RG22-08 Patrice Badami Educating Special Needs Children

February 21, 2022July 14, 2022Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

Raising our gifted children with Sara Troy and her guest Patrice Badami, on air from February 22nd

What exactly does it mean to be an advocate for a child with special needs? Our goal, as caregivers, is always to raise children to be happy and successful. But how does a caregiver navigate the overwhelming and sometimes complicated world of laws, resources and programs in their community?

I am a special education teacher and mother of three. I have advocated for families with children who have special needs to ensure that they receive the special education services that they require for them to be appropriately facilitated at their home school district. I created a website to help students as they navigate their way back into the in-person educational settings. The website is entitled Acorntotree.com and it offers free academic and recreational support for children and families.

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Special education, academic support, advocating for families with children who have special needs, having a child with Asperger’s syndrome, having a child with central auditory processing issues as well as executive functioning issues, children with attention deficit disorder, dealing with a child who is in the Neonatal Intensive Care and concerns of new parents of premature children. What do I really need to have in preparation for bringing my baby home?

Patrice Badami earned her Masters of Science degree in Childhood and Special Education from Long Island University. In addition, she holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mass Communication/Journalism from St. Bonaventure in New York state. She is currently working towards her certificate in Early Childhood. Patrice is an Elementary and Special education teacher for a New York State school district.

How can I advocate for my special needs child?

What are some important things to keep in mind before attending a committee on Special Education (CSE) meeting for my child?

What is an outside independent evaluation?

What information will I receive about my child when attending a special education meeting?

Where can I get outside independent evaluations? How can they help me in my CSE meeting? What type of independent evaluations should I avoid?

What are some behaviors of a child who may have Asperger’s Syndrome?

What are perseveration and how do I help my child deal with them?

How can I support my child who has Asperger’s Syndrome as they navigate college or their path after high school?

What is Central Auditory Processing difficulty?

How can I help my child with ADD at home?

What are some things I can expect when my child is in the neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)?

What kind of support do I need when I take my child who was in the NICU at home?

What are some developmental issues that I may encounter as my premature baby grows what are some red flags?

How can I help my child with Aspergers navigate the social skills difficulties he or she may have and help him or her make friends?

What are some other issues that I may encounter besides social skills issues with my child who has Asperger’s Syndrome?

What are some things that I may notice as my premature child grows? What are some difficulties they may encounter as they attempt to reach their developmental milestones?

I will include podcasts in the podcast blog on my website Acorntotree.com that provides families with free educational and recreational resources, and reviews of educational toys, children’s books, and parenting books and products.

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RG22-06 Trent Talbot, Brave Books Empowering Youth.

February 7, 2022February 6, 2022Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

Raising our gifted children with Sara Troy and her guest Trent Talbot, on air from February 8th

UNFORTUNATELY, NO ONE CAN BE TOLD WHAT THE “WOKETRIX” IS…You have to see it for yourself…
Trent Talbot, is the Founder and CEO of Brave Books and author of the upcoming adventure called The Fight for Freedom Island. Brave Books is empowering this generation’s youth with conservative values so that the next generation will be filled with strong and discerning leaders.

BRAVE Books has released a “Matrix” parody video ahead of the release of “The Matrix Resurrections.”

The “Woketrix” video echoes the notorious explanation of the Matrix that Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) gives in the first film, but this video urges a child to take the “red pill” of Brave Books to escape the false reality of “Wokeism.”

“You are here because you know something,” a character in a suit and black sunglasses says as the video opens. “What you know you can’t explain, but you feel it. You’ve felt it your entire life, that there’s something wrong with the world. Do you want to know what it is? Wokeism.”

“Wokeism is everywhere,” the Morpheus-like character continues. “It is all around us, even now in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window, or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you play in the ball pit or when you go to sleep in your crib. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth: that you are a slave, like everyone else you were born into bondage. Born into a prison for your mind.”

“Unfortunately, no one can be told what Wokeism is, you have to see it for yourself,” he continues. “This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take ‘Woke Up My Baby,’ the story ends. You wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take ‘BRAVE Books,’ you stay in wonderland, and I tell you how deep the rabbit hole goes.”

The camera then pans away from the man to show a little girl, who seems far more interested in a “juice cup” than in deep questions of reality.

The parody serves as a clever ad for BRAVE Books, a series of children’s books written by conservative authors that promote conservative ideas. Ashley St. Clair wrote “Elephants Are Not Birds,” addressing gender. Elizabeth Johnston wrote “Little Lives Matter,” addressing the sanctity of life. Jack Posobiec wrote “The Island of Free Ice Cream,” showing the dangers of communism. Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, wrote “Fame Blame and the Raft of Shame” about cancel culture. The Hodgetwins wrote “More Than Spots and Stripes,” inoculating kids against critical race theory.

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ABOUT: Brave Books, was founded by conservative parents, who while trying to raise their children to love their God and country, became aware that there is a real war going on for the hearts and minds of the next generation. Unfortunately, it’s a one-sided battle. That’s why Brave Books created a conservative alternative to the current progressive agenda that dominates our culture.

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RG22-05 Mark Bauerlein, From Stupefied Youth to Dangerous Adults.

January 31, 2022January 31, 2022Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

Raising our gifted children with Sara Troy and her guest Mark Bauerlein, on air from February 1st

THE SEQUEL TO THE BOOK THE DEFINED A GENERATION From Stupefied Youth to Dangerous Adults
Back in 2008, Mark Bauerlein was a voice crying in the wilderness. As experts greeted the new generation of “Digital Natives” with extravagant hopes for their high-tech future, he pegged them as the “Dumbest Generation.”

Today, their future doesn’t look so bright, and their presence is pretty grim. The twenty-somethings who spent their childhoods staring into a screen are lonely and purposeless, unfulfilled at work and at home. Many of them are even suicidal. The Dumbest Generation Grows Up is an urgently needed update on the Millennials, explaining their not-so-quiet desperation and, more important, the threat that their ignorance poses to the rest of us. Lacking skills, knowledge, religion, and a cultural frame of reference, Millennials are anxiously looking for something to fill the void. Their mentors have failed them. Unfortunately, they have turned to politics to plug the hole in their souls.

Knowing nothing about history, they are convinced that it is merely a catalogue of oppression, inequality, and hatred. Why, they wonder, has the human race not ended all this injustice before now? And from the depths of their ignorance rises the answer: Because they are the first ones to care! All that is needed is to tear down our inherited civilization and replace it with their utopian aspirations. For a generation unacquainted with the constraints of human nature, anything seems possible.

Having diagnosed the malady before most people realized the patient was sick, Mark Bauerlein surveys the psychological and social wreckage and warns that we cannot afford to do this to another generation.

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Mark Bauerlein is a professor emeritus of English at Emory University and an editor at First Things, where he hosts a podcast twice a week. He is the author of five books, including The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Don’t Trust Anyone under 30). His commentaries and reviews have appeared in publications including the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and the New York Times.

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RG22-03 Armin Brott, aka Mr. Dad, on Expectant Fathers.

January 17, 2022July 24, 2024Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

Raising our gifted children with Sara Troy and her guest Armin Brott, aka Mr Dad, on air from January 18th

“I think one of the biggest risks to civilization is the low birthrate and the rapidly declining birthrate,” Musk explained on Monday evening, as recorded by the New York Post.“And yet, so many people, including smart people, think that there are too many people in the world and think that the population is growing out of control,” Musk continued. “It’s completely the opposite. Please look at the numbers — if people don’t have more children, civilization is going to crumble, mark my words.”Following COVID-19 and subsequent lockdown measures, American birth rates have plummeted to their lowest levels in nearly a century. Talk To Mr. Dad The fourth edition of this best-selling, ground-breaking, information-packed guide for dads-to-be is now significantly, updated, revised, and expanded.

We are expecting! The twentieth-anniversary edition of this thoroughly updated and revised parenting classic remains the most informative and reassuring book for expectant fathers everywhere. In addition to sharing the wisdom of the ages, Armin A. Brott, Mr. Dad, presents new insight into the emotional, financial, and physical—yes, physical—effects of impending parenthood on men. Thanks to this handy reference moms-to-be will know their partner understands and supports them during this anxious and exciting time, and that he has all the tools he needs to be a fantastic, hands-on dad.

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This information-packed, month-by-month guide incorporates the expertise of top practitioners in their fields, from obstetricians and birth-class instructors to psychologists and sociologists. It also draws from Brott’s own experience as a father of three and from the real-world experiences of the thousands of dads he’s interviewed. With the humor of New Yorker cartoons and Brott’s gentle approach, The Expectant Father serves as a friendly and readable companion for dads-to-be seeking confidence, guidance, and joy!

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• The amazing effects on children when fathers are active partners before birth
• How pre-birth participation makes dads more likely to be active parents post-birth
• Updated resources

. . . and new research on the big questions that haven’t changed much over the years:

• Am I really ready to be a dad?
• How are we going to afford this? How do I balance work and family?
• Will I be able to handle labor and delivery while being there for my partner? What if something goes wrong?
• How will this affect my relationship with my partner?
• Will we ever have sex again?
• What am I supposed to do with a new baby?
• How can I be a good dad?
• Will I ever see my friends again or have any time to myself?

MEN’S HEALTH ANALYST Armin Brott, aka Mr. Dad, is a spokesman for the Men’s Health Network. He is the author of The New Father: A Dad’s Guide to The Toddler Years, a nationally published columnist on manhood and fatherhood, and Host of ‘Positive Parenting,’ a weekly talk show.

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Hailed by Time Magazine as “the superdad’s superdad,” Armin Brott is a pioneer in the field of fatherhood and has been building better fathers for more than a decade. As the author of eight bestselling books on fatherhood, he’s helped millions of men around the world become the fathers they want to be—and that their children need them to be.

Armin has been a guest on hundreds of radio and television shows, including Today, CBS Overnight, Fox News, and Politically Incorrect, and his work on fatherhood has been featured in such places as Glamour, Time, The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, Newsday, and many others. As a trusted spokesperson, Armin speaks on fatherhood around the country and teaches classes for expectant and new dads. Armin is a father of three and lives in Oakland, CA.

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RG21-Jordans Law & Social Media Safety ORG

June 21, 2021June 21, 2021Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

Raising Our Gifted Children with Sara Troy and her guest Marc Berkman and Ed Peisner

Organization for Social Media Safety was born out of tragedy. Today, we fight every day to protect families from the dangers linked to social media.

In 2016, then 14-year-old Jordan Peisner was standing with friends outside a local fast food restaurant when he was suddenly and viciously assaulted by another teen he did not know. During the attack and while Jordan lay helpless on the ground, witnesses and friends of the perpetrator stood and filmed the assault on their phones and then quickly uploaded their videos to social media. Now, this horrifying footage lives forever on social media already having been viewed by hundreds of thousands.

While Jordan slowly recovered from his severe, ultimately lifelong, injuries, his father Ed Peisner resolved to make sure that no other child or family had to endure such an ordeal. So, Ed began meeting with local legislators to explore solutions and eventually partnered with Marc Berkman, a senior staffer with the California State Assembly.

JORDAN’S LAW

Together, they learned that what we now call social media-motivated violence, attacks committed for the purpose of being filmed and distributed on social media to gain internet notoriety were doubling every year since the birth of major social media in 2006. To stop this sickening trend, Marc ultimately drafted Jordan’s Law, the nation’s first state law to deter social media-motivated violence. And, with Ed’s fierce advocacy, Jordan’s Law was signed into law in California within only a year of its introduction.

ORGANIZATION FOR SOCIAL MEDIA SAFETY IS BORN

Ed and Marc saw a very urgent need for an organization that had the vision, capacity, and capability to fight back against these dangers, an organization that recognized that while social media may be here to stay, it could actually become safe with the right interventions. That is why they founded the Organization for Social Media Safety.

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Marc Berkman serves as the CEO of the Organization for Social Media Safety (OFSMS) where he has grown OFSMS into a prominent national consumer protection organization that has taught social media safety skills to thousands of students, parents, and educators across the country and developed essential social media safety legislation like Jordan’s Law, the nation’s first law to deter social media-motivated violence.
Previously, Marc served for over a decade as a senior advisor to members of Congress and the California State Assembly. During his time as a legislative aide, he developed and helped pass into law numerous legislative initiatives to protect vulnerable children and families.
Marc received his JD from Columbia Law School and his BA from UC Berkeley. He lives with his wife and two children in Los Angeles, CA.

After a long career in business, Ed Peisner founded the Organization for Social Media Safety in 2016 after his teenage son Jordan was viciously assaulted in West Hills, CA. The attack was filmed and uploaded to social media by an associate of the attacker. The video went viral, viewed by millions, and Jordan was left with serious and life-long injuries from the assault. Ed decided to dedicate himself to the goal of ensuring that no other family had to endure such a terrible ordeal.
Now, Ed travels the country as the National Education Director for the Organization for Social Media Safety teaching thousands of students, parents, and educators how to stay safe on social media.

ed@ofsms.org

MEDIA SAFETY:

The Organization for Social Media Safety is the first nonprofit (501c3) consumer protection
organization focused exclusively on social media. Through advocacy, education, and technology
development, OFSMS protects against all social media-related dangers including cyberbullying,
hate speech, sexual harassment, and human trafficking.