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Being Your Child’s Greatest Advocate
The beginning of the school year brings about many changes in your child’s, and in your, life. Often there are new schools, new classrooms, new teachers, new friends. With these bring immediate and specific concerns: how do I find my way around the school? which adults can I turn to for help? where is the bathroom and how do I ask to use it? who will sit next to me at lunchtime?
As parents, I think our primal reaction is to want to shelter our children from harm, both physical and emotional. We don’t want our kids to feel left out, scared, uncomfortable, and alone. Often, I think this is wrapped up in our own childhood memories of school. I remember being worried about boarding the school bus, and I also remember vividly being the new kid in 5th grade. At age 10, on the precipice of adolescence, I teetered on the edge of being shy and loving to perform. Would I be too nervous to try out for the school play? Would I raise my hand in math class? And more importantly to a pre-teen, with whom would I navigate the friendships in school?
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Making it Personal – Creating an Advocate List – Getting Referrals
An advocate is someone who believes in you and as a group, is your single most important resource for referrals. They may be existing customers, old school buddies, neighbours, family members, suppliers, associates – heck, maybe even your mother-in-law who doesn’t even know what you really do but loves you anyway!
Creating, building and working your advocate list are different from networking. Where networking is the building of business contacts (which is also a good thing) an advocate refers you because you’re you!
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Why Oprah Can’t Put a Responsible Colloidal Silver Advocate on Her Show
Ever since Oprah featured the so-called colloidal silver “blue man” on her show, a number of people asked why she doesn’t allow a responsible and articulate advocate of colloidal silver on her show to rebut some of the myths and fallacies being promulgated about colloidal silver usage, or at least tell the proverbial “other side of the story” in order to provide her viewers with a fair and balanced view of the subject of colloidal silver usage.
But the truth is this: As well-meaning as Oprah may be, and as much as she may want to host a fair and balanced television show, the decision over whether or not to have a responsible and articulate colloidal silver advocate on her show is really out of her hands.
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