[Tired of Taxes]

>"We are born with nice smooth brains. It is our job to get them all wrinkly with thinking and doing. People do not like the idea that we build our brains because then you have all those uncomfortable questions about people who are apparently NOT thinking."<

Exactly, And for parents, whose children are struggling to learn, one uncomfortable question would be, "Did I do something wrong?" For adults, who have not reached their full potential, the uncomfortable question is, "Should I have studied more?" A small percentage of people have real learning disabilities. Otherwise, most of us are capable of learning much more. But, people would rather believe that intelligence is an inherent trait that cannot be changed. That way, no one is to blame.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

When we got our youngest she was labeled as socially and mentally retarded. She was four and in every program they could stick her in. After about three months we felt that the programs were not doing any good. So we petitioned the court to be allowed to remove her from the programs and home school her. The judge finally was won over by DH saying that we could hardly do worse then “teachers” that left her in the same diaper all day.

It has been four years of hard work and a lot of tears from all of us but she is now rated as normal socially and slightly advanced scholastically.

We are not super teacher or anything, we just wanted her to be the most she could be.