Cyn Armistead

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Month: May 2003

From the News, Health, LJ

Ritalin is safe

Ganked from : Rital­in is safe—and it works Research dis­pels fears that drug hurts kids, and finds that it actu­al­ly helps brains grow By Detroit News staff and wire reports NORTHVILLE—For more than a gen­er­a­tion, we’ve been “drug­ging” our unruly chil­dren to calm them down. And in doing so, we have risked dam­ag­ing their young brains […]

College, Family, Health, LJ

Health Stuff

Well, I am the ashamed own­er of a hand­i­capped park­ing per­mit now. I know that there’s noth­ing inher­ent­ly shame­ful in hav­ing a dis­abil­i­ty. I have no prob­lem under­stand­ing and even advo­cat­ing accom­mo­da­tions for any­body else with a dis­abil­i­ty. I’m just still ashamed about mine. That whole “invis­i­ble” thing does­n’t help at all. I haven’t men­tioned it to […]

Education, Family, LJ, Parenting

Katie Brag

Okay—I knew shad­owkatt was pret­ty darned smart and thought she was doing quite well aca­d­e­m­i­cal­ly, but we got inde­pen­dent ver­i­fi­ca­tion today. Her Cal­i­for­nia Achieve­ment Test scores placed her in the 9th month of 12th grade in lan­guage arts — that’s as high as they can mea­sure. Her math skills were suit­ed to the begin­ning of the […]

Friends, Home, LJ

Piano Moving?

Eeek! The only tru­ly sig­nif­i­cant thing we have left to move is the piano. We had arranged for sig­nif­i­cant amounts of mus­cle to be present to help with it, but now we are los­ing peo­ple. One lost his moth­er, one sud­den­ly got a chance to make lots of mon­ey tomor­row, and anoth­er is just uncertain. […]

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