Dr. Michael Postma
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first heard Dec 2017
last heard Jul 2022
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placement with different types of teachers that maybe have more training and understanding or you know, the one thing I always emphasize is empathy.
I've always said when I hired teachers in the past, I said, I can teach you all the skills, but I can't teach you empathy.
And if you don't have the empathy, it's very difficult to teach one of these children.
Well I wrote it um partly because we've struggled so
so much with our own children.
Um our oldest is actually on her own in Minneapolis and doing quite well.
Uh almost a miracle, but uh she made it.
But our our second Sean is uh nineteen, almost going on twenty, and he's not been in school since early ninth grade.
He just you know he just couldn't do it.
Um Alex is seventeen a senior but struggles with incredible anxiety and stress and depression.
Um and then Amanda's our artist
who again hasn't been in school for a number of years at at sixteen and she speaks she's a nonverbal who speaks through her art.
Um
So how do you accommodate that in the classroom?
So this is why it really motivated me to start writing.
I've also been working with these kids for many, many years and just seeing the struggles that these kids and their and parents there you know, it really falls on the family as well.
That extra stress um when they come home and just have these meltdowns 'cause uh, you know, they tend to hold it in during the day and
And then becomes an issue at home.
But uh so partly for that and then partly for for the teachers, it is written with teachers in mind.
And it's it's really is an introductory book.
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