6 • March 2014 • UPBEAT TIMES
Redwood Empire Guest Writers Learning Family Team #3
by Chance Massaro, M.A. •
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SANTA ROSA, CA. ~ As a person in your 40’s, 50’s or 60’s you probably have living parents in their 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s.
guided you as best they knew how into adulthood. Now, as fully 10% of your parents’ genes are tell- ing their earth- ly body to fall apart the roles have shifted. Not reversed, changed. How can you learn how to par- ticipate in their world, enjoy them and devel- op a terrific attitude toward your own aging? Facts:
enough time at the right time can easily be smarter
than One or both of them
40 year old people because of their experience and life- long learning. 3) Neurons don’t have a lifespan; they can out live us barring trauma, stroke or other neuron destroy- ing event.
The
hippocampus can create new neurons until the day a per- son dies as long as that person is thinking and learning and interacting. 4) We live in a youth oriented culture
which perpetuates 1) After forty
years of life human brains begin shrinking and slowing. Slow does not mean stupid or demented. Slow means slow. 2) 85 year old people, given
many negative myths about aging (my brain is full, senior moment, my brain is mush, etc.) When we are less able to take care of ourselves our cul- ture has no use for us; we lose confidence and self esteem.
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The family learning
team has the goal of respect- ing and enjoying every mem- ber of the team regardless of ability, accomplishments or looks. Instead of being a par- ent to one’s aging parent (role reversal), we have the oppor- tunity to be a partner, play mate, help mate and supporter. We care about bolstering con- fidence, self esteem and asser- tiveness. Again, our job is to look for strengths, interests and needs in the older person and to join with that person about those. We like to reflect strengths back to our elder family members. Treating the elder as a teacher in the family learning game helps everyone feel deeply appreciated and glad to be alive. Our joy comes from join- ing in their world (like we did when our child said she was a Kitty). Let’s use our interac- tion with our elders to nurture both them and ourselves by learning what works, how it works and how to work it with joy and love..
March Horoscopes ... continued from page 4
Gemini (5/21 - 6/20)
With your ruling planet now moving directly again, there will be a smoothing out of affairs of the heart, friendship and a few other areas that have been chal- lenged lately. Use small challenges as fuel to help you conquer larger hurdles. Just as new flowers keep popping up you’ll be a busy bee, both indoors and outside. Things could get a little edgy in the workplace, but edge could be exactly what you need to lift new projects off the ground.
Cancer (6/21 - 7/22)
A lot has happened for you since the start of the new year, and this month you will finally be able to process these things. Relationships have taken many unexpected twists and turns, but most likely - hopefully in ways that are for the better. It’s as though you’ve been doing a lot of negotiating, planning, and preparing, not yet fully able to act on your visions. That is due to change in March as you implement new ideas and truly move forward.
Leo (7/23 - 8/22)
Trying hard and working hard are two different things, although they may coin- cide. The good news is that all that hard work and effort you have applied for the past several weeks are bound to begin showing more of the desired results this month. This doesn’t mean the work is over, but collaboration will become a lot easier, and probably a lot more fun. Receiving extra of that “good green” is a great motivation and more of it should be on the way.
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Weird Facts & Fun Trivia - 2 A wheel with spokes first appeared on Egyptian chariots around 2000 BC, and wheels seem to have developed in Europe by 1400 BC without any influence from the Middle East. Because the idea of the wheel appears so simple, it’s easy to assume that the wheel would have simply "happened" in every culture when it reached a par- ticular level of sophistication. However, this is not the case. The great Inca, Aztec and Maya civi- lizations reached an extremely high level of development, yet they never used the wheel. In fact, there is no evidence that the use of the wheel existed among native people anywhere in the Western Hemisphere until well after contact with Europeans.
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