OpenEye May E-News

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OpenEye May E- Newsletter –

Items include
Open Letter to the Minister
Review or Not?
The Graduate Dilemma
Special Needs Increase
Boys are Different
Exemption Refused
Children’s Centres Threat
France bans Mobiles
Endangered Childminders

This newsletter includes the following quote which is familair to many of us but nonetheless reminds us of the important things in ‘an education’

If I had my child to raise over again

If I had my child to raise over again
I’d build self-esteem first and the house later
I’d finger paint more and point the finger less
I would do less correcting and more connecting
I’d take my eyes off my watch and watch with my eyes
I would care to know less and know to care more
I’d take more hikes and fly more kites
I’d stop playing serious and seriously play
I would run through more fields and gaze at more stars
I’d do more hugging and less tugging
I’d see the oak tree in the acorn more often
I would be firm less often and affirm much more
I’d model less about the love of power
And more about the power of love.

© 1999 by Diane Loomans. Reprinted from “Parent Partners” newsletter, published by the Exceptional Children’s Assistance Center, Davidson, NC. Web site: www.ecac-parentcenter.org

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