How many parents do you know who would like to improve communication with their children? Free tickets available to "The Art of Parenting"

Still have free tickets to "The Art of Parenting" in Sacto, S.F., L.A., and London (UK). Use the discount code "parent". http://ping.fm/ycmDo

6-hours last night butchering a 360 pound hog. This morning I could hardly life my arms. Time to fire up the smoker.... yummm

Go to http://ping.fm/OXxf7 and use the discount code "parent". We have advance tickets for friends and family but they won't last.

Do you know parents who would like to know the secret to parenting in the 21st century? We've got 100 tickets to give away...

Has anyone seen the size of that hurricane pounding the east coast? Holy Crap! It extends from Florida to Nova Scocia. Best wishes guys.

Must Pass on: Event in Irvine, CA. "The Power to Create Your Life" w/ Michael Stevenson. Complimentary tickets at http://ping.fm/umQyB

Send me your top three parenting struggles and receive tickets free for two to "The ART of PARENTING" (value $197.00) http://ping.fm/UWU1J

Who would like a workshop on the "ART of PARENTING--tools for parenting in the 21st century"?
What would YOU like to see in this workshop?

I'm having wayyyyyyyy too much fun. Old web site, http://ping.fm/vAsmv, New Look, New online programs, lots of (free) parent resources.

Enjoying the fruits of our first honey harvest of 2011. Our bees have been very busy all summer and we should harvest about 300 pounds. Yum!

A Dual-Route Perspective on Brain Activation in Response to Visual Words:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2989181/
A Dual-Route Perspective on Brain Activation in Response to Visual Words: Evidence for a Length by Lexicality Interaction in the Visual Word Form Area (VWFA)

"This absence of a length effect is critical as it suggests that, in the standard lexical decision task, pseudowords are not processed by the serially operating sublexical route, but by the lexical route. This means that in the standard lexical decision task, whole letter strings of both words and pseudowords are matched against stored orthographic word representations (see Coltheart et al., 1977)."

The evidence of lexical decision by lexical route supports the use of "whole-word" or "Visual-based" reading strategies as a valid primary approach to reading instruction.

"Hence, one would expect a length effect for words even at these levels of the coding hierarchy. Obviously, this was not the case as the word length effect ceased to be reliable in the posterior fusiform ROI. This absence of a word-length effect is suggestive for orthographic whole-word recognition."

Again, supporting reading instruction by "whole-word" or visual-based reading methods.

"In general, the length by lexicality interactions in left temporal and frontal regions are broadly consistent with the position of several authors that the sublexical “phonological” reading route poses specific demands to language regions of the left hemisphere (Borowsky et al., 2006; Pugh et al., 2000; Sandak et al., 2004).

The demands that sublexical "phonological" reading places on the language regions of the left hemisphere, suggests that some persons struggling with the effects of Auditory Processing Disorders and/or some forms of Auditory-based dyslexia may have an easier time learning to read with a whole-word or visual-based approach.

None of this is to suggest the omission of phonics-based instruction, rather is may suggest that some individuals may benefit from a whole-word or visual strategy to reading as the primary instruction with a sublexical "phonological" strategy as the secondary instruction.

Man on a mission...
http://www.readwithdyslexia.info

Our Three-Year-old's question of the day: "Why does everybody love me so much?"
Gotta Love it! http://t.co/9XIQ9nJ

Our Three-Year-old's question of the day: "Why do everybody love me so much?"
Gotta Love it! http://t.co/9XIQ9nJ

Apparently one of the links did not work properly. Here is our new, fun video
http://ping.fm/mLyn5

I hope everyone is thoroughly enjoying their trip though "Understanding Learning Styles and Learn Struggles http://ping.fm/c4E4e

Hichael, thanks for the tip on Animoto.com
my new intro movie is actually fun and exciting.
thanks again. http://t.co/N7LcMlC

New Parenting Workshops and Programs. Follow the White Rabbit. http://ping.fm/aGuWA

First honey harvest of 2011. Yummmmmmm!
and our awesome free parent workshop is still free,
http://ping.fm/5u2TG

OK, I'm offering our Parent Workshop: "Understanding Learning Styles and Learning Struggles ($95.00 value) FREE. http://ping.fm/E0vNR

getting ready for coaching call to Trinidad-Tobago. One of our newest NLC Learning Specialists, Nadia.

Just finished a chapter for my next book. The title of the chapter is "The Eye of the Storm". Title of the book to be announced...

two feet away from a skunk. I saw him before he saw me. slammed the front door not a moment to spare. I'll just stay inside till morning...

Here I am, finding new possibilities for myself in Colinga with a broken transmission line connection. to be continued...

ps: I'm VERY excited and VERY tired!

When you can stand in front of a group while people talk, interrupt, throw things, walk in and out, etc. while you maintain your focus? WOW!

I"m ready to go on record as saying this is absolutely the more transforming course I've ever taken (in 54 years).

Finishing up a new book and new programs for parents and teachers are just the beginning. Michael, you're awesome!

Only two days left of Trainers Training. I'm totally looking forward to updating my trainings with all these new skills.

Still down in So. Cal.NLP Trainer's Training with Michael Stevenson. Awesome. Mind-blowing. And still one week to go...