Best Wishes, Alyssa
The front page of the San Antonio Express-News captured my attention this morning. It was a huge photograph of St. Mary’s University sophomore, Alyssa Trevino and her mother, Edna, fullfilling a longstanding wish to meet the pope. (In the photo, he seems as delighted as she is.)
Alyssa, a native of Harlingen, Texas, is 19, but six years ago, she had open-heart surgery. The Rio Grande chaper of the Make-A-Wish Foundation sent Alyssa and her mother to the Vatican for this memorable moment.
But there’s more. Alyssa is currently majoring in biology, with plans to become a pediatric cardiologist. Something tells me she’s going to make it.
We live in a time when young people collect a lot of bad press. Some of it’s their fault, some not. But is refreshing to reflect on the fact that there are plenty of good kids out there.
James Sutton, Psychologist www.docspeak.com
No comments yet.
Leave a comment
About Dr. Sutton
Dr. James Sutton is a child and adolescent psychologist who once was a classroom teacher. His interest, his passion, is young people. He speaks and writes extensively on the emotional and behavioral issues that affect children and adolescents today. He is the author of the award winner, If My Kid’s So Nice, Why’s He Driving ME Crazy?, and the best-seller, 101 Ways to Make Your Classroom Special. One new book, What Parents Need to Know About ODD, is an updated text revision of a 2003 audio program for parents. It is downloadable in e-book format, as is an even newer book, 60 Ways to Reach a Difficult and Defiant Child. For more information, click on the link below titled, “Doc’s Website.” From that site you can click on a direct link in the upper left of the homepage, or you can click on the “E-book” link.
Dr. Sutton and his wife, Bobbie, make their home in Pleasanton, Texas. His phone number is 800-659-6628, his email address is suttonjd@docspeak.com.
NOTE: Subscribe to Dr. Sutton’s FREE monthly publication for parents, teachers and counsleors on managing defiant behavior in young people, the ODD Management Digest.
Comments and input to this blogsite are welcomed and encouraged.
Suscribe to this Blog- Let’s Get Out of Here!
- The Explosive Child: Call-in Teleseminar
- Working with the Child Who Minimizes
- Noncritical Noticing
- Put it to Bed!
- Teleseminar on ODD (Oppositional Defiant Disorder)
- What Are You Willing to Do?
- “It Doesn’t Bother Me THAT Much!”
- The Window (A Need to Control Something)
- The “Forever” Pause
