Lemonade to be made!

Well this has been a very hard week for me so hard that I can not keep my focus on school.  I found out this week that I will be laid off from my job after four years.  Sadly, I have only been in the Dallas office just under a year, they transferred me here in May of 2010.  Everyday and night I go to bed worrying about it and what to do, and my mind just will not take a break from it.  I know from life's experience that it is true when one door closes another one opens but the older you become the harder it is specially when we are living in hard times and jobs are already hard to find.  It seems struggles never change but with age you do learn from them so that with each one you do realize there will be an answer somewhere so I will just keep holding to that truth.  Bottom line I have a lot of lemons right now so get your glasses ready for a lot of lemonade.

My Grandson and ADHD

The topic that I am research is concerning ADHD and the reason for this topic is due to my grandson.  From the time that I took custody of him at the age of 18 months he showed signs of not being able to focus on any one thing.  He would spend a second or two on something and then move to the next object and then the next.  He was into everything around the house, which I know that is typical in children but he was more into things than normal.  Another sign was he constantly made noise verbally, he still does meaning he takes a few words repeating them over and over again non-stop for hours or he will just make a noise of any kind repeating it non-stop.  I had to wait until he was starting school to have him diagnosed for ADHD and since that time he has been taking medication for it.  The medication has made a world of difference, he is more focused and can control himself in many ways better than before however he still makes the noise but not to the degree that he was, but the medication has had its side affects.  The side affects that he has experienced have been from headaches to lack of hunger, at one time he lost 17 pounds and due to that I began looking into other means of treatment for ADHD.  If I can really understand what affects diet will or can make I would rather have him on the diet than the medication, so my research is to influence our world and what would be better for my grandson in the long run concerning his health and living with ADHD.

Then and Now

When I was in my teens, which was in the 70's, college was not really encouraged unless you were a really good student in high school.  I was not one of those students so my parents discouraged me from attending college, so instead I was married at the age of 19 and began my family.  Work experience though counted a great deal, sad to say today experience is great but the college paper is top requirement in just about every field now so work experience can only take you so far.  So now here I am looking for a college degree to help me with making a better living for myself and my grandson.  I will say though that at this time in my life I have much more confidence in myself than when I was a teen which life tends to mature you in a way that prepares you to deal with just about anything.  Even though at times I feel overwhelmed I find more and more strength with each course I take watching my hours add up taking me closer to reaching my goal.  One day I will be able to look back and say I did it, I may have struggled to graduate from high school but I now I am a winner in college!

Plagiarism

We cite so that the credit for work or the ideas are given to the proper person who actual had the idea and did the work.  It guides others to information that is cited and shows you to be a honest writer.  I sit here trying to think of what I would do if someone took credit for my work, after becoming upset, I then would first gather my backup showing that the credit was mine then proceed to take the steps needed to correct the issue.

I have worked in a few offices where an executive has took credit for information that actually came from an employee that answered to that executive.  Nothing ever came of it due to the fact the employees worried about their jobs and let it go.  What should have taken place is to confront him first then if that did not work you would proceed to the next level of authority.  Since I do not work there anymore I can only hope that someone did finally step up.

As for the Internet I think the lines do get blurred somewhat depending on the sites such as Wikipedia and others like it.  With the technology that is created everyday I know they have ways of tracking the lines of “legally owned” more than they use to but with every new knowledge comes those that seem to find a way around all the road blocks.  Based on that it is like any fight there is victory but yet another fight around the corner, so goes plagiarism there will always be those who take credit they do not deserve.