Author Jeanne Schiller Brenz crafts a sweet approach to childhood stomach cancer through the adventures of Hannah and Molly. Recently reviewed in our June 2012 issue, Hannah and Molly‘s Brenz has also created a compilation CD of inspirational songs.
LSQ is giving away an autographed Hannah and Molly book/CD combo to one lucky winner! Check out our raffle here!
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It’s the week of the Child Life Annual Conference and we are stoked!
LSQ Founder Sarah is especially ecstatic, “This year’s conference is going to put the ‘action’ in ‘distraction’! I know firsthand that a lot of hard work was put into this particular conference, by a lot of significant players. The 30th anniversary conference will serve as a beacon of pride for our field, letting us know that we’re about to own another dynamite 30! More importantly, it’s an opportunity to connect with new and old child life friends!”
LSQ will be keeping you updated about conference happenings and Sarah’s whereabouts on Twitter (@LightSpinnerQ). To support the popularity of the child life conference on Twitter, we’ll be using the hash tag #CLC30th. Not following us? You still have time, but click now!
Sarah will be handing out handshakes, laughs, and surprises! Will you be able to find her? Hint: Look for this…
From networking with child life specialists and students, to attending breakout sessions, to visiting the exhibitor booths, to seeing the sights in Washington, DC, we’re doing it all!
Please be sure to give a “thank you” and hug to those that put together the conference (hint: Ramona Spencer).
Child life students: Good Luck on your exams, you’ll do amazing and we can’t wait to have you on board as a CCLS!
Everyone else: we will see you at child life events throughout the rest of the year, so fear not. CHILD LIFE IS HERE, GET EXCITED!
Introducing the 1st Annual Child Life Summit at CHOC Children’s Hospital! A full day of incredibly useful information presented by Child Life All Stars. Topics include “Beyond the Hospital /Beyond the Doll” and “Beyond the Classroom /Beyond Mediocrity.”
When: Thursday, June 28, 2012
Where: CHOC Children’s Hospital
Cost: $10, lunch and tours included!
Contact: Stephanie DeMello (714) 532-8473
Looking for child life events or child life conferences in other states? Stay tuned in the next couple weeks because we are revealing a list of possibilities!
June 2012 Issue Sneak Peek: Interview with Child Life Teams, Behind the Scenes of the 30th Annual Conference, Statistics that will make you rethink your role, and new Child Life Books to better your practices!
Have you subscribed yet?
Playworks and LSQ have combined forces to bring you the ultimate interactive raffle!
Subscribers will receive a Real raffle ticket attached to their June 2012 issue.
We will then draw FOUR winning numbers. Each winner will receive two Brave Kid Cape Kits!
Drawing will take place, LIVE, on June 30, 2012 on our website.
>>>Buy a gift subscription for a friend and you will BOTH receive a raffle ticket!<<<
Subscribe by May 28, 2012 to receive a raffle ticket! June issues will also include a sparkling surprise! Going to the conference? Visit Playworks vendor booth during lunch for additional information and to increase your odds of winning.
LSQ is celebrating the readers that helped make us a success this year by hooking them up with a mega distraction play kit. Our June 2012 issue also includes an exclusive coupon for discounted products at www.Playworks.net.
We are very excited to unveil our special edition one year anniversary issue. Scheduled to land June 1, 2012. Have you ordered yours yet? 3 lucky subscribers will get clown noses! Subscribe by May 12, 2012 to qualify!
Buy a single copy here, or subscribe here! Discounts for bulk orders available.
Excited about our anniversary issue? Share it with friends on Twitter or Facebook.
Sound the horn! LSQ introduces our brand new Child Life News Page!
Looking for the latest in Child Life news? We’ll keep you updated the second news hits! Child Life Specialists are changing the world, and fast. From winning awards, to spreading awareness, to gaining recognition, CCLS’ have it goin’ on!
It’s important to know what’s happening professionally in our field. Stay up to date and maybe we’ll even see you in the news one day!
Click below to see some Child Life News samples!
Want immediate access to Child Life Specialist news as it happens? Follow us on Twitter or Facebook! @LightSpinnerQ
May is here, and so is the countdown to the big Child Life Conference!
Don’t have your tickets and registration booked yet? Visit ChildLife.org to finalize details and find out the scoop on the big 30th Anniversary Celebration! The Child Life Council has worked hard to bring you a very exciting conference this year, complete with a celebratory video and special guest speakers.
Light Spinner Quarterly is gearing up to commemorate both the conference this month and our own one year anniversary in June! Stay tuned for a special sneak peek into our June issue with Patch Adams and a sparkly surprise for each subscriber. We will also be holding some major contests. Hint: what’s a hospital hero without a cape!
LSQ sends out a special note of “good luck and hard work” to those studying for their child life exam; we were there once too!
Keep in touch, because Child Life is about about to get a lot more exciting in the next two months!
Child Life Conference: Washington, DC: May 24 – 27, 2012
Help Child Life grow – share our Child Life Month issue with the world!
A free online version of our March 2012 Child Life Month issue is now available for the entire globe to take part in. Give your friends, family, and coworkers a visual about what you are so passionate about: Child Life. iPad and Smartphone friendly!
Child Life is an astonishingly necessary and inspiring profession to be a part of. For the Child Life Specialist, student, or educator reading this, you will know first hand the depth of love, hardship, and pride that constitutes a life’s work. We tip our hats to you.
It is also for this reason we are making our Child Life Month March 2012 issue free to share. It’s time to be globally recognized. It’s time to share with the public and other professions about what we do. Child Life Month should extend beyond 4 annual weeks.
We encourage you to share this link (http://issuu.com/lightspinnerq/docs/ls4_final3) to our Child Life Month issue with as many people as you can. Let them know what you fight so hard to love. Let them know the incredibly gracious compassion you share with humanity.
Light Spinner Quarterly was born nearly a year ago with three main goals:
1) To spread awareness about the Child Life profession, globally. We believe the only way the field of Child Life will flourish into a thriving profession is to introduce the intrinsic value Child Life Specialists provide to families experiencing healthcare to the public; in an open forum.
Child Life is for everyone. Minimizing access to supportive resources only impedes our growth, which is why we have shared so many free things with you this year. The more Child Life flourishes, the more children and their families will have successful experiences in the hospital. The more support we have as Specialists, the happier we will become in our jobs.
2) To provide resources that cater to a CCLS’ limited budget. Let’s face it – we’re all pinching pennies these days. This is twice the truth when recession meets hospital/grad student budget. LSQ creates regular opportunities to download free resources…and now…a free issue of LSQ!
3) To host a public forum that provides a balanced prospective. There are issues Child Life Specialists regularly face that aren’t always being addressed, or taken care of. There are also everyday Child Life heroes that deserve recognition. LSQ knows about burnout, budget, a saturated job market, and the frustration of living the dream “per diem.” We’re ready to change these things and improve the quality of profession. But it takes community, communication, and awareness. All things that you have power to take hold of!
Light Spinner Quarterly recognizes the organizations and individuals that have taken a liking to our ideas and started implementing them on their own websites and in their own practices. There has been an influx in discussion about improving support systems and new things popping up in our own professional community. This is the movement we had hoped to see.
Child Life is here. Get Excited. Be Proud.
>>>>>BREAKING NEWS FROM LSQ!<<<<<
Light Spinner Quarterly is very proud and deeply honored to have interviewed child life’s personal hero, Patch Adams, MD, for the June 2012 issue!
We all know and love Patch Adams from the movie made several years ago about his empathetic charisma. After watching it, we were inspired to seek our own justice for a patient’s humanity through becoming child life specialists. Patch’s work and message of compassion has grown immensely since the film, and he took the time to share his message with us.
LSQ’s founder Sarah Mendivel sits down with Patch to discuss his philosophies on professional boundaries, burnout prevention, his life’s work, and the importance of staying true to child life values.
“They want to have a fabulous listener, they want sweet tenderness and no sense that you are in a hurry,” says Patch. Understanding firsthand the humanity and value that a child life specialist brings into a hospital, Patch shares with LSQ an empowering theme of love and self-preservation.
As a visionary, an idealist, and a revolutionary thinker, Patch Adams and his gorgeously vivid wardrobe is single-handedly changing the way our modern day healthcare system operates.
To see what Patch and The Gesundheit Institute! are up to, please visit their site here and consider volunteering or contributing to their cause! Stay tuned for more insight on our interview with Patch, or subscribe here to get your own issue!
Looking to branch out a bit and do a little shopping for that special child-life-someone in your life? We now have a few options for your on our Gifts & Extras page!
Celebrate a graduating child life intern by giving them a good luck gift. Say thank you to your child life manager by sharing a special gift pack. Or perhaps it’s time to treat yourself to something nice after all of the bedside hours you’ve put in lately!
Just this week LSQ made an appearance at a very successful Child Life Skills Exchange at Miller Children’s Hospital. We showed up touting our new Child Life T-Shirt and it was a hit! After several requests we decided to put it online so that everyone can have an opportunity to flash their child life pride.
If you’re looking for something we don’t have, let us know and we’ll make it happen! Light Spinner Quarterly would like to give a sincere thank you to all of our child lifers out there that have been working hard to celebrate Child Life Month in a big way. You rock!
Congratulation Winners! Check here to see if you won!
If there’s one thing child life specialists (or any pediatric professional) knows about working in the hospital, it’s that our hands get super dry- quick!
Time & Again is sharing eighteen pocket-sized tubes of their Mini Glycerin Hand Cream with our readers!
These incredibly soft and amazing smelling lotions were recently reviewed in our “Distraction Action/Survival Archival” section of Light Spinner Quarterly.
Enter the raffle by clicking here and choosing fun ways to participate. 18 winners will be determined!
We tip our hats to all the child life specialists, students, and educators rockin’ this Child Life Month! We are honored to be a part of your journey and believe in the work you are doing. “Child Life is here. GET EXCITED!”
Need some ideas for child life distraction strategies? Our March issue of LSQ shares some new bedside activities that prove to be an automatic winner in every medical procedure.
A Child’s Dream Come True recognizes the importance of developing a trusting and open rapport with patients. Their finger puppets are perfect for creating a dialogue between child life specialist’s and their families. Reusable, wipe-able, and open to interpretation, these little guys are definitely worth a second glance.
We reviewed these finger puppets in our latest Child Life Month magazine issue, but want everyone to have a chance at getting their hands on a set themselves!
We’re giving away 3 sets of 5 finger puppets! Make them into child life specialists, doctors, nurses, or family members! Talk about feelings, surgery, or grief. Subscribe by this Friday 3/16/12 for a chance to win!
Did you enter our Child Life TShirt raffle yet? Better hurry, there’s only a few hours left to do so!
Curious about where LSQ originated? Want to know more about what inspires each issue?
We’re sharing our interview with LSQ’s founder, Sarah Mendivel, from the December 2011 issue. Enjoy!
Welcome to your exclusive sneak peek into the 4th issue of Light Spinner Quarterly. We are celebrating Child Life Month in a huge way!
Subscribe today, or purchase a single issue and give us a try! Subscribers should expect their copies starting March 13, 2012.
We’re giving you another way to show off you child life pride this month by offering you a chance to win our latest child life t-shirt!
“This Gal Loves Child Life” (TM) is a Light Spinner Quarterly exclusive made especially for the proud child life specialist, student, and educator. You may enter the child life shirt raffle more than once by participating in various ways. Click here to enter! You don’t need to subscribe!
5 winners will be announced! Raffle inspired by Dakota County Technical College.
It’s finally here! Happy Child Life Month!!! How will you be celebrating?
In addition to the March issue of Light Spinner Quarterly being mailed out next week, there are tons of events happening globally for Child Life Month.
Need ideas on how to spread the word? Our March issue has 10 fresh ideas on how to celebrate Child Life Month! Download our free resources for additional inspiration.
See how these child life specialists/educators have celebrated our favorite month:
Dakota County Technical College – Child Life Program (Giveaways included!)
New York-Presbyterian Hospital
Chris Evert Children’s Hospital
Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
We’re at it again! LSQ introduces the latest in our resources: “Hospital Roles” Coloring Sheets.
Each coloring sheet explains the role of a nurse, doctor, physical therapist, occupational therapist, speech therapist, child life specialist, recreational therapist, respiratory therapist, hospital school teacher, and dietician.
Ten coloring sheets with unlimited reproduction rights. Hospital Roles Coloring Sheets are free with your subscription, or you may buy them by themselves here.
Click on an image to see what’s happening in the field of child life!
