February’s Lights Up, Sound Down Family Sensory Friendly Movie Canton Cinema Saturday Feb. 19 – Gnomeo and Juliet – 9:15am Come Join Us This Saturday To Enjoy This Great New Family Movie!!!
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I came across this idea over at “Good Housekeeping” and thought it was a great twist on the classic Christmas cookie idea plus it’s a GREAT little project to do with the kids. Check out the link for the recipe and the “how to”. Then, if you’re brave enough to try it, let us know [...]
As a special “thank you” to all of our friends and in honor of Autism Awareness Month (and oddly enough Stress Awareness Month – coincidence that these two are both in the same month?) we are offering the following My Great Kid – Help My Kid Giveaway What are we giving away …….
This week on “The My Great Kid Radio Show” we will be interviewing Dr. Peter Green , Professor of Clinical Medicine and the Founder and Head of the Columbia University Celiac Disease Center. Articles from Dr. Green Dr. Green is one of the top Celiac specialists in the world so if you, or someone you [...]
Our Guest: Sir Ken Robinson, Expert on Creativity, Education & Human Potential Listen to our interview with Sir Ken ~ HERE (or visit the link on the bottom of this post to listen and download the interview) We live in a country with a broken educational system. Now, factions on all sides of the issue [...]
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We’ve had the good fortune to have special education attorney Wayne Steedman provide us with high quality, professional answers to complicated special education law questions (IEP, ESY, LRE, AYP, MET, NCLB … if all these letters are leaving you feeling l-o-s-t, check out our “Special Education Terms” section of the Education tab) on our show [...]
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When bad things happen who survives ….. and who doesn’t? When life caves in around you who bounces back ….. and who collapses under the weight? Why can a tragedy hit a family and one sibling self-destructs while the other one thrives? Why do some folks seem to get all the breaks while others seem [...]
I’m subscribed to so many different news sources and RSS feeds that in the morning it’s like an avalanche of news and stories cascading down my screen. Normally, I read through the ones that catch my eye and then throw a couple of good ones in the – blog about it pile. Invariably though I’m [...]
YouTube – Tim Ferriss – How to Peel Hard-boiled Eggs without Peeling Digital Tools Expand Options for Personalized Learning How To Clean a Wool Rug with Snow Transfer Your Balances Now to Safeguard Against Coming Credit Card Changes Suit: Pa. school used webcams to spy on students – Yahoo! News There’s some great tips and [...]
How cool is this? The world’s longest married couple (104 & 102 year old – Herbert & Zelmyra Fisher) will be answering your romance questions on Valentine’s Day on TWITTER (and you thought you were too old to get into that Twitter thing). Interested in checking it out? Follow them on Twitter at @longestmarried The [...]
Ben Heywood from PatientsLikeMe.com joined us this morning for a far reaching interview that covered ALS (aka Lou Gehrig’s disease), his brother Stephen’s struggle with the disease which ultimately lead to the creation of the outcome based patient data website www.PatientsLikeMe.com and in a larger sense what REAL health care reform looks like. Never heard [...]
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We had the great honor on October 25th of last year to interview Peter Wright from Wrightslaw. Pete is a pioneer in the area of Special Education Law and truly one of the ultimate child advocates in this country. We had the joy of being able to host a Wrightslaw conference in 2008 and were [...]
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I’ve got to admit these stories always make me cringe a little bit. I like stories about kids that achieve, but am always concerned when it involves kids with challenges because the skeptic in me wonders are they using the kid as a mascot and not a player …. this isn’t one of those [...]
The World Health Organization (aka WHO) is getting really annoyed at all of the people questioning them. It seems this H1N1 “flu pandemic” fizzled out so much faster than all the hype around it that some folks are starting to ask questions … namely why all the hype? An answer being suggessted, to the WHO’s [...]
This seems like a story from the Department of Made Up Afflictions but since I’m dedicated to keeping you informed and this is a real story (Google reports over 73 news stories about it this morning), here goes …. Exotic wooden toilet seats and harsh chemical cleaners may be behind a new resurgence of toilet [...]
We had the great pleasure of interviewing Dr. Charles Fay from the Love and Logic Institute this past weekend. The full interview was longer than what we were able to air on Sunday so we’ve included the full interview above for your listening (and hopefully learning) pleasure. What is the Love and Logic approach to [...]
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