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Creative enthisiast, wife,and mother of one exhuberant child, this forty-ish 3rd Generation Native Caifornian lives in the SF Bay Area.
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Religion Selector (blog entry) We found some help beginning our exploration to find a new church/ religion from tinyurl.com/gavd. Taking this simple test helps clarify beliefs and match them with a comprehensive list of world religions.
blog entry posted Mon, July 23, 2007 - 12:13 PM permalink - 0 comments
Final letter to Preschool (blog entry) July 11, 2007

To Whom It May Concern:

We are withdrawing our child immediately from this facility for the following reasons.

1. We are unable to have productive conversations with the Director
a. Conversations with Director come with lon... read more
blog entry posted Thu, July 19, 2007 - 10:58 AM permalink - 0 comments
More concerns about preschool (blog entry) July 9, 2007

I am writing you in hopes you can help with some serious problems.

I arrived just after 5pm Friday, July 6 to pick up my son, My son.
As I approached the door, before I had entered the facility, The lead teacher began to infor... read more
blog entry posted Tue, July 17, 2007 - 4:01 PM permalink - 0 comments
Concerns about preschool (blog entry) Friday, May 18, 2007


Dear Director, et al,

This note is to inform you that my son will be leaving this facility. We would like his last day to be July 3, 2007. I wanted to take this time to let you know of the things I have appreciated wh... read more
blog entry posted Tue, July 17, 2007 - 3:58 PM permalink - 0 comments
Unconditional Parenting (blog entry) I finished reading the book and immediatly followed it up by watching the DVD lecture from Alfie Kohn.

For parents struggling with raising kids, this parenting book offers interventions to help curb maladaptive parenting choices, addresses misc... read more
blog entry posted Mon, July 16, 2007 - 10:53 AM permalink - 0 comments
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We found some help beginning our exploration to find a new church/ religion from tinyurl.com/gavd. Taking this simple test helps clarify beliefs and match them with a comprehensive list of world religions.
Mon, July 23, 2007 - 12:13 PM permalink - 0 comments
 
July 11, 2007

To Whom It May Concern:

We are withdrawing our child immediately from this facility for the following reasons.

1. We are unable to have productive conversations with the Director
a. Conversations with Director come with long, digressing, off-topic stories about her child or other (named) students behavior, even though she has been asked repeatedly not to do so.
b. We are concerned that confidential information is not kept confidential.
i. this facility must respect ... read more
Thu, July 19, 2007 - 10:58 AM permalink - 0 comments
 
July 9, 2007

I am writing you in hopes you can help with some serious problems.

I arrived just after 5pm Friday, July 6 to pick up my son, My son.
As I approached the door, before I had entered the facility, The lead teacher began to inform me that my son had a bad day. She spoke to me across a full room of children, with a disappointed look upon her face and repeated that he hit a kid and staff members. She described his behavior as “off the hook”.

Other boy spoke up and told me ... read more
Tue, July 17, 2007 - 4:01 PM permalink - 0 comments
 
Friday, May 18, 2007


Dear Director, et al,

This note is to inform you that my son will be leaving this facility. We would like his last day to be July 3, 2007. I wanted to take this time to let you know of the things I have appreciated while at This facility, and others that caused my husband and I to lose confidence.

First, I cannot express enough how generous you have been to our family when we were struggling through miscarriages and loss of employment. The reduction in fees wa... read more
Tue, July 17, 2007 - 3:58 PM permalink - 0 comments
 
I finished reading the book and immediatly followed it up by watching the DVD lecture from Alfie Kohn.

For parents struggling with raising kids, this parenting book offers interventions to help curb maladaptive parenting choices, addresses misconnections in parent/child interactions, and provides working solutions to help children and parents thrive together.

Moving away from quid-pro-quo parenting (you do this, I'll do that) to a relationship building partnership, this technique is the... read more
Mon, July 16, 2007 - 10:53 AM permalink - 0 comments
 
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My Recommendations

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"Not "Our Way""
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"Masjid for Anyone"
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"No Compulsion"
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