, and self-controlled. Calmness is singleness of purpose, absolute
confidence and conscience power ready to be focused in an instant to meet any
crisis."
"He understood the word self-centered in not self-absorbed:
a person worried about just themselves.
When you are self-centered you are completely aware of where you are at what you are
doing.
That gives us a clue to why we lose it sometimes? We do not trust in our abilities to handle a
situation. We don’t feel like we are prepared enough. Or we don’t have enough skills that we have
practiced. We don’t know how to communicate effectively. It shows because we automatically go to the back
of the brain and start reacting.
If you do not have calmness in a way you are like a
rudderless ship.
We have the “power” to choose calmness. Make that decision." - Nicholeen Peck (Teaching Self-Government)
"He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls." (Proverbs 25:28)
Thursday, June 6, 2013
The First Year of Homeschooling Your Child
I decided to join a book club (Summer of 2012). The girl in charge is Jen Elgin. I found out about her through her Facebook Group: Tri-Cities, WA Homeschool Curricula Swap. She started a book club: and we are reading: The First Year of Homeschooling Your Child by Linda Dobson.
So far it is interesting. Almost every page is insight of a homeschooler that says "What I wish someone had told me my first year of homeschooling". They can be helpful and enlightening even if you are not going to homeschool just talking about home culture in general.
In chapter one she talks about Four different Kinds of Homeschoolers:
pg. 6 - Proactive
pg. 10 - Reactive
pg. 15 - Reluctant (Scared)
pg. 20 - Temporary
I found it interesting that a large amount of people were Reluctant and Temporary and then continued doing it longer. Typically because the school was unable to help their special needs child as much as they could themselves. Or their really smart child would just get bored and become complacent or make their goal mediocrity.
On pg.23 it talk about what all types of homeschoolers have in common. Commonalities:
1. They recognize the need in their own children's lives -- be it physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual -- and homeschooling fills it.
2. They recognize a need in their family life -- time to be together to share what they value, be it physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual -- and homeschooling fills in.
Then she recommends we give some time thinking about why we want to homeschool.
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Chapter 2 Has you become a scientist. It is called the Grand Experiment. Which I would also like to relate and draw parallels to Parenting. We do a sort of Guess and Check or if we are really in tune to the spirit. It will often guide us in the direction we need to go. These are the scientist skills that we need to put to work:
-An Open Mind
-Observation Skills - Learn to really watch your children frequently and preferably without interruption. To learn more about this read: "Homeschooling the Early Years: Your Complete Guide to Successfully Homeschooling the 3 to 8 year old child. Quantum Physics shows that the observer does have an effect on the observed. For your homeschooling family, she goes on, this creates a nice balance between head and heart, between science and art.
-Curiosity
-Flexibility
-Creativity
-Patience - Don't mistake this for spending lots and lots of time with a child or getting them to "sit still" and read textbooks all day long. :)
Some fun games listed on pg. 29 are:
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Checkers
Chess
Chutes 'n' Ladders
Dominoes
Hive Alive
Labyrinth
Learning Wrap-Ups
Mancala
Monopoly
Presto Change-o
Take Off
Tangrams
Set
Uno
Chapter 4 talks about different Learning Styles and Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences - from the book Frames of Mind: Theory of Multiple Intelligences. There are 8 to consider the first 2 are especially valued in school systems. (one added in 1996.)
-Linguistic: Think in words; posses good auditory skills; learn best by verbalizing or hearing and seeing words.
-Logical--Mathematical; think conceptually; enjoy patterns and experimenting.
-Bodily--Kinesthetic; process knowledge through bodily sensations; fine motor coordination learn by moving or acting things out
-Visual Spatial: think in images and pictures; inventive and/or artistic
-Musical: high appreciation of music or talent for creating, including singing; hear sounds that others don't; sensitive to nonverbal sounds
-Interpersonal; good at organizing and communicating (or, negatively, manipulating); natural mediators; learn best by relating and cooperating
-Intrapersonal: possess deep awareness of inner feelings and ideas; deep sense of self; qualities of inner wisdom or intuition
Naturalist: skilled in observing, understanding, and organizing patterns in the natural environment; good classifier; analyzes minute differences, as in sounds of different engines or fingerprint variations.
Pg. 76 talks about the Learning-Style Profile. Educators Mariaemma Willis and Victoria Kindle Hodson feel that parents need to incorporate more background information about a child into their understanding of learning style. They wrote: Discover Your Child's Learning Style - a workbook do-it-yourself assessment for age 6 and up. It reviews the following Dispositions:
Performing
Producing
Inventing
Relating/Inspiring
Thinking/Creative
Then it talks about:
Talents
- Activities that are done with ease.
-child is ahead of others in specific area without previous instruction
-dormant if not developed, but not lost
-have an underlying effect on other life aspects.
Interests
-are often overlooked by parents
-don't always support a child's talents
-need to be observed
(prioritize into short-term and long-term.)
Modality - senses through which information is taken in and processed. It takes into account:
-Auditory - learns through listening or through talking, and discussing.
-Visual - Learns through pictures (Charts, graphs, maps, etc.) or through print (reading and writing.)
-Tactile-Kinesthetic - Learns through touch or through movement.
Environment - Don't ignore the understanding that we all learn best under different circumstances.
-Sound - Preference for quiet or need noise.
-Body Position - Preference to sit, recline, or stand.
-Interaction - Preference to be alone or with others, either quietly or interacting.
-Lighting - Full-spectrum is better than fluorescent; dimmed lights have calming affect.
-Temperature - Discomfort is created when environment is either too hot or too cold.
-Food - Healthy food and drink, available as needed, help some children's learning efficiently.
-Color - Affects mood, as some energize, soothe, or depress; favorite colors in environment contribute to positive thinking and motivation.
-Time of Day - As discussed in Chapter 2 as part of creating your own schedule. (Homeschooling = Freedom)
Accept the child
Observe them.
Know - figure our their learning style (It's also like Carol Tuttle's Energy Profiling.)
Chapter 5 talks about the different ways to Homeschool:
Traditional School at Home (Take Public School Home?)
--Different educational Philosophies:
-Montessori-
-Waldorf
-Core Curriculum
Classical Education:
- Dorothy Sayers Essay- The Lost Tools of Learning:
--Part One roughly K-4th: "Poll-Parrot": They love sharing what they have learned by: reciting, singing little songs and jiggles, rhyming words, playing with words as with Doctor Seuss. Accumulation of facts prepares then for Part Two.
--Part Two: The Logic Stage (Middle School Years or 6-8th) Takes advantage of growing ability to think analytically. "Pert Stage" students dig deeper into subjects: What, who, where, why, and how, of a subject. Time when abstract thought blossoms, so the goal of learning shifts form "the student will know and be able to answer" to "the student will understand and be able to explain."
--Part Three: High school - the student moves to the rhetoric, or Poetic Stage.
Charlotte Mason:
Unit Studies:
Eclectic (or Relaxed)
Interest-Initiated, or Unschooling
School-Sponsored Homeschooling Programs. Another for of Government Schools.
Independent Cooperative Learning Situations - (or Co-ops)
Online Learning
--And I would add: Leadership Education (or Thomas Jefferson Education - TJEd)
Friday, June 15, 2012
Immunizations
Darrol gets the flu shot every year, I've never gotten one. When I was pregnant with Danica they asked about whether I wanted to get it. At this point I let Wyatt get it, not sure that I really wanted him to, but I did anyway. Darrol was okay with either way. The nurses at KGH, where I delivered, have to wear a mask all the time, per policy if they opt out of the flu shot. I felt bad for those nurses.
So Wyatt got all his vaccines, and I hated watching him cry. But I knew it couldn't be an emotional decision. So with Danica, we got the first round of shots, which just seemed like tons and tons all at the same time. So I decided to look into it more.
I listed to Dr. Gibson talk about it http://ldsholisticliving.com/store/gibson-dr-childhood-vaccinations-controversy
He made some good points, then I prayed to know what to do. I talked to my pediatrician, and of course she gave me her medical advise to do it. I know a lot of people are worried about Austism these days, and she said that she felt that it came more than anything from our diet and chemicals. I feel like my whole journal was reaffirming that, following the word of wisdom and eating as naturally as possible. And not having chemicals in our homes, or putting them on or in our bodies. She made the comment that we aren't opening up a bag of food, we are opening up an experiment. That is what it is. Hahah. I thought that was a bit too true.
Anyway, last night Darrol found this from the first presidency in July 1978 and the other from the church news.
http://www.lds.org/liahona/1978/07/immunize-children-leaders-urge?lang=eng
http://www.lds.org/church/news/church-makes-immunizations-an-official-initiative-provides-social-mobilization?lang=eng
Anyway, I didn't get the second round of shots for Danica, then I read this and decided that I will need to finish her immunization for the following: polio, measles, German measles (rubella), diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough), mumps and tetanus.
As far as the flu shot and Hep B, still not so sure about. But that another day. : )
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Flower Power
The ribbons for making hairbows:
The makings for headbands. 
Hanging from the wall in my bathroom, lots of fun purchased flower clips.
These are all purchased except for the purple flower with the heart rhinestone, which I made. But these are that I want to learn to make. 
I made the white/cream one. Bought the pink spotted and huge purple one, and was given the rest for my baby shower.
I made the blue one and was given the rest. Pretty easy to make. Just folded fabric sewn together. The rest need some pearls or something cute in the center still. I like bold bright colors better than muted ones. 
The clip part I just glued a ribbon to and then glued it to the back of the flowers.
Polka dots.
Cute on a newborn beanie.
My millons of flower clips that I made.
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