Good
morning. This is me. Alas, you were looking for someone else? Today is going to be a very relaxing day, we
hope. It is the day before 4th
of July, so many places are closed for the holiday, and as to OUR schedule, our
gym teacher Laura is off on vacation.
YAY! We could have gone to the
Sandwich YMCA, but we would have had to be there in a half an hour, and that IS
a very early time for us. We’re still in
our PJ's and just starting to get on with the day. We can wait.
There
is one other change in the schedule.
Well there are a few. Austin
called yesterday and said he would be unable to come this week due to a chipped
tooth that was aggravating him. So, we
rescheduled for a couple of weeks later – so that he’s going to be coming on
our birthday YAYYYYYY! So, happy about
that! I’m pretty sure we’re going to be
celebrating. I would wish to do
something with the kids as well, but I’m pretty sure that Maury will be working
that night. AND, the same would go for
Wednesday. AND, then Austin will be gone
on Thursday – probably after noon. I’m
looking VERY forward to having him!
Another
change in the schedule, is that Dr. Austin will be seeing me on Thursday, July
6th. Over the weekend while
we were in the pool – or somewhere close to that, my right big toe nail
broke. It is still on at the bottom, but
loose anywhere else, so, we’re pretty sure it’s going to need coming off. Dr. Austin is the podiatrist. It’s not painful. I’m glad about that! The appointment is at 8:30AM – so thinking an
hour, - so 9:30AM, and then we COULD go to Dr. Marvin’s for a 11AM
appointment. Better check for time. AHA! MapQuest
says 41 min and 38 miles. We go straight
down 88 to 290. Looks like almost
straight east. If the traffic took an
hour instead of 41 (for traffic), we’d get in a half hour early. It looks doable. We might also have to stop at the bank, but
whether we go before or after Dr. Marvin’s would have to be calculated at the
time. Also, we don’t know if Rich would
come with us, or we would have to go on our own. I think we can handle it, though we don’t
know if we’ll be in pain and if the foot will be numbed. It is our pedal foot, so maybe we CAN’T do
this on our own. Shoot. Sorry to have to wreck Rich’s day ☹
BUT,
it would be a productive day for him in that he does have to go to the
bank. He has a check here waiting for
deposit. I don’t know though, if he can
wait on it until Thursday. Sometimes,
having money in the bank earlier, then later, is a very good idea! Hehe We’ll see.
AHA! Just checked our Trello schedule. We’ve been off for most of the week. We crossed out all the gym times, so we’ve
freed up our schedule for 3 ½ hours of writing.
We still have to take time from that though, to take a shower, and get
dressed. We did pick-up in the living
room and kitchen and we started the dishwasher.
We also got the last “ten to” time to get in our 250 steps. There were only a few other necessary, but it
allowed us to clean the dining table. We
just brought a pile of Rich’s stuff to his office AND we brought a pillow from
the sitting room Rich must have used this morning to the bedroom. YAY!
SCORE! I love how happy the
little guy in our Fitbit gets when we do a good job!
One
of the things we MUST do today, is get the quilt back finished so we can mail
the quilt package to our quilter by Wednesday.
We must allow time for delivery, and she said she had time in her
schedule for the second week in July.
That’s already next week! I don’t
want to complicate the matter. We have
written our instructions the last time we blogged and we just need to buckle
under and get the job done. It should be
easier in the daylight, so we’re going to block out time this afternoon after
lunch to work on it. Everything is at
the dining room table, we just need the time.
It’s a nice sunny day – so NO Excuses.
That give us tomorrow – to finish up or get to our 160 emails BLAH! Tuesday being the 4th nothing of
note going on.
We
should also wash some clothes today – just to get our vacation clothes
done. Hmm, maybe I should get that
started too? We did just do the kitty
litter and garbage for Rich, because it’s garbage day and he was taking a few
moments to get it done. Ok,
laundry. BRB.
There,
that was easy enough … just two bags.
Well, maybe 2 ½ bags. AHH … I
know good day to get the guest bed through the wash maybe sheets and pillow
cases in with the half, and then on its own, we should wash the blanket
too. It’s time. Got that all covered, we should then be good
for the day. First writing, laundry and
dishwasher – place is all picked-up except the bed/shower/dressed, and then we
continue that after the shower until 11:45 – 12:45 which is lunch/CNN, and then
we take care of sewing. If there is any
time after that … we can start on the emails, hmm? Good-good!
Oh, and after dinner? Last night,
we went out with a couple of pre-made Margaritas with Rich, but there were
little bugs around everywhere, so maybe tonight, we’ll just turn off the TV,
turn on the music and have a little happy hour with Rich INDOORS! Could work!
So,
let’s move on. There have been some
things happening since we last wrote.
One of the biggest things was that we went to the dinner theater to see,
“Grease!” It was very good. Not excellent – because Sandy was only medium
good and we didn’t really like the Danny character’s singing. There were a few break-out voices from other
people, but in general watching any play half-way good in a nice dinner theater
– well that sort of makes up for a lot of things. This was the first time, we’d seen the show,
so that was interesting to see how it unfolded.
Our
seating was excellent! We were in a row
of seats in the handicap section where there weren’t any stairs. AND, we were on the end, AND they gave us two
empty chairs next to both Rich and us (we sat across from each other), but the
extra space was for Dakota. So that was
perfect. I’m mixed on the other part of
the seating. We were at a table for six,
and again there were only four seats because of Dakota, and fortunately, the
other couple had three big dogs, and so there weren’t any problems with them
and Dakota. The guy was an engineer who
put signals something together for sensors for multitudes of electronic hardware. His wife was an administrator of the court,
and they were there on their 15th wedding anniversary. I’m sure that she didn’t appreciate sitting
with others, but he was very talkative – mostly in a good way, but after a
while, we just wanted to have time with Rich.
I’m SURE the other woman felt the same.
I think she was irked to be with others, but Rich was saying I was
reading into things. I wouldn’t argue my
observation skills, but I know they’ve been trained over the years studying and
working in Psych. During other times of
the trip, we discussed some of Rich and our foibles. But, not here at this moment.
In
general, what we will say, is that we had a good time.
I
believe we’ve talked about losing our nail.
That was one of the bad things about this trip. We did get in on swimming Thursday afternoon
and Friday morning, but we couldn’t go in the pool or hot tub afterward because
of fear of infection – for either us or others.
Rich did get us some bandage material and he dressed the wound. And, without it hurting much AND being able
to still wear shoes, we just let the rest go.
Again, we have an appointment on Thursday. We just hope she gives us a good dose of
“please don’t’ hurt stuff!”
The
other bad thing about the trip was that we got a call from Rich’s Mom’s and
Bud’s service saying that Bud had fallen.
And, then there was a flurry of calls between their house, Karen, Rich,
the aide and medical services.
Apparently, Bud had his third stroke.
He’s OK now, but they had to wait until sometime today to do further
testing, because with his heart pace-maker, he needed special diagnostic
people. He did tear some skin along his
arm when he fell. Rich took his mother
to the hospital yesterday, and in general seeing to her well-being was going
for about six hours. He had the help of
an aide, but made sure she was in her pajamas when he dropped her off, and then
called later to assure she’d made it to her bed. She should have been OK during the night, but
today’s special caring will start again for him.
After
Rich got the call, and even though he knew that he’d set things-up well for his
Mother and Bud, given the circumstances, he still decided that we should skip
the scenic tour we had planned for the trip home, and we spent less time
goofing around the hotel before leaving.
They did have a very good breakfast bar – AND, a LOT of seating in a
separate area next to the food service counters. We didn’t have any problems there with Dakota
or other.
Dakota
did pretty good on the trip, he had a harder time getting to the washroom at the
right time, in that, he couldn’t go when we preferred, but did have to go at
other times offered that were less than perfect, but he didn’t have any
accidents, so that part was good. As
stated, he did very well at the play, and his most remarkable time was when we
were still using the pool.
The
first day, we tried it he grumbled a little about laying down, but both at the
pool and the hot tub, he stayed exactly where we put him no matter where we
were in the pool. We stayed about 45 minutes the first time, and then the
second time on Friday, we stayed an hour in the big pool and another 15 minutes
in the hot tub. We found ourselves even
more sure of ourselves and Dakota the second day. We didn’t have any problem with him staying
in place and that included during 20 minutes of time, we stayed in the deep end
where we couldn’t touch treading water.
I thought it was a great exercise and we could have gone on, but our
arms were feeling some wear and tear.
We
enjoyed very much being in the pool and feeling very light and able, and we
practiced using our knowledge picked up during gym as to always moving
different parts of the body. We used the
pole coming down the stairs for a lot of the exercising. One arm would be on it, for example, and the
rest of the body would twist in a circle.
It didn’t feel hard at all, although we could feel stretching. We knew we were doing good work, especially
doing things like switching our legs from regular back and forth swimming – to
doing scissor-like cuts. It just felt
helpful and it got us very enthused thinking that perhaps, we could extend our
Y activities and swim at the pool doing exercises with the group in the fall
after the kids go back to school. Maybe
we’ll have some more time with Dakota to get him used to pool-side, but we’re
feeling good about it.
We
did go out for a separate dinner other than the dinner theater on Thursday
night. It was good and we got a picture
of Rich maybe we could slip in a picture of Rich we took. The only other picture we took is the Cover
picture of Dakota’s street in MN. I know
very significant picture-taking, right?
The picture of Rich at this restaurant was great. The windows he is looking out had a deep
ravine and there was more woodland creatures there, such as a raccoon family
that was playing on the restaurant’s decking looking for food. Ducks too!
The
only other thing was the actual driving – oh one more other thing beside
driving. We should mention the room,
because it was GREAT! It had a bed,
dresser, closet and TV on one side behind a lace covered window and door, and
then in the other room – the living room – well it was very big! It was the length of our real living room and
maybe 2/3’rds the width. It had a bar
with a nice counter, and then it had a desk and nice desk chair, a fully
stuffed chair and a couch, a cupboard and the TV, PLUS it had a four-seater
table. Behind the counter, there was a
bathroom, and it had a hot tub that was our size, but we didn’t get a chance to
use it before breaking our nail. The
doctor’s office (we called home) said we shouldn’t get in the water again,
which was a repeat of Rich’s message to us.
Being
in that much space and not having a bed in the middle of our life all day was
critically nice – especially, Thursday and Friday when Rich went to his three
meetings. It felt like we were not being
forced to work around a room that was suggesting we just give-up and
sleep. You know?
The
car drive – I can’t remember much about it.
I don’t think there were any problems, AND Rich let us drive for two
hours on the way up while he took a nap, and then took care of some business.
During his regular driving, we do some caring of his phone work, but not very
much. I don’t think we read anything, we
did get a chance on Thursday to talk to Dr. Marvin.
I
love that we can talk over the phone, when we are away. It makes a very nice addition to our life in
general. We didn’t have much to talk
about since seeing him, but we were ready for a conversation that had moved-on
since we last saw him. I’m talking about
the work we did and noted during the last blog entry on Quantified Self.
Hmm,
that was good … we just took a five-minute break and did some laundry. We switched a load, and then took apart the
bedding in the guest room. Enough work. We still have about 130 steps left for this
hour, but we have about 40 minutes to get them in. I think we are going to air
out the pillows too. There are four on
the bed, AND we found our sweater that we must have left in the guest
room. I’m not sure why – maybe we laid
down in there. I don’t know where our
black sweater is. I’m hoping, we didn’t
leave it at the Holiday Inn a month ago.
I DO NOT want it lost. I love
that sweater. I’m going to need
searching my closet better, AND/OR looking more carefully at Rich’s SUV, though
I’m sure he would have brought it in if it was out there. Right?
Ok,
enough worrying. Back to Dr. Marvin’s
conversation. I think the best part was
that we had gotten a chance to go over the page and a half of notes we had taken. I don’t want to repeat the information here,
but what seemed to be happening most often, was that we were either telling him
about the way we’d been thinking of things, or we were listening to him because
of our questions on what one thing or another meant. He is very good at defining things to make
them easier for us to understand, and if he doesn’t know something, he will
look it up on the computer. As well, he
takes notes for us. WHICH reminds us –
that we saved something he wrote out for us.
Hold on. There is not much.
Hi Ann,
Here are some notes from the
phone today:
· Look at the books on self-regulation
and DID – figure out a time/space for how to add this to the schedule
· Doing this work/research has
re-activated some thoughts about a potential career path in psychology
· Look up “context” as a concept
Have a good rest of the
trip.
-Dr. M
Yeeks,
that all seems hard to me. I’m thinking
that these notes are for someone else in the system who can think more
clearly. I didn’t remember the parts
about self-regulation, but anyone in the system knows that it’s one of our key
phrases. It goes back 12 years ago, when
we first heard the concept, but didn’t do much with it … It had been too
hard. I guess, Dr. Marvin and some of us
think that it is time to consider it again.
I guess I can do the hard part and see if we have any books on our
shelves.
Hmm,
that was dusty! We found five
books. Three of them were on
“self-regulation,” and two of them were on “self-determination.” I don’t really know much difference between
one and the other right now. There might
be some books on our kindle too. We
better look there as well. Hmm, devise
on the phone wasn’t working fully – it only showed me about twenty books. We have a LOT more! We’ll recharge the phone and look at the
Kindle later. Nope … well, we DID look
on the Kindle when we unhooked it to plug in the phone, and we went all the way
to the bottom and no more books. So,
let’s look at these five.
First
book is “Handbook of Self-Regulation:
Research, Theory, and Applications” Edited by Roy F. Baumeister and
Kathleen D. Vohs (2004). The next book
is “Self-Regulated Learning: From
Teaching to Self-Reflective Practice.” Edited by Dale H. Schunk and Barry
J. Zimmerman (1998). I just know
Zimmerman’s name is big in the field.
This is the smallest book at 244 pages.
The first book is 574 pages – so more than twice the size and the second
book looks more like teaching then the first book, which looked like strong
research. The THIRD book, is a
BUFFALO! It is 763 pages and its name is
also, “Handbook of Self-Regulation,”
but it is edited by Monique Boekaerts, Paul R. Pintrich and Moshe Zeidner
(2000). It is a LARGE 23 Chapters that
sound very tough.
Pswhoo! We did some more moving around to get the
steps we needed to make 250 for the hour.
Good girls! We’re doing it! This time, we went out in the sunroom and we
cleared-up some garbage that was on the table, or under it. We have a stack of fishing stuff ready to go
out, and we have the garbage part – like who is EVER going to put back-on the
hinges that we took off when remodeling the kitchen? GARBAGE!
Rich doesn’t like to throw, but we do.
I asked him to budget in time for the two smalls, but heaviest weighing
boxes on the treadmill. We’re serious
about using it AFTER Rich takes care of the electrician. They’ve been messing up times for the guy to
come in and analyze the problem. Basically, we don’t have much electricity on
that side of the sunroom through most the garage although the garage door is
opening. So there is that.
It
will take a force of steel to move those two garbage containers AND the fishing
stuff, but we are going for gold. We
want to make the room look good again as a room, and not as storage with a
creepy look. We might have to keep the
few things on the horizontal file out there, but we’ll see. Maybe they could be tucked under the open
part. I know people from the outside
can’t see it, but it’s a terrible view when coming from that side of the house
through the door. I’ve wanted to clean
it up for a LONG time, and it seem today is the day! Yay!
MAYBE … we’ll even get the vacuum out there, hmm? We’ll see.
Back
to the self-regulations books. Oh, one
more thing … laundry and dishes are still going, and it is now 10:08AM. That’s all.
Shoot, bathroom. BRB again!
Shoot! That reminds us that we haven’t taken our
shower and gotten dressed yet, otherwise, WE might be able to move the fishy
stuff and garbage. There’s a thought. Not something we want to do, but doable. Right now, though it is snack time, and we
REALLY want the blueberry yogurt!
Girls? Are we really
concentrating?
OK. We just skimmed a few seconds. We read the foreword. It wasn’t too long or difficult. The authors then go on to write a 12-page
introduction. It includes general theories
and models of self-regulation, and then Zimmerman writes about attaining it as
a social cognitive perspective. That’s
all Zimmerman writes in this book, but it is substantial that he is the first
psychologist asked to write a chapter.
Yay Zimmerman! This is as far as
we got with the book. This the LARGEST
of the three on self-regulation is just two years newer than Zimmerman’s book
including learning and teaching. And,
then the third book – the moderate size book at 570 plus pages was written four
years later. That must have been the
current stuff and falls in line with our knowledge that our interest was
motivated in 2005-2007. Then, we wonder
what is big out now?
Hmm,
first stuff is a lot on early child education.
Holy cow! In 2016 Baumeister and
Vohs (middle book) came out with the same book, but third edition. AND the KINDLE copy is $65. EVEN the used books are that expensive and
for $4 more you can get the hardcover.
Looking over things now … Oh yes, we’re back from another round or two
with the sunroom AND we are now dressed too.
We got Rich to take out the two lighter loads, but then we added a
couple more loads, and we put his fishing things in front of the fridge out
there. There’s no electricity so the
fridge door is partially open – non-commissioned, but the point is now, he’s
seen us and heard us that we want his fishing stuff out! It was only supposed to be there while he was
working on that project. So, now it went
from the table, to the file cabinet, to now on the floor in front of the
fridge.
I
told him, when he took those last loads out, I would vacuum. He complained because he had stuff to
do. So, do we. We’re working very hard to get at least 250
steps in per hour. I know that isn’t a
paying job, but it helps move the day along productively. AND, the sunroom IS looking much better. We threw out the old torn plastic table cloth
– VERY dusty, dirty, AND we put out one of our older table clothes that is
brown and matches the some of the furniture.
The Big couches are a nice deep mossy green. Yup-yup looking better. The carpet is red, but will look MUCH better,
after we vacuum AND the garbage is out.
Hmm,
11:22AM. 216 steps done, 34 steps
remaining. Might as well get them done now by taking our medicine and having
lunch. We’re on 9 pages 4045 words. Smiling at the writing Gods 😊
Oh
shoot … just saw on our list, we are supposed to stop now – well at least a
half an hour from now. Maybe we’ll take
our medicine, and then finish this last half hour, we want to include something
on the other two books. AND THEN, we’ll
have lunch 😊
OK
… moving on. The last two books are both
on Self-determination. I know there is a
difference between them, but we don’t yet know the difference. It seems like regulation is when you can do
things as checked on the to-do box, and self-determination is perhaps, the will
to carry through? That’s our first
uneducated guess. Let’s name the books.
The
first is “Handbook of
Self-Determination,” Edited by Edward L. Deci and Richard M. Ryan
(2002). And, the second book is “Teaching self-determination to Students
with Disabilities: Basic Skills for
Successful Transition,” by Michael L. Wehmeyer, Martin Agran, and Carolyn
Hughes (1998). It must have been a busy
year back then.
I
think this group of five books was part of the stash we bought from my father’s
inheritance. I think we spent about
$2000 on all the books, we could fit in at that time. We started with a list at $4000, but paired
down. Wehmeyer, was very big at the time
and it appears that working in the field of disability aided the thought
processes in studying the topics, though our real concern has always been
“Multiplicity.”
It
appears that “self-regulation” is a section in the latter book with three
chapters. While the second book IS
trimmed to the kind of educational issues we are familiar with through our
work, the first book on research seems steadily heaped in motivational
theories. It looks like then our guesses are not too bad, though sorely
uneducated. Just skimming the BIG book
on self-regulation – looking for clues of self-determination. I found the chapter in the middle of the
book, we’d like to start with – if we can get by on that kind of thing. Thinking What would Dr. Marvin say? Hmm, probably, he’d smile, and say, “Sure,
why not?!” Hehe – he’s such a COOL guy!
The
chapter were most interested in – have only gotten to chapter 7 of 23 … is the
one called “Organization and development
of self-understanding and self-regulation: toward a general theory” by Andreas
Demetriou. Also, we’d do the chapter
immediately following, “The role of
intention in self-regulation: toward intentional systemic mindfulness,” by
Shauna L Shapiro and Gary E. Schwartz. Now skimming down more chapters of the
big book. They have a chapter on health
behavior Goal model – that be great – for sure though if its organizational or
personal – rather have the personal.
Next one is on maintenance of physical health – See where we are going
with this – all to do with Quantified Self.
It has a lot on learning – that be cool.
Some on distress. I think that’s
where Multiplicity comes in.
The
only thing on self-regulation I want to do in the teaching book right now is
the one on writing and self-regulation.
I think though its case studies on a strategy development model. That isn’t real interesting. We’ll skim that
chapter first, and see what to do, but other than that – applied teaching isn’t
where we’re at yet. Maybe later. That HAD been an original goal. I have one more book the second one that was
in its first issue – and now has a 2016 third issue. After that, we will look to see if any other
books look bigger than the third issue, and then we’ll be stuck just deciding
if the book is worth buying for $65.
Because of all the definitions, we are more interested in a Kindle
copy. Plus, we want one book that isn’t
a hard copy, so it’s easier to travel with it.
Let me look closer at the chapters.
OK,
this seems like an interesting book. I’m
thinking the chapter headings aren’t frightening me to pieces. I would really like to read both the old
version and the new version side by side – Chapter to chapter. I know there are about 19 of the 28 or so
chapters of the new book that are new, so, we’d want to group our reading
between old and new by sections. Some
seem the same and some are different.
Something
has come up in all the books that we’ve skimmed table of contents. And, that is there is a definite connection
to attachment theory and object relations, which Dr. Marvin also indicated a
strong interest for me in. When we were
going through these last five books, we found three others in that regard. The three books start with … Ahh two books,
they repeat. The first book is “Self and Others: Object Relations Theory in
Practice,” by N. Gregory Hamilton, MD (1990), and “Creating the Capacity for Attachment: Treating Addictions and the
Alienated Self,” by Karen B. Walant (1995).
These two books are older, but have basic information. The older starts with the object, the self,
the self-object and the ego.
I
was interested in the first book discussion on autism, borderline personality
disorder and narcissistic personality disorder. It was all listed under a
section on object relations continuum.
The rest was just general good stuff.
Average book of about 330 pages.
The second of these books doesn’t interest me so much. I’m sure there’s more to it, but the table of
contents was short and vague. I have too
much to read to search for information.
Now the NEXT interesting part. I
want to go back to Amazon. As far as
attachment theory – maybe just that first section, and then the second section
we mentioned, and then we’d move on. I’m
not interested in all the tasks.
Ahh,
here’s something interesting. Under this
section, of self-regulation, there is a book on “The dialectical behavior therapy skills” It’s a workbook. That is one of the key terms, Dr. Marvin
wrote down for us. I don’t think we
wanted to get into it deep, but did want to understand it. We don’t veer too much in other treatment
modules other than Dr. Marvin. We picked-up a free book on “Self-control: Discover how to control your emotions, desires and
behavior through self-control and self-regulation,” by Francine Edwards
(2015). There are a lot of books on kids and especially in autism and ADHD.
Ahh,
this is a BIG BOOK BUT, WAY too expensive.
It is “Handbook of Mindfulness and
Self-Regulation,” by Brian D. Ostafin, Michael D. Robinson and Brian P.
Meir Eds. (2015). Oh Lord. It cost $180 to buy and $96 to rent AND
that’s only for 3 months. VERY sure not
interested! WOW! This is an interesting chapter, “The “Why,”
“What,” and “How” of Healthy Self-Regulation: Mindfulness and Well-Being from a
Self-Determination Theory Perspective,” by Patricia P Schultz and Richard M.
Ryan (2015). It looks like another
favorite Dr. Marvin term – “Mindfulness.”
Maybe that is a subject area we should consider too. One other aspect to
recall later – is that several of these books have added something on food and
eating disorders.
There
is another book for $63 on Mindfulness, Self-regulation and Yoga – but, not
interested in Yoga yet either (2015) by Catherine P. Cook-Cottone PhD.
WOW! There is a new book coming out that is STILL
very expensive, but might be more interesting.
It is called “Handbook of
Self-Regulation of Learning and Performance – Educational Psychology Handbook),”
2nd edition, by Dale H. Schunk and Jeffrey A. Greene (ed.)
(2017). It doesn’t have a LOT of
information, but it’s a major book.
Paperback is only $100 and hard cover is $257 YEEKS – Nailing
students! They haven’t offered digital
yet and it can only be pre-ordered.
Obviously, a lot on formal education.
Can I underline here that we WERE a master’s student of Educational
Psychology? There is no small wonder,
these books are exciting us to pieces.
We did really fall in line with adult teaching online. Don’t know how this would all work as to us
learning something worthwhile.
This
is the current information:
The second
edition of the popular Handbook
of Self-Regulation of Learning and Performance responds to and incorporates the
wealth of new research that the first edition inspired on the subject. At the
same time, it advances meaningful perspectives on the scholarship and history
that originally shaped the field. Divided into five major sections―basic
domains, context, technology, methodology and assessment, and individual and
group differences―this thoroughly updated handbook addresses recent theoretical
refinements and advances in instruction and intervention that have changed
approaches to developing learners’ capabilities to self-regulate in educational
settings. Chapters written by leading experts in the field include discussions
of methodological advances and expansions into new technologies and the role of
learner differences in such areas as contexts and cultures. As a comprehensive
guide to a rapidly evolving and increasingly influential subject area, this
volume represents contemporary and future thinking in self-regulation theory, research,
and applications.
Chapter
Structure – To
ensure uniformity and coherence across chapters, each chapter author addresses
the theoretical ideas underlying their topic, research evidence bearing on
these ideas, future research directions, and implications for educational
practice.
Global – A significant number of international contributors are
included to reflect the increasingly international research on self-regulation.
Readable – To make the book accessible to students, chapters have
been carefully edited for clarity, conciseness, and organizational consistency.
Expertise – All chapters are written by leading researchers who are
highly regarded experts on their topics and are active contributors to the
field.
Hmm, the Great Courses put out a book called, “The Science of Mindfulness: A Research-Based Path to Well-being.” It’s a DVD for $59.95. Interesting, but too expensive for a version
(DVD) I’m not interested in.
AHA! We found a book on “Mindfulness – How to Find happiness in the
present moment by changing your focus, thought, and awareness,” Morgan
Johnson (2016). It’s only about 80
pages, but we purchased it for free … another book on unlimited e-books
YAY! That will give us a sense without
selling the house!
We went ahead and ordered one of the books on “The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook for Anxiety: Breaking free from Worry, Panic, PTSD, and
other Anxiety Symptoms,” Alexander L Chapman, Kim L. Gratz, Matthew T.
Tull, and Terence Keane (2011). It was
only $9.99 for a Kindle copy. I liked
that it also got into PTSD – never read much on that, and also some
obsessive/compulsive behaviors and social anxiety. As well, it touches on Mindfulness, distress
tolerance skills, and emotional regulation.
YUP-YUP AND STRESS/WORRY. I can’t
say enough about that stuff. It’s a
workbook, so it should be fun. Now, we
should go back and look at the one book, one more time. It’s not the expensive one that isn’t out on
Kindle yet – with emphasis on learning, THOUGH to be fair, “learning” is my
favorite psychology word – so maybe down the line – like if we can read things
seriously, maybe it could be for Christmas, hmm?
2:49PM. OK, it’s been awhile.
We’ve come back to focusing on these Amazon purchases. We haven’t purchased one of the major books,
but we read through a bit on another new book called, “Self-Regulation and Ego Control,” by Edward R Hirt, Joshua John
Clarkson, and Lile Jia Eds., (2016). I
would like this book too, but later. I
couldn’t find the new location for list to save for later. I think Amazon, is pressuring the only option
is to buy. At $80 for an e-book
(hardcover $64), I will wait a bit. This
book is more on the negative side like when processes don’t work, or like
coming up to the wall and what gets one over.
It’s a GOOD book, just not the top priority for me.
WOW! I did it … I bought the 3rd
edition of “Handbook of Self-Regulation:
Research, Theory, and Application” by Roy F. Baumeister and Kathleen D.
Vohs (2016). It’s a HUGE purchase for
$65. I’m pretty sure that Rich is going
to see this one. But Self-Regulation,
Self-determination and learning are the most KEY components to my desired
learning and understanding. I don’t know
WHY we’re so attracted to these things.
Just know that we are. I’m going
to need coming up though with the next part of the picture. I must budget in time for reading. Not sure when yet, but we should be fresh
enough that we can comprehend the tough sections – or the authors who insist on
using every BIG word in their dictionary!
CONCEPTS! There are just so many
dang concepts. I believe in psychology,
they are as important as the next decade with its fresh experiments and mindful
developments. Just we must dig in
somewhere.
I was doubly impressed in that we have the first version hard cover,
two important online chapters of the second version, and the entire third
version on our Kindles (phone). THIS is
where we must start!
In other news? The laundry is
buzzing again – the sheets and pillow cases are ready and the mattress cover
will go to the dryer. LAST will be the
quilt itself. I never did get to airing
the pillows. I think we should ask Rich
about that. I’m thinking about the back
porch, just don’t know how to keep them from falling over, and I don’t want to
rest them on the chipping paint/floor. I
KNOW it’s against the rules specially to hang your “stuff” out front. The back we might get away with for a couple
of hours. Maybe try that next.
OH, and we’re done with the sunroom!
It looks great! I’d like to put a
few more things away – like bottles and cans INSIDE the fridge, instead of
outside, but we must do for now what we can.
We’ll risk Rich’s frustration and ask him again – he’ll be out of the
house for another couple hour. We should
ask where’s the electrician. They seem
to be playing phone tag, and not meeting each other’s schedule. That would get stuff back in the small
fridge, right? Rich stopped over to
check on his mother, and he had a few items AND her grocery shopping list. Poor guy – there is always something! Oh, and we want to check the snail mail. WooHOO.
Keep hoping for that driver’s license plate. All about our vanity!
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