Pam Schmidt 🐶🐈🐴

Lover of all animals and select people, Dodger baseball and good books. Widow raising 2 amazing grandsons.

[Pam Schmidt 🐶🐈🐴 @Schmidt18Pam]

@heymrsbond @MelanatedSamus Punishment will only teach this kid to keep his disturbing thoughts to himself or do a better job hiding them. He needs natural consequences (the alternative school or something else appropriate to keep others safe) and mental health help.

[Pam Schmidt 🐶🐈🐴 @Schmidt18Pam]

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[Kareem J. Weaver @KJWinEducation]

I was asked to reconsider the term 'Science of Reading' because it's divisive + makes some people uncomfortable?

Well, centering what's comfortable for adults is partly how we got here in the first place. So no.

@RightToReadFilm @Hunt_Institute @FulcrumLiteracy

[Pam Schmidt 🐶🐈🐴 @Schmidt18Pam]

@preacherwife_ @melodymlyons I allow my teens to be alone in the room with their doctor if the teen is ok with it. I join them after they have a chance to talk to my teen alone. While I know abuse can happen, imo, it needs to be balanced with the need for teens to have privacy with their medical team.

[Pam Schmidt 🐶🐈🐴 @Schmidt18Pam]

@BeckRSaunders @heymrsbond My 15 year old does a great job of writing emails now. But he also will miss replies because he doesn’t check his email. I’ve yet to make sense of that.

[Pam Schmidt 🐶🐈🐴 @Schmidt18Pam]

@heymrsbond This is amazing. I’m sharing with my teens since I feel like I need to coach them continuously about this. Esp the last step.

[Pam Schmidt 🐶🐈🐴 @Schmidt18Pam]

@bexone @daniela127 Not based on my experience, but what I have since studied about how our brains learn to read, I’m confident that only a small majority learn to read by following along with a chapter book.

[Pam Schmidt 🐶🐈🐴 @Schmidt18Pam]

@bexone @daniela127 Yes, some kids learn that way. Many kids learn very easily and I love that for them. But if you look at our national reading scores, that isn’t the majority of kids.

[Pam Schmidt 🐶🐈🐴 @Schmidt18Pam]

@bexone @daniela127 He had an IEP but not a specific diagnosis until I paid for testing. And no useful supports. If I knew then what I know now. I was just told to read to him more and he was told not to be lazy.

[Pam Schmidt 🐶🐈🐴 @Schmidt18Pam]

@bexone @daniela127 I’d need some evidence for that. With my dyslexic child, he just memorized the story. He was a great fake reader. Even my non dyslexic kid didn’t pick up much from watching me read a book, although he learned to read quickly at school

[Pam Schmidt 🐶🐈🐴 @Schmidt18Pam]

@krk73 @Patefor8 @NYC_stateofmind Schools should alert a parent when a child is struggling in any area. And then be able to point parents to resources (more than Kumon) as well as consider having the school conduct a formal evaluation.

[Pam Schmidt 🐶🐈🐴 @Schmidt18Pam]

@bexone @daniela127 Reading to kids and modeling reading is great. But neither teaches a child to read. Just like listening to music doesn’t teach you to read music.

[Pam Schmidt 🐶🐈🐴 @Schmidt18Pam]

@tilleymylily @daniela127 @Theophilus_TP I agree. The earlier kids with dyslexia get diagnosed, the earlier they can get the help they need.

[Pam Schmidt 🐶🐈🐴 @Schmidt18Pam]

@katiewr31413491 @daniela127 I knew they were more conservative (much more) than I am on other issues but that’s fine. But then…

[Pam Schmidt 🐶🐈🐴 @Schmidt18Pam]

@katiewr31413491 @daniela127 Yup. Moms for Liberty, among others, were right. But quoting Hitler “by accident” and some of their other actions makes their advocacy for anything now counter productive.

[Pam Schmidt 🐶🐈🐴 @Schmidt18Pam]

@LABadMomzClub @daniela127 I knew about one of them but not both. We all need to do what's best for our kids but it'd be great if we could accord that respect to everyone else.

[Pam Schmidt 🐶🐈🐴 @Schmidt18Pam]

@SoFiStadium @Ticketmaster @taylorswift13. Here’s a family who can’t see Taylor Swift because the screwed up ticketing system allows scalpers to buy up ADA seats and sell them for an ultrahigh premium. Pls work together to fix this for this family & others. #ADA #accessibility

[Pam Schmidt 🐶🐈🐴 @Schmidt18Pam]

@DrSuneelDhand This is a ridiculous statement. Every doctor I’ve been to is thrilled to have patients doing their best to take care of their health. Doctors are not the enemy.

[Pam Schmidt 🐶🐈🐴 @Schmidt18Pam]

@InformedMama209 If you had a child with significant mental health problems, you’d realize what a non issue this is. The struggle is getting a child to agree to enter & stay in these programs. In California, children can leave residential programs without parental consent.