Tag Archive - Education

Educating Fellow Birthworkers

March 23, 2013 in Business, Education, Midwifery with 0 Comments

It appears that I am soon to be hosting my first educational class for birthworkers in the Pittsburgh area. My most recent adventure participating in birthworker education was a collaborative presentation on how to access labour progress without doing an internal vaginal exam (because who wants one of those while in labour?). I find it rather interesting that I will have lived in Pittsburgh for 8 years this coming July and I am only just now embarking on the task of educating fellow birthworkers. Hmmm…

Don’t get me wrong: it’s not like I haven’t been dropping information (mainly online) in an effort to educate others at all, but the concept of hosting my own classes/workshops or taking an active teaching role in other’s classes/workshops hadn’t really crossed my mind until recently. Yeah, I don’t know why either. Lame. Fail. I am sure that being incredibly, socially awkward isn’t a factor at all.

So, without further ado, I will be hosting a workshop featuring the amazing placenta!

Natural Attachment Midwifery: Placenta Study 101 WorkshopNatural Attachment Midwifery is presenting a Placenta Study 101 Workshop. Event details can be found on Facebook. This introductory workshop is intended for midwifery students, doulas, and other interested birthworkers, with a limit of 20 students.**Study sheets, non-latex gloves, and other supplies will be provided by Natural Attachment Midwifery** **This workshop has a hands-on component in which attendees will have the opportunity to touch, examine, and inspect real human placentas.

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soup’s up & pink floyd teaches about education

February 6, 2011 in Education, Entertainment, Grub, Radical Unschooling with 1 Comment

I made soup today.

1lb or 2.5 C cooked lentils
3/4 C cooked brown rice
3/4 C thinly sliced carrot
1 leek, thinly sliced (about a cup)
1/2 a medium sized onion, diced
garlic (I’d suppose as much as you like, I would have used 3 or 4 cloves, but saved it for another meal and used 1 TBS of garlic powder instead)
12 oz mushrooms sliced (any mushrooms will do; I had crimini)
4 C veggie broth
3 C water (or all your liquid could be broth)
1/2 TBS sea salt
1 tsp cracked pepper
olive oil

saute onion, leek & garlic in olive oil. when those are almost translucent, toss in carrots, mushrooms, salt & pepper and cover & continue to cook all that down.

add the rest and bring to a boil. serve with some yummy bread, toast or crackers – i’m making me a sandwich on the side.

enjoy.

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Elijah had a revelation about education:

Elijah: hey, what’s that song, ‘we don’t need no education’?
Me: I’ll look it up for you.
E: but, we do need education!
E: (after watching the video) okay, maybe not that kind of education!

thank you, Pink Floyd.

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I was unawares about a cult phenomenon around ‘alot’ until my Dear Other Half showed me the light and I read this blog post. I knew that it is quite common for people to misspell ‘a lot’, but I had no idea that the misspelling has been personified in a sense…  The Internet is a beautiful place.

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thank you to those who made my birthday week great; especially when it wasn’t so great & i needed to cry.

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hoping this week holds all kind of greatness.

 

unschooling these days

January 25, 2011 in Radical Unschooling, Unschlog with 3 Comments

“[shrug] I just do my best to help them shine their divine, sparkly Light.” ~ Ordinary Life Magic: on teaching

“When school is gone, life will be left.” ~ Just Add Light and Stir

I’ve written *A LOT* about Unschooling on this here blog in the past. There’s still more to be said, I’m sure!

These days our unschooling looks a lot like:

Stjepan Hauser and Luka Sulic – Smooth Criminal which did lead to this Michael Jackson – Smooth Criminal
Homestar Runner
American Parkour and Russian Ninjas, Russian Climbing Ninja, Parkour in Latvia
Wednesday
Kina in South America!
Uriel Fury
Lego Board Games
Note Cards (lots of those)
Weird and crazy math problems made up for me to solve (yeah, because I have *nothing* better to do)
Countless “Let’s Play” videos on YouTube.com
Wikipedia (so much so, that we’re HIGHLY considering purchasing this)
Little Big Planet on the PS3
People (new friends, old friends, mum & dad’s new friends)
Oh Yeah!
And Food… narrowing down what it is that E doesn’t like while prodding to see what he *does* like

And of course there’s more, there always is more and more and more. It’s all life and no school. It’s Winter too – would be nice to be able to leave the house and not have to freeze. Speaking of freezing, these look cozy, but not nearly as effing cute as these (and those are made by grown unschooler, Dagny Kream).

Those of you still wanting more information on Unschooling can email me, find me on Facebook or just start reading here.

 

Thus Far into the Year

January 24, 2011 in Life with 0 Comments

Winter: She has been cold, full of pain & growth – while I do not find comfort in her, I do not hate her.

2011: Seems to be gearing up for more pain, growth and blossoming… Universe, give me a break at some point – I only have so much ego left.

January: I thought January was going to be fun. And while parts have been, it’s just sucked in general. Hoping February will hold more rainbows & kittens.

4th Week of the Year: This week, I have successfully blogged two days in a row (three, if yinz count Saturday in there too)! I don’t know what this week holds other than getting in touch with Bryan at The Drawing Room to discuss specifics of my birthday gift to myself – the tattoo.

Monday: I talked to my friend Rachel for a long time this evening. I took a shower, which was heavenly. I thought *a lot* about things (and stuff).

Something Aesthetically Pleasing: Vogue – Madonna — Beauty, Grace & b&w imagery

Zen Moment: “Is Your Need for Control Out of Control?” — good things about Fear

School is Stupid: “I before E, except after C” — FAIL!

 

Interview!

September 6, 2010 in Education, Media, Pittsburghian, Radical Unschooling with 2 Comments

I was interviewed recently by the Harrisburg Homeschooling Examiner. If you’d like to read the interview, you’ll find it here http://www.examiner.com/homeschooling-in-harrisburg/radical-unschooler-of-pennsylvania

 

Guest Post Over At Idzie’s Place

August 3, 2010 in Education, Radical Unschooling, Religiosophy with 0 Comments

…GO check it out! http://yes-i-can-write.blogspot.com/2010/08/guest-post-answering-negative-questions.html

 
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