57 posts tagged “palo alto”
Morgan and Dave Bricca are dear friends from preschool family who are one of those rare couple friends that you have -- you know, the ones that not only the gals are soulmates, but the guys get along and most importantly the kids are peas in a pod.
So although these links may seem a bit like linkspam, they're actually a loving gesture from Dave to increase Morgan's linklove, so go give her some love, will ya?
hand painted wall murals by Morgan Bricca
kids room wall murals by Morgan Bricca
nursery wall murals by Morgan Bricca
underwater wall murals by Morgan Bricca
tropical wall murals by Morgan Bricca
beach wall murals by Morgan Bricca
trompe l'oeil mural artist Morgan Bricca
Nice to be back home after 25 hours awake next to wriggly children, and not even mine. Tania & kids will be in Singapore another 2 weeks having a blast with her parents.
We'll see if I can stay awake until tonight...
Enjoying some rare time to blog while the kids & Tania are sleeping off their jetlag from our 20 hours over the Pacific for our yearly visit to the in-laws. It's been delightful, enjoying the crazy food and warmth of family.
Why you don't hear much from me over here is that I'm blogging over at MedHelp.org, and helping bring on bloggers who are interested in reaching the millions that come to the site every week.
Recently, I've just finished blogging about a spring-long Palo Alto Taser Task Force, culminating with a nail biting 5 to 4 vote approving the Palo Alto Police to purchase them. I believe they'll do more good than harm, and are non-lethal considering the medical research I could find (which was Taser, Inc sponsored, but I blogged extensively on why I thought that was ok).
I also posted a link to an interview I did at CDHCC's Healthcare Blogging Summit last monday at the Venetian in Las Vegas. It was a blast to share why I think doctors blogging will give patients more insight into a depth of writing they can't find elsewhere.
I'll continue to blog more personally here and at Vox which are easier ways for me to post pics from my treo. Just wish the video posting would work, but what can you ask for -- for free.
My treo 650 finally kicked the bucket so I've switched to a 700p, and will let you know if i love it as much. I'm already loving the EVDO speeds for internet access. And the palm backup beta successfully restored to the 700p even though it wouldn't to my 650.
Sadly, I had to send back my Dell M1210 since the minicard EVDO didn't work. Can you believe they ship it with an XP driver even though the M1210 ships with Vista? Overall a very fast machine, and really fun to take video with the camera that flips around to point away from the screen too. But too many reboots and freezes, and BSOD with skype. It could just be Vista, but I can't bother to figure it out since I just need it to work.
Off to Phuket tomorrow, and have a T1 to the villa, so I'll try and keep blogging and putting pics up at flickr.
Who knows, i may even get some wineblogging in, or write about our new AppleTV. ;)
Maybe not, since the wine prices here are 3X on the low end, 2x on the high end. I think I'll be sticking with Tiger Beer for now.
It's great to be here during HIMSS Asia, and to be seeing an old Brown buddy Peter Tan, a muckety muck as the Asst Director of eHealth in the Ministry of Health, and hope to see Khiang Seow from Epic as well.
San Mateo County's emergency notification service.
It appears we have a notification system that can't recoverfrom an input error, and we have no support contract.Excerpt from the staff report regarding the event on Sat., April 7-- a Redwood City fire wafted fumes over the northern part of Palo Alto:At approximately 1:45 p.m., Technical Services staff recorded the Shelter in Place message and launched the Teleminder system. The initial instruction was to conduct a citywide notification, an incorrect action taken by a staff member, which resulted in an attempt to send the message to the entire City (132,000 phone numbers). This action immediately caused the system to lock-up. Numerous attempts, supported by Information Technology and Office of Emergency Services (OES) staff, proved futile.The Teleminder system has no vendor support, as the product was sold by the vendor to an outside company. Several attempts to reboot the software were unsuccessful, as well as efforts to reduce the size of the notification area. At approximately 4:00 p.m. the Technical Services Coordinator informed the Police and Fire Chiefs that the Teleminder system was not working and that it did not appear that any warning information concerning the fire could be sent out to residents via this system.
Tonight's performance was outstanding, really helped me empathize and connect with those more mature members of my practice - patients who dress up to come to clinic and have great respect for the profession of a physician, more so than even we young'uns have for our own kind.
It was a beautiful story of the sunset of a celebrated judge's life, flashbacks to his childhood, and turning points in his career to shape his political views.
It brought me back to my formative years at Brown, the activists who inspired me, and my years in residency seeing the suffering of the indigent patients I cared for.
We're subscribing for another season, and expecting as great performances in the coming year.
Self esteem relates to:
- quiet comfort of self
- acceptance of self
- feels that others love them
- can manage themselves
- can give value to others
- feels value of self
- feel like they matter
- successfully involves self with others
Ways to improve self-esteem:
- reflect successes back to the child
- give fully focused attention to your child (genuine encounters)
- respect your child's feelings (let them feel that way and keep your approval even if you disagree)
- encourage your child's feeling that you're a trustworthy friend for help with their needs
- 40 assets "you can make a difference for your kids" www.search-institute.org 877-240-7251 : how you recover, how are you grounded, where do you draw from, where does your resilience come from. Infants/toddlers, to preschoolers
http://www.search-institute.org/assets/assetlists.html
40 Developmental Assets for early childhood (ages 3-5)
PDF
- let them know it's ok not to be doing a million things or the thing everyone else is doing
- let them know it's ok not to be doing the summer camp their friends are doing
- let them do their own thing
- spend more time with them
Ok to be angry, but consider:
- give yourself a time out
- "you can be as angry as you want but don't yell at me, say it in a way that's not hurtful"
- explain that you're angry at what they did, you accept them but not their behavior
- kids can role play better behavior
- if you don't explain yourself and am understood by your kids, you'll feel rotten after a while
- don't be judgmental
- holding time (hug child) rather than time out: gives empathy for upsetness and gives attention/intimacy
One child deliberately would act up in order to get grounded so that he'd have time over the following month to get work done and work out and be able to focus on work, with an "out" to give to his friends so he wouldn't look bad in front of his friends
Julie's adult social Mar 10
April family day
June 1st tues night is last adult PSF meeting
Mar 1st & 2nd tues nights not 20th
Mar 3rd morning crepe party 10:30am
Oscar party Feb 25th evening
After chatting with Tania who brought up stuff from her stanford masters in Ed, I question some of his assumptions:
1) does display of closed captioning really help kids learn to read? i doubt it since the words often are displayed in no relation to the words spoken
2) it's a beautiful story that those 4 year olds listened through “Stuart Little,” but that's unusual. I think it's more realistic to get through more age appropriate literature that they can have read to them in more frequency, and grow to love
3) it's a beautiful picture to see Jim reading to his teenagers, but i think having constructive dialogue with the precious little time and attention you have from them, is more important to read to them.
All said, i'm really inspired to read more to my kids, especially Aidan who I've really neglected to read to much. Natalie insists on it, which helps her...
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Jim Trelease
07-01-23 Reading to Children
"I'm into the whole normal thing" not superbabies or Baby Einstein
http://www.trelease-on-reading.com
Kids are in school 900 hours a year
Parents have their kids 7800 hours a year
Kids won’t read better the more you test them, just as cows who are weighed more don’t grow fatter
At risk kids don‘t continue to learn over the summer since they‘re not at camp and traveling, learning with family (center for summer learning, Johns Hopkins U)
Human beings are pleasure oriented, ordering the same stuff at restaurants you like every time
Kids who find pleasure from reading, will return to it
1985 Report of the Commission on Reading “Becoming a Nation of Readers” “The single most important activity for building the knowledge required for eventual success in reading is reading aloud to children”
By reading to your child, you allow them to taste that since they can’t read it yet
Listening vocabulary increases speaking vocabulary increases reading vocabulary increases writing vocabulary
1996 federally funded study: “Meaningful differences in the everyday experience of young American Children” Betty Hart & Todd R Risley, contradicts 15 years of policy pummeling the schools: It’s the parents’ fault that kids aren’t reading; 42 families, 1 hour/month tape recorded what was said in front of 6 month olds. 1300 hours of tape, database of words, categorized words, categorized kinds of sentences said. The kinds of words did not differ among socioeconomic class, but 13 million words in impoverished VS 26 million working class VS 45 million in professionals.
Just like 1964 Surgeon General’s report to quit smoking or die; Don’t read to your kids and their brains die.
Tom Friedman “The World is Flat” everyone is connected; even McDonalds take-out windows are outsourced to India.
Even parents who can’t read, can use books on tape and listen to the story with your child. Your children learn what’s of value to you.
If your kids only read in school, they’ll miss the authors that delight them, and won’t want to read.
A 6 year old reads 6000 words
A 4 year old reads a few hundred words, Dr. Seuss “I can read it all by myself”
Suburban child abuse: hothousing: making 2 year olds bark out what we want them to and type.
Preschool class of 4-5 year olds: E.B. White “Stuart Little” 120 pages from beginning of school year finishing in November. Incented them by saying this was the book the older kids were reading.
The one book student most frequently steal: Where the sidewalk ends. Shel Silverstein. 130 poems that turn them on to reading.
Put a book basket next to the toilet (Enoch: I don’t agree with this, they’ll get hemorrhoids from sitting so long and cutting off venous return to the rectum)
Put a book lamp next to the bed, it’s the most important night school they’ll attend.
Kid’s depositories are their 2 eyes and 2 ears, and the words they see and hear every day are those words.
I met Smoky, a legend in Palo Alto, whose birthday is coming up on the 13th with a full bagpipe band at the Empire Tap Room, a regular at Gordon Biersch (my favorite fries place), he's starting his crawl at 6pm here at Vino Locale. Too bad i'm in DC then.
The steins & lockers @ Gordon Biersch were his idea. He was the 2nd customer ever.
I'll be volunteering to see patients there soon. (testing mobloging pic from treo. Video didn't work)
