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GET A LIFE: Here’s to you, mum!
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Your strengths arent where you think they are, mum would say
I miss my mum so much. To cope and survive, all its been for the past 24 years is patching the gap, disguising the wounds. So here goes. Mum, this is a tribute to your memory. Your daughter will always look up to you and love you.
Losing her year-long battle with cancer, mum passed away on Sept 1, 1988 at 10.20pm. She was only 48. Mum was tall 1.7 metre. She worked out regularly, was fit, and was never ill a day in her life. She dressed fashionably.
The cancer (or rather the handling of the disease) ravaged her spirit, turning her from a vivacious, glamorous, and energetic woman into a meek, fearful, and defeated person. I would often go to the crowded hospital ward, waiting for her doctors to do their rounds. I would stand there and insist on speaking with the oncologist, radiologist, and all the caregivers so that wed know what was happening to mum.
What did the symptoms mean? Why those tests, why those drugs, and what to do about the effects they had on mum? I remember my sister ringing me up and me going numb upon receiving the news. I wasnt home much as we travelled a lot on business and until today I wish I had been by her side more throughout her ordeal. She never asked being the selfless, self-sacrificing soul that she was, but I know it. The experience of raising my own children has made me understand the completeness of a mothers love... and a mothers yearning to be close with her babies, especially in a crisis.
Throughout the journey home, I kept thinking, Why hadnt I been there? How could I have left her when she needed me most? I was tormented by guilt. Mummy, please forgive me. My deepest values, everything I understand about the meaning of life and the wonder of living, I derived from my mum. She was my guardian angel, my teacher, and disciplinarian. She was my best friend my cheerleader, my defender, my protector. Growing up, it was mostly mum.
From my early teenage years, my dad worked in another town. Mum, my sister, brother and I only saw him on weekends. So you could say that she was a single mum, raising three growing children on her own. There was great celebration when dad came home. Afternoon tea was a tradition in our house, the family would gather and yarn about what went on during the week.
I remember a lot of laughter. Mum made it safe for us to speak up, to be expressive. She was forthright and candid and that gave us permission to be ourselves. Then I went away to college and coming home was always something I looked forward to, a time to let down my hair.
What does it cost you to be obedient and inauthentic? What would I lose if I gave up my Self to conform in exchange for acceptance and approval? Every time I compromise, I suffer the most. Every time I forget my upbringing who I really am and where I come from I run aground. This is what I know for sure because of her.
Your strengths arent where you think they are, mum would say. How I wish Id trusted her more, paid more attention to her lessons, which were always subtle and loving, never obvious or abrasive. That I work in coaching and mentoring today, is because of you, mum. That I champion womens development is because of how you inspired me. That I fight for equality, mutual respect, freedom, and esteem for womens role in our community is a candle I light in your honour.
Campus Connections launched at conference
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CollegeBound Coaching LLC (collegeboundcoaching.com), a pioneer in the field of student life coaching, which helps middle and high school students throughout the Boston area with college preparation and admissions, has introduced an innovative service called Campus Connections, designed to personalize the college-visit experience through a fast-growing network of college students who are trained to work directly with high school students and their families across the country.
Harvard classmates Phil Sloan and Steve Maislin have launched Campus Connections (campusconnections.us) at the spring conference of the Independent Educational Consultants (www.IECAonline.org) held this week in Boston. IECA is the nations leading professional organization for independent educational consultants working in private practice. For 35 years, IECA has helped its members serve families in educational decisions that include colleges, local day and boarding schools, schools or programs for students with learning or behavioral needs, international placements, summer opportunities, and graduate and professional schools.
As we began helping high school students with the highly competitive college admissions process and started sending families to visit schools under consideration, we became more and more aware of how little they were learning from the traditional process of attending the group campus tours and information sessions conducted by the admissions offices themselves, Sloan explained. After two or three visits, students were complaining that the tour guides sounded the same, and the parents were disappointed that there were few opportunities to ask their more specific questions in a group setting.
He continued, Recognizing that both transfer rates and tuition costs are rising higher than ever and that so many parents are spending even more money for lost credits when their children find themselves unhappy with their college selections, we decided to focus our time and energy upon enhancing the college-visit process as a means of helping families to make better-informed decisions. We quickly realized that college students themselves are the best source of information about life at their own campuses.
Sloan began by leveraging his local contacts in the Marblehead and Swampscott area to interest college students in joining his fast-growing network of Campus Connections. In just several months, Campus Connections has grown to include more than 150 college students at more than 100 campuses across the country.
We expect to be on more than 500 campuses by September, Sloan said. College students are joining Campus Connections because we are providing rich and rewarding, part-time, on-campus jobs.
Campus Connections are trained to work closely with each family to understand what they are most interested in learning about and to then schedule meetings for them during their college visit with other members of their campus community who can answer their specific questions about those areas of particular interest.
We encourage families to attend official college tours and information sessions conducted by the admissions offices, and to personalize their on-campus visits through Campus Connections, Sloan said.
He concluded, For the summer, we are offering high school students and their parents the opportunity to connect with our Campus Connections online and by phone, thereby providing college students with summer jobs and high school juniors the opportunity to begin learning more about schools to which they plan to apply in the fall. We are also offering to provide some college students with summer marketing internships, leveraging their knowledge of social media to help us continue building our network of Campus Connections.
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