FASD Think Tank - Premiers Blog with Holiday Strategies.

Enjoy our first FASD Think Tank article

  

Holiday Strategies

www.fasdthinktank.blogspot.com 

to help families 

live, laugh and love

 throughout the holidays. 

May your celebrations be filled 

with love and peace. 

Jodee, Liz and Karl Kulp

Dollar Store Delights in Holiday Savings

By the case can make a difference.

If you have a company party, association or church event - consider saving money by buying products from Dollar Tree by the case.

Check out their online store --- to save running into crowds with children that get overwhelmed.

Don't forget to take time for yourselves. Capture memory moments with the little ones. They grow too fast and even though it behavior may seem impossible, someday you will look back and chuckle.

Jodee and Liz Kulp

#14 Days To FASDay - Plan a Pregnant Pause!

Host a Pregnant Pause... in your community... at your school... at your government center... get some attentions









How many Pregnant Pauses can we host around the world....

Need some t-shirts to sport a look....
Visit www.cafepress.com/fasdawareness 

#20 Days To FASDay - Listen to persons with FASD

One of Many Voices 

for Fetal Alcohol Awareness Day

Note from jodee: I have removed L.'s name and country and added word changes in (--).
Please understand that this woman with fetal alcohol is writing in English, speaks
the language of the country she lives in and was born in another country with another
language - Well done L. You are a beautiful person. Keep safe.

Dear Jodee and Liz

I am 31 years old...I have FAS

I have pay (bought) Liz and your book,
the best i can be...i have been,
is comfusing very often,
and think bad things about myself...
but when i read the book i cried..
becuse i'm felt not alone anymore...
I'm catholic and is very comfusing their sometimes..
no one can see that i have FAS and
is hard to lived up to the church..
i always failed..
everybody failed,
but i'm never learnd,
and i'm feel bad..

but when i read your and Liz book,
and about your trust in God
i'm now feeling calm...
but i cry and cry..

I'm single mother to a boy who is 5
and get help from the socity in my country
...clean help,
and with paper...
but i wish more
...it's very difficult

...i pray for God's protection and
that he chow me to be a good mother...
hope you understand my english.

God bless you and your family.
Love from L. in Europe

Dear L.
Your English is beautiful and
very very good I am happy with your English.
To speak three languages and write to me
is very very wonderful.

Lord I pray for L. -
you know she is a good woman
and person and kind and loving.
Lord I ask for you to help her
and let her know she is not alone,
that many men and women have FAS and
many live good lives
She is living a good life
being the best she can be.
Father be with her and
help her learn good things
to grow in your love.
Amen

Jodee and Liz
L. may I share your email with other families?
Or may I add to my website -
I think your words are wonderful!

Dear Jodee and Liz,
thanks for caring and answer
Thanks for your beutiful prayer...
yes you can add it on your website,
but please not wright where i'm from...

My FAS is many fysical disorder
like haert deffects, and i have problem
with member (memory) in daily life,
when i cooks food,
and sometimes i'm not see cars come in my way...
and problem with anger, and self defence..
but i tried gfcd ( wtithout gluten and casein milk)
and now i don't cut my self,
sometimes i have bite my self in anger,
but your book gave me hope,

It learned me to try to pray insted,
or chows bite paper insted...
my son gives me so mutch and i love him,
so i need to focus him..

the daily life is hard to focus and
it's so mutch planning...
but God leads me,
even i'm bad sometimes...
One time in week i,m riding.
It's good for me too

Love and pray, L.

#45 Days To FASDay - Historical memories

From the first FASDay Celebration on 9.9.99 - Ideas you can still use!

Here are some events as FAS Day #1 moved around the world - feel free to borrow ideas. Special thank you to Bonnie Buxton, Bruce Richie and Teresa Kellerman - if three people were able to get this much movement and awareness - think what all of us together can do today!

1. Aukland, NZ: Breakfast for FAS supporters, Minute of Reflection bells ringing in nearby Mt. Albert Methodist Church. Events also held in Wellington, Hamilton and Invercargill.
2. Cape Town, South Africa: program outside historic 37-bell War Memorial Carillon, which rang when Nelson Mandela was released from prison.
3. Kiel, Berlin, Flensburg and Hamburg, Germany: posters, buttons, info stand in town centre; information evening for Social Services, teachers, physicians; famous restaurant giving free nonalcoholic drinks to pregnant women all day long.
4. Iqualuit, Nunavut, Canada: events included church bells, art exhibit featuring soapstone carving donated by famous artist Ookpik Pitseolak, showing drinking mother with baby in Aamouti@ (parka hood.)
5. Toronto, ON, Canada: program inside Metropolitan United Church included international lullabies on church carillon, native drum singer/elder offering prayer in English and Ojibwa, keynote address by Dr. Carolyn Bennett, federal Member of Parliament.
6. Sioux Lookout, ON, Canada: program in local park featuring sharing circle, prayer by First Nations elder, Minute of Reflection with wind chimes and rain sticks.
7. Kenora, Keewatin, Jaffrey Melick, ON, Canada: poster distribution to doctors= offices, three-level curriculum offered to teachers.
8. Toledo, OH, U.S.A.: Day-long activities included hot-air balloon with words on it, AFAS: THE HIDDEN PLAGUE@ and matching yellow AHidden Plague@ T-shirts.
9. Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.: 9:09 a.m. bells included two carillons, City Hall, three cathedrals, two other churches, followed by large rally and speeches outside State Courthouse.
10. San Antonio, TX, U.S.A.: Day-long information program for teachers and others concerned with FAS, included presentations from FAS Day volunteers, Claudia Barker, and Dr. Bob Clayton.
11. Austin, TX, U.S.A.: program built around the 56-bell Kniker Carillon at University of Texas.
12. Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.: 9:09 a.m. bells at St. Augustine Cathedral; outdoor program featuring two young people who struggle daily with FAS.
13. Lakeland, AB, Canada: five communities participated in day-long events, including poster blitz, mall display, bars offering Apregnant pause@ nonalcoholic drinks for pregnant women, church bells ringing, junior high school students making FAS Knots, proclamations in all five communities.
14. Red Deer, AB, Canada: all-day mall displays, use of FAS brochures as place-mats in local restaurants.
15. Brooks, AB, Canada: A 9-block walk to symbolize the 9 months of pregnancy, with Atrimester@ information provided every three blocks. At the end of the walk the handouts were assembled into a picture of a healthy bouncing baby.
16. North Vancouver, B.C., Canada: Co-ed sweatlodge held by AChange of Seasons Society@ with traditional pipe ceremony, prayers at 9:09 a.m., on Capilano Reserve.
17. Port Orchard, WA, U.S.A.: Bells of United Methodist Church, at the edge of a scenic hilly bay overlooking the Pacific, plus prayer ceremony. Bells were heard for miles and miles

Fun gear buttons - t-shirts - drinkware - office products

#58 Days To FASDay - Call a friend

Get the Fetal Alcohol Awareness Day Celebration started.

If you are like most other FASD Awareness Day activists, 

you don't have much time or energy. 

But have no fear - we have done the groundwork for you.

Here is ONE THING you can do now. It's fun and really not that hard.
Give it a try. Nothing to lose, right?

If you think you are busy, look at how busy this Mom is. Three kids, two with special needs.
If she can do it, you can do it too, can't you?

Here are three easy steps to get started:

(1) Pick a Partner!
You don't have to do this alone.
Grab your phone and call someone in your area.

In the US? Look here: USA Directory
Click on your state. Connect with someone.

• Choose a person on Facebook you'd like to partner with
• Join the FASDay Mailing List Serve on Yahoo Groups and connect with other support list serves (go to http://groups.yahoo.com and search for FASD and/or Fetal Alcohol)
• Connect on Google Plus (search FASD Awareness)
• Follow FASDay International at Pinterest

Here's support in Canada.

Here's some international contacts.

If you can't afford a phone call outside your area, then email somebody.
You don't have to do this alone.
There's someone else out there who is willing to help.
Ask and you just might receive!

Let today be a blessing of more friendship connections!

Click Here For Our Past 60 Links for a Great Fetal Alcohol Awareness Day!

Follow us through the next 60 days and plan your local or personal project to build awareness of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder - Each One Can Reach One!

Need family support visit www.toolboxparent.com

Need ideas for adults living with challenges of FASD visit www.braidedcord.net

Need information on fetal alcohol spectrum disorders visit www.betterendings.org

Interested in service dog for FASD visit www.thechancerchronicles.com

Celebrate 60 Ideas to Build Fetal Alcohol Awareness

Summer is a GREAT TIME to get your connections and plang for September 9 - International FASDay. Join in the fun!

We've made it easy to build 

awareness of fetal alcohol. 

Join in the fun on September 9, 2012 

with our sixty ideas - we've filled this new page on our blog with the 

best links we can find to make it simple!

Click Here For Our Past 60 Links for a Great Fetal Alcohol Awareness Day!

Follow us through the next 60 days

and plan your local or personal project to build awareness of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder - Each One Can Reach One!

Need family support visit www.toolboxparent.com

Need ideas for adults living with challenges of FASD visit www.braidedcord.net

Need information on fetal alcohol spectrum disorders visit www.betterendings.org

Interested in service dog for FASD visit www.thechancerchronicles.com