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Oh, Dearest Mother, Sweetest Virgin of Altagracia, our Patroness. You are our Advocate and to you we recommend our needs. You are our Teacher and like disciples we come to learn from the example of your holy life. You are our Mother, and like children, we come to offer you all of the love of our hearts. Receive, dearest Mother, our offerings and listen attentively to our supplications. Amen.

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Kathryn
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Posted: May 14 2013 at 10:47pm \| IP Logged

I've been looking at the AO site and came across the area for using their schedules for LD children. You can read the whole thing here AO Online Parent Support

where they talk about "backward children" which of course would be so UN-politically correct today but this last part really spoke to me. I wanted to share it with others that travel this journey of schooling children that learn outside the "average" for whatever reason. I mean really, the last part brought tears to my eyes in the hopes I have for my DS.

by E. Downes, M.D.
Volume 8, no. 4, 1897, pgs. 255-263
edited by Charlotte Mason

Only let us have patience; let us make allowance for their difficulties; let us begin with concrete rather than abstract ideas; let us develop their bodies; and through their games and recreations let us try to find some portal to the slumbering intellect; above all, let us watch over their moral nature with even greater jealousy than we do in the case of ordinary children. If we cannot teach the sciences, we can, at any rate, employ the dim twilight of the slow developing mind in pressing home the value of truth, honesty, and purity; let us tell of the love of "God, the salvation of Christ, and the guidance and comfort of the Holy Spirit. Let us do this conscientiously, and await the dawn of the mind's sun; when that sun rises, it may be more beautiful, more lovely than we ever could have imagined. Our toil will be a thousand times repaid, not perhaps by the successful result of a competitive examination, but by a useful, loving, and healthy life.

"They that sow in tears shall reap in joy."
"There are first that shall be last, and there are last that shall be first."

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MichelleW
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Posted: May 15 2013 at 9:52pm \| IP Logged

Thank you Kathryn.

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Michelle
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Posted: May 18 2013 at 12:31pm \| IP Logged

Yes, thank you so much for this. I save all encouragement ideas and quotes to help me through those rough days. Bridget

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