MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'elementary school'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:31:20 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5169549&cid=t_149870_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fschool-nurse-gives-some-insight-into-her-job%2F2011.08.27 Well, what better time to post my interview with Erin at Tales of a School Zoned Nurse than now, when everyone’s headed back to the classroom? Erin is a school nurse in the “cash strapped state of California.”  Her position covers two elementary schools and a middle school – almost 2000 students!!  She has been blogging since last year and her blog has definitely become one of my favorites. She says she was never too set on working in a hospital.  After nursing school, she worked at a couple of summer camps, which gave her the idea to look into being a school nurse. She was hired right away and “leapt in without a second thought.”  She is starting her second year in this position. Erin’s daily schedule is quite varied: (more…) *This blog post was originall... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5169549 Sat, 27 Aug 2011 12:00:17 +0100 5169549 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5130906&cid=t_149870_129_f&fid=27216&url=http%3A%2F%2Flifewithadhd.com%2Fadhd-in-the-classroom%2Fback-to-school-5-step-elementary-school-checklist-for-adhd-children.php With elementary school getting underway I thought it might be a good time to run through a five point checklist to assist parents in helping their young ADHD children get off to a good start, possibly avoiding some common pitfalls down the road. The basic structure for these five suggestions was inspired by writings from ADHD expert Dr. Michael Flannigan. Hopefully you will find them as interesting and helpful as I did. If you have a few minutes why don’t we get started. *Help them get organized. Organization is one of the biggest challenges ADHD children face and is likely to persist well past their elementary school years, even into adulthood. The sooner you start to work with your child in this area the better off they will be in the long-run. If your child is not new to elementar... Life With ADHD blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5130906 Sun, 14 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5130906 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4133995&cid=t_149870_122_f&fid=36582&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FSharpBrains%2F%7E3%2FgzrsphtRgQo%2F (Editor’s Note: What follows is an excerpt from Dr. Robert Sylwester’s new book, A Child’s Brain. The Need for Nurture (2010) Corwin. In this excerpt, Robert Sylwester synthesizes the first 20 years of development and shows how it can be viewed as a “rhythmic four-six-four-six-year developmental sequence”) . Chapter 4: Development and Growth. The First 20 years. To simplify a complex phenomenon, we can divide our 20-year developmental trajectory into two periods of approximately 10 years each. The developmental period from birth to about age 10 focuses on learning how to be a human being – learning to move, to communicate, and to master basic social skills. The developmental period from about 11 to 20 focuses on learning how to be a productive reproductive human being – plan... SharpBrains blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4133995 Thu, 04 Nov 2010 11:27:16 +0100 4133995 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4060668&cid=t_149870_109_f&fid=34859&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.davemsw.com%2Farchives%2F2009%2F10%2Fsandra_bullock_sick_of_societys_rules_has_message.php Sandra Bullock makes some very solid points about the continued double moral standard between men and women in our society. It is only by repeated public statements will the culture begin to shift. However, she missed the universal point. I don't think a young boy would escape the slash of verbal harassment about having a lisp. While there is a natural push for social culture to demand a certain level of conformity, children do not understand the limits of this wisdom or can reason through the paradox of conformity for the sake of conformity. [Soap box time] Children need the leadership of adults in social settings, primarily schools, to learn tolerance and the dangers of scapegoating. Adults continue to abdicate this role, parents pointing at schools, schools pointing at parents. During... Ψ Dare To Dream... blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4060668 Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:50:22 +0100 4060668 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1274889&cid=t_149870_87_f&fid=35052&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FWomensBioethicsBlog%2F%7E3%2F244957587%2Fon-sex-segregated-schooling.html NYT has an in-depth article on teaching boys and girls separately in school based on proposed differences in everything from artistic preferences to optimal operating temperature. While I have... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] (Source: Women's Bioethics Blog) Women's Bioethics Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1274889 Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:25:16 +0100 1274889 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1223825&cid=t_149870_129_f&fid=36038&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.healthtalk.com%2Fmultiple-sclerosis%2Flife-with-ms%2Fthe-cold-and-flu-season-with-multiple-sclerosis%2F In the cold, wet, gray (and bloody short!) days of February, we notice people sniffling, snuffling and sneezing and wheezing all around us. The last thing we want is to succumb to another person’s bug but, alas, there isn’t much we can do. We are in the heart of cold and flu season in my neck of the woods, and everyone seems to be either coming down with, just getting over or in the midst of suffering some viral thing or another. It’s like walking into a germ fog anytime you go out in public. I used to have a failsafe for this time of year. I used a tincture of echinacea and goldenseal, which a friend would brew up every year from her organic gardens. A few drops of this stuff at the first sign of a cold and I was good to go. Now, of course, I’m not really into the idea of boosting... Life with MS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1223825 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 23:40:59 +0100 1223825 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=925349&cid=t_149870_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F164800876%2F 3 years old—a child ages out of Early Intervention: When Rockwell “Rocky” McCloskey turned three years old, his parents, Alison and Patrick McCloskey of Huntington Beach, California, were told that he was no longer eligible for services, as reported in today’s OC Register. Rocky, who has autism, had been receiving behavioral intervention via the Regional Center’s Early Start program for children under age 3 and had been making “some progress.” The McCloskeys hired an advocate, Debra Borden, of We Are Kids First Inc. in Irvine, to challenge the decision and were successful. 5 years old—is your child ready for kindergarten, perhaps with an aide, and only for part of the day? (My son never went to kindergarten; he is in the fifth grade now.) 8 y... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=925349 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 17:40:48 +0100 925349