by Glendale Sports Center | Mar 21, 2023 | Glendale City News
As a parent, one of the most important — and sometimes challenging — things you may do is advocating for your child’s physical and emotional well-being. Childrens’ voices aren’t always heard, and sometimes they need adults to speak up on their behalf.
How To Advocate For Your Child At school
Being involved in your child’s education plays a powerful role in their academic success. If you’re wondering how to advocate for your child at school, keep in mind that you and your child’s teacher should work together to develop plans that make the school experience as positive as possible. Regular communication with your child’s teacher can help shed light on any problems or issues your child is having in the classroom, as well as assure you how your child is doing in school.
How To Advocate For Your Child In Social Settings
If your child needs help with bullying, it might be time for you to step in. When bringing up an ongoing issue with another parent, have the conversation privately rather than in front of other people. Begin by asking the other parent for their help. Don’t blame or shame, just stick to the facts and try to avoid using the word “bully.” Admit that you may not have the whole story (there are always two sides), so be open to what the other side is. You might even mention how awkward you feel bringing up this topic. Focus on working together to find a resolution that works for everyone. If the bullying doesn’t stop, follow up with the parent again.
In addition to directly communicating with other parents, have regular communication with school personnel. Ask your child’s teachers, coaches, and guidance counselors how your child is doing socially and emotionally at school and within their peer groups. If the bullying is happening at school, they need to be made aware so they can help. Lastly, be sure to keep tabs on your child’s online presence and make sure they’re using social media safely to help prevent cyberbullying.
How To Advocate For Your Child In Healthcare
Your child has rights as a patient and you also have rights and responsibilities as a parent. Some of those rights include taking part in all decisions regarding your child’s care and treatment, asking questions freely, whether to ask to see another doctor, get a second opinion, or change doctors or hospitals, and asking for things to be explained more clearly if you don’t understand fully.
At home, parents can prepare their child for an upcoming medical experience by being honest and informative. For example, if a child needs to visit their primary care doctor for a vaccination, parents can inform the child a few days beforehand. They might say, “It’s important to keep your body healthy, and part of that is going to the doctor even when we feel well, so they can help us continue to feel great in the future.” Then, as the appointment nears, parents can explain the vaccination procedure step by step, with sensory details, such as “first, you’ll feel cold soap that cleans your skin,” and “next, you’ll feel a poke that lasts less than 20 seconds.”
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To learn more ways you can keep kids healthy from Children’s Hospital Colorado experts, join five area YMCAs in the Denver metro area for Healthy Kids Day on Saturday, April 29. More details at https://denverymca.org/healthy-kids-day.
by Charles Bonniwell | Mar 17, 2023 | Editorials
Editorial —
Amanda Sawyer, Bought and Paid For By Developers
Buyer of Politicians and Liberal Interest Groups, Andrew Klein
Nineteenth century showman and con artist P.T. Barnum’s most famous purported saying is: “There is a sucker born every minute.” Westside Investment Partners and its head Andrew Klein certainly appear to believe that to be true of Denver. At the PBS12 mayoral debate all the candidates were jointly asked:
“Raise your hand if you are receiving campaign donations from Westside Investment Partners or any related entities who own golf course property and are pushing for its development.”
No one raised their hand but, in fact, former state Senator Mike Johnston, state Senator Chris Hansen, and city Councilmember Debbie Ortega all took money from Klein and support the high-density development on Park Hill Golf Course. This is enough that no one on the Editorial Board will vote for or support any of those individuals for mayor.
Denverite has reported Westside Investment Partners’ leaders and staff are supporting eight City Council candidates, including Amanda Sawyer who ran four years ago against high-density development. Sawyer, who quickly became almost unbearably smug, self-important, and arrogant upon assuming her city council position, has now become a high-density developer backer. This demonstrates that there must be something in the water in District 5 as her two predecessors, Marcia Johnson and Mary Beth Susman, also became corrupted by developers soon after coming into office. Incumbents in Denver are almost impossible to beat, especially when backed by developer money, but Michael Hughes is trying to unseat Sawyer in District 5 and we wish him the best.
It isn’t just politicians that Klein and Westside Investment Partners have corrupted with their money. A Who’s Who of venerable liberal organizations including Volunteers of America, Habitat for Humanity, St. Thomas Episcopal, Greater Metro Denver Ministerial Alliance, Denver Classroom Teachers Association, and many others, signed onto one of most dishonest ad campaigns to get Denver voters to approve their high-density development on April 4th.
The development is being sold on the ridiculous canard that because there is a city-wide shortage of high-quality, affordable housing we must approve their development of 2,550 new homes on half of 155 acres of open space. The most revolting assertion is that it causes the “creation of the fourth largest park in the city.” By taking half the land now for high-density development no one but a fool would believe that they will not be back for the other half in a blink of an eye.
The hucksters who told us at one time that we had to destroy South Vietnam in order to save it are back at it to tell you that you have to destroy a 155-acre park to save it. The homes will not be affordable, but will go for Cherry Hills prices and disrupt a wonderful Black neighborhood for rich White yuppies.
The destruction of Park Hill Golf Course is Mayor Michael Hancock’s final middle finger to the people of Denver. In 12 years as mayor he has made the city so unlivable that he is moving to Miami when his term is up. Hopefully Denver voters will give him the middle finger back by voting “NO” on Referred Question 20.
by Peter Boyles | Mar 17, 2023 | Blasting with Boyles
OPINION
There always comes that moment in a person’s life when they discover there’s no such thing as Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny is made up, there’s no such thing as a witch on Halloween, and there sure as hell isn’t a pony under the tree on Christmas morning.
Now it’s happening at Fox News. Now their big stars are being outed in a lawsuit filed by local election voting firm Dominion. At Fox News, hosts regularly featured election deniers in the weeks after Trump’s 2020 election defeat. And now under oath, the likes of a Sean Hannity said he never believed election lies despite pushing them on his show.
Fox viewers questioned the election because of what they saw on the network. Fox allowed election falsehoods on its air for what reasons? Did they fear their viewers like we at the Chronicle fear you readers? Fox denies any wrongdoing and accuses Dominion of cherry-picking quotes. Fox Corporation chairman Rupert Murdoch suggested firing the Fox News Washington Bureau chief shortly after the network projected Joe Biden the winner in Arizona, which caught everybody off guard. It’s almost some bizarre version of the French Revolution, where Robespierre, read here Rupert Murdoch, fears the mob. And so, what did they do? They lied.
I suffered two and half years of election deniers watching people now facing felony charges. Watching Jenna Ellis, after accepting a censure going outside the courtroom like a little kid in kindergarten sticking her tongue out and going, ‘Nanner nanner,’ I really didn’t mean it.”
The records we were able to read in the Fox defamation case show management put pressure on reporters. Tucker Carlson in an email, claims he hated Donald Trump; and now manufactures a total Riefenstahl version of the calm, minute and a half in the putsch, that took place on January 6th.
Now comes Smartmatic’s defamation suit filed in February of 2021, and Fox viewers were told and fake talk radio said Smartmatic was a Venezuelan company under the control of dead dictators and its election technology was used in six battle ground states. In fact, none of that was true. The only place Smartmatic was used was in LA county.
Sending votes to foreign countries for tabulation, the Supreme Court in New York said Fox News turned a blind eye to a litany of outrageous claims about plaintiffs unprecedented in the history of American elections so inherently problematic that it is a reckless disregard for the truth.
Now watch. Who will be next? The answer is fake talk radio is next. All the best to Dave Williams. The crown price of what’s left of the Republican Party in Colorado. Good luck, Dave. You’re going to need it.
— Peter Boyles
