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Fear In School

Tuesday, April 26th, 2011

Do you have fond memories of your school years? Do you have happy memories of teachers and school friends? If you do then you were lucky, because some children hate each minute of being in school and not because they are no good at it either. Often it is the bright children who are taunted for being swots and teachers’ pets. They are safe in the class, but the journeys to and from school and the school breaks can be nightmares.

However, it is not just bullying from other children that causes fear in school children. There are other reasons for fear in school as well. Sometimes, children think that a particular teacher does not like them and occasionally children are just scared of failing or doing badly. Occasionally teachers are afraid of doing badly as well. It can all lead to an atmosphere of fear at school. It makes you ask yourself how anyone could have enjoyed their school days, does it not?

This atmosphere of fear can become greater in state schools because the teachers are subject to success charts and the kids are more open to bullying. Furthermore, all of the school shootings in the world have taken place in state run schools.

However, the most insidious kind of fear in school comes from teachers who are scared of missing the targets set by the state, because that will cost them their jobs. This fear is passed on to their students. The regime of fear is exacerbated by over-sized classes. Why?

Because teachers can hold the attention of only so many pupils – as we all can in normal discourse. Therefore, if the class is too large, the teacher will have to switch roles from being a teacher to a controller. When this occurs, education suffers for the sake of keeping order.

For all of these reasons and more, many parents are turning to home schooling. Some of the reasons why parents are deciding to educate their children themselves are: distrust of the state education system; fear of bullying or worse of their children; a desire to teach their children in a more conventional or religious manner.

There are learning packages that parent-teachers can purchase to give them a course of action on what to teach. There is also a lot of help accessible on the Net. The problem facing any parents who wish to teach their own children is providing a rounded education.

People have a natural tendency to specialize in one topic or group of topics like, say, astronomy or the sciences, which is why schools supply many teachers, so that each one can teach his or her favourite subject. However, if you are the only teacher you will have to teach all the subjects yourself.

This is why it is best to have a course or set of guidelines to follow. It is difficult to teach maths if you have no talent for it, so look at your strengths but also your weaknesses before you take the considerable decision to remove your children from school and teach them themselves

Owen Jones, the author of this article writes on numerous subjects but is currently involved with Fear At School and home Schooling. If you would like to read more, please go over to our website entitled Home Schooling.

Home Schooling And Learning By Computer

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

There is access to a computer in nearly every home in the West these days and the rest of the world is catching up very fast. So, it is very important for you to get one at home too, because of the many benefits it can bring, especially if you have an Internet connection. Nowadays, you need to have have some computer experience, if you want even a reasonably-paid job, so learning how to use a computer must start at school. You and your children can have a fantastic educational experience with a computer at home. Children of today must learn about this very important instrument at the very earliest age possible and one of the best ways to achieve that is through home schooling computer programs.

At present, even kindergarten children are being taught how to use computers and their associated resources. If you opt for home schooling, you and your child will also spend most of your time making use of a computer and the Internet. Teaching your children will be a lot better when done online, because of the different resources available there. Your child will be provided with some of the best educational resources, from which he/she will benefit greatly not least since employment market trends today involve the Internet.

One of the largest ethnic groups who prefers to make use of home schooling is the African Americans because some see certain society issues and they can keep themselves abreast of their own heritage through home schooling. The parents of children from minority groups can assist their offspring learn more about their history by having an Internet connection at home. Children’s education can be better encouraged by parents and they can also assist in improving the mindset of their children as well. Parents can educate their children about their own particular heritage by means of the different online resources.

It is important to remember that home schooling only works if the parents are willing to support their children all the way. They must also be committed and prepared for the challenges that they will come across. The parents ought to look for a good computer program or book that can assist their children learn about using computers. Frequently, the lessons are divided into several sections or series so that the children can learn them easily. Children have different learning abilities and since sometimes children are not given much chance in traditional schools, the use of computers is an ideal chance to bring out the best in them.

Home schooling is no longer new, so if you suspect that your child is not doing well in school, consult with his teachers and get some information about your child. The guidance counsellor can also assist you to determine the best education for you child. Home schooling is already accepted and maybe it can help your child to learn more in the comfort of your own home.

If you are prepared to commit yourself to home schooling, you will need to discuss the matter with your child. You could start by asking your child about his performance in school and then raise the subject of home schooling. See how your child reacts to the idea. Explain its benefits. Say that computer learning will be easier. It’s better if you and your child both agree to home schooling, since you have to work closely together. It might not be easy to persuade your child to give up traditional schooling, where he has all his friends, so you will have to spend time with your kid and know his/her interests. Explain that computer programs in home schooling can help a lot. Tell your child that they can learn more about their particular interest, if they know how to use the computer.

So why not look for the most suitable home schooling computer program now? Talk to your friends, ask at the library, go online and do your research. There are lots of home schooling programs to choose from and it could take some weeks before you can find the appropriate one.

If you are interested in home schooling then please pop along to our web-based resource at http://home-schooling.the-real-way.com

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Speed Reading

Saturday, April 10th, 2010

No one really knows when speed reading was first used, but it might have been a long while in the past. For hundreds of years, reading was the privilege of a minority of the most highly-educated people in the world, the overwhelming majority of whom were monks and priests. This small, select group of men protected their privilege and were loathe to coach the general populace to read. Furthermore, during those hundreds of years there were relatively few books to read compared with today. Books were also very costly as they all had to be copied out by hand. Possibly the only fact that has not altered is that the Bible was the most common book in existence and even now the Bible is the most prevalent book.

The world is quickly becoming a place where people are slowly but surely giving up on books and becoming stuck in front of monitors or television screens. In such a world, parents must not ignore the importance of developing a zeal for reading in themselves and their children. Reading is a habit that should be established when the child is quite young, so what can you do to encourage this habit?

Well, there are a number of strategies you can employ, although one of the best to lead by example. Read with your child every day, even if its only for 10-15 minutes. Permit your child to see you reading. By this I mean, don’t only read in bed before you go to sleep, but in place of watching television from time to time and read your children a bed-time story. Encourage them to read too. You could also:

Register your child for reading classes, if you honestly don’t have much time or your child is a little slow at reading. There are many well-structured after school reading classes that aspire to make books more attractive to children. They help children with pronunciation, idioms and metaphors. These lessons can be entertaining with cartoon characters and pictures, especially for young children,. They often make use of picture books, rhymes, silly songs and short stories to fire up the imagination of younger children.

You will have to learn how to stimulate your child’s interest. If your child has a preferred character, pick a series of books that feature this character. Attempt to encourage your children to read proper books not comics. The style in comics usually leaves a great deal to be desired with its slapdash English and street slang. Instead, go for series of books like Harry Potter or Tarzan.

You should build yourself a library of your own books. This may sound a little impressive, but after all, a library is only a collection of books. Begin with a good-looking bookshelf that you can easily add to. A skill like reading cannot be learned in only one place, so you cannot afford to leave all the difficult work to the day-school or even the after school curricula. You have to collect books that you think your child will like too. Use the Internet as a resource for learning about the modern reading games that will attract little children to the excellent and ancient art of reading,

Once you child is interested in reading for its own sake, you might read up on speed reading. Speed reading is best suited for educational revision and background reading. It’s greatly suited to cramming or studying for examinations. It is ideal for school and university. Nevertheless, the first job, before you can think about speed reading, is to get your child reading in the first place.

Are you interested in speed reading for yourself or a dear one? If so, please go along to our web site called Speed Reading.

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Home Schooling Learning History

Saturday, April 3rd, 2010

Do you consider that spending time in traditional classrooms is a waste of time? For many people, that is probably true. For instance, an exam is coming up and the pupils are told to memorize a list of dates and names. However, after taking the exam, they will probably forget 90% of those dates and names. That’s what the majority of students do every time they have exams. If you are one of these people, you will find traditional history lessons boring, so home schooling, which focuses more on the history of the world, will surely interest you more.

Simple memorization by rote is just not enough to realize the importance of historically famous people and fateful events. However, through home schooling in history, you can study the different cultures of the past in a different, but interesting way – that is your own way! Through the study of history, you will also understand the situation of the world today.

However, if you think that home schooling is the most effective method for your child’s learning, you should also be prepared to undertake some responsibilities. Since there will be no teacher present ‘on site’, you will have to oversee your child’s learning development by yourself.

Let’s say your kid is interested in a particular sport. You could combine history and home schooling by simply putting a map on the wall of your child’s bedroom and mark the location of his favourite sports team. Make sure that you track all the team’s games, scores, activities and schedules. Then, you could return to history lessons by reading biographies of the different athletes, who had been famous in the particular sport that your child enjoys. Aside from that, you can also look into the history of that particular sport and discover where it originated, its inventor, and the other things happening in that particular time in history.

For instance, let’s say your child likes baseball, you can teach your child about the history baseball, government hearings on the use of steroids and other favourite pastimes at that period in time. Just remember that you can adapt this concept to any interest like dancing, flight, cars or any invention. You can also have conversations with your child about current events or read interesting historical documents and other books. Apart from that, you can also watch documentaries together with the rest of the family. There are various resources that you can use in home schooling, like TV, maps, newspapers, books, a globe, an atlas, and encyclopedias. Because of the enthralling adventures that you and your child will read about and see on film, he/she will find it easier to remember the names and dates of the history lessons. After all, learning is better when it is done in a fun way.

These methods are recommended for when the child is still young, however when your child is older, you should select a home schooling program that is suitable for his/her particular age group. The programs are pitched at the elementary, high school, and even college levels. You simply have to search online for these different programs. One advantage of these programs is that you can tailor them to suit the requirements of your child. However, you have to make sure that all the lessons are followed by your child.

After you and your child have decided to try home schooling, you must be prepared to make some changes to your life. The educational environment will now be in your home not at a school and through the various resources that you think best, such as a computer and the Internet.

If you are thinking about Home Schooling then please visit our website at Home Schooling Information

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Speed Reading

Sunday, March 7th, 2010

What have you been reading lately? In a gathering, you can soon see who the broad-spectrum readers are, since wide readers are often quick thinkers and good public speakers too. They quickly win the adulation, respect, and fellowship of others. After all, reading expands the mind and many people think of it as one of the most satisfying pleasures known to mankind, being a combination, as it is, of mental agility and physical relaxation well above the level offered by television or the cinema.

The act of reading is mostly a mental activity, as you read with your mind and use your imagination to depict the setting of the action thriller you are reading. You use your mind to imagine the pain that the main characters in the story are experiencing as the plot unfolds; or you contemplate the various arguments and ideas theorized by the author of that self-help book you are holding.

Being able to read effectively helps you to develop an extensive vocabulary through reading different styles of books. A skillful reader recognizes a wide range of vocabulary. The reader may not know exactly what every word means, but he/she will have a general idea of what the sentence means.

Reading makes you more alert and more interested in new words. Some readers develop ‘the dictionary habit’, which means that every time they come across a strange word, they try to figure out what it possibly means by the context. If they are stumped, they refer to a dictionary.

Likewise, reading develops intellectual curiosity by exposing you to different subjects. You learn to read by reading books of increasing difficulty and variety. As in other forms of education, you learn by actually doing and as you are reading you automatically learn about the subject matter of the book too!

Reading trains you to have an active and open mind. Just grasping the writers idea is not really good enough, you have to have a response to what you read. Be an active, not a passive, reader. Try to develop the habit of drawing your own conclusions, the habit of active thinking, of agreeing or disagreeing with the writer. Always keep your mind open; understand and consider the ideas that you read. A practical part of active reading is the development of one’s own opinions.

Now let me mention the concept called speed reading. All of the above applies between three and ten times over, because speed readers can read that much faster than the average reader! Imagine that! – Being able to read, comprehend and remember all those books and articles. You would surely become well-read in your field much more rapidly than others. Just imagine how that could help you at work, in school or in college …

Allow me to share four basic rules for effective reading and better comprehension:

1) Try to read more and more every month. Remember the saying that practice makes perfect. 2) Develop the habit of reading for main ideas, ie look for the subject and predicate – the main ideas 3) Learn to read with focus and concentration. Think of what you are reading. Good readers read with understanding. 4) Learn to budget your time. Experiment with your reading time. Try purposely to read faster. Give yourself a time limit on a specific book that you are reading.

Reading is a wonderfully stimulating mental activity. It expands your reality and capability. You have so much to gain in discovering the joys of reading. So, go ahead and get down a book right now.

Are you interested in speed reading for yourself or a loved one? If so, please go along to our web site called Speed Reading.

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Seton’s Study Course For Home Schooling Students and Parents Who Are Religious

Sunday, November 8th, 2009

Seton curriculum is a spiritual based home-school choice for Catholics. The Catholic home-school movement increased in size quickly in the 1980s and demand for the institution’s innovative home school curriculum was highly sought after.

The school’s organizer, Dr. Anne Carroll, determined to have the teachings taught at the school to be offered by mail. She recognized the reality that many parents didn’t have the income to lodge their children at a private educational institution. This was at what time the Seton Catholic home-schooling course began. The Catholic home-schooling concept gelled and out of it came the Seton home-schooling lessons in 1980. It was further enhanced by Dr Mary Kay Clark in 1985.

Seton uses the Thomistic philosophy and approach to learning. Thomistic curriculum is based on the teachings of St Thomas Aquinas. It is a commonsensical approach to teaching kids and has provided them a stable groundwork in the Catholic faith with heavenly polish.

You can be convinced that Seton Home School Course is not a part of a “degree mill” but is recognized on a national scale as an accredited learning curriculum for home school students. Seton home study course requires students to go through 22 credits to graduate from high school, with each credit representing a year taken in a given subject area for kindergarten through twelve. Appropriate secondary school accreditation makes it superior for home school students who are enrolling in college to become accepted.

Seton’s course offers the essentials when it comes to study curriculum such as English, Math, Science as well as more Christian oriented lessons. The lessons give a moral basis of Catholic teachings to increase the abilities of the parents to be the main instructors of their own children with home-based schooling. The course gives a moral foundation of Catholic instruction to increase the abilities of the parents to be the primary educators of their individual children with home school.

Seton Home School Courses is published to give the structure that a parent needs to home school each and every day with a wide variety of home schooling curriculum such as Christian based lesson plans, software, videos, online classes, and various other teaching tools to improve the catholic home schooling setting for the child.

So if you are a Catholic and aim to make a genuine difference in the child’s value system, consider home schooling. Seton is plainly the best choice. You will be glad you chose it.

More information about Best Home School Curriculum at Seton Homeschooling.

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Speed Reading – The Early Stages

Friday, October 2nd, 2009

No one actually knows when speed reading was first used, but it could have been a long while in the past. For hundreds of years, reading was the privilege of a minority of the most highly-educated people in the world, the vast majority of whom were monks and priests. This small, select group of men guarded their privilege and were loathe to train the general public to read. Furthermore, throughout those centuries there were relatively few books to read compared with nowadays. Books were also very dear as they all had to be copied out by hand. Possibly the only fact that has not changed is that the Bible was the most widespread book in existence and even now the Bible is the most prevalent book.

The world is fast devolving into a place where individuals are slowly but surely turning their backs on books and becoming fixed in front of monitors or television screens. In such a world, parents should not fail to notice the importance of developing a passion for reading in themselves and their children. Reading is a habit that should be established when the child is relatively young, so what can you do to foster this habit?

Well, there are a number of strategies you can make use of, although one of the best to lead by example. Read with your child every day, even if its only for 10-15 minutes. Allow your child to see you reading. By this I mean, don’t only read in bed before you go to sleep, but in place of watching television from time to time and read your children a bed-time story. Encourage them to read too. You could also:

Register your child for reading classes, if you really don’t have much time or your child is a little slow at reading. There are many well-structured after school reading classes that aim to make books more attractive to children. They help children with articulation, sayings and metaphors. These classes can be fun with animated characters and pictures, especially for young children,. They often make use of picture books, nursery rhymes, comical songs and short stories to fire up the imagination of younger children.

You will have to learn how to arouse your child’s interest. If your child has a favorite character, pick a series of books that include this character. Endeavor to encourage your children to read proper books not comics. The style in comics frequently leaves a great deal to be desired with its sloppy English and street slang. As an alternative, go for series of books like Harry Potter or Tarzan.

You should build yourself a library of your own books. This may sound a little impressive, but after all, a library is only a collection of books. Begin with a good-looking bookshelf that you can easily build on. A talent like reading cannot be learned in only one place, so you cannot afford to leave all the hard work to the day-school or even the after school curricula. You have to collect books that you imagine your child will enjoy too. Use the Internet as a source for learning about the contemporary reading games that will attract little children to the superior and ancient art of reading,

Once you child is interested in reading for its own sake, you might read up on speed reading. Speed reading is best suited for educational revision and background reading. It’s greatly suited to cramming or studying for examinations. It is ideal for school and university. Nevertheless, the first job, before you can think about speed reading, is to get your child reading in the first place.

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Home Schooling and Computer Learning

Sunday, September 6th, 2009

There is access to a computer in almost every household in the West nowadays and the rest of the world is catching up very quickly. So, it is extremely important for you to have one at home too, because of the many benefits it can bring, especially if you have an Internet connection. Nowadays, you need to have have some computer experience, if you want even a reasonably-paid job, so learning how to use a computer must start at school. You and your children can have a interesting educational experience with a computer at home. Children of today must learn about this extremely important device from the very earliest age possible and one of the best ways to do that is through home schooling computer programs.

These days, even kindergarten children are being taught how to use computers and their associated peripherals. If you opt for home schooling, you and your child will also spend a lot of your time making use of a computer and the Internet. Teaching your children will be a lot more efficient when done online, because of the diverse resources available online. You and your child will have available exceptional educational resources, from which you will benefit hugely not least because job market trends today overwhelmingly involve the Internet.

One of the largest minority groups who prefers to make use of home schooling is the African Americans because some see some society issues and they can keep themselves abreast of their own heritage by home schooling. The parents of children from minority groups can assist their offspring learn more effectively by having an Internet connection at home. Children’s education can be more strongly encouraged by parents and they can also assist in strengthening the psyche of their children too. Parents can teach their children about their own particular history through the various online resources.

It is important to bear in mind that home schooling will only work well, if the parents are prepared to give their children their full support. They must also be steadfast and ready for the challenges that they will come across. The parents ought to look for a rally good computer program or book to assist their children to learn about using computers. Often, the lessons are divided into several sections or series in order that the children can learn them more easily. Children have different learning abilities and since sometimes traditional schools cannot cope with that, the use of computers is an ideal opportunity for you to bring out the best in them.

Home schooling is no longer new, so if you think that your child is not doing well in school, talk to his teachers and get some feedback about your child. The guidance counsellor can also assist you to determine the best education for you child. Home schooling is already accepted and maybe it can help your child to learn more in the safety of your own home.

If you are will to commit yourself to home schooling, you will need to talk over the matter with your child. You could begin by asking your child about his experience in school and then bring up the subject of home schooling. See what your child thinks about the idea. Explain its advantages. You could say that computer learning will be more beneficial. It’s better if you and your child both agree on home schooling, since you will have to work closely together. It might not be easy to persuade your child to give up traditional schooling, where he has all his friends, so you will have to spend time with him and get to know his/her interests. Explain that computer programs can help a lot in home schooling. Tell your child that he can learn more about his particular interest, if he knows how to use the computer.

So why not start looking for the most suitable home schooling computer program now? You could talk to your friends, ask at the library or / and go online and do your research. There are plenty of home schooling programs to choose from and it could take some weeks before you can find the appropriate one.

If you are into home schooling then please visit our site at http://home-schooling.the-real-way.com

Home Schooling Learning History

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

Do you consider that spending time in traditional classrooms is a waste of time? For many people, that is probably true. For example, an exam is due and the pupils are asked to memorize a lot of dates and names. However, after taking the exam, they will definitely forget 90% of those dates and names. That’s what most students do every time they have tests. If you are one of these people, you will find traditional history lessons boring, so home schooling, which focuses more on the history of the world, will probably interest you more.

Simple memorization by rote is just not enough to know the importance of historically famous people and fateful events. However, through home schooling in history, you can learn about the different cultures of the past in a unique, but interesting way – that is your own way! Through the study of history, you will also realize the situation of the world today.

If you think that home schooling is the most effective option for your child’s education, you must also be prepared to take on some responsibilities. Since there will be no teacher physically present, you will have to oversee your child’s educational progress yourself.

Let’s say your kid is interested in a particular sport. You could combine history and home schooling by simply putting a map on the wall of your child’s bedroom and mark the location of his favourite sports team. Make sure that you track all the team’s games, scores, activities and schedules. Then, you could return to history lessons by reading biographies of the various athletes, who had been famous in the particular sport that your child enjoys. Apart from that, you can also study the history of that particular sport and discover where it originated, its inventor, and the other things happening in that particular time in history.

For instance, if your child follows baseball, you could teach your child about the history of Negro Leagues, government hearings on the use of steroids, and other favourite hobbies during that time. But remember that you can apply this concept to any interest like dances and inventions. You can also have conversations with your child concerning current events or read interesting historical works and other books. Aside from that, you can also watch documentaries together with the rest of the family. There are various resources that you can use while home schooling, like TV, maps, books, a globe, an atlas, and encyclopedias. Because of the exciting adventures that you and your child will read about and see on film, your child will find it easier to remember the names and dates of the history lessons. After all, learning is better when it is done in an interesting way.

These ways are advisable if the child is still young, however once your child gets older, you must choose a home schooling program that is suitable for his/her age group. The programs are available at the elementary, high school, and even college levels. You simply have to search the Internet for these various programs. One advantage of these programs is that you can adapt them to fit the requirements of your child. However, you must ensure that all the modules are learned by your child.

Once you and your child have decided to go for home schooling, you must be prepared for some changes to take place in your life. The learning environment will now be your home not a school and through the various resources that you can use including the computer and Internet.

About the Author:

Learning Speed Reading

Saturday, June 13th, 2009

What have you been reading lately? In a gathering, you can soon tell who the frequent readers are, since wide readers often think and speak well too. They win the admiration, respect, and fellowship of others. After all, reading expands the mind and many people consider it one of the most satisfying pleasures known to mankind, combining, as it does, mental agility and physical relaxation way above the scale offered by television.

The act of reading is primarily a mental activity. After all, you read with your mind and use your imagination to paint the setting of the action thriller you are reading. You use your mind to imagine the pleasure that the main characters are experiencing as the story unfolds; or you bring into play the different arguments and ideas brought up by the author of that self-help book you are studying.

Learning how to read properly helps you to develop (an extensive|a wide by reading various kinds of books. A skillful reader recognizes a wide range of vocabulary. The reader may not understand exactly what every word means, but he/she will have a general idea of what the sentence is trying to convey.

The act of reading makes you more alert and more interested in new words. Some readers even like to employ ‘the dictionary habit’, which means that whenever they find a new word, they attempt to figure out what it means in the context. If they are stumped, they refer to a dictionary.

In the same way, reading develops intellectual curiosity by exposing you to a variety of subjects. You learn to read by reading books of increasing difficulty and variety. Just as in other forms of education, you are learning by actually doing and while you are reading you are automatically learning about the subject matter of the book too – like free by-product!

Reading trains you to have an active and open mind. Just grasping the writers idea is not really good enough, you must have a response to what you read. Be an active, not a passive, reader. Try to develop the habit of drawing your own conclusions, the habit of active thinking, of agreeing or disagreeing with the writer. Always keep your mind open; understand and consider the ideas that you read. A practical part of active reading is the development of one’s own conclusions.

Now let me tell you to the concept of speed reading. All of the above applies between three and ten times over, because speed readers can read that much faster than the average reader! Consider that! – Being able to read, understand and remember all those books. You would certainly become well-read in your subject far more quickly than others. Just think how that could help you at work or in school or college …

Allow me to share four basic rules for effective reading and better comprehension:

1) Try to read more and more every month. Remember that practice makes perfect. 2) Learn the habit of reading the main ideas, ie look for the subject and predicate – the principal ideas 3) Learn to read with focus and concentration. Good readers read with understanding. 4) Learn to budget your time. Experiment with your reading time. Try to read faster. Give yourself a time limit for the specific text that you are reading.

Reading is a fantastically stimulating mental activity. It expands your understanding and capability. You really have so much to gain by learning the joy of reading. So, go on and get down a book right today.

About the Author: