| Welcome!
 To
my friends: While I'm dealing with cancer I'm publishing updates
on a CarePage.
If you'd like information about my condition you'll need to join
the page -- it's free. Then you'll receive an e-mail every time
the CarePage
is updated. Thanks to everyone for your support. Warmly, Sydney
Welcome to my website ... and
thanks to Russell Kilday-Hicks
for maintaining it.
I hope you'll find everything
you may want to use here: articles, my c.v. (résumé),
workshop offerings, how to order my books, and more. My contact
information at the top of every page.
Objective
Now that I'm in my late sixties, my objective is to be of maximum
help for teachers, parents, and other caregivers of young children
in two major areas:
1) Creative Arts
First, helping children express themselves freely and joyously in
the arts: music (both instrumental and vocal) dance (of all sorts),
stories (listening to them and telling them) painting, drawing,
sculpting, modeling, working in wire, in collage ...
See this example
...
2) Children Under Stress
Second, helping children through the very hard stresses they must
face: parents in prison, death and dying,
divorce, national horrors (September 11, earthquakes, bombings,
hurricanes, the Challenger explosion, and whatever is coming) and
the smaller stresses as well (first day of school, moving from one
home/community to another, sibling conflict, etc.).
The first and second areas are deeply connected. We all go through
much stress in our lives and if we have the means to represent our
experiences and express our emotions through the arts, we can often
balance ourselves without much intervention by others.
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